Posted on 02/13/2006 11:07:30 AM PST by areafiftyone
I just hope that their "Worry" shall soon transform into FEAR.
Sounds like the beginning of a joke.
McCain, Rudy, and a Democrat walk into the Next US President Pub. They look at the fat guy passed out on the bar and Rudy says, "Now we know where Ted Kennedy's been getting his booze for the last 30 years." Al Gore comes over and says the pub's out of liquor but he's got some special stuff hidden away in his lockbox....
I love Roberts... also Conryn... Kyle..... why not one of THEM running for President. Smart, Pleasant, strong, likeable.....
Maybe Guliani, no on McCain... let me count the ways to no, he is my State Senator, I don't trust him to be strong enough on the WOT and his obcession with Global Warming and refusal to support ANWR are all non-starters IMO.
Because apparently, no one can spell their names. ;)
[He did it most recently in the State of the Union address. Was he just being funny, talking "down" to ALL of us?]
It never bothered me, maybe because I've lived in the south and that is just a colloquial form of speech in parts of the US. But I know it just drove a lot of city folk wild.
One strict Catholic woman in Los Angeles was a hardine conservative and gave impassioned speeches to me about conservatism on two occasions when I visited her when I was doing business in LA. Then, out of the blue in 2004, I got a few emails from her where she stated that she just could not handle things like "nucular" anymore. She was very articulate and intellectual and she couldn't understand why Bush seemed unwilling to try to take on the liberals for ownership of the "intellectual" meme.
Why wouldn't Bush go to Harvard, Yale or Stanford and speak before the student bodies there and let them know where their intellectual standing really was or was not?
I tried to tell her that the WOT made it imperative that she vote for Bush anyway. But the "anyway" was still there.
I don't want "anyway" to be part of the next election cycle. I want a candidate who leaves his opponents curled up in the fetal position...gasping for straws...wishing they could find some answers for their sorry decision to have become liberals.
That said, I am taking a wait-and-see because I don't want a third party candidate and I don't want people jumping ship and voting independent because they can't live with the GOP candidate, but I'm also aware that a weak candidate -- no matter how much we all appreciate him -- will elect a dem this time around and I'm convinced we can't have that. My intent is to vote with my head in '08.
Giuliani -- didn't spell check myself.
It bothers me, when the man who can give "nucular" orders sounds like he doesn't know any better. :( It would bother me no matter who did it. Celebrating the lack of ability to articulate is inappropriate in anyone, let alone the President of the United States.
Actually, I was referring to "Cornyn" and "Kyl". ;)
Ah, yes...The Nation. The same people who were so thrilled to try and tie Bush to the Enron scandal that they printed a story about how Bush let Ken Lay buy the rights to his baseball team's playing field...Enron Field. The problem was, Enron Field is were the Houston Astros played...not the Rangers.
From what I recall, even after being informed of their mistake, they proceeded with another lie about Lay investing money into the new park...ignoring that Bush sold his shares in the Rangers years before any deal was ever made. Geez...I don't even think the Enquirer could make this mistake.
Of course he's home free on the KKK charge if Forrest Allen's middle name is "Gump."
WAIT A MINUTE: As my sixth grade teacher Ms. West used to say: "Don't run off half cocked".
Muslims for Bush is an honorable, conservative organization. I saw the founder and leader of MFB on Dennis Miller show during the '04 Presidential Election. He is very impressive as is their organization.
A Condi nomination would kill our momentum and compromise our values
Guliani would indeed have a huge problem with Bible Thumpers, starting with myself. Bible thumpers are what's keeping the GOP alive right now, and we're dependable. Blow us off and you kill the movement, man.
He came to his senses. They haven't.
Has he ever taken center stage as an advocate on any of these issues or does he save those appearances for the issues where is disagrees with the Bush administration?
[It bothers me, when the man who can give "nucular" orders sounds like he doesn't know any better. :( It would bother me no matter who did it. Celebrating the lack of ability to articulate is inappropriate in anyone, let alone the President of the United States.]
Those are almost the precise words the Catholic woman in LA wrote to me when she bailed on the President in 2004. Luckily he still won. But he could have had the blue states if he had only done the following:
1) Announced that he at least knew the blue staters used the word "nuclear".
2) Made at least one campaign speech at an Ivy League school and at least one defense of US foreign policy at an elite left-wing foreign school...showing he had the nerve and ability to take them head-on.
3) Gone after the black vote even a little bit (like maybe one appearance on BET).
Rudy would do the above (even #3, but the Dems would do everything they could to bring up the shooting of that black man in Harlem who had a cell phone in his hand).
But, apart from Rudy, a retired Iraq War officer could be hard-hitting and inclusive at the same time, some of whom I have in mind but are apparently career officers (heroes) destined to protect us into the future as officers.
I just realized that "hard-hitting and inclusive at the same time" is a good catch phrase for a great candidate.
[Bible thumpers are what's keeping the GOP alive right now, and we're dependable. Blow us off and you kill the movement, man.]
One would expect the Rep candidate to grovel enough before the Bible thumpers to make them feel appreciated, but also not enough so as to lose the Connecticut soccer moms who remain squarely behind Lieberman right now as the DKos people do everything they can to unseat Lieberman in the midterms.
Connecticut soccer moms are the key to a landslide Republican victory in 2008.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.