Washington Post reports today that the White House is gearing up for a major effort to push through their plan to destroy Social Security and America's financial infrastructure. Apparently, it will be modeled on the 2004 Presidential campaign so we can be guaranteed there will be a lot of lies and a lot of fear-mongering. From the Post:
President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, according to Republican strategists.None of this should come as a surprise. The key question is whether the Democrats have figured out a strategy to defeat Bush this time around.
White House allies are launching a market-research project to figure out how to sell the plan in the most comprehensible and appealing way, and Republican marketing and public-relations gurus are building teams of consultants to promote it, the strategists said.
The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support -- contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.
The Post also reports that the brains behind this effort will once again be Karl Rove and the star of Americablog's "Mehlman Mondays," the incoming chair of the RNC, Ken Mehlman.
The same architects of Bush's political victories will be masterminding the new campaign, led by political strategists Karl Rove at the White House and Ken Mehlman at the Republican National Committee.
