Bush Stumps for Gard

I found this appeal from Nancy Nusbaum's campaign to be rather amusing.

Nusbaum is hoping to use President Bush's visit to Green Bay as a fundraising opportunity for her campaign. She's so excited about it that she's counting down the days.

COUNTDOWN TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S GREEN BAY VISIT

In just ten days, on August 10th, President Bush will be in Green Bay to raise campaign cash for the likely Republican in this race, John Gard. This visit comes less than six months after Dick Cheney came to Green Bay to help Gard stockpile money for his Congressional Race.

The Republicans want desperately to hold this seat and they have turned on their money machine. Bush has raised close to $1 million for other Congressional candidates and there is no reason to expect he won't do the same for Gard.

Nancy Nusbaum needs your immediate help to combat this Republican money machine. Nancy does not have the White House to help her fundraise. But Nancy has you! Please click here to contribute $50 to Nancy Nusbaum's campaign to help Nancy compete financially with the Bush fundraising machine.

www.nancy2006.com/donate.php

George Bush and the Republicans have already had a major negative impact on the lives of the people in Northeast Wisconsin.

This administration is responsible for the misguided and unacceptable war in Iraq, that has caused more than 2500 deaths of American soliders.

This administration is responsible for the skyrocketing gasoline and home heating oil prices.

This administration is responsible for cutting higher education assistance and leaving too many children behind.

Please stand with Nancy Nusbaum against John Gard and George Bush. Please contribute $50 today to help Nancy continue to run a strong campaign to help the hard working families of Northeast Wisconsin.

www.nancy2006.com/donate.php

We need you now more than ever!

Jennifer Pihlaja

Campaign Manager

Nusbaum for Congress

P.S. George Bush and the Republicans have had a major negative impact on our lives. Your $50 contribution will help stop them!

www.nancy2006.com/donate.php

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I think it's funny that the Nusbaum campaign considers President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be a plus for John Gard.

This Nusbaum fundraising appeal is based on the fact that Bush and Cheney bring in big bucks for Republican candidates.

All the President and Vice President have to do is show up, give a relatively brief address, and the money rolls in.

It's true. Gard will benefit when the President visits. He'll benefit big time.

But wait...

Why would that be? How is that possible?

I keep hearing that Republican candidates want nothing to do with Bush. His approval ratings are so low and his policies are so unpopular that candidates find it necessary to distance themselves from the President if they hope to have any chance of winning.

And why would any candidate want to be associated with Cheney, the antichrist?

Last week, Dana Milbank wrote:

[There's] a growing sense among Republicans that if they are to retain their majorities in Congress, they may have to throw the president under the train in all but the safest, reddest states.

Milbank's theory doesn't apply to Wisconsin.

It's a battleground state that went blue in the 2004 election. Wisconsin is not even close to being a safe, red state. Nevertheless, Republican candidates here are welcoming the assistance of President Bush.

Bush is hardly being thrown under the train, far from it.

Obviously, Bush is not the political poison that Dem strategists consider him to be.

Of course, the 8th Congressional District is a red area of the state; but still, if Bush is so dangerous and such a liability, Wisconsin Republicans wouldn't want him to set foot in the state.

President Bush just did a fundraising event for Mark Green in very, very blue Milwaukee.

Green didn't think that associating with Bush would hamper his efforts to be Wisconsin's next governor.

And I'm sure if Wisconsin had a viable candidate running against Herb Kohl, that candidate would have welcomed the help of the White House.

If Tommy Thompson had decided to take Kohl on, do you think that he would have thrown Bush under the train? Of course not.

I predict that Bush will not be in the state to campaign for Robert Lorge. Whenever I think about the lack of a Republican challenger for Kohl, I get so ticked off...

I digress.

I also think Nusbaum's release is funny in that it reiterates the typical negative, anti-Bush Dem talking points/lies while simultaneously implying that Bush is a positive for the Gard campaign and gives him an edge.

She's following Howard Dean's grand plan of turning this Congressional race into a referendum on Bush.

The release asks people to "stand with Nancy Nusbaum against John Gard and George Bush."

Gard = Bush = BAD

But the people of Northeastern Wisconsin don't all see it that way.

Is Nusbaum considering many 8th District voters to be too stupid to realize how bad Bush is for the country?

In fact, so many people approve of Gard standing with Bush that she needs to ask for financial help to offset all the money that the event with Bush will bring in to Gard's campaign.

I think Dean's plan to make the 2006 election about Bush, across the board, is seriously flawed.

Americans may not be thrilled with the President right now; but that doesn't mean that the majority of Americans are embracing the Dems' vision for the country.

By the way, what is the Dems' vision for the country?