Kerry email: Time to Defeat DeLay, Santorum and Reed

[kerrygoddess]

Time to Defeat DeLay, Santorum and Reed
October 18th, 2005

In an email today from John Kerry’s Keeping America’s Promise PAC, Kerry says, it’s time to “break the Republican’s grip on power.” Tops on the list of those who have got to go: DeLay, Santorum and Reed.

It’s the question that’s on everyone’s mind: with Republican incompetence, cronyism and corruption on full display, when are Democrats going to stand up and break the Republicans’ grip on power and finally move America forward?

How about right now?

If you’ve had it with incompetent, divisive, uncaring Republican officials, I hope you will act immediately to help Keeping America’s Promise wage an all-out effort to remove the worst of the bunch from office in the upcoming elections. Support Keeping America’s Promise


I’m talking about people like Tom DeLay whose bare-knuckled, dictatorial style has earned him a nickname — the Hammer . . . like Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, the leading Senate apologist for the miserable record of the Bush administration . . . like Ralph Reed, the former radical right leader turned Abramoff-tainted lobbyist now running for lieutenant governor in Georgia.

One thing is certain: America would be better off if the 2006 elections ended with all three of these figures — DeLay, Santorum and Reed — standing in defeat. And your support for Keeping America’s Promise’s grassroots efforts to win the most critical electoral contests of 2005 and 2006 can drive them from office.

Reed was one of the architects of brutal attacks on the patriotism of Senator Max Cleland, a Vietnam War hero, and he’s counting on benefiting from a new poll tax in Georgia that puts barriers in the path of voters. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that the Republicans’ tactics will “make Georgia the toughest place in the nation to vote.”

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[TayTay]

1. This is excellent.

I am glad that the PAC is mentioning Max Cleland and the voting situation in Georgia. (BTW, opponents of the new Voter ID in GA just got an injunction forbidden this from going into practice. We shall see. I think there was hanky-panky there in the 2002 race.)

[Mass]

2. Happy to see that Cleland was in the email.

But, of course, the usual Kerry-bashers are here. (including somebody who is not one usually - wonder what went thru his mind- though I think I understand why-otherwise said, Senator Kerry, now is the time to speak about Iraq, whether the leadership agrees or not).

[Mass]

3. I think our friend WT2 has really decided that he has a problem

with Kerry today. What is the issue: has he waited too long for the Iraq speech or did Teddy pissed him off too much last week?

[wisteria]

4. I noticed that too! n/t

[TayTay]

5. What did Teddy do?

And I made sleeping dogs laugh today. My work here is done.

[karynnj]

6. You mean the posts with the cute suggestion of Kerry

explaining the Kerry diet plan - which unfortunately might involve changing your activity level to that of his or being 6 foot 4 inches or with an enviable metabolism.

[TayTay]

9. Yeah, I want that secret

I really do. That would be nice.

But, it did sort of detour the sour argument of perfect lost and gained.

[karynnj]

10. I thought it was a brilliant response

I do think the answer, with no disrespect intended toward the deservedly respected, mature Senator, might be similar to a suggestion in one of the parenting books that one could lose a major amount of weight if you followed and did whatever a typical active 2 year did. He seems to have far more energy than most of us. Maybe all our parents who told us to sit still and not to fidget are to blame.

[Mass]

8. How did Teddy dare say that he would support JK again ?

[karynnj]

7. Weeks ago didn't he set a date by which each politician BY THE

POSTER's dictate had to declare he wanted out. I think it was Oct 15. (At the time, I wondered what would happen if some politician did exactly as he wanted, but was a day or two late.

He does seem to pick on all politicians not just Kerry though.