Oh, come on, please? If you at least pay the subscription fee, it’ll go a long way to start paying us back for you devaluing our subscriptions. :rolleyes:
Back to the OP.
I was planning on holding my nose and voting for Kerry. I’m begining to think, especially after this week, that I may well change my mind.
About my nose, not my vote.
I wonder if limiting the posts of “guests” to something like 10 a day would cut down on these 3-5 takeovers a week by trolling twits like SillyStar.
Would have been better as:
Shit, thick chick.
I think I speak for, well, everyone when I say, “Um, What?”
Lib, I think you’re reading more into this than is warranted by the available information. According to this story, Kerry isn’t forsaking “all political rhetoric,” he’s just cancelling his appearances. TV ads will continue, as apparently will the issuance of position papers where he accuses Bush of a cynical and misguided ploy for a few Florida votes. (In fairness, he might have made his decision after that press release went out – the timeline is a little unclear.)
It’s very smart for him to have cancelled those appearances, as they were fundraisers with big-name people who can’t be trusted to keep their yaps shut – people like Barbra Streisand. Showing up with her and having her say something stupid and devisive could hurt Kerry pretty badly.
Bush, as near as I can tell, didn’t have any campaign events of that level scheduled (cite) – though the AP story indicates he did cancel a planned criticism of Kerry as regards the USA PATRIOT act (what that criticism might be, given that Mr. Kerry voted for it, is beyond me).
Ok, manhattan, I’m the major moron here. However, do you know the initials of the potential Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry? Also, please note I did not use caps …
To ignore our visitor for a moment (a course I recommend to all), it seem to me that the Senator’s decision is a class move.
That is not to say that it is not a calculated move. President Reagan’s death was widely anticipated and may have been anticipated by Senator Kerry’s staff. Kerry’s announcement makes any campaigning by the President look like disrespect for what must be regarded as the patron saint of the modern conservative movement if not its actual father.
It also goes a little ways toward ingratiating Senator Kerry with such Reagan Democrats as might be inclined to think that the party of Reagan has abandon his principles in favor of international adventures and profligate spending of the public treasury. In any event it isn’t going to hurt Senator Kerry much to back off for a week to see is the foreign adventure really goes south when the interim Iraqi government starts dealing with the Big Eight.
I suppose Senator Kerry can be thankful that President Reagan did not die on the eve of or during the convention.
You reckon the networks would give his money back?
I take it I will not see any Bushco campaign commercials for a couple of days.
The ad that has ben running out here for the last week or so ( Iowa being a so-called battleground state, for the love of Pete) says that while Senator Kerry did vote for the USA Patriot Act his “liberal friends” have persuaded him to support changes to it that would deprive the US of important tools to fight terrorists when those same tools are available to fight drug dealers. There are, as you would expect, no specifics about what parts of the statute Senator Kerry wants to change and what vital weapons would be taken out of the FBI, etc.'s arsenal. Presumably the criticism would be for supporting changes to the Act – presumably with some specifics. Given that lots of people, including the ABA, is not overly enthused with some of the novelties in the Act, a decision to back off may not have anything to do with President Reagan’s death – it may be an unwillingness to expand on the advertisement and to just leave the innuendo hanging, twisting slowly in the breeze.
You reckon on reading past the first few lines of my post to find that I make EXACTLY THIS POINT IN MY OWN THREAD, dumbass? 
It appears that Republicans haven’t figured out yet how much to make of Reagan’s death vis-a-vis the election.
Some want to make a strong connection:
Others don’t appear so sure it will benefit GWB:
My guess is that Bush won’t lay it on too thick, but that many of his surrogates will. I expect Hannity, Limbaugh, et al, to really make a big comparison between the two over the next few weeks.
Don’t feel bad, Veb. I didn’t know it either, but I sensed an ambush and googled for Kerry’s full name. If I hadn’t gotten lucky, I would have beaten you to the gaffe.
I know she’s gone, and everything, but I really thought she had a point with this post.
I’m not prepared to argue for Bush being able to learn anything from anybody at all.
I don’t think Bush will say anything to associate himself with Reagan. That would be a bad move. He’ll continue with business as usual, and let other Republicans make the association for him. If he’s asked about it, his response should be, “While I am honored and flattered by the comparison, I believe Ronald Reagan was an American original” or some such non-committal remark.
But I can tell you this much - prepare for the mother of all tributes to Ronald Reagan at this year’s Republican convention. That’s all the Pubs need to do to let everyone know who the torch-bearer is.
Of course, if the Democrats are smart they might hold a little Reagan tribute of their own, to try to defuse the Republicans.
But if they go too far into a convention tribute, they’ll have to listen to Nancy Reagan promoting stem cell research. That could provoke a divisive floor fight.
I got an email today rescheduling a Bush-Cheney fundraiser I had tickets to. It was originally scheduled for Thursday night, the night before the funeral. It has been pushed off, now, to the 16th.
It’s not Bush speaking, though. Head speaker is his campaign director, Ken Mehlman.
There’s a lot of reshuffling going on this week. The fundraiser was a block from the White House, and that would have been a little tacky.
BTW, this will be a room full of non-rich Republicans. $50 a head, minimum.
YP4W - Young Professionals for Bush
GeeDubya has always been in favor of stem-cell research, especially as it relates to Alzheimer’s research. Its Kerry who keeps flip-flopping on the issue, first he’s for it, then he’s against it, but Bush’s record in supporting stem cell research to cure nice old men is perfectly clear.
Sarcasm aside, Bush supports research using adult stem cells and fetal stem cells from existing lines.
This is hardly the position of an anti-science zealot.
58 Senators Seek Looser Stem-Cell Rules
Bush’s claim of 78 lines was known to be bullshit virtually from the moment it left his mouth.
With “support” like that, who needs enemies?