Would the NEA ever think to fund art like this?
Posted on 01/30/2004 10:00:31 PM PST by 11th_VA
Hatred of President Bush is what drives the Democratic candidates for their party's presidential nomination, says Larry Sabato, the widely respected political observer at the University of Virginia and he thinks it's time for President Bush to wake up to that fact and go on the offensive. "The Democrats have dominated the news media every channel, every hour, with the exception of the State of the Union address," he says. "Democrats' unity of opposition to Bush on every issue has kept the campaign a symphony rather than a cacophony, building toward a crescendo of anti-Bush fervor. The Democrats are pumped. The Bush White House appears blissfully ignorant of that reality, at least early in the campaign season."
He's right. Back in 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the Democrats started very early in the campaign to spend a lot of money to derail any Republican's chance of winning. It was the smart thing to do and it worked.
This year it's important that people be reminded that there are two primary campaigns going on, side-by-side with the Democratic primaries there are also Republican primaries.
But it's the Democrats who get all the media attention. Every day. Edwards gives his same speech, Kerry gives his same speech, and Dean gives his same speech: "down with America, down with the president" and all the rest of that demagogic claptrap.
The President of the United States, however, gets almost no time at all. If I were the President at this stage, I'd be showing up for the primaries. I would have been in Iowa and New Hampshire, and I'd be in Missouri and South Carolina and every other state holding primaries.
He should show up on primary nights, thank the Republicans who voted for him. and discount what all these people are saying. Instead, what have we been getting? Six hours of "America sucks, the president is a stupid idiot, America sucks." Six solid hours of that filth.
You get around that by having the President show up on primary night, thank the people who voted for him and set the record straight. Being President, he will get air time and we won't have to listen to six unbroken hours of slander against him and his party. He can start now to demolish all the untruths, blatant lies and distortions about him being peddled by the Democratic demagogues.
When Senator Kerry attacks the President for being allegedly dominated by all those evil special interests President Bush would have an opportunity to point out that Kerry's party is totally owned by special interests. They couldn't exist for one minute without the financial and political support of the trial lawyers, the abortion industry, big labor, the teacher's unions, the radical environmentalist movement and the rest of the motley crew who own the Democratic party lock, stock and barrel.
What Kerry is saying is that the Republican "special interests," which is growth and the economy, must go so he can bring his special interests to the White House and pay off the trial lawyers and the abortion industry and all the rest for their support.
All this garbage is all going unanswered and it needs to be rebutted by the President. Five Democrats, three of whom shouldn't even be in the race, are getting all the publicity bad mouthing the President. He's getting none.
The American people must be warned that if they vote for John Kerry or any other Democrat the war in the Middle East will end there and begin here. You won't have to worry about body bags coming back from Iraq because they'll be coming home from the mall.
Vote for the Democrats and the economy will turn sour. They are anti-business which is where the 401K' s of millions of middle class Americans are invested. But the Democrats attack the very source of our 401K retirement funds business. Most of our financial resources are invested in the market, and these people want to ruin the market, ruin the economy and lose the war.
And nobody is in a better position to tell these truths to the American people that President Bush. He should get out there on the campaign trail now.
Mike Reagan, the eldest son of former president Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network. Comments to mereagan@hotmail.com for Mike.
That was a Dick Morris idea back then, Dick Morris now is saying that since the circumstances are different and the situation is different, he would not recomend using the same strategy. Its far better for Bush to simply fundraise, and wait untill the summer, then start spending his war chest.
Personally, I think Bush should start buying ad time from right before the Dem convention, and then saturate the dem convention with his own ads touting his leadership, and keep going all the way through, while making sure he has a strong get out to vote network in place and, he should starting ASAP start campaigning or at least giving speeches (and raising money) in swing states where the dems primaries are not at, so as not to have share local media time with them.
Spoken like a Reagan.
Mines better than 4 years ago - my wife chickened out in March 2000 ... and she constantly reminds me ...
lol, wouldn't bother me, I have a pop up filter, but I think even his own parents would vote against him if they got saturated with pop ups.
I'm more interested in removing liberals from the Judiciary, and keeping the democrats out of power so the direction of this massive ship can continue drifting to the right instead of the left.
Plus I want a strong defense that doesn't have a Commander-in-Chief who feels he can't act in our Nations self defense without consulting the United Nations.
It's an easy choice for me :-)
With financial savvy like that you are in for a very long life of poverty. The '90s were built on the explosion of start-up dot-coms that were never meant to last beyond their initial public offerings. The "Boom" you speak of didn't even begin until the GOP took control of Congress in 1994. There are legions of whiz kid IT workers that are still scratching their heads and wondering where their 100k/year jobs went. That is easy, those jobs went to locations that could provide the same product at realistic costs.
Suit yourself. For me "it's national defense against terrorism stupid."
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