Can you show me a link where Bush asked the Swiftboat ads to be pulled? I am pretty confident he never did so. He says all 527 ads are a "problem" and we should get rid of them. Interesting that he is the guy that signed McCain Feingold with the 527 loophole intact. Maybe he got beat at his own game on this one? There have been several recent articles about how Republicans are looking to begin exploiting the loophole now. I think he is pretty disengenuous(sp?) on this one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/politics/campaign/04money.htmlRepublican 527 committees are also starting to raise money, though they are still far behind the Democratic organizations that began their work last year.
"The buzz was 'which 527 are you going to work with?' " Mr. Steel said. "Folks who are passionate about the election are already making those connections."
One organization that made the most of the convention was the Club for Growth, a conservative group that runs a 527 committee. The group held two events, one featuring Republican governors like Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Bill Owens of Colorado and the other involving Senator Zell Miller, a Democrat from Georgia who spoke at the convention.
The parties were designed to "woo donors" rather than to collect checks, said Stephen Moore, the president of the group. "We feel poised to raise several million in the next several weeks based on the contacts that we made. People are pumped up."
