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Hope for great election died with Dean
Newsday ^ | July 27, 2004 | KEN KURSON

Posted on 07/27/2004 11:25:53 AM PDT by Area Freeper

Hope for great election died with Dean

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BY KEN KURSON Ken Kurson is co-author, with Rudolph Giuliani, of "Leadership."

July 27, 2004

It should have been Dean.

All over New York City - and many other sure-thing Democratic locales - young volunteers are trying to register other volunteers. Their clipboards and t-shirts and classified newspaper ads do not say "Kerry '04." They say "Help Defeat Bush."

That's a problem for John Kerry, and it's a problem for the electorate. I support President George W. Bush and would vote for him regardless of his Democratic opponent. But as a Bush supporter - and as an American concerned with the well-being of his country - I'd much rather see the president challenged on his core beliefs and made to explain them by an opponent who holds opposite beliefs and doesn't run from them.

Instead, Kerry is determined to make this election solely a thumbs up or down on the current jobholder. In fact, Kerry's put so much distance between his candidacy and his legislative record - and has voted so seldom in the Senate - that it's easy to forget he's even a senator.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abb; bushhaters; dean; deanscream; kerry; yeeeeeaaaarrrrggghhh

1 posted on 07/27/2004 11:25:55 AM PDT by Area Freeper
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To: Area Freeper

Dean's dead?


2 posted on 07/27/2004 11:27:06 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: isthisnickcool

James Dean?


3 posted on 07/27/2004 11:27:30 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Dean Martin?


4 posted on 07/27/2004 11:27:49 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: isthisnickcool

His campaign died with a feral screech.


5 posted on 07/27/2004 11:28:00 AM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: isthisnickcool
Dean's dead?

Old Deans never die - they just shriek into the sunset...

6 posted on 07/27/2004 11:28:38 AM PDT by dirtboy (Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
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To: Area Freeper
Bwahahahahahaha!

Dean. Right, that would have helped.

Kerry keeps busy these days distancing himself
From himself!

7 posted on 07/27/2004 11:29:11 AM PDT by jwalburg (Hatriots for Kerry)
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To: Area Freeper
jimmy dean, sausage king

8 posted on 07/27/2004 11:33:02 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Shove it John and John!)
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To: isthisnickcool

Jimmy Dean?


9 posted on 07/27/2004 11:33:52 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: Area Freeper

The author completely misses a simple fact, so obvious it hurts.

Kerry is far more representative of the Democratic Party than Howard Dean. Democrats don't talk about "issues" they talk about "feelings". Its in every major "policy speech", which is never quite about "policy" but is always chock full of "feelings".

Yes, Dean would have talked about policy. And that scares the Democratic Party Leadership far more than a man named Bush in the Whitehouse at the end of the day.

Democrats understand that a valid debate contrasting "policy" would be its death knell. Hence, whenever "policy" is brought up you get "Halliburton" or "Bush was AWOL" or "Bush Knew"....anything but "policy".

Democrats want America to be an equal to every other country on the planet. Thats their policy, thats their misguided "goal" upon acheiving power once again.

But they don't dare say it. Not openly.


10 posted on 07/27/2004 11:35:57 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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To: isthisnickcool

Jimmy Dean?

11 posted on 07/27/2004 11:36:37 AM PDT by Heatseeker
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To: eyespysomething

Phooey, eyespysomething, you beat me. ;)


12 posted on 07/27/2004 11:37:54 AM PDT by Heatseeker
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To: eyespysomething; Abe Froman
jimmy dean, sausage king

I believe that position is taken.

13 posted on 07/27/2004 11:42:41 AM PDT by Area Freeper
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To: isthisnickcool
Dean's dead?

I missed it.

I guess this is proof that democrats are smarter than Republicans. They have a superior command of the language.

14 posted on 07/27/2004 11:47:04 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: Heatseeker

Sausage or Ketchup...


15 posted on 07/27/2004 11:54:15 AM PDT by RockinRight (Liberalism IS the status quo)
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