Beauty is only a lightswitch away. Thank God!
Posted on 05/17/2006 11:50:18 AM PDT by caveat emptor
Nina Burleigh Fri May 5, 11:08 AM ET
Sometime later this month, way down on the Sewanee river -- or somewhere in Tennessee anyway -- a "Draft Hillary" party will take place, replete with red white and blue gingerbread cookies.
I respect and admire Hillary Clinton, and I believe she means well, but this event should strike fear into our hearts. I'm all for having a female president and the Senator might even make a good one, somewhere and someday. The trouble is she can't be elected in 2008.
It doesn't matter how many times she teams up with Bill Frist to show how moderate and diplomatic she is. It doesn't matter how often she speaks up for the troops or supports the war. It doesn't even matter how many cadaverous millionaires from the U.S. Senate report that they are finding -- to their surprise! -- that the little lady is a real hard worker and great company.
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hahahahahahahahaha oh my! stomach hurts...need to quit laughing
(As if you cared!)
If ya catch my drift....
Nina Burleigh - what a blowhard.
Beauty is only a lightswitch away. Thank God!
The "right thing" for PIAPS to do would be to sign a lengthy onfession detailing all her wrong doings over the last 30 plus years.
4. Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption.
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Let's ask the Chinese about that.
Was this bimbo drinking Al Gore's iced tea laced with some drug while she was servicing BJ Clinton in the CA Buddists' temple?
He'd probably decline...Even Slick Willie has SOME standards
Woof!!!
My gosh, she goes on to list 10 reasons why Gore should be their candidate. What planet is this woman living on?!
Nina's kneepads.
All the countries that hate us, will attack us the next day if she were ever Pres.
Bye Bye America !!
He widely stated opinions on needing to drive up the price of gasoline to encourage conservation alone would kill him even if he haddn't already failed once and had such a complete lack of redeeming qualities.
Even after the political mess that was the end of Slick Willie's second term, he still had a lot of popularity if not much credibility. If gore couldn't ride into office on the heals of Clinton, he doesn't stand a chance.
Her reasons she thinks Gore can win:
10: My dad, the Midwestern bellwether, thinks Al Gore can win.
I'm willing to bet that not even 10% of registered democrats in the Midwest can tell you three things Gore has done since the 2000 Presidential race other than whine about the 2000 and 2004 elections.
9. Gore doesn't pander to the religious vote, and he has forcefully and eloquently spoken out about separation of church and state.
The same religious voters that are successfully passing marriage amendments in many States and are proving to be a very powerful voting block.
8. He is courageous. Gore has consistently called the current administration out on its radical agenda, extremism and criminality.
He's an incoherent lunatic that the mainstream media has been avoiding covering because he's an embarrassment. They cover him like they cover Howard Dean. They use stock photos or film footage that doesn't look too bad and pick a quote out of what he said that doesn't makes him sound as sane as possible.
7. By 2008, energy conservation will be an American obsession, not just with the so-called liberal "elite." Gore, the public conservationist, drew ridicule talking about it in the days of petrol plenty, sounds pretty smart now.
Gore was one of the Environmentalist pushing to heavily tax and regulate oil and gasoline to driver the price of gas up to around $3 to $4 a gallon so that people would have to cut back on usage and so other alternatives might become economically viable.
Does the left really want voters to look to carefully at the fact the Clinton administration actively took steps constrain supply of gasoline in the future through environmental regulation?
6. By 2008, global warming will be a mainstream concern. Gore was talking about global warming back when it was still science fiction. He's starring in a movie about it, coming to multiplexes along with "Over the Hedge."
The idea of man-made global warming had more credibility when it was a less understood conspiracy theory. Considering Gore's dynamic personality that we all experienced in his Presidential campaign, I suspect that "Over the Hedge" will stretch the credibility of man-made global warming even farther.
The idea wasn't popular when the economy was booming. The Kyoto treaty that Gore so publicly supported is being widely ignored by those who signed up and are supposed to be implementing because their weak economies can't survive it.
5. The Iraq War will be universally understood to be a disaster by 2008. Gore opposed the Iraq War first among his peers, and forcefully, in 2004.
The Public's weariness of the misleading and constantly negative reporting on Iraq has lowered the approval level for the war. It has not helped the ratings of those opposing it.
4. Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption. No lost billing records in his linen closet, no Enron or Abramoff staining his campaign finance reports.
He saw caught blatantly soliciting illegal campaign donations in China. There were so many illegal campaign donation investigations during Clinton's administration that it was obvious that the Justice department simply got tired of spending millions and millions of dollars investigating them and only prosecuting and convicting those with minor roles.
When Clinton was in office the attitude of the left was that everyone knew corruption was widespread but they didn't care. They like most leftists expect it. Just look at the last Canadian government and much of Europe for examples.
3. He can fight. He seems to have recovered his vitality, after the apparently spirit-draining years in Washington, the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency.
He's definitely getting more fired up now, and look at how much that's helped Howard Dean who Gore seems to be emulating!
2. We CAN forgive him for selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate, as long as he doesn't ever do it again.
Seems pretty obvious to me that hurt Liberman a lot more than Gore. Liberman helped bring votes to the ticket. With Gore his campaign was constantly trying to figure out how to keep him from scarring voters away.
1. He actually was elected President. If international election monitors had been running the show in 2000, imagine how different the world would look today.
First there was the media announcing that Bush won before the polls closed which likely lowered turnout in areas that had a higher concentration of Republicans.
Then Bush won in the first count.
Then Gore selectively challenged the counts in certain areas where he though a recount in heavily Democratic areas with Democratic elections officials would help him.
It helped some, but he still had fewer votes.
Then there was the effort to exclude some overseas military ballots to try and change the results.
Then there were the multiple lawsuits trying to authorize elections officials (Democratic elections officials in heavily Democratic areas) to interpret the intent of voters when the voter did not punch out the "chad" with the stylus.
That suit eventually got tossed out, but what was recounted by that method up until the effort was stopped still didn't produce enough votes for Gore to beat Bush.
After the Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY ruled to put a stop to the blatantly obvious attempts to reinterpret the results over and over again (but only in areas where doing so might give Gore more votes) until they found a way of interpreting them that gave enough votes to take the lead, there was a recount done in those areas by a Florida newspaper.
It was actually a relatively liberal newspaper, but they allowed observers from both parties to observe the counting process.
They tallied the votes based on clearly punched out holes, and a couple of the ways that Gore's lawsuits had proposed.
When the votes were added up, Bush they showed that Bush won regardless of the method, though Gore's proposed methods did narrow Bush's margin of victory a bit.
Each and every one of the counts and recounts showed Bush as the winner. Even allowing Gore to try and manipulate how votes were tallied in those areas wasn't enough to produce a count where he had enough votes to win.
There's also going to be a huge number of swing voters that will remember how blatantly Gore tried to use fraud and lawsuits to steal a Presidential election in which the only credible evidence that improper things were done that could have effected the election results were the premature reports by the press, and the actions done on his behalf to try and change how the votes were counted in violation of Florida's election laws.
I would love to see Gore as the Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2008.
However, it won't happen, because the elite of that party along with the media would do the same thing to him as they did to Howard Dean during the primaries.
They'll show a little too much of the truth, and they'll show it over and over again and just keep saying how unelectable he is.
And here they are, in all their glorious stupidity. Hey, she says to share them!
10: My dad, the Midwestern bellwether, thinks Al Gore can win.
9. Gore doesn't pander to the religious vote, and he has forcefully and eloquently spoken out about separation of church and state.
8. He is courageous. Gore has consistently called the current administration out on its radical agenda, extremism and criminality.
7. By 2008, energy conservation will be an American obsession, not just with the so-called liberal "elite." Gore, the public conservationist, drew ridicule talking about it in the days of petrol plenty, sounds pretty smart now.
6. By 2008, global warming will be a mainstream concern. Gore was talking about global warming back when it was still science fiction. He's starring in a movie about it, coming to multiplexes along with "Over the Hedge."
5. The Iraq War will be universally understood to be a disaster by 2008. Gore opposed the Iraq War first among his peers, and forcefully, in 2004.
4. Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption. No lost billing records in his linen closet, no Enron or Abramoff staining his campaign finance reports.
3. He can fight. He seems to have recovered his vitality, after the apparently spirit-draining years in Washington, the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency.
2. We CAN forgive him for selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate, as long as he doesn't ever do it again.
1. He actually was elected President. If international election monitors had been running the show in 2000, imagine how different the world would look today.
Bonus point: He's related to Gore Vidal. He could make his cousin Secretary of State. Okay. A girl can dream.
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