Crushing Kerry

[whometense]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/GOP_organization_linked_to_dirty_politics_0609.html

A little-known organization closely tied to the Republican Party and the Bush administration and often accused of promoting partisan policies and ideology abroad is now heavily involved in efforts to establish democratic institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.

The International Republican Institute, though billing itself as an independent nonprofit unaffiliated with the Republican Party, acts essentially as a wing of the GOP. Its is chaired by party presidential frontrunner Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Representatives David Dreier (R-CA) and Jim Kolbe (R-AR) serve on its board of directors. Many of IRI’s high-ranking staff members have at some point worked directly for the Bush administration...

...In December 2004, IRI contracted with Tony Marsh and Lance Copsey of the media consulting firm Marsh, Copsey & Scott to set up a Baghdad Media Center on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Its stated purpose was to assist Iraqi political parties and candidates in the upcoming January elections.

Earlier that year, in January 2004, Marsh Copsey & Scott (now Marsh Copsey & Associates) had registered the domain name crushkerry.com, which was used throughout the 2004 election for an anti-Kerry blog run by their senior account executive, Patrick Hynes. The site was heavily involved in promoting both the SwiftBoat Veterans and CBS Memos stories. It also encouraged readers to suggest other ways of discrediting John Kerry, and claimed to have inside sources of information on the Kerry campaign. Today, the blog is gone, but http://www.crushkerry.com is still the main URL for the website of Marsh Copsey & Associates...

[ProSense]

1. Post this is GD with the title

McCain, Hagel, Dreier and Kolbe linked to group promoting Swift Liars?

(question mark optional)

[whometense]

2. great idea!

I will do so.

On edit: Done. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2669843&mesg_id=2669843

[ray of light]

12. did anyone catch this "for republican's only"?

www.crushkerry. com/book.html someone should order it (then donate pass the book along and each reader donate a $$$ to JK's foundation for every person who gets it.) (space added between . com so you can't lead them back to my comment. lol

[Island Blue]

3. Every day we find a new reason

to hate Republicans. :grr:

[Blaukraut]

4. I wonder if Kerry knows about this

If not, he ought to. With friends like McCain, who needs enemies? :mad:

[TayTay]

5. I agree.

What a friggin bastid. I wouldn't trust him to tell me if it's raining outside. Jerk. Maverick Republican my arse.

[blm]

6. I'd bet RawStory got the story from Kerry's team - remember, they were

researching every charge and every aspect of Swiftliars. I say this is Kerry's shot across the bow at Mr. Traitor McCain.

[_dynamicdems]

7. I hope you're right. It makes me ill whenever I hear Kerry say that

McCain is his "friend."

Yeah "friend" like Brutus was to Caesar.

[blm]

8. McCain still claims he is Kerry's friend, but I'd like to see him squirm

out of this one.

[_dynamicdems]

9. McCain is the worst of the worst. He's WORSE than Bush. HE is mad.

I'm terrified of McCain. He scares the living shit out of me. He's as mad as a hatter and even more dangerous than Bush because he manipulates better. He is also more stubborn than Bush (when it comes to something he really wants) and his temperament is scare in a leader. He's like a dangerous viper.

I could go down the list why McCain is dangerous, but I know that would be preaching to the choir. I just pray that Senator Kerry stays clear of him. I don't know what McCain was like before, but I see only a very dangerous and very unscrupulous man now.

God, if this man is ever in the White House, we had all better learn Yoga because we'll have to bend over and kiss our asses goodbye.

[karynnj]

10. This is sickening

when you think of how often Kerry defended McCain, this is nauseating. Even if he and Hagel don't run they should be called on this.

[ray of light]

11. were they still active even when McCain 'requested' that JK

not use his own words in 2000 to Bush (regarding how Bush's smear hurt his family) off the website and off the air?