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Before I announce the distinguished nominees I am recommending for the United States Supreme Court, I want to say something. When Justice O’Conner resigned, it was like a switch was thrown: Endless voices cut loose, with loud commentary and warnings of what would happen if I sent up the “wrong person” for our highest court. Voices from the press—voices from all across the political spectrum. You’d better do this, you’d better not do that. I was warned about appointing an “extremist”—in the most extreme terms. To coin a phrase: One citizen’s extremist is another citizen’s “centrist.” But all the folks...

Just a quick thought for comment.... What would you think about President Bush nominating John Ascroft for the U.S. SUPREME COURT.... This would be a great question for Arlen Specter, to see if he would SUPPORT this nomination... John Ascroft has already been in front of the Judiciary Committee firing squad.. and survived.... I think this would be a GREAT test to see if Arlen Specter has what it takes to be CHAIRMAN !!

Bush's Top Priority Items scuttled by Republican Leadership Bluebay Mediavannrox 11-17-2004 Bush's Top Priority Items scuttled by Republican Leadership. Less than two weeks after the decisive 2004 election, senior republican senate leaders have openly opposed key policy agenda of the Bush Administration. Questions have arisen concerning whether or not this president has a "Popular Mandidate" to implement his programs. His greatest hurtle is within his own party. Key to the 2004 - 2008 policy programs unveiled by the President include Tax Reform, Judicial Nominations, The War on Terror, and Social Security Reform. At every step in these key policy...

Bush won .. 44 is the NEW number .. we don't have to listen Daschle whine again, and ain't it a kick?? God Bless America, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, all our leaders, the Republic campaigners who worked SO hard, and ESPECIALLY our unbelievably brave troops! Pray pray pray .. and just a little gloat every now and then to realize how incredible this victory was. Thank you, God.

PRICELESS. "I'm not opening any doors, I'm not shutting any doors" (San Fran Gate link). Now the rest of the Democrats get to say "I voted FOR a Kerry Presidency before I voted AGAINST it." Ah, the gift that keeps on giving...

Rush is floundering. He cannot find and hold a position on Specter and sounds utterly incoherent. This post is to counter Rush's rare defalcation and remind his listeners of the importance of acting now to eliminate Senator Specter before he assumes the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and does great mischief to any pro-life nominee. We do not need another Borking of a good and honest nominee by this unprincipled and mercurial RINO. Bork Specter.

I hope that President Bush doesn't try to "reach out" again this term by appointing people who appeal to leftist sensibilities. This time, he has a clear mandate, and as such should appoint true conservatives who will do what is best for our country and its allies (including Israel). I hope that he will rid his administration of at least the following cancers: Colin Powell, Norm Mineta, and Tom Ridge, for the following reasons: 1) Colin Powell, State. Where do we begin? Sometimes I wonder if this guy is the Secretary of State for the PLO, Saudi Arabia, or al-France....

It is becoming apparent that the Democrats are set-up for more backfires. The record voter registration and turnout, early voting and the legions of (Democratic) lawyers dispensed to find fraud (even before it happens!) have changed the dynamics of this election cycle, but not as they predicted. Impartial OECD election observers are complaining about the bias towards Democrats on their tours, early voting has fired up millions of Republicans to find time in their busy lives to vote early, not on the way home from work on November 2nd, stuck in rush hour traffic. We can thank the Democrats for...

Let's stop the breathless refreshing and do groundwork. I'll be back around 7 and I suggest all who can to do the same. I'm making phone calls. I'm sure the local GOP headquarters can keep you busy too. Don't whine about the results, go affect them.

Who connects with the voters?

If Bush loses, this is why.... Monday, November 1, 2004The Cyber Menace ANALYSIS Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that this is a prediction of a Bush loss, it isn't. In fact, I am firmly of the view that he will win the election, based largely on the belief that John Kerry has not provided a positive reason for America to change its leader at this crucial time in its history. Having gotten that out of the way, I also want to be on record if it doesn't quite work out that way. As we all know, this looks like...

Rush sounds depressed today. I hope that is not bad news.

I am not certain what is happening or what happened over the weekend, but morale has dipped far further than I have seen it throughout the entirity of this campaign. I don't know why most of the weekend polls including Gallup show a Kerry push. But there is one very ugly possibility. I was certain that the OBL tape would give president Bush a huge push going into Tuesday because I assumed that the American people are made of sterner stuff than the Spanish. But, perhaps this is untrue? Perhaps 30-40 years of therapeutic counseling rather than moral instruction has...

sKerry is doing better with new voters and young people. But Bush is doing better this cycle among blacks, Jews, evangelicals, Catholics, and women. He is way ahead on trustworthiness, the war on terror, and the likability factor. He has correctly tagged sKerry as a flipflopper and a Mass. liberal. There is something wrong with the polls that show Bush only slightly ahead.

One thing we all have to realize is that there is a conspiracy of sorts between the media, poolsters, and both candidates to report close races. Everyone wins. 1. The media wins because ratings are much higher in a close race than a boring blowout. Ever been to a 40-10 football game? Yawn. 2. Pollsters win with close polls because people on both sides frequently check when a race is "close." Been to RCP lately? Only about every 5 minutes. 3. Bush wins because complacency is a winner's biggest enemy. Ever see a loser in a football game come back...

Out of the last 36 elections (presidential and interim), if the Washington Redskins won, then the incumbent (Bush) would win. They just pointed out in the trailer that "Kerry wins?" caption since they just lost.

Also, Bush will win Maine's 2nd district, getting one vote for a theoretical total of 297-241. If the rumors about an unfaithful West Virginia elector are true, it could drop this to 296-241.

Didn't it strike you as odd the way President Bush took all the abuse over "no WMD's?" without fighting back with at least a simple, most reasonable explanation, that they were moved out of the country before we got there? Everyone "knew" there were WMD's in Iraq before the war. But after none were found almost everyone in the media said there were never any there in the first place, ergo, Bush lied to us to get us to fight a war we didn't want to fight. Why didn't Bush release satellite photos showing truck transports? Why didn't he provide...

Even after the CIA/FBI has authenticated new AQ tape, why is ABC still waiting to show the public. It is not their job to determine politics...Their job is to tell the whole story, no mater what the implications are...

Why are the New York Times, CBS and John Kerry hyping a fraudulent story on the missing explosives? Why did CBS state the story would not hold until 48 hours before the election? My opinion is they knew John Kerry’s presidential run was over when the following documents broke on October 26, 2004 if press and public where not all distracted elsewhere. Documentary evidence was reveled on October 26, 2004 establishing that John Kerry worked with the Vietnamese communists while Vietnam War was still ongoing. The documents clearly state: “The spontaneous antiwar movements in the US have received assistance and...

The Kerry Campaign and the Marxists/Socialists Democrats are putting in place massive voter fraud and threatening to force a Marxists takeover of our government attempting to validate our election process if Kerry wins as legitimate and illegitimate if he looses by dragging this election through the courts. By doing so, they will proceed with eliminating the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote knowing they can control the vote in densely populated regions of the country. Thus, imposing their Marxist view upon all of us by having elections decided through a judicial process and eventually, mob rule. We have...

Reports indicate that Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry, committed official misconduct in 1994, abusing his position as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA by suppressing evidence of live prisoners of war in Vietnam to give his cousin's company a billion dollar deal. As Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA in the early 1990s, Senator Kerry lobbied zealously for normalized relations with Vietnam.  As a result, his cousin, C. Stewart Forbes, was able to broker a billion dollar deal between Hanoi and Colliers International, a large company based in Kerry's home state of Massachusetts.   Further, according to the...

There is more than enough evidence that the LLL actively promotes Urban Legends to influence political decisions. As an example, this link simply tracks the references to Urban Legends in prior FReeper posts. Track these urban legends yourself and list the most often used such as "Republicans Suppress Black Voters", Bush Will Privatise Social Security", or "Only the Rich Received a Tax Break".

In my review of the last presidential debate, I wrote, "This election is over." I wasn't kidding. This election is over because fatigued voters want it to be over. Voters are tired of the overheated rhetoric, of the Michael Moores and the Swifties. They're tired of the half dozen daily tracking polls. They're tired of being told that tens of thousands of lawyers will make a close election last forever. This has been the looongest general election campaign ever. Since Kerry became the Democrat-nominee-apparent in February, voters have been treated to a relentless diet of political hysteria. There was so...

I am watching all day today and they are playing Kerry clip after Kerry clip. They are really beginning to hack me off.

The fact is, if people knew a little bit about George Soros and how he is trying to buy our government (New York State is his next target), it may drive people away from John Kerry in droves.The guy even looks weird -- which could be very effective in a TV ad.Look -- the media is not going to report on Soros unless he starts funding the Swift Boat Vets.  However, a paid ad would go over the heads of the media and right where it needs to go... to the public.  The GOP has started coming up with some...

The latest state presidential election poles (Real Clear Politics) are close enough in certain key states that the nightmare scenario of a tied Electoral College vote is no longer in the realm of highly improbable. Go the NYT interactive site for the Electoral College map "Presidential Calculator" and even if you punch in other poll numbers into their map and ignore their numbers, its very easy to come up with an Electoral College dead heat. If Iowa, PA, Florida, Ohio go Kerry, and Minn., WI, and MI go Bush....we got a tie ! What the heck happens then !!??

With nine days to go before the election, Bush and Kerry are tied in FL, OH, WI, NM, and NH (forget the slight lead overall; it's meaningless). Dem voter fraud is estimated to have registered several hundred thousand non-existant people in swing states. Kerry has hit Bush with every dirty trick and false advertisement you can name. Liberal millions have been used to show Bush morphing into Hitler. A British newspaper is calling for Bush's assassination. Bush's and Cheney's families have been trashed in execrable episodes. A "reporter" goes certifiably insane on the air, screeching incoherently at John O'Neill and...

My dear Fellow Freepers, The Bush campaign is aware that the race will tighten this weekend as voters take a good last look at Senator Kerry. By next week, probably Wednesday or Thursday, you will see a sudden, unexplainable surge of Bush. So take the tightening of polls today and tomm. in stride and remember, join the 72 hour programme, talk to your undecided friends (in a measured tone), give money and time to the effort, do all you can do.

We’re all familiar with the American Civil War, the war between the “Blue and the Gray.” Could there a new War Between the States simmering just over the horizon, this time a war between the “Red and the Blue”? Not a “shooting” war certainly, but an ideological one, with the end result being a permanent split between the factions into two separate countries. Hear me out on this, as it may not be as far-fetched as it first appears. In the Civil War, the geographical, economic, and cultural divisions of the country between the industrialized North and the agricultural South...

I just watched that hack Bob Shieffer try and deflect criticism for the sorry picture posted on Drudge of Terrrrrreza Hienz quaffing beer at a recent rally. She looked drunk. Good ole Bob claimed "Why don't politicians let it all hang out once in awhile, it may do everyone some good." Sad sack.....

All President Bush needs to do to win is run clips of Guiliani, McCain, Arnold, and Zell Miller describing Kerry at the Convention. Run those clips starting Thursday all through the weekend attacking Kerry.

This race is close and an energized base is required for the ultimate bush victory.That said, what would a Bush mandate mean for America? Reagan was the last President to to have a real mandate from a huge victory. A mandate by Bush could be significant. Here are just some thoughts, please add others. 1) The U.N. would be a big loser 2) Tax cuts would once again be in vogue and permanent 3) Judges, judges, judges. Conservative judges would be appointed even over the Dem fillibusters. 4) The war on terror would continue, thank goodness. 5) Would we finally...

In the final week before the Nov 2000 elections, the democrats, in coordination with the liberal media, released their secret "personal destruction Bush attack", and we all certainly remember the incident and its aftermath: GW Bush had, we learned, a DUI charge years earlier, that had been "covered up" for the election.It seems almost silly now in retrospect, but let's not forget how the media ran with the story, non-stop, to provide the necessary 'liberal echo chamber' sufficient to create enough gravitas to change the election and to wipe out Bush's then-existing lead.The story also had the effect of giving...

Which Poll to Believe? With the current presidential polls in some instances being all over the map, I thought it might prove useful to take a quick review of the various pollsters’ performances for the 2000 presidential election (based on their final published poll prior to election day). The actual final results for the 2000 race were Gore 48.4, Bush 47.9, and Nader 2.7. Here are the pollsters final predictions for 2000: ABC News – Bush 48, Gore 45, Nader 3 CNN/USA Today / Gallup - Bush 48, Gore 46, Nader 4 MSNBC/Zogby - Gore 48, Bush 46, Nader 5...

What other polls are out soon? What are our expectations, assumptions, and guesses?

See link for graph: Looking at the "RealClear Politics" plot of the presidential polls, I see two long term trendlines, punctuated by a hell of a lot of what I would refer to as "experimental error": I don't believe that public opinion has been changing as much as these polls seem to suggest. The variation we see up through July looks like what engineers call "sample aliasing" or "jitter". Note that it falls well within the oft-claimed ±4 points of error. This is typical for data taken in noisy sampling environments; I've seen this kind of thing many times. August...

It begins this weekend. The final push by the so-called mainstream media to get John Kerry elected is in full throttle. The latest polls show the President with some momentum; that is why you see John Kerry making all kinds of accusations and distortions. The Kerry campaign is imploding and the mainstream media is in panic. Firstly, the Democrats and their media are blaming the President for the shortage of the Influenza vaccine; they claimed that Bush "outsourced" the job of manufacturing the vaccine to foreign countries. What they do not tell you is that the Clinton Administration and the...

I look at the polls and see that they are so close. Conventional wisdom has said that somewhere in the final weeks the polls would break in one direction for the candidate that will win. No such break has been seen so far. But I find it confounding that the polls are even close at all. I'm beginning to believe that the polls would still be close even if the Dem's nominated a Ham Sandwich. Looking back I couldn't believe Gore got the support he got. If you've seen Gore lately, he looks and acts like a nut case. Maybe...

Today's RealClearPolitics Battleground States summary shows Kerry ahead in Ohio by +2. However, they use only three recent polls. If you use their own polling data from 9/22 through 10/11, Bush is ahead in Ohio by +10 -- a twelve point difference. ??

from RealClearPolitics.Com: Ohio: 2004 Electoral Votes: 20 | 2000 Results: Bush 50.0, Gore 46.5, Nader 2.5 (Bush +3.5) Poll | Date Sample MoE Bush Kerry Nader Spread RCP Average | 10/2-10/11 - - 46.7 48.7 1.0 Kerry +2.0 Chicago Tribune | 10/8-10/11 500 LV 4.4 45 49 - Kerry +4 ARG | 10/4-10/6 600 LV 4.0 47 48 1 Kerry +1 Survey USA | 10/2-10/4 761 LV 3.6 48 49 - Kerry +1 My question to you Freepers is: Has Kerry now taken Ohio from Bush? This is an important question, because it could mean the election. Yes, I know...

It happens at some point to every doomed campaign. The candidate, hopelessly behind in the polls and coming down to the wire, starts talking about sensing a "groundswell" of support. The groundswell is never really there, but losing candidates are always able to see it (through the lens of vain self-deception, I suppose) . . . Anyway, the FR pool is: On which date will either Kerry or Edwards first publicly utter the "groundswell" word in this campaign?

I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE BATTLEGROUND STATES AND THEY SEEM TO BE TRENDING TO KERRY EVEN THOUGH BUSH HAS A SMALL LEAD IN THE NATIONAL POLLS POSTED ON THIS SITE. COULD KERRY WIN THE ELECTORAL VOTE AND BUSH WIN THE POPULAR VOTE , A REVERSE OF 2000?

. Does a Bush-Cheney Pre-Election Surge Trigger A Major Terrorist Attack ? President Bush has added to his growing election lead since last Friday's debate. and will presumably increase that lead after the third presidential debate. Consider these scenarios. If Kerry-Edwards manage to pass Bush-Cheney in the polls, then the Islamo-Fascist Terrorists need only to quietly sit by and watch Kerry win election. On the other hand, if Bush-Cheney maintains or increases their electorial lead, it's to the Islamo-Fascist Terrorist's advantage to hit America with a savage repeat of Sept 9-11, in an attempt to convince the critical "Undecided Voters"...