Drudge: Florida Dems Place Ad Calling For Rumsfeld hit...

[Scurrilous]

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Full title: CAMPAIGN RAGE: FLORIDA DEMOCRATS PLACE NEWSPAPER AD CALLING FOR RUMSFELD HIT; FUNDRAISING FOR KERRY

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"Campaign 2004 turns extreme in Florida with the placement of a newspaper ad calling for physical retribution against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld!

"We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger," the ad reads.
The call-to-arms fundraising ad, placed by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club in the current issue of the GABBER, a local St. Petersburg paper, asks readers to make an urgent donation to the John Kerry campaign.

Club Vice President Edna McCall told the DRUDGE REPORT Tuesday morning: "We want to get our country back. In Iraq, we're in deep trouble. If we don't try to get this situation cleared up, we are finished."

When asked if the ad was a challenge to inflict violence on Rumsfeld, McCall explained: "'Pull the trigger' means let Rumsfeld know where we stand, not to shoot him!"

[fob]

1. FOB: MATT DRUDGE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND FIGURE OF SPEECH!!

nt

[DenverDem]

2. Convict Drudge of treason and put him up against the wall and

PULL THE TRIGGER.

[bowens43]

3. Very misleading, but this is Drudge.

His title implies it was the Florida Democratic party, it wasn't, as you can clearly see in the article. The 'St. Petersburg Democratic Club' can not be equated to 'Florida Democrats'.

[timdoodle]

6. The problem here is

The stupid club president says that they are in constant contact with the Kerry campaign. This type of stuff is just stupid, especially in Florida....

[Mz Pip]

4. If it's true

it's in very poor taste. Why should we defend this kind of trash talk? We would be all over it if some Repug group said the same about Kerry or some other high profile Dem.

MzPip
Dem:

[Mistress Quickly]

7. Good point and thank you for making it.

We should reverse parties and think what we would say the other way around.

[jackstraw45]

5. RNC Dirty Tricks - see ad here:

This is SO fake looking. And of course it asks for donations for KERRY and only has first names for contacts?!

The RNC fingerprints are all over it.
- The phone number for "Ken" is to a Art Gallery in St. Petersburg....
- Misspellings (patriates)
- Includes a plea for Kerry

TOTAL RNC SMEAR! In florida of course.

I'm curious about who placed and paid for the ad...aren't you?

Here's the "newspaper":

http://www.thegabber.com /

Ad department: [e-mail]

[Mz Pip]

8. If it's fake

then whatever Repug group responsible should be outed publically in a big way.

I would hope any Dem group would have more sense, but party affiliation and common sense don't always go hand in hand.

MzPip
:dem:

[jackstraw45]

9. More small evidence of fake

http://democrat.meetup.com/members/?fulltop=1&localeId=562

Scroll down and you'll see someone with the nickname

nbrown2111

identifies themselves as president of the southern St. Petersburg Democratic Club. Doesn't look like a "Ken" to me.

[Mistress Quickly]

10. There are 2

but I can't find info on the web on the other

South St. Petersburg Democratic Club
Meets at 10AM on the 2nd Saturday of the month
at the Sanderlin Center, 2335 22nd Avenue South


St. Petersburg Democratic Club
Meets at 7 PM the last Wednesday of the month at
Piccadilly Restaurant,
1900 34th Street North, St. Petersburg.
Membership dues are only $10 per year


http://www.pdp.org/clubframe.htm

[timdoodle]

11. Here is their website, looks legit, hate to see this

http://www.stpetedems.org/html_pages/officers.html

[jackstraw45]

12. What idiots

Well, I was wrong.

Sorry RNC, how could I possibly have doubted your integrity.

:)

[timdoodle]

13. Ha :)

[Mistress Quickly]

14. Thanks for the only humor on this thread

:-)

[leftynyc]

15. First thing I thought of also

This has Rove's slimy fingerprints all over it.

[newsguyatl]

16. heads up

looks like cnn's gonna go with the story. they're all over it.

[sniffa]

17. soooo.. it's reaL?

is that the consensus? Legit ad, from a Legit dem. group?

[Mistress Quickly]

18. yes

stupid people are in all political parties.

Remember, half of all people are below average in intelligence.

[Oilwellian]

19. Odd how none of this club's officers.....

have ever donated to a democrat running for office. At least not according to Open Secrets. Also, why are there no minutes of past meetings of this group? Hardly any of the links on their website even work. :eyes:

[Mistress Quickly]

20. Well the Creepers are having fun

from that web site:

I just spoke with the Publisher of the newspaper:

Ken Reichart......727-321-6965


He says that the newspaper will be issuing an apology in the next issue. And that the St. Pete Dems will be apologizing as well.

I told him that the ad was irresponsible. And I reminded him that a mentally ill person tried to kill President Reagan over a movie star. I said that in he future the paper should show more responsibility in taking ads.

I told him the Ad 'reeked with hatred' and that I didn't think it would win the Dems any votes. He said he tended to agree.


KEEP CALLING THEM!

242 posted on 04/13/2004 1:22:28 PM EDT by JulieRNR21 (One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
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[sniffa]

21. my god

don't freepers work? everyday they have ampLe time to write LTTE's and make harrassing phone caLLs, and pLan freeps.

[Democat]

22. How many Florida "democrats" are really Republicans playing games?

This isn't the first time we've been screwed by so called "democrats" helping out Bush.