And is there no serious motion that resembles the tossing of a hat into the fortcoming Republican primary wing? A few people were critical of Reagan for challenging Ford for the '76 nomination but it didn’t do him any permanent damage. I’d think a Republican candidate who thinks Bush needs improving upon would reap more benefits than harm from making a contest out of it.
uh, ring, not wing.
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Right wing, hat in ring, that’s the thing…
If there are actual Republican candidates challenging Bush, his handlers will just break out the Lincoln quote (historic Republican resonance there) about changing horses in midstream and insert a few solemn lines about the ongoing War on Terror ™ into a few of his pre-primary speeches.
Well sure, just as he’ll do so in the general campaign against the Democratic candidate. What’s your point?
Thank you, SimonX. Speaking as a man whose political leanings are decidedly liberal I will allow as to how heartening it is to read such sentiments on opposition to the neo-con adventure and its compatibility with patriotism coming from a self-identifying principled conservative.
In fact I’m grateful enough right now that I will not accuse you of equating liberalism with – how did you put it?
I am grateful enough right now to give you the benefit of the doubt and posit that those were just two items in a much longer laundry list of things that are not equivalent to opposing the current activities of the Bush administration vis a vis Iraq.
I’m grateful enough that, with the implicit understanding that I am endorsing your statements only wrt the war, I am comfortable echoing the words of many before me in this thread:
Gee, that’s kinda how I felt when I got accused of treason for protesting the war and accused of not supporting the troops when I mentioned the war was a bad thing.
And here I was thinking I was just dealing with regular conservatives.
county,
No, most likely you were dealing with pop-con bumblefucks. You may’ve been dealing with a neo-con bumble fuck though. The difference being that neo-cons are aware of what they’re doing, while pop-cons are just team-rooting.
I guess that no one’s gonna show up and argue against what I’ve said. Pop-con bumblefucks are nototriously afraid of open challenges in the arena of ideas.
Please note that I have issues with ALL bumblefucks despite their leanings. I just haven’t been that annoyed by liberal bumblefucks as of late. They seem to’ve been wel brow beaten. Of course I don’t go where they go that often. I do visit the Freepers though.
Yes, but the Democratic candidate doesn’t really have to go along with the vibe. If Dean were to roll his eyes at such a speech, I don’t think it would hurt him with his constituency. Republicans would feel more pressure, especially under the 11th Commandment (only Pat Buchanan has really felt free in the past 25 years to ignore Reagan’s dictum here), to try to take the above tack seriously and show respect for it while still trying to refute it.