Well, one Republican, anyway. Yesterday, I received a fundraising letter from Senator Gordon Smith (republican). This short letter (22 paragraphs, many of them consisting of only one sentence) contains:
13 mentions of the word “tax” and variations (taxes, taxed, etc), three in a bold font. (The only other thing that gets a bold font is a request that I send Mr. Smith some money).
12 mentions of “border,” “immigrants,” or variations on those words.
1 mention of the word “terrorism” (in the context of immigration).
Zero mentions of the words “Iraq,” “Iran,” “Afghanistan,” “Middle East,” etc..
Zero mentions of the words “Bush” or “President.”
[Crossposted on Creative Destruction, where moderation is looser.].
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Gordon Smith isn’t running until 2008.
He knows there will be trouble – after all, a dollar he gets now is a dollar that doesn’t go to Saxton in the gubernatorial race.
Republicans are trying to have it both ways – Bush motivates the base to give money, but is toxic to ~60-70 of the general public. Judy Barr Topinka, Republican candidate for governor in Illinois, only half jokingly said she wanted to have her Bush fundraiser in the middle of the night at an undisclosed location.