How's That For Rapid Response? -- Political Wire

How's That For Rapid Response?

Sen. John Kerry "is mounting the most aggressive presidential campaign a Democrat has run in decades," the Cox News Service reports. "The tactics already seem to have caused a sputter in the much vaunted Bush political machine at a crucial point in the campaign."

Bob Novak notes the best example of rapid response involved Kerry's "disclosure of President Bush's long-awaited choice of a manufacturing czar."

"Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans was supposed to announce the nomination of Nebraska industrialist Anthony F. Raimondo to the new post of assistant secretary for manufacturing. But Kerry beat himto the punch by not only disclosing Raimondo's name but also that he had opened a factory in China. Raimondo withdrew his name from consideration Thursday.

"The president and his senior staff were described as apoplectic. Republican insiders were less impressed by the Kerry campaign team's learning about Raimondo than by its rapid distribution of details about his China connection."

Meanwhile, the Weekly Standard says Democrats -- "a small group of people with excellent public relations skills and a political axe to grind" -- artfully staged the controversy over Bush's initial campaign ads.

March 15, 2004

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