M. KERRY ET LA BALLON ROUGE

Reggie and the red balloons (John Mercurio, CNN Political Unit, 3/19/04)

Reggie the Republican registration rig will be in Orlando tomorrow. So will the Blue Dog Democrats and their budget-busting red balloons. . . .

The Republican National Committee is parking its 56-foot 18-wheeler inside the convention center, allowing hundreds of volunteers to fan out after the rally for a massive voter-registration blitz. This grass-roots effort to help mobilize the GOP vote is part of the RNC's "unprecedented" commitment to register 3 million new voters by November.

Also on hand, we hear, will be a large number of red balloons, which conservative Blue Dog Democrats plan to use to remind voters of the "ballooning" federal budget deficit that the president has created since 2001. Even though the aforementioned "dogs" are "blue," the balloons are red, presumably to represent the budget's "red ink."

I can't figure out any way to work Eric and Julia Roberts into this post. Oh. Hey! Trifecta.

Posted by David Cohen at March 19, 2004 12:29 PM