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2004-04-26 Home Front: Culture Wars
Wallowing in nuance, Dems lack resolve
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Posted by tipper 2004-04-26 11:13:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Thus, the president’s numbers aren’t affected by the sob sisters of CNN’s Baghdad bureau filing their heartrending reports on how thousands of Baathist apparatchiks haven’t been paid since they were made redundant from Saddam’s Department of Genital Mutilation and Electrode Clamping last April.

See why I like this guy? He has a way with words, and comes right to the point. Do I give a shit that some thousands of ex-torturers, secret policemen and thugs of all stripes are out of work? Well, yes - I'd like to see them dying of some lingering parasitic infection.

Oh, wait, I forgot Iran...
Posted by mojo  2004-04-26 11:26:32 AM||   2004-04-26 11:26:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 XXOX!!! I love this man.
Posted by anon 2004-04-26 11:41:10 AM||   2004-04-26 11:41:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Dems' Campaign Strategy is in complete dissaray and shambles. Very much like Hitler's 'Barbarrosa' campaign into Russian. Which has just experiences its first month of Russian Winter.
Started at the wrong time (Six months early, in both cases) and with the wrong objectives ('Electability vs. Leadership) fully encompassed by John 'I don't have a clue' Kerry.
The people have had a Belly full, and there's still more than a month to go before the Convention! When most of the Negative Campaigining and colorful mudslinging is supposed to happen!!!
Come August, Kerry will have very damned little in his quiver to send 'W's' way. While the President
will have the better part of an entire arsenal at his disposal!
I don't predict a landslide. Though, I expect President Bush to win re-election handily!
Posted by Jack Deth  2004-04-26 12:02:06 PM||   2004-04-26 12:02:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bravo! Encapsulates it all! On a related note I was surfing at DU(I) this morning and it seems that many of them are ready to leave the U.S. if Bush wins! Can anyone say BONUS POINTS! Just where are these self-loathing idiots going to move to? And if they do will the influx of a 500,000 NEW immigrants offset their loss? I think everyone knows the answer to that. Goodbye, good riddance, and bon chance (I am guessing they are moving to France or Canada).:
Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)  2004-04-26 12:35:07 PM||   2004-04-26 12:35:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sarge:

I'll trade Cuba 3 DU-ers for one of the guys who turned a '53 Chevy truck into a boat. Anybody with that much initiative and love of liberty is welcome in my country anytime!
Posted by Mike  2004-04-26 12:38:36 PM||   2004-04-26 12:38:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Cyber Sarge -- I'll believe their threats when Berkeley's depopulated.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-04-26 1:05:44 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-04-26 1:05:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7  Kerry has got to be walking around w/the tightest sphincter imaginable.He has to be wondering if one more Kerryclysm will start respected Democratic columnists/politicians "suggesting" that "for the good of the party" Kerry should be replaced,esp. because of Kerry's "health issues".Kerry was sold to Democratic Party as being ELECTABLE.If the party believes he isn't,will they go down w/the ship,or will they try to find a new captain?
Ther has been speculation as to why Republicans haven't launched hard attack ads aimed at Kerry.Maybe the Republicans want to make sure Kerry is the Demo candidate,before flooding airwaves.
Posted by Stephen 2004-04-26 3:06:37 PM||   2004-04-26 3:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Stephen? SSShhhhhhhhh
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-26 3:15:54 PM||   2004-04-26 3:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 . . .it seems that many of them are ready to leave the U.S. if Bush wins!

Cyber Sarge -
What happened to all those folks who were going to leave after 2000? The only one I know of is Gweneth Paltrow. At least she is naive enough to be consistent.
I always remember the movie "Hunt for Red October", and wondering how Fred Thompson held his cool without smacking Alec Baldwin upside the head.
Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-26 3:19:55 PM||   2004-04-26 3:19:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tipper :

Steyn has a surgeon's skill with words. ..

Don’t get me wrong: America’s still a 50/50 nation. That’s to say, 50 percent of the nation backs Bush, and the other 50 percent either loathe him, or are undecided, or aren’t yet paying attention to Campaign ’04. I think the president’s numbers should be higher.

But the problem for John Kerry is that he and the networks and the New York Times are finding it all but impossible to make any dent in the Bush half. If it is a 50/50 nation, one side’s 50 percent is pretty solid and the other’s a lot softer.

my take -

If W has a clear lead in all the polls, 8-10% in late October (like 52-42-3), the peacnik leftys may feel free to Nader it, or stay home, and the margin could be exaggerated, ending up with a 56-37-7. Kerry would receive no more than 50-60 electoral votes. (like NY MA DC RI - maybe a couple others like VT HI)
Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-26 3:34:30 PM||   2004-04-26 3:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 My take is that Kerry will continue to flip-flop and his defenses of his flip-flops make him look worse and worse. Meanwhile Iraq and the economy get better. Anti-everything protestors show up outside the Republican convention in NY and the Democrats lose the entire center when Kerry won't distance himself from them. End result, Bush carries nearly every state.

Perhaps I'm too optimistic but Kerry's melting down already.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-26 4:01:49 PM||   2004-04-26 4:01:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Wrong dog paddlers. Kerry could still pick me for VP. I'm a stone cold tee vee personality and every American kid loves me. And be real in the VP debates I would kick ass and have lunch all in prime time. Talk to my posse. I'm available.
Posted by Shamu 2004-04-26 4:03:37 PM||   2004-04-26 4:03:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 DUer's are "threatening" to leave the country if Bush wins -- yeah, right. If only it were true.

Sadly, however, for them to leave the country would require some sort of INITIATIVE (if only to track down, obtain, and fill out the right forms) follwed by ACTION. Smells too much like work, I'm afraid. Thus, to our nation's detriment, it will never happen.
Posted by docob 2004-04-26 4:33:43 PM||   2004-04-26 4:33:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Shamu: OK, but how does your weight compare to Hillary's?
Posted by Matt 2004-04-26 4:35:18 PM||   2004-04-26 4:35:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 His statement is true in the sense that his ’’family’’ (i.e., Teresa) also owns the house and the grounds, and indeed a big chunk of his presidential campaign...And do Americans want to hand over responsibility for Iraq to someone who won’t even take responsibility for the car in his driveway?

Sounds like a Sam Kinnison routine:

"I can't go, fellahs. She's got 'em locked away in her jewelry box. Yeah, she found the extra set, too..."
Posted by Pappy 2004-04-26 5:22:50 PM||   2004-04-26 5:22:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Matt I'ma bout 12 times the senator's weight. But frankly i'm about 19 times more apealing. I also have an ear for politics and would make a good 2nd chair for Letterman.

And Matt... I don't dink around with wrinkle remover... My high tech skin system relives that stress.

I'm only missing one thing to make me perfect. Join my posse SH.
Posted by Shamu 2004-04-26 6:00:40 PM||   2004-04-26 6:00:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Zell Miller has it right - the Donkey party is self-destructing. In time, even Hillary will abandon ship in the vain hope of keeping her political hopes alive. Not even Shamu can keep the party afloat. Besides, he's too big to fit aboard AF 2.
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-04-26 7:41:07 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-04-26 7:41:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The Donkey part will survive. The party out of power always goes insane for awhile. At some point (2008 or 2012) they will regain their senses and move to the middle again. By that time the Elephants will have probably moved rightward giving up dominance of the center in order to satisfy their base.

It's an endless dance. Sometimes the party out of power takes longer than usual, sometimes they catch on quickly.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-26 10:43:33 PM||   2004-04-26 10:43:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Shamu??? Kerry's VP is gonna be Flipper.
Posted by Flipper & Flopper 2004-04-26 10:46:33 PM||   2004-04-26 10:46:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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