Posted on 09/17/2005 2:04:30 PM PDT by pillut48
"On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Dems have read the polls. They know those that "blame Bush" are bogus, and they know that they are getting more answers than they want to admit like those on "Nightline" the other night. The Dems are collapsing.
There are .. the media/press just doesn't want you to hear from them
Sort of.
Carville can still work in politics.
Braziles career is effectivly over and finished.
She will never be hired again to run a campaign and in the democratic party,her name is mudd.
Donna Brazile is a leftist who is just saying this because she sees the direction things are going in and wants to be on the winning side. The 'Rats are probably figuring that if more of them get behind Bush on this, they can turn the $100 billion being spent in New Orleans into a new and permanent entitlement program.
This woman is nasty... she is pulling the sweet little Hillary thing to get in and then destroy everyone when they are sleeping trick.... the Trojan Horse... or in this case the Trojan Jackass.
But some dems apparently are still behind the curve.Just saw Martin Frost on Fox and he's calling for tax increases.I wonder if he had to turn in his secret decoder ring when he left congress!
Well, some of them may be working on it, so we should be positive at the start and not reject them before they even have a chance. Not everybody is bold enough or tough enough to do things right off like the hyper-intelligent folks you have listed - some people are more timid, less smart, and have to ease in - and giving a positive reception is definitely more encouraging.
This is marks an historic shift. Donna Brazile is writing praise of a Republican President in the Washington Post about American "industriousness", "ingenuity", and "compassion". In that speech on Thursday night, President Bush may have broke the bind that socialist Democrats held on black voters for generations.
Maybe Dirksens' quote of 1962, "The favorite sum of money is $1 billion – a billion a year for a fatter federal payroll, a billion here, a billion there.",needs to be revised;
"The favorite sum of money is $200 billion – $200 billion a year for a fatter federal payroll,$200 billion here, $200 billion there."
The democrats want tax increases in order to get more money in the hands of the feds (even though it doesn't work that way), hurt the economy, and make Bush renege on a promise. Then they can campaign in 2006 with "Bush raised taxes! He broke his promise! The economy is in the tank!"
Fortunately, the President is way smarter than they are.
that is exactly what part of this will be.....the bigger immediate danger though is corruption.
NOLA was arguably the most corrupted big city in the country.
however....i am hearing from a lot of sources that most black evacuees do not want to return if a new option is viable...who can blame them.
start over in wide open spaces anew or go back to the ghetto
Again, I know what you mean. But......it doesn't take super intelligence to vote, and it doesn't take a large amount of "guts" to do the right thing in the privacy of a voting booth.
Don't get me wrong. I welcome all "converts". But, I use the old Ronald Reagan adage of "Trust, but verify"!!
She is still a liberal.
The democratic party may treat her like garbage and humilate her, it doesn't mean her ideology has changed or her beliefs.
She is more likely to go green then GOP.
That said, I can't say she is sinicere about what she is saying, but she is for all effects and purposes, a disenfranchised liberal.
2 things she will never be.
1)A republican.
2) A democratic campaign manager (again).
Her career as an operative is over. No dem will ever hire her again.
So What!
Although I abhor her politics, personally, she seems to be a likable person who got where she is (however misguided, LOL!) by determination and hard work.
The race baiting we witnessed after Katrina may have seen like a through back to some. It seems to me making race the issue after Katrina may have seemed to some as a slap in the face of the civil rights workers who paid for their fight with their lives.
Her words of support are more than what I would expect as the standard dem line. This may even have been a poltical risk for her.
I will be`very honest. With another cast of players (President Bubba), I would never express pride. I would be cautiously optimistic. I would never write such a glowing article telling the world how proud I was of him.
She has me beat on this one. I think she is sincere. I hope others follow suit.
President Bush will never fall for it.When I saw Frost say it,the Republican (John Kasich) on the show just started laughing!Frost got this real sour look on his face and stammered through the rest of the segment.
It's so much fun to watch them.I sure hope some are sincere in their praise of W,it would be helpful.But either way,I trust most Americans will figure it out.
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