"Anything you can do, I can do better..."

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-29 06:19pm

By EVERY measure, Dean came out FAR on top.

Take your hand off your dick for a moment and realize that it took four days for Dean to do this. It took Cheney about an hour, by contrast, to earn $300,000. And the Bush campaign certainly won't be lacking in matching funds, either; as I recall, in 2000 it took 67 million worth and unless the 2004 campaign is run significantly differently, that number will be higher.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-07-29 06:28pm

Durran Korr wrote:
By EVERY measure, Dean came out FAR on top.
Take your hand off your dick for a moment and realize that it took four days for Dean to do this.

Three days and some change, but that's not important. It takes more time to raise the same amount of money from smaller contributions. The fact that it only took three days and small change - compared to weeks or months raising the same amount of money from the same size donations the old-fashioned way - is quite impressive.

It took Cheney about an hour, by contrast, to earn $300,000. And the Bush campaign certainly won't be lacking in matching funds, either; as I recall, in 2000 it took 67 million worth and unless the 2004 campaign is run significantly differently, that number will be higher.

Only the first $250 from each contributor is eligable for matching funds. Clearly, the more large donations you take in, the less you get in matching funds as a percentage of the total.

Also, the two fundraisers were run significantly differently - Cheney was maxing out a small number of donors for a single event, while Dean was building a wide donor base from which to run similar future fundraisers. The overhead of the Dean fundraiser was also MUCH less - about thirty bucks or so (plus three bucks for a turkey sandwich, chips and some coffee), compared to just under $200,000 for Cheney's fundraiser.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-07-29 07:44pm

MKSheppard wrote: *Shep laughs with glee as the Depleted-Uranium Rail Slug hits flesh at Mach 8. The massive hydroshock, the flash-vaporization, the violent stripping of flesh from bone, bone immediately shattering into tiny razor-sharp shards and getting propelled throughout his body at half the slug's speed instantly severs Iceberg's body at the waist and flays it into a rapidly-expanding cloud of chunky gibs, jagged ribbons of cooked meat, and crimson salsa...*

Someone's got a small penis...

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-07-29 07:50pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:
MKSheppard wrote: *Shep laughs with glee as the Depleted-Uranium Rail Slug hits flesh at Mach 8. The massive hydroshock, the flash-vaporization, the violent stripping of flesh from bone, bone immediately shattering into tiny razor-sharp shards and getting propelled throughout his body at half the slug's speed instantly severs Iceberg's body at the waist and flays it into a rapidly-expanding cloud of chunky gibs, jagged ribbons of cooked meat, and crimson salsa...*
Someone's got a small penis...

I thought that was well established at this point

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-07-29 08:17pm

I still fail to understand what the problem is with repealing the Bush tax cuts. They were HUGE cuts without planning for corresponding reductions in the federal budget, made on faith that the reductions WOULD be made after the cuts had been enacted (which they haven't - in fact, the Bush government is over 6% larger than the Clinton government, the largest increase in government spending since the Great Society). Repealing them is a sensible measure when we're facing government deficits that the tax cuts represent a very large portion of.