Posted on 01/27/2008 5:17:18 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Gen. David Petraeus; Paulson; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; Huckabee.
Did they have Romney on right before the primary...nooooooooo.
FOX you are becoming transparent...that the Immigration policies of the past are something Washington wants to maintain for the future. (Their bottom line is screw the fence, we need the illegals....HELLO D.C....THIS IS NOT THE CONSERVATIVES POSITION ON IMMIGRATION! Don't believe me? ...Want us to shut down the phones in Congress again??? WE DON'T WANT McCAIN OR HUCKABEE'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES!
I posted on this forun 5 years ago that they NEVER should have pushed the WMD argument because it was not ‘a slam dunk’ (hadn’t heard the term of course).
MoDo’s brutal honesty trashing the white trash Clintons is awesome.
I’m Lovin’ It!
I don’t think Huckabee is all that viable as a VP candidate, because he doesn’t bring all that much to the ticket. However, Huckabee’s endorsement would definitely carry some serious weight, because Huckabee is (like it or not) the most consistently pro-life candidate left in this race. If he’s the next to leave (and I suspect he will be), then his successor will pick up a significant portion of the base— the evangelicals. That is powerful ammunition, even if it comes after Super Tuesday because I don’t think either one of these races will be decided by 2/5.
Juan Williams was saying that Clinton people were running with money-bags distributing to ministers - is that legal?
Of course not. But nothing will be done about it.
rodguy, I have a theory about this.
If they push the race thing too much, they are going to alienate blacks. Moe importantly, just because Obama loses a vote doesn’t mean that Hillary will gain it.
It is my belief that most guys who won’t vote for Obama due to race will also not vote for Clinton because she is female. Those voters will go to Edwards (and there was some indication of this in the South Carolina returns).
are Romney’s commercials all positive ads, or has he at least aired some “contrast” ads — McCain’s record on taxes, amnesty, judges, etc.????
Now that McCain has gone negative, time for Mitt to return the favor.
I don’t know if it is legal but this sort of thing has been going on for over 50 years to my personal knowledge.
I’ve really been thinking about this McCain thing.
Initially I was very noble, asserting that no matter who the Republican nominee was that I would so vote. At times I might hold my nose but it was that “anybody but Hillary” logic.
But John McCain has done so damn much to offend me, the top of the heap being that campaign finance thing that slapped my free speech right in the face. Then there was the Gang of 14, his promotion of amnesty, his vote AGAINST tax cuts. He’s also a bad-tempered, sneering, simpering nobody who wrecked a couple of planes during his term in the military and scuttlebutt has it that McCain might have some lies about his own service a la Kerry.
But scuttlebutt aside, I have enough dislike of McCain that I’ve decided that should my party slap me in the face, and note that now Crist of Florida has endorsed this ill-tempered cretin, I WILL vote, but I will write in a candidate of my choice. I will NOT vote for McCain. My one and only vote is too precious to me.
My dream is, and it’s a big one, but I dream that Rush himself might lead some sort of movement. Only Rush has the power to do it. I’m thinking Rush has the principles to undertake such a thing.
I don’t know, maybe Rush can promote a massive write-in campaign, maybe even his own name. This IF McCain gets the nomination by the Republican party which will have, by then, spit in our faces and told us to shut up. Or if not a massive write-in of Rush’s name as I know he doesn’t want an elected office, than a write-in of SOMEBODY....maybe Micky Mouse.
I try to imagine the embarrassment of the Republican party as millions of votes roil in for either Rush or Micky Mouse. Maybe McCain would win anyway but for sure a damn fine message would have been sent to those who betrayed us.
Like I said...it’s only a dream.
Sadly, if McCain wins Florida on Tuesday, it will be over. The nomination will be his.
Establishment idiots.
LIZ CHENEY JUST ENDORSED ROMNEY!!!
It’s because they ignore the West.
You know, there’s a phenomenon in sports media circles known as “East Coast bias,” where West Coast teams get short shrift in the media in favor of coverage from East Coast teams. I think we’re seeing something similar to that with the 2008 election. For years, they followed the template: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, then Mini-Tuesday. Now that the thing has been pushed up and shuffled a bit, the media is ignoring the races in Wyoming and Nevada. Wyoming and Michigan got little coverage because they were, for all intents and purposes, Republican-only.
Nevada, nobody has ever cared. It’s only there because Harry Reid wanted to flex his political muscle and give his state more voting power. That’s what we get when we elect Democrats to Congress.
Quite thought provoking. Thanks.
Fred was right, we are currently fighting for the soul of the Republican party. The folks in charge now, regardless of what they were when they started, are not Conservatives. They're in it for their own careers, their own power and perks, not because they're part of a movement. The gang of 14 and Shamnesty seem like good ideas because they offer them the best chance of keeping their own jobs. They're not Ronald Reagan Republicans. They're Bob Michael Republicans. They want to pick people who will keep them in their cushy positions, whether the candidates they choose will have a chance of winning or not.
We need new leadership and that must come with a complete sweep of the old, all the way from top to bottom. Fred might or might not have done that, but he would have at least tried to force the ones there now to either toe the line or leave. That made them uncomfortable and they actively worked against him. He never came, hat in hand, asking them for their blessing for his campaign and his themes certainly didn't line up with their "go along to get along" philosophy. If Mitt gets the nomination he'll sweep out the old people in the GOP and put in people who are beholding to him, simply based on self interest and the natural practice of his business speciality. Since he's the last chance for a good outcome in this regard for the party and the country we have to either get behind him, and hope that we can at least influence who those people are and the direction they'll take the party (win or lose), or we have to walk away this cycle, take what comes as our medicine, and begin building RIGHT NOW for the future. And we have to start that at the grass roots level, at the county and state party level.
We get the party we deserve, based on how much we've done in working on it.
(that's more than I've posted in a month!)
going back to lurk mode
OMG!
Juan Williams just said that Rush Limbaugh is Republican Establishment, Gov Crist and Sen Mel Martinez are not.
How inverted can this pundit’s brain be?
Mitt Romney is the master of the negative ad. I imagine he has most certainly done attack ads on his opponents.
Of course, I’m not in/from FL so I don’t know.
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