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2004-05-26 Home Front: Politix

Kerry To Accept Nomination At Convention

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Posted by Raj 2004-05-26 7:02:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's great, Raj. Have you laid in the canned goods and bottled water for that week cause we ain't going anywhere.

Posted by tu3031 2004-05-26 8:50:04 PM|| 2004-05-26 8:50:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Bowing to pressure..."

If Kerry does get elected, I have the feeling this phrase is going to be the lead of most stories about his administration. Unless Zapatero can establish a copyright to it.

By the way, the Republicans have a "five week advantage" because they scheduled their convention five weeks later. You don't like it, Frogman, take it up with Terry McAuliffe. D'oh.

Posted by Matt 2004-05-26 8:56:07 PM|| 2004-05-26 8:56:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Dems intentionally scheduled their convention earlier so they could get the federal matching funds quickly! Now they've changed their minds... How Lautenberg of them.

Posted by someone 2004-05-26 9:35:54 PM|| 2004-05-26 9:35:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Basically, Kerry has to stretch his McCain-Feingold limited funds for 6 weeks longer than Bush. Meanwhile, Bush is free to spend his primary-season cash through out the summer Bush starts into his $75 million in September.

So Bush has $75 million over Sept-Oct, and $100 million additional before that.

Kerry has abotu $40 million until the convention in July, then $75 million for July-Aug-Sept-Oct.

Also, Kerry has the olympics between his acceptance and the election.

Bush also ramps up more than 2 months after the handover in Iraq. Bush gets his acceptance a week after the Olympics - enough time for short memory Americans to forget a lot of things.

Also, by that time, driving deamnd for gasoline will be dropping, and the Saudis will have ramped up for a couple months - so gas prices will possibly be dropping rapidly, the economy, if it keeps growing at its current pace, will have produced a net gain of jobs during the Bush adminstration in spite of a severe recession, terror attacks and a war.

If things break that way, Kerry will not stand a chance - and thats without the Vietnam Vets rally against him in DC in September.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-05-26 10:12:29 PM|| 2004-05-26 10:12:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I beleive the remaining pot that he is left with can be used for any future "political" actvity. I see nothing to stop him from writing a check for the remaining a cash directly to "Move-on." If the money is "hard" money the DNC can have Kerry donate it to other candidates with dollar-for-dollar replacement funds dumped into Move-on.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-26 10:59:09 PM|| 2004-05-26 10:59:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey, Old Spook--Don't forget, the 9/11 "anniversary" will be right after the Olympics and the GOP Convention, too.
Kerry sucks and is whining because he will continue to suck no matter what.

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