A Judy Woodruff interview on CNN's "Late Edition," yesterday, Sunday, 2/16, featured two Dem spokesmen, "Mudcat" Saunders and Steve Jarding, and Repub spokesman Tucker Eskew. It was quite a session, with the discussion centering on the South:
JW: Steve Jarding, let me talk to you first, and I want to get all of you to talk about this. Smart thing for the president to be going down to this NASCAR event?
STEVE JARDING, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, it's a smart thing. I think it's smart to court any bloc of voters that are sitting in a captive place and you can get at them. And I think it's smart for him to go.
Where I think it could be problematic if the Democratic take advantage of it is, instead of setting up a voter registration booth outside, the Democrats should be harping, "You should set up an unemployment booth outside."
DAVE "MUDCAT" SAUNDERS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: .... You know, Tucker's assuming that George Bush is a son of the South. And, you know, this is absolutely not the case. And, you know, if we do our job between now and November, we can prove that, I mean, without question, George Bush is a son of Southern oil....
And, you know, we see George Bush going down to Texas, you know, and cleaning up brush, for instance. Seems like he's got more brush there than anyplace in the world, cleaned up more brush than a California wildfire, but...
(LAUGHTER)
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