DNC has a McCain Resource Center. Left bloggers don't use it.

madfloridian

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Sat Apr-19-08 10:43 AM
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DNC has a McCain Resource Center. Left bloggers don't use it.

In fact some do not even know it exists. One blogger this week asked what groups could start going after John McCain while our candidates were still fighting each other.

Sadly this was the day that Howard Dean sent out an email asking for funds to help the DNC get more resources to run ads and better get the word out on McCain. The blogger did not even know it.

The left bloggers seem overall unaware of this great resource page done by Mike Gehrke at the DNC. Dean is said to have hired him because of the intense research he did against Dean in 2003. He knew he was effective.

Here is the research page.

John McCain Research Center

It is set up by topics, with video through Flipper TV.

Here is the post by the blogger who really cared, but was just unaware that a urgent request had gone out by email from the DNC that day.

Crucial Time in the Presidential Race

If you represent an organization with the resources to run anti-McCain ads, or a donor who can help such an organization, do it now, friends. There will be plenty of money to run a strong general election campaign. Now is the time for outside efforts to get going against McCain. Otherwise, we are going to have a McCain defined on his terms, as a genuine reformer, an independent minded guy who stands up to the special interests in his own party, and can clean up Washington. That's a tough theme for us to beat if we're starting two months out, especially with the media slavering all over him.

Good motives, good intention, but why not support your party chairman, why not be aware of the resources....why not donate to help pay for the ads against John McCain. Salaries still have to be paid to state staffers, infrastructure of the party must be maintained...extra is needed until our primary is done.

Be sure to check out the DNC website for the transcript and audio of today's radio address.

Governor Dean delivers radio address.

Here is the AP write-up about the radio address.

Dean: McCain has no effective plan to turn economy around

WASHINGTON (AP) � John McCain doesn't have an effective plan to turn around the faltering U.S. economy, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.

"As I listened to Senator John McCain's remarks about the economy this week, I heard more of the same Republican policies that George Bush has brought us for the last eight years," Dean said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

Among those policies, Dean said, are "privatizing Social Security, denying our children health care, adding $8 trillion in new deficits, no plan to turn our economy around or help people keep their homes."

Despite the nation's current economic woes, including rising unemployment, lower wages and record gas prices, "Senator McCain believes we are better off," Dean said.

I have had a gripe at times about our bloggers on the left. Some seem more concerned about keeping access to the party leaders than about really speaking out.

This concerns me that a major blogger at Open Left and Huffington Post is not even aware of the huge volume of research done by the DNC's research team, and even less aware that the same day of the post the chairman sent a plea for money to the very thing he was talking about.