Posted on 09/04/2004 4:32:14 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
The 2004 Republican Convention is over but it was a good one. The GOP Convention will be the most historic political convention in our time. "A well oiled machine," is the phrase most heard the day after as delegates made their way home. Even the balloon drop went off without a hitch or foul words.
The speakers gave remarkably meaningful, important speeches to pump up our party and reminding the American public that pretending terrorism isn't a big deal doesn't make it go away. If you want a better, safer world for your children and grandchildren to grow up in, vote for our president,
Oh, and don't vote for that sitzpinkler John Kerry.
Hopefully we can coax Iowa Granny and Hillary's Lovely Legs into telling us all about their convention adventures.
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What's next? Government funded Botox injections for underprivileged wrinkly people?
Mickey Kaus calls it "spirit-crushing foolishness from my candidate, John Kerry".
FOTFLMAO!
Again with the health care and Kerry's lies. His "45 million people without health care" is bogus - he's including people who may have other coverage, people who were without insurance for a couple of weeks or even 10 minutes while they were switching jobs, etc. Of course, this doesn't mean anyone is going without health care, or we'd have people dropping like flies, lying in the streets dying of every dread disease known to mankind. Thus far, even Dan Rather hasn't been able to invent that scenario.
(PageSix):
September 9, 2004 -- GETTING Jenna Bush's phone number is proving harder than winning a gold medal for Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps. When the hunk washed up at club Suede the other night, he was overheard asking a blond publicist friend of Jenna for the presidential daughter's digits. When the friend told Phelps she couldn't give out the number, Phelps begged her to take his cell number and to tell Jenna to call him. Way to play it cool, fish boy!
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September 9, 2004 -- MARIO Cuomo butted heads with political consultant Dick Morris at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse yesterday, where The Week magazine hosted "Who Will Be Our Next President?" — a panel discussion co-starring Gallup Poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport and Howard Dean campaign mastermind Joe Trippi.
Cuomo bashed President Bush for shifting focus from Afghanistan to Iraq against the advice of Gen. Tommy Franks [Say what?! I smell magical thinking in the air.] and waging a misguided war on terror. Morris got up off his stool and bellowed, "It does not become a former governor of New York State to attack the president who saved the Brooklyn Bridge and the Garment District from being bombed because of the Patriot Act."
Cuomo calmly countered that he didn't believe the controversial law had thwarted the terror plots [I'm gonna close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and hum while I visit Magical Thinking Land!], adding, "It seems to be that you've had some kind of psychic burst — now that you've released it, I hope it goes away."
Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who was thrashed for the presidency by George H.W. Bush in 1988, called in [Face it Dukakis, a phone receiver is the closest you're getting to the important people these days.] and cracked, "If I knew anything about this topic, I'd be speaking to you in a different capacity right now." [Wait, I'm having a psychic moment... I see a Hillary/Cuomo ticket in '08]
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Are some of Kerry's campaign leftovers now advising Tom Cruise?
September 9, 2004 -- WHO says the French hate American culture? French President Jacques Chirac personally bestowed the Legion of Honor on Steven Spielberg Sunday night in Paris. And, in a case of dueling Hollywood heavyweights, Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, likely Chirac's biggest foe in the next election (three years away), recently met with Tom Cruise. The star reportedly gave Sarkozy a book about Scientology — which was awkward, because Sarkozy used to be minister of the interior, the French equivalent of attorney general. Scientology is considered a cult and is legally banned in France. So the Sarkozy-Cruise confab made the French twitter. But American ex-pats are all looking forward to seeing the campaign pix of the beaming candidates and the Hollywood stars.
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(LizSmith):
September 9, 2004 -- ‘I THINK he is a bully, and like all bullies, he’s a coward when confronted with a force that he’s fearful of. His reactions to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House are obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying ‘yes, yes, yes, yes,’ to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole — that can come only from genuine moral cowardice.” So speaks former Vice President Al Gore of President George W. Bush in his interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker. Although Gore won the popular vote in 2000, he has never been the most popular public figure. [albore just wants to be loved, is that so wrong?!] This forthright interview is startling in its candor.
Mr. Irrelevant interview in The New Yorker: [What you say? You want MORE proof albore is irrelevantly? Here's a snip...]
Gore expects Kerry to win in November. "Bush's failures have been so spectacular," he said in August. [Awww, always a date late and a vote short. Shucks, dern them after convention bounces!]
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(Elisa Lipsky-Karasz)
* Few would describe Hillary Clinton as fashionable, but New York's junior senator will be hosting a big fund-raiser for presidential hopeful John Kerry during Fashion Week. [Hey hilly, you got your crusty pantsuit on my fashion! Well, your fashion is on my crusty pantsuit! Hey, we might be on to something? Nah!]
Dept. of Wellness? Can I sue if the Dept. can't make me well? Maybe John or Liz Edwards would represent me.
Slick also advised Kerry to "check out the ropeline...lots of new talent there"......hee hee...
I've been thinking about these Bush National Guard stories. I'm no PR genius, but I've an idea what I think would work for Dubya.
Unlike Kerry, people like the president. Also unlike Kerry (and in contrast to him), Dubya shouldn't duck the press as these charges swirl. I'd recommend they call Larry King and tell him the president will come on tonight to address the charges. Maybe not the whole hour, but at least 30 minutes.
Dubya would make sure to reiterate his praise for Kerry's service in Vietnam, saying it was more admirable than his own. But he should say he's proud of his 5 YEARS in the Guard. "Yeah, I may have missed a meeting here or there, but I made them up just like everyone esle did. There wasn't a single year that I didn't earn more points than the minimum requirement". Make sure to mention the TWO AND A HALF YEARS of full time active duty while learning to fly fighter jets.
As for the supposed "embarrassment" that records continue to be unearthed, he should simply repeat that he asked the military to release all his records. He's miffed at the way it's been handled. PERHAPS THAT EXPLAINS WHY SENATOR KERRY HASN'T SIGNED FORM 180 TO ALLOW THE RELEASE OF ALL HIS RECORDS...HE SEES WHAT A MESSY PROCESS IT CAN BE. But, "...as a politician, Larry, it seems to me Senator Kerry would have been better served by having released all his information and put the questions to rest".
As for the guy who says he didn't see Bush in Alabama, Dubya could hit that one out of the park. "Ya know, I don't remember him either!". Mention the guys who DO remember him, but be self effacing in that "I didn't do much there that would be memorable. I spent the days reading flight training manuals.". Side reference to Calhoun, who does remember his being there.
And to Barnes, the guy who supposedly pulled strings to get him in, just brush it off. He's been a partisan for years and this isn't the first time he's raised this...though he's told different stories over the years. NOW, everyone he implicates in his story is dead and gone and can't refute or support words he's putting in their mouths. "All I know is that my family didn't ask for special treatment."
Be proud, be humble & self-deprecating, and be presidential. Most importantly, unlike Kerry, he shows he has nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of. Maybe even get in a lick at the mainstream media (laughing of course). That's what Dubya does best. I think it would be a winner. What say y'all?
I agree that Bush campaign should respond to the various lies in some way to reach a wider audience than just us partisans.
Also showing the flag were Kristin's mom, Tipper, and sister Karenna (along with Karenna's husband, Drew Schiff, and Kristin's fiancé, Paul Cusack), Miramax Books honcho Jonathan Burnham, rocker Jon Bon Jovi, ABC News Now anchor Gigi Stone and fashionista Shoshanna Lonstein.
The ex-veep tried to parry the inevitable questions about the presidential campaign. "I'm here to talk about the book," he told me, "but I think Kerry's going to win." NY Daily News
This morning I read this really revealing article about Al Gore in the New Yorker. I can only describe it as "mentally voyeuristic"....inside Algore's brain...UGGGHHH! But it's still compelling reading, if for no other reason than to congratulate ourselves on avoiding a very close call.
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040913fa_fact
Good grief. I just got started reading the New Yorker piece and saw this. What a nut. Unfortunately, he sounds just like my husband's boss, who's an absolute whack job (works on movie scripts while he's supposed to be working, and sends them off - at the employer's expense - to Robert Redford in the hopes he'll produce and/or direct). He also does "voices," imitating people who annoy him.
"Whack Job Al": perfect!
Poor old Al looks like maybe he and Bubba should have gotten a double room at the hospital.
OMG! Do men get cellulite in their faces?!
New Evan Coyne Maloney video! This is the guy who goes to lefty anti-war protests and interviews them like he's objective...gets them to say realllly stupid things.
"Brainwashing 101--bias on college campuses"
http://academicbias.com/bw101-rm.html
Yep
I think the Guard business is much ado about nothing.
Looks like CBS is still hyping the Bush/National Guard story, but I didn't notice whether they admitted the documents they've been relying on to support the claims are forgeries.
From what I've garnered, CBS is standing by its story and has refused to respond to requests that they release the originals for further examination.
ABC covered the "questionable authenticity" angle, had the supposed author's son who says his dad would never have written such memos. FOX reported the problems with the memos in depth. Weekly Standard has had 3 top national typeface experts examine the pdf's and their report is here:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/596astgo.asp?ZoomFont=YES
This story is growing like Topsy...or Al Gore. LOL!
Or "Tippsy" - Tipper Gore, that is. (Biting my tongue not to say "or Elizabeth Edwards").
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