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It's beginning to look a lot like August 1988
Boston Herald ^ | Friday, August 20, 2004 | Howie Carr

Posted on 08/20/2004 1:33:10 AM PDT by ninonitti

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To: djf

True. As for the other issues you mention, they've gotten lost in the din of Vietnam. In a sense Kerry made his own bed back at the Convention and now he has to lie down in it. Otherwise he would really be having an effect in getting people noticing about the issues that concern them, like outsourcing and immigration. Quite simply, he's running the worst campaign any one has ever seen. He should be putting this election away but he's not. That says something about his inherent limitations as a candidate for national office.


21 posted on 08/20/2004 2:14:37 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: djf

"Most Freepers are reluctant to admit it might be a bit more like August, 1992.

Bush Sr. was a shoo in for a second term - if his war in Iraq had ended better.

It may very well be that Bush Jr's. future depends on a simple fact - how much will a barrel of oil cost in November?"

In 92 the economy did Bush Sr in not the war in Iraq."Its the economy stupid." This Bush term we have decent growth with weak job creation.I think the economy is a net wash.

In 92 Perot took a net of millions of votes from Bush Sr.This year Nader will take a few from Kerry.

This is nothing like 92. It is not very similar to 88 when Bush Sr rode the goodwill from the Reagan years into office but is closer an analogy than 92.


22 posted on 08/20/2004 2:33:15 AM PDT by Reaganez
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To: ninonitti

Licorice: "Howie Carr, YOU ARE NOT FAIR revealing this.
Miguel and HotLips were the top double-secret private sexy names
only used between me and my savior, John Kerry.
BWWWWAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
".

23 posted on 08/20/2004 2:36:15 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
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To: montag813

Out here in Oregon they've had ground troops out every week for months. I have never yet met someone collecting signatures/registering voters for Bush or the Republicans.


24 posted on 08/20/2004 3:00:04 AM PDT by Iconoclast2
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To: ninonitti

I'm still waiting for hitlery and her minions to strike
out somehow to help scrap the kerry election.
If he wins her desire for 08 are toast so u know she will do anything to help defeat the boreing horsefaced one.


25 posted on 08/20/2004 3:51:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (4 more years)
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To: endthematrix

Fearless predict that youi'll have several hundred inquiries asking you to explain it..


26 posted on 08/20/2004 4:01:29 AM PDT by ken5050 (We've looked for WMD in Iraq for LESS time than Hillary looked for the Rose Law firm billing records)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

It's not the same because for one thing the third-party candidate who will hurt a main-party candidate is Nader not Perot. Nader's candidacy will hurt Kerry. Perot cost Bush I the election in '92.


27 posted on 08/20/2004 5:26:10 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Joe Boucher

You just touched on the dirty little secret of this campaign, and why I think Cabana Boy, in the end, is toast. If the Clintons don't want a RAT to win, they'll do everything they can(behind the scenes, of course) to make sure it doesn't happen. Witness what happened to Howard Dean. The Toons didn't want him to win the nomination, and the media turned on him.

There are enough Clinton sycophants and knee-pad wearers in the media, who will turn on Ketchup Boy just like they did on Dean, the moment they get the word from Chappaqua, to ensure that Dubya will breeze through in the end.


28 posted on 08/20/2004 5:31:50 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("I'm just a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know I'm lyin' about 'Nam".....)
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To: ninonitti
Give Hanoi 'Miguel' Kerry some more to whine about...

Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

29 posted on 08/20/2004 6:12:11 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: JulieRNR21; ninonitti
Not a good month, in other words. It's probably too much to say that the wheels are coming off Kerry's campaign the way they did off his political mentor's 16 summers ago. He hasn't climbed into a tank yet, but isn't it odd that he reaches out to Mike McCurry almost 16 years to the day that Dukakis brought back a sleazemeister named John Sasso?

Just give him a little time! :^D

Kerry: America needs a 'regime change' too


As Grampa Dave says: "Christmas, 1968: Kerry with his Swift Boat Crew
in Scambodia. Kerry is wearing his CIA hat that came from Richard Nixon
a month before Nixon was sworn in as President."




30 posted on 08/20/2004 6:42:03 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: djf

Strangely enough, even the lamestream media is now mentioning that the cost of oil is not wholly related to terrorism and Iraq. Today, I heard them EXPLICITLY state that increased DEMAND from red China and India is largely responsible. I don't think that they mentioned the other factors are the booming economy and that we have poor refinery capacity, but even that is sinking into the skulls of the economics-education-deprived masses.
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31 posted on 08/20/2004 7:31:35 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: ninonitti
We've come a long way from John Kerry [related, bio] reporting for duty to Miguel reporting for booty.

LOL

32 posted on 08/20/2004 7:40:03 AM PDT by fso301
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To: djf

"Kerry has the charisma of a mountain goat."

Hey, I like mountain goats. Name me one person who likes Kerry.


33 posted on 08/20/2004 8:03:32 AM PDT by Faeroe
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To: ninonitti

Actually, I'd say this election looks rather more like 1984.

An extreme left wing vet campaigning against a conservative the press has lambasted as an idiot controlled by his advisors while the country is in a war the left denounces.


34 posted on 08/20/2004 7:38:27 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (I WILL VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH INSTEAD OF JOHN KERRY because I still believe in the rule of law)
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To: Faeroe

> "Kerry has the charisma of a mountain goat."

And likewise the intellec'


35 posted on 10/10/2004 1:06:16 AM PDT by EaglesUpForever
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To: swilhelm73
Actually, I'd say this election looks rather more like 1984.

Sadly, in 1984 we didn't have to content with F9/11, George Soros's billions, an unabashedly partisan press, unprecedented amounts of widespread voter fraud, etc.

36 posted on 10/10/2004 1:09:27 AM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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