Today, ________[CANDIDATE, CANDIDATE, CANDIDATE, ETC] continued their _______ [ADJECTIVE], [ADJECTIVE] attacks on Governor Dean’s record on ___________ [VITAL DEMOCRATIC ISSUE].'”
“‘Governor Dean strongly supports _________ [VITAL DEMOCRATIC ISSUE]. It is one of the most important Democratic achivements of the past century and part of the party’s legacy of standing up for __________ [VITAL DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUENCY].'”
According to Friday’s Note, the Dean team handed out this prebuttal press release, entitled “Dean Libs,” just before the Democratic debates.
You’ve got to admire the way the Dean team can still have fun with the issues, and with their candidate, even as
- Kerry claims Dean plans to raise taxes on poor people.
- Lieberman claims Dean hates Israel.
- Gephardt claims Dean loves Newt Gingrich.
ABC’s The Note went on to call the press release
“a tongue-in-cheek guide to Dean’s message: regardless of the charge, rebut it by being anti-Bush, anti-Republican, beat Bush, take the country back from Bush, beat Republicans, take the country back from Republicans, did we mention, beat Bush, take the country back…”
That’s kind of a negative way to frame the Dean message, but I sure like it better than what Kerry, Lieberman, and Gephardt have been doing lately.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Laura Reznick // Oct 1, 2003 at 5:41 pm
That is hysterical! I ought to put some sort of form like that at Democratic Underground for all the anti-Dean people to use!
2 Betsy Devine // Oct 1, 2003 at 6:18 pm
Hi Laura–go for it! The web is all about passing good stuff around.