Posted on 01/27/2007 9:01:32 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Melissa Russo, political reporter for NBC's NYC affiliate WNBC, recently followed Rudy Giuliani up to New Hampshire. In her report on this morning's "Today," Russo stressed that at a GOP campaign stop, Giuliani failed to inform the Granite State Republicans that "he's far from a social conservative."Definition: Push Poll: "A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. Push polls are generally viewed as a form of negative campaigning. The term is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to legitimate polls which test political messages, some of which may be negative. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants."
View video here.
So Russo decided to take it upon herself to inform them. Here's Russo interviewing a nice Republican lady:
Russo: "Did you know he was pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro gay rights?"
Nice Republican lady: "No-o-o-o."
Russo: "Would that affect your support for him?"
Nice Republican lady: "Ye-s-s."
Have a look again at that definition of push polling. Sound to you like Russo was engaging in it?
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No, please don't tell me Rudy is pro-choice AND pro-gay! :-)
Do you support Alan - the street preacher - Keyes, too? :-)
That he created himself; you forgot that part.
I don't think they can be converted; but I am not obsessed with gays as some on here are.
I keep asking myself why.
I'm not obsessed with 'em but I have some childhood friends that went over to the "dark" side. I pray for them and remain hopeful.
Well, I am probably a lot older than you are, but I was just talking to somebody about this; I had two friends all through childhood who I am positive were gay.
Never once, to this day, has it EVER come up in conversation or action; and we did a lot of stuff together in high school, college, and to this day.
They just didn't make a big deal out of it.
1. Not all of them.
2. There's nothing wrong with that.
I guess Jim Robinson is a scammer, in your mind, because he created a conservative organization called Free Republic and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to operate a simple web forum. Nice logic, on your part there, Howlin. Now, go back to your knitting. Leave the fight against liberalism to the people who are actually willing to put up a fight and NOT to just roll over and elect a liberal just because he's got an R after his name.
Oh, trying to draw Jim into this, are you?
Are you insinuating that Jim Robinson is skimming money and owed the government money and getting jobs for all his friends and has filed document upon document with the United States government that turn out to be INACCURATE, to put it mildly?
Jim Robinson has ONE entity; he hasn't had the need to start others over and over; and he surely hasn't had the need to keep changing his MO while he's running it.
And I'm pretty damn sure he doesn't have a caging company with as many black marks against it as the one Keyes uses.
You're comparison just makes you look as desperate as you seem to be.
What is your problem, afraid somebody might actually have a thought that doesn't match yours so you need to smash everybody down?
If you're a conservative, go ahead without the rest of us; you're an embarassment to the word "conservative" and this site, IMO.
And just for the record, don't put words in my mouth, you jerk.
I agree. The democrats have learned from their mistakes, so conservatives expecting them to fall flat on their arses in the House are being unrealistic. I'd be surprised if the GOP wins back 6-7 of the House seats they lost.
In any event, they want desperately to control the presidency and the Congress. Rudy, if he can get the nomination, appears to have as good a chance as any to have a large base of support among Republicans, Independents, and dems perhaps disenchanted with the dem nominee.
Wait and see.
Keyes had no business running for Senate in IL. The worst.
I agree with that post almost 100 percent.
My brother has a good friend and fellow cyclist who was artery hardened at 65...he started biking and has completely recovered. My sister in law is a professor in a cardiac department at a nursing school and she was surprised to announce that this mans exercise pushed his capillaries to start building around his blockage.
Not a perfect solution...but keep kicking!
Yeah I remember some of those Keyes mailings, I sent Keyes money once. Today I am older and wiser!
As to conversion from homosexuality...I think only the Holy Spirit can handle that...in other words, pray without stopping.
I wasn't insinuating a thing. You did. I was just using your logic to show you that if you can't apply it to Free Republican, then you're a hypocrit. I guess I touched a nerve there.
Jim Robinson has ONE entity; he hasn't had the need to start others over and over; and he surely hasn't had the need to keep changing his MO while he's running it. What is your problem, afraid somebody might actually have a thought that doesn't match yours so you need to smash everybody down?
The very same clowns that have been dogging Keyes and making up reams of stuff about him are the same people that attack Jim Robinson and Free Republic over its finances. Given your insinuation about Keyes and his conservative organizations, it is an easy conclusion to make that you're right along with them in questioning Free Republic operations. I see you attacking conservatives here all the time, siding with the liberals and I see the anti-Keyes and anti-FR types on the Internet doing the same exact thing. Again, you're in their camp in that respect.
If you're a conservative, go ahead without the rest of us; you're an embarassment to the word "conservative" and this site, IMO. And just for the record, don't put words in my mouth, you jerk.
Right back at ya. The blame for FR's decline (check the numbers yourself) can be laid directly on you and the other harpies. Anyone who expresses a conservative view beyond support for the WoT here gets shouted down by your bunch or banned.
And don't you put words into my mouth either.
No, I do not knit; it's just something that the women haters on FR think denigrades women.
Ryan had to leave the race. No one stepped forward to run against Obama. Keyes put himself out there to be the guy that would get beat and beat bad but to at least put up a fight. He knew he would lose but he wanted to cause Obama the most pain he could. And if some scandal had taken Obama out at the last minute, maybe Keyes could have won it and there'd be a Republican in that seat right now. I didn't see you stepping up to the plate to take one for the team in Illinois.
You are a liar. A well documneted one, I might add.
The very same clowns that have been dogging Keyes and making up reams of stuff about him are the same people that attack Jim Robinson and Free Republic over its finances.
No, YOU made that insinuation right here at FR; unlike you, I have no idea what people at other web sites can do.
But I do know this: the accusations on this forum about Alan Keyes are well documented by FEDERAL paperwork.
The blame for FR's decline (check the numbers yourself) can be laid directly on you and the other harpies.
No, it's because of mean-spirited, ugly posters like you who make FR look like the very stereotype that the MSM has of conservatives.
Your ever post reeks of prejuidice and hatred, smugness and sanctimony.
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