Desperate Myers Flees Sinking Ship

DESPERATE MYERS FLEES SINKING SHIP
President's Proud Cheerleader Suddenly Has Second Thoughts
Contradicts Himself On Bush And Economy

For Immediate Release: October 27, 2008

Contact: Mark Warren, 856.222.9707

Mt. Laurel, NJ – Desperate to save his fading campaign, congressional candidate Chris Myers has scrambled onto one of the last lifeboats fleeing the USS George W. Bush. Myers is frantically trying to escape the sinking GOP ship and its beleaguered skipper, the president, with a cunning but ultimately futile attempt to deny his longstanding support for Bush and the failed policies that pushed our economy over the cliff.

With his election prospects growing more remote by the day, Myers is clinging to the hope that the voters will buy his abrupt 11th-hour flip-flop on George W. Bush. An unabashed cheerleader for the president, Myers finally acknowledged in recent days that Bush is "part of the problem" as the economy continues its freefall and middle-class America fears for its future.

Myers also beat a full retreat from his preposterous claim that the economy is 'basically strong.' Myers now concedes – again, in his own words - that 'the economy stinks.' Finally – with the election about a week away, he admits what the rest of the nation has known for months.

"Chris Myers can try to run from the truth, but he can't hide," said Mark Warren, campaign manager for John Adler, the Democratic candidate in New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District. "We've seen time and again that Chris Myers will say just about anything to get elected, but even he has outdone himself with this one. It 's the classic act of a desperate candidate whose campaign is going nowhere. But who in the world would ever believe he's had a last-minute conversion on George Bush? The voters will see right through it."

"Just consider his own words, " Warren said. "With a straight face, Chris Myers looked the voters in the eye and stubbornly insisted for months that the economy was on sound footing and that George W. Bush was an effective president whose failed policies at home and in Iraq were good for the country. Now, again with a straight face, he tells the same voters:  'Never mind,' Bush is part of the problem after all - and, yes indeed, the economy really is in bad shape.

"Either Chris Myers was so out of touch that he believed what he was saying, or he was deliberately deceiving the voters. Either way, his incredulous claims in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary show he does not belong in the United States Congress."

Warren said that voters will recognize the startling about-face by Myers on Bush and the economy for what it is: a blatant political ploy. After all, Myers was the president's handpicked candidate for Congress and has been a staunch defender throughout the campaign of Bush's economic and foreign-policy agenda – taking it on as his own and promising to continue the Bush legacy if elected to Congress.

Like Bush, Myers favors tax breaks for Big Oil, and like Bush, Myers is captive to the corporate lobbyists and Wall Street titans who helped create the current economic upheaval. Just about a month ago the President made a special trip to NJ to raise money for Chris Myers and later that same week several of Bush’s top advisors held another big ticket reception in Washington DC for Myers.  Myers couldn’t cash the checks fast enough.

"If we know anything about Chris Myers, it's that he reads the polls and closely watches which  way the political wind is blowing, " Warren said. "He knows that the voters are embracing John Adler's campaign of serious ideas and promise of strong, bipartisan leadership in Washington, while rejecting the worn-out, partisan finger-pointing practiced by Mayor Myers to distract attention from the issues voters care about."

"Saying one thing about the failed presidency of George W. Bush after spending months saying just the opposite is all-too typical of Chris Myers. But it is not what 3rd District voters deserve in the U.S. Congress."