Over a week after the MoveOn.org "General Betray Us" ad first ran, Republicans are still planning how to make political hay out of it. Republican strategtist Rich Galen posted a column on his website Monday, headed "Bush Won. MoveOn Lost," which described the entire episode as a brilliant propaganda coup for White House counselor Ed Gillespie.
"You need an enemy which your supporters will instantly recognize as an enemy and will send you money to help defeat," wrote Galen. "Republicans have an enemy that the popular press helped identify and which will result in millions of dollars in new donations." Galen, who is currently an adviser to Fred Thompson's campaign, then appeared on Fox News to make the same point.
Susan Estrich -- a law professor who served as Michael Dukakis's campaign manager in 1988 -- told Fox that the ad merely shows the left is learning from the hardball tactics of the right. "MoveOn is an advocacy organization and what they're trying to do is hold people's feet to the fire," she said. "They're getting a lot of attention."
"Everybody has to draw the line somewhere," Galen insisted. "For the leading Democrats in the country to simply ignore or --
in Harry Reid's case, who's got a spine like an overcooked linguine -- the fact that he said it was a 'distraction,' which was the harshest thing he could say -- because MoveOn.org is paying the bills, they are forcing your party to the left, and I'm telling you something, this is going to be a major deal as we move forward because you can't have -- you can't cozy up to an organization that is so extreme that they take as their enemy one of the best generals we've ever had."
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