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The Money Game
As the end of the fundraising period approaches this week, Democrats have found two men they believe can inspire fellow Democrats to reach into their pockets and come up with cash for the 2008 congressional races.
They are President Bush and his longtime adviser/buddy Karl Rove.
“Karl Rove understands that elections can’t be won in 2007, but they can be lost,” Democratic consultant James Carville wrote in an e-mail to Democrats. “In fact, Karl Rove & Co. is already out training a new crop of Republican lemmings to run for office, teaching pages out of their GOP playbook on how to lie, cheat, steal and plot a Republican takeover. There is nothing Republicans want more than to avenge last November’s loss.”
Former Veep Al Gore’s fundraising e-mail keyed on Bush.
“For too long the Bush administration has allowed the truth to be outsourced,” Gore wrote. “Six years of George W. Bush governing by fear, isolation and intimidation have taken a tremendous toll on our environment, our families and our democracy. We can’t stop global warming, end the war in Iraq or even thrive as a democracy if we refuse to base our policy debates on facts and throughtful principled discourse.”
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