Thursday, December 11, 2003
Grassroots fundraising at Merrill Lynch.    Today I received a personal (signed!) email from Marc Racicot, chairman of Bush-Cheney '04 [excerpt]:Help us overcome the Democrats' liberal billionaire by making your contribution and emailing five friends today! http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Grassroots  
 [...]  Now comes news from a Wall Street Journal  investigative report that wealthy liberals "have plotted ways around the campaign finance law" to funnel millions in illegal soft money donations "to finance get-out-the-vote efforts and ads slamming Mr. Bush and Republicans." 
 
One billionaire liberal, George Soros, has already pledged $25 million to get these efforts off the ground. Soros even said that President Bush reminds him of the Nazis. 
 
 Soros got another billionaire leftist, Peter Lewis, an ardent advocate of hard drugs, to promise $12 million as a down payment. Their goal is to raise over $400 million to defeat the President and they're halfway there. 
 
 To beat these billionaire liberals, we need your help today! 
 
 Please, will you send the Bush re-election campaign $25, $50, $75, $100 or whatever you can afford to give today? 
 
 [...]
 
 Sincerely,
 Marc Racicot
 Chairman
 Bush-Cheney '04
 
 PS: The Wall Street Journal  reported that George Soros views "America as the gravest threat to world freedom."  Help us overcome this liberal billionaire that is clearly out of touch with real America.  Please make your contribution to the President's campaign today and ask five friends to join you in this important effort.  With your help, I know we will reach our goal. Pretty compelling copy, I must say.
 
 Too bad it's all based on lies and slander.  The Wall Street Journal , in its unfounded attacks on Clinton and its absurd support for the most economically ungifted president in recent memory, is a graver threat to world peace than a  Nigerian barge  full of George Soroses.
 
 And the premise of Racicot's email — that liberals are supported by billionaires and Bush enjoys grassroots support — is exactly backwards .  Howard Dean gets the most small contributions over and over  — the real mark of grassroots success.  
 
 Besides the deeply entrenched energy industry and its thieving, bankrupt Enrons and its bloodthirsty Halliburtons, the White House also enjoys the support of banks , the financial industry overall, and the #1 wealth manager in the United States, with private client assets of $630 billion, more than the Bush deficit for this year .
 
 The average contribution received by Bush-Cheney '04 is far and away the highest received by any of the ten candidates .
 
 It's only logical that the president who gave three successive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans would receive the most generous contributions from them.  This is no example of grassroots support — it's another example of not politically twisted truth but outright lying .
 
 Furthermore, the fact that criticism of Bush comes from one of the world's richest men, a man who would be poised to benefit from Bush's ludicrous tax and fiscal policies, only underscores Soros's credibility.
 
Small contributors to Bush-Cheney '04 are the most self-defeating people in the entire world , not because they don't embrace a progressive ideology, but because they enrich the rich at their own expense.
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