Bush Re-election Ads to Begin in March

[Freddie Stubbs]

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: February 23, 2004


WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — President Bush's re-election campaign will begin running television commercials on March 4, even if the Democrats have not yet settled on a nominee, Ken Mehlman, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, said on Sunday.

The commercials, along with a speech aimed directly at his opponents that Mr. Bush is to deliver to Republican governors in Washington on Monday, represent what Bush-Cheney officials described as an aggressive new phase for a campaign that has so far spent 2004 raising money and hanging back while the Democrats settle on a nominee.

Mr. Bush's campaign managers had expected to wait until the spring or summer before beginning a more active phase of the campaign. But the continuing attacks by Democrats on Mr. Bush's record, along with the president's drop behind Senators John Kerry and John Edwards in recent opinion polls, led them to change the plan.

One campaign official described Mr. Bush as eager to plunge into campaigning.

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/politics/campaign/23BUSH.html

[DebJ]

1. time to buy stock in barf bag companies

[bluestateguy]

2. Too bad someone doesn't invent a V-chip for political ads

It would block out political advertising, or political ads from candidates I didn't like.

If someone here invents this I want royalties!

[wtf]

3. .

I think all the money * has and the massvie campaign he's about to launch might actually be good for the democrats. The general public is considerably more informed than they were even 6 months ago about how full of shit bush and his administration is, and now that the mainstream media has grown some balls and are finally calling him on his lies, the commercials portraying him as a "strong leader" and all that nonsense are going to strike such a strong contrast to the truth, and hopefully they'll come off as absurd.

six months ago: Thanks to my strong and steady leadership, the economy is back on track

people: :)

today: Thanks to my strong and steady leadership, the economy is back on track

people: what the fuck?