Bush's Party Takes Direct Aim at Howard DeanBut wait...there's now a TV war being waged on behalf of team Bush (doublespeak for "given a wink and a nod by the White House") by a group called "Club For Growth" - an "independent" Republican special-interest group. They're rolling out a spot which compares Dean to (surprise!) McGovern, Dukakis and Mondale and paints him as (surprise surprise!) tax and spend - despite his fiscal record in Vermont.
President Bush's Republican Party took direct aim at former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Wednesday in one of the party's strongest attacks on an individual Democratic candidate for president this campaign season.
In a speech in New Hampshire, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie fired back at Dean for a speech the Democrat gave accusing Bush of not understanding what it takes to defend the United States.
"This is the same critic who earlier in the year told Americans that we should prepare for the day when the United States 'won't always have the strongest military' -- former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean,'' Gillespie said in a speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester. "He is wrong about our military and his charge that the president was going to cut the combat pay for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is completely at odds with all facts."
The attack on Dean suggested a sharpening Republican focus on the former Vermont governor, who is leading in the polls over eight rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The candidate has said that his comment, made in April, was that the United States will not have the strongest military if it does not "begin to use diplomacy as part of our foreign policy.''
The Dean campaign is aiming both barrels at these lunatics and have launched another fund-raising project to counter. Here's the link:
...and follow the progress right here in the left column.
