{"id":2008,"date":"2004-06-25T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2008.html"},"modified":"2004-06-25T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:49:06","slug":"conservatives-gearing-up-for-a-presidential-campaign-rally-in-oregon-but-its-not-for-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/conservatives-gearing-up-for-a-presidential-campaign-rally-in-oregon-but-its-not-for-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives gearing up for a presidential campaign rally in Oregon — but it’s not for Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a few months ago when Nader hosted a rally in Oregon and no one showed up<\/a>? The purpose of the gathering was to meet the state’s threshold to qualify him for the state presidential ballot. The rally was a debacle and Nader could be heard muttering to himself<\/a> in the hallway afterward, wondering why the turnout was so bad.<\/p>\n

Well, the campaign is giving it another shot this weekend, only this time, Nader’s getting some help from his biggest fans — Bush supporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two conservative groups have been phoning people around Oregon this week, urging them to attend Ralph Nader’s convention Saturday in hopes of putting Nader’s name on Oregon’s presidential ballot. <\/p>\n

The groups make no bones about their goal to draw votes away from Democrat John Kerry and help President Bush win this battleground state in November.<\/p>\n

“We disagree with Ralph Nader’s politics, but we’d love to see him make the ballot,” said Russ Walker of Citizens for a Sound Economy, a group best known for its opposition to tax increases.<\/p>\n

The Oregon Family Council also has been working the phones to boost attendance at Nader’s event with the idea that it could help Bush this fall.<\/p>\n

“We aren’t bashful about doing it,” said Mike White, the group’s director. “We are a conservative, pro-family organization, and Bush is our guy on virtually every issue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kos has a picture<\/a> of one of the conservative mailings, which explains that GOP exploitation of Nader’s lunacy will be key to “stop[ping] John Kerry from winning in Oregon” and that participation in this weekend’s Nader rally could help make “the difference in a razor-thin presidential election.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember a few months ago when Nader hosted a rally in Oregon and no one showed up? The purpose of the gathering was to meet the state’s threshold to qualify him for the state presidential ballot. The rally was a debacle and Nader could be heard muttering to himself in the hallway afterward, wondering why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}