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Reagan's shadow dims Kerry campaign
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 6/9/2004 | Dick Polman

Posted on 06/09/2004 6:59:01 AM PDT by wjersey

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To: wjcsux

Thanx.Think we all can appreciate that one.......


21 posted on 06/09/2004 7:20:51 AM PDT by litehaus
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22 posted on 06/09/2004 7:22:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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one national Democrat lamented privately yesterday, Reagan trumps everything: "You turn on the network news this morning, and suddenly it's not 'More deaths in Iraq' or 'The latest on the prison-abuse scandal' anymore.

These sorry excuses for humanity...they as much as admit here that they want more deaths in Iraq...Amerian deaths.

23 posted on 06/09/2004 7:22:25 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Pres Reagan...your memory and impact have not dimmed...only aged and grown stronger!)
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To: wjersey

"that Reagan (unlike Bush) confessed error, declaring, after a truck bomb killed 241 Marines in Lebanon, that 'if there is to be blame... it properly rests here in this office and with this president. I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good.'"

Now I'm confused. What error? Reagan erred by "letting" some Moslems blow up the barracks?


24 posted on 06/09/2004 7:23:27 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
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To: Cap Huff
Still, as one national Democrat lamented privately yesterday, Reagan trumps everything: "You turn on the network news this morning, and suddenly it's not 'More deaths in Iraq' or 'The latest on the prison-abuse scandal' anymore. TV does emotion well, and the death of a popular president is emotional. That's the story line. We can't compete with that."

Kinda says it all. The 'Rats milk and distort any event to manufacture emotion, as in the contrived and tired outrage over the prison photos that they feigned day after day.

But they are now so completely lacking in authenticity and integrity, that they can't tell or admit the difference between their own conjured emotions, and the genuine outpouring of public emotion felt for the passing of a truly great man.

25 posted on 06/09/2004 7:24:09 AM PDT by guitfiddlist (Hate is a DNC Family Value)
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To: Cap Huff
"Still, as one national Democrat lamented privately yesterday, Reagan trumps everything: "You turn on the network news this morning, and suddenly it's not 'More deaths in Iraq..."

Suddenly it's not 'more deaths in Iraq' but , once again it's "morning in America"

Gotta love that.

Godspeed, Ronnie

CC

26 posted on 06/09/2004 7:24:32 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (RWR 1911 - 2004 ,requiescat in pacem, Ronaldus Magnus)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Even more - what epidemic? What's the definition? Must've been worse than normal, but wouldn't at least 10% of people have to have it - much less die very soon - to be called an epidemic?

Hyperbole, I always thought.


27 posted on 06/09/2004 7:25:01 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
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To: Cicero
If the liberals lose the election, they will learn nothing from it.

Sure, they will -- they'll "learn" that they weren't far enough to the left! (Isn't that the lesson they take from everything? LOL)

28 posted on 06/09/2004 7:29:26 AM PDT by maryz
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To: CaptRon

Nevermind, either, that Reagan worked w/leaders who were quite sympatico. Not like Bush mixing w/Chirac or that new Spanish leader.

(Speaking of which, I can't wait to hear about Thatcher's eulogy!)


29 posted on 06/09/2004 7:30:28 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
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To: wjersey
Nevertheless, some Democrats insist Kerry can still benefit from Reagan nostalgia in the long run. They argue that Bush simply doesn't measure up to Reagan, that Reagan's big shadow makes Bush look small and that, as a result, Kerry will draw swing voters who want a more substantive person to fill the office.

Yep. GW doesn't measure up to the Gipper, so we'll elect tyhe antithesis of Ronnie. Riiiight...
30 posted on 06/09/2004 7:30:46 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Pres. Reagan was greeted at the Pearly Gates by his old college buddy, Moses.:-))
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To: Celtic Conservative

Of course the article does the best it can to trash Bush and give the dems suggestions on how to overcome or co-op the Reagan factor. Read the dem quote lamenting no soldiers' deaths or prisoner tortures on teh news this week. Is there any doubt the dems are not on America's side?


31 posted on 06/09/2004 7:33:34 AM PDT by Williams
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To: capt. norm
I don't know about the rest of us on this forum, but I am really getting pumped up for this election.

I fell very positive about it.

Damn the torpedoes polls....full speed ahead!

I'm with you Sir. It's gonna be a big blow to the media and their "not so hidden agenda" :)
32 posted on 06/09/2004 7:37:34 AM PDT by Toidylop
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To: Toidylop

At least Bush gets a week break from all the democratic and media bashing. Also, things started to turn around about 2 weeks ago for Bush anyway. The economy is still getting better. Iraq is looking better each day. In the end, what can Kerry really run on? I expect Bush to win by 2-3% nationally. But I would not be surprised to see him win the electoral vote 350-200 or something in that range.


33 posted on 06/09/2004 7:42:31 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: Jeff Head
"and suddenly it's not 'More deaths in Iraq' or 'The latest on the prison-abuse scandal' anymore"

Yeah..and its all "UN approves 15-0 the new Iraqi government.....Bush sweeps UN"

34 posted on 06/09/2004 7:44:56 AM PDT by spokeshave (strategery + schadenfreude = stratenschadenfreudery)
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To: SkyPilot

He should have had to stand in line like the rest of us. He is no better, as a matter of fact, I think he should have been made to stand at the end of the line until every other american passed.


35 posted on 06/09/2004 7:47:06 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: snooker

"They can't publicly remind people of the downside of the Reagan years - the Iran-contra scandal, ballooning budget deficits, his refusal to acknowledge the AIDS epidemic until 1987..."

This is all this idiotic leftist journalist can come up with as the "downside" of the Reagan presidency? And he tried to find something, you can bet! The asininity of these people never ceases to amaze.


36 posted on 06/09/2004 7:47:47 AM PDT by vanmorrison
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To: wjersey

LOL, Kerry will emerge from the shadow of Reagan, just before he is totally eclipsed by the Big Dog, Bubba Clinton.


37 posted on 06/09/2004 8:10:23 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

"his refusal to acknowledge the AIDS epidemic until 1987"

Or the Nicotene epidemic. LOL. Smoking and AIDS are both voluntary. If the AIDS epidemic is such a big thing, why are homos still having unprotected orgies at the local bathhouse/park/etc? What a waste of money.


38 posted on 06/09/2004 8:36:23 AM PDT by Fenris6
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To: TC Rider
Kerry will emerge from the shadow of Reagan, just before he is totally eclipsed by the Big Dog, Bubba Clinton.

ROFL! Bubba says "Apres moi, les deluge".

39 posted on 06/09/2004 8:39:17 AM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Straight Vermonter
Was he supposed to shut down the bath houses etc? Yeah, that would have went over big.

He was accused of trampling on civil rights, using the governemt to "peek in our bedrooms", called a homophobe, a Nazi, etc. for merely proposing to shut down the bathhouses.

40 posted on 06/09/2004 8:59:54 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC ( "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. " - R. Reagan)
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