Republicans Should not choose New York City as site of 2004 convention

You people are missing the bigger picture... New York offers the symbolism...THE FIREMEN...Rudy Giuliani...THE FIREMEN. Also it's a nice way to annoy the Democrats who are meeting in Boston because they didn't want to "share" New York with Bush and the GOP.

Rudy can go anywhere and fly a few of the fireman out to where ever they go.

The symbolism you will see in the future is smokeasys, The Bicycle, and a city in decay.

Cigarette smuggling is now going big time in NYC because of the $7.50 a pack price, It is rivaling the illegal drug trade so unfortunately it is only a matter of time before a police officer will be killed while busting up one of the rings.

A widow and children missing a parent due to Bloomberg's war on cigarettes will also be a powerful symbol the Republicans would want to avoid.

1. The Republicans probably won't pick Tampa because after Jeb's big win GW probably considers Florida now a lock for 2004.

2. We won't need Florida - it'll be in the bag, and this President very much wants to win New York in 2004.

Bush makes this assumption at his own peril, and please don't start thinking Florida will be a walk in '04. The main reason Jeb's margin was so big in November was that Bill McBride was a single-issue guy who was bought and paid for by the teacher's unions. His mission was to promote and implement a Constitutional amendment to limit class sizes (the teachers' union jobs bill, as I call it), as well as to ladle the gravy to the educrats.

McBride claimed he could provide all this teacher pork with only a cigarette tax increase , but this fell so woefully short of providing the needed funding that it didn't even pass the laugh test. When pressed on the issue, he danced all around the question. Then, in the last debate of the campaign, Tim Russert (the moderator) asked McBride how much it would cost to implement the class size amendment, and McBride didn't have a clue. The hissing sound heard statewide right after that came from all the air leaving the McBride campaign.

To give you a feel for the schizoid nature of the November election here in Flori-DUH (as the national media so fondly describe us to this day), even though Bush won, the class-size amendment passed as well : (. For that matter, so did an absolutely idiotic amendment regulating the treatment of pregnant pigs, which the animal-rights nuts foisted on a bunch of ignorant people who have never seen a live pig before, and which may well kill the entire pig farming industry in this state (which was, of course the goal, and I shudder to think which livestock industry will next fall into PETA's sights).

This is an extremely narrowly divided state, and will be for some time. The Republicans dominate the state government, but a lot of that can be attributed to the utter ineptitude of the Florida Democratic Party, which BTW just canned its chairman. Put Florida in the Republican bank at your own risk.

The have to choose between NYC, Florida and here in New Orleans.
As much as I'd love to go again. (Seeing Reagan was a lifetime thrill when the Convention was here last) I don't think they should come here either. When President Bush was here for Terrell, the new Democratic Mayor( who is a pretty good guy) didn't even greet him at the airport. I think it's unforgiveable for a Mayor of an American city to NOT greet the President when he visits, for whatever reason, party aside.
They'd probably be better off( and safer for the delegates) somewhere in Florida.

Good idea. For those of us who are members of our state Republican parties we need to tell our membership in our state central committees that New York is not the place. Why not Minnenapolis/St.Paul or Tampa. Better :P

Denver?

Probally not. I think we are stuck with New Orleans or Tampa. Bloomberg isnt a RINO and he makes RINOS ashamed of him taking their name.

Chicago. Bush lost Illinois and Michigan and needs to boost the midwest.

Have the convention in Chicago.