Monday, August 23, 2004
527s
BlogsForBush mocks the NY Times with a Web of Connections for Kerry.
Of course John Kerry doesn't like the anti-Kerry 527's, saying
"They're funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Republican contributor out of Texas. They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work."Uh, hundreds of thousands of dollars? That's it! That barely covers the slip fees for John Kerry's yacht! The Truth Laid Bare puts this into perspective, documenting over $100,000,000 dollars that 527's have been using to attack Bush.
The Instapendent links to Bush's response to all of this.
Bush criticized the groups' first commercial and all other outside group attack ads — many of which have targeted his own re-election.And Kerry?
"That means that ad, every other ad," he said. "I can't be more plain about it. And I wish — I hope my opponent joins me in saying — condemning these activities of the 527s. It's — I think they're bad for the system. That's why I signed the bill, McCain-Feingold."
Bush's comment about 527s was a reference to independent groups that raise money in unlimited amounts. The so-called McCain-Feingold bill, a campaign finance overhaul bill which Bush signed reluctantly earlier in his term, banned the political parties from raising such funds.
While Kerry and Democrats have demanded that Bush condemn the attack on his war record, the president has been targeted by an estimated $60 million in commercials by outside groups since the campaign began.I'd say the fact that he "won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work."
Kerry has declined to call for an end to those ads, which helped him at a time when he did not have the funds to compete with Bush' campaign advertising budget.
