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Pres. Bush will hold 1 pm news conference. [significant announcement per Drudge]
FNC | 11/08/2006 | FNC

Posted on 11/08/2006 4:27:22 AM PST by tsmith130

Subtle gong alert, scrolled on the bottom of the screen.


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To: Stallone
Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP.

Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about.

21 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Stallone
Republicans lost because they took the pious wimp approach to politics. The GOP played politics by Marquess of Queensbury rules of civility, while the Democrats used guerrilla tactics.

And it was reflected Bush's same attitude in conducting the war in Iraq

He is a man of integrity but not up to the job at home or abroad

He showed himself way back in the 2000 primary with that dumb Compassionate Conservatism and stayed the course

GOP voters fear and hate of the democrats could only last so long

I hope all those on this site that castigated us so called Bush Bashers have seen the light

Rove ain't no political genius
22 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:25 AM PST by uncbob
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To: Vaquero

Kristol is an ASS. Bush is probably going to congratulation the Democrats and give a speech saying he will work with them yada yada.


23 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:38 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

Bush will announce we killed Zawahiri, Bin Laden, and Geddah two weeks ago but didn't want to seem political.


24 posted on 11/08/2006 4:44:10 AM PST by Perdogg (Democratic Party - The political wing of Al Qaida)
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To: Stallone

As I posted in another thread.

Iraq is the main reason the GOP lost, along with their fear of fighting the media. Until Republicans realize that Iraq is not popular with most Americans, including Republicans we will continue to lose.

If things in Iraq are the same today as they are two years from now, kiss the White House goodbye.


25 posted on 11/08/2006 4:45:27 AM PST by deep
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To: tsmith130

What now, Mr. President.....gonna change the tone in Washington?


26 posted on 11/08/2006 4:45:34 AM PST by Boanarges
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To: uncbob

I understand your frustration but bottom line he is our President, he is the Republican President and by sitting out of this election we did not help our cause.


27 posted on 11/08/2006 4:45:47 AM PST by newconhere (bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
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To: Fresh Wind
" Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about "

Better late than never....get the Truth out!

Too bad it wont happen. A more realistic event will be "Dubya", trying some type of group hug.

28 posted on 11/08/2006 4:46:34 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: tsmith130

Who ???

Oh, el Presidente Jorge !!!!


29 posted on 11/08/2006 4:47:02 AM PST by musikman
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To: Fresh Wind

He shouldn't have to! Any person with any intellengce at all knows why. Besides, the President has explained it over and over.

BTW, I am sick and tired of all of these Bush bashers on FR.


30 posted on 11/08/2006 4:48:40 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (John Gibson is right. " If the Democrats win the terrorist win.")
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To: GnL

What principle that he abandoned? He ran on the platform of compassionate conservatism, which resulted in No Child Left Behind. If we understand 'economic conservatism' as 'free-market' idea, having cheap labor from neighboring countries, and selling port administration power to anybody who is willing to pay the highest are not contradictary with 'conservative principles'. It is when we combine 'nationalism' with 'free-market' and call it 'conservative' that we see them differently.


31 posted on 11/08/2006 4:48:44 AM PST by paudio (Universal Human Rights and Multiculturalism: Liberals want to have cake and eat it too!)
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To: tsmith130

Republican Congress people are about to be schooled in how to act like the majority. Hilarious.


32 posted on 11/08/2006 4:48:54 AM PST by Crawdad (Is this thing on?)
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To: BunnySlippers

I made a point the last couple of days for which I took great ridicule. I said that Rove, Bush & Co. knew the ONLY way to pass amnesty was to have a Dem. congress.

I believe we have been had !


33 posted on 11/08/2006 4:48:59 AM PST by musikman
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To: Perdogg

I wish he would!


34 posted on 11/08/2006 4:49:59 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: mariabush
intellengce= intelligence
35 posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:13 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (John Gibson is right. " If the Democrats win the terrorist win.")
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To: areafiftyone

That's exactly what he'll do. Bush is Bush. He'll reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation, which to the Dems will mean, give us everything we want. They think they've got a mandate.

And to all of those who think he'll find his veto pen, I doubt it. The only legislation he'll veto is WOT-ending bills. He'll try to stave off the withdrawal from Iraq. He may or may not be successful in that. Beyond that, I doubt he vetos anything.


36 posted on 11/08/2006 4:51:33 AM PST by LadyNavyVet
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To: mariabush

Oh, come on. He has run the war pretty badly, if nothing else, the media took control of the war 5 years ago. We never saw much of him taking on the media over it either, did we.


37 posted on 11/08/2006 4:51:58 AM PST by musikman
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To: deep
Iraq is the main reason the GOP lost, along with their fear of fighting the media.

Bush ain't the man for the job ( fighting a war either against the democrats or in Iraq)

He should have cleaned house of all the Clintonites the day he took office instead he invites Teddy over for popcorn and like his father he learned NOTHING as he went along

Harriet Myers was another perfect example

Rove is a boob

It was the GOP voters fear of the democrats that kept him and the GOP alive and that finally wore out
38 posted on 11/08/2006 4:52:02 AM PST by uncbob
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To: musikman
I just ran across some stats which Ann Coulter quoted. I'll post it here:

The average first midterm election loss for every elected president since 1914 is 27 House seats and three Senate seats. The average sixth-year midterm election, like this year, is much worse for the president's party, which typically loses 34 seats in the House and six seats in the Senate.

39 posted on 11/08/2006 4:52:21 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)
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To: Stallone

Well I agree with you on so many points.

Except I have one question...if conservatism always wins (as common sense would dictate it SHOULD), two losses last night sort of belie this dictum.

Rick Santorum remained close to his principles and he's such a nice guy. Yet he lost. And what about Bob Ehrlich in Merryland? Here's a guy doing a fantastic job in a solidly blue state yet he was essentially FIRED against an avid airhead, Baltimore Mayor O'Malley. O'Malley accomplished exactly nothing during his tenure as mayor yet the guy gets elected as Governor over a nice guy like Ehrlich.

I'll not pretend, at least for now, to not be severely bummed out this morning. As for my hero Rush Limbaugh, he's got some splaining to do. He always says conservative principles win yet THEY DID NOT!

Things will look up soon enough, or at least that optimistic part of me whispers in my mind. If God is in his heaven, guys like Ehrlich, Santorum, and Steele will step up to the podium and throw out that entrenched Republican leadership and start infusing some new blood.

The way things stand now, the path is paved for a President McCain in 2008. Somehow this depresses me even more.

As for Bush, yea the man never sat down in that mighty Oval Office, looked the American people in the eye, and told it like it is on this War on Terror. He let the Dems have that mighty talking point about Saddam's NO weapons of mass destruction. He waffled over the Valerie Plame joke. He gave Kennedy that "no child left behind" joke and he pushed through a Medicare prescription plan that almost no one likes. Bush is no communicator and he had so much power to lay it on the line. Ah well, he'll be gone in two years.

Then we'll have President McCain.

Oh joy.


40 posted on 11/08/2006 4:52:35 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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