Posted on 01/30/2005 3:27:30 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Senator Bill Nelson, who accompanied Sen. Chris Dodd and Sen. Lincoln Chaffee on an ill-timed junket to meet Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, is in political trouble. As Richard Baehr predicted here in "Shilling for the new Castro" two weeks ago, his trip is already an issue with Florida's Latin America-savvy voters.
In a panicky letter to a small local Vero Beach newspaper (a sure sign he's hearing from voters), Nelson defends his political tour in Caracas, repeatedly trying to assure Vero Beach readers that he was 'tough' on Chavez while there, and bringing up as much as he can the many times he got Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to agree with him at various hearings. Those were probably perfunctory nods from her, but terribly important to him as a skirt to hide behind, given the feedback he's apparently gotten from Florida voters.
Chavez hasn't helped matters for Nelson either since the senatorial tour - confiscating private lands, ending media freedom, cheating American oil companies, stiffing bondholders, inviting in Cuban security agents, allowing Marxist terrorists from Colombia to walk freely in Venezuela - all signs of a terrible dictatorship descending.
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The Democrat party has been full of totalitarian bootlickers since the get-go. Where's the surprise now?
Nelson's got some nerve trying to hide behind Condoleezza Rice, after the appalling, gross things that Chavez said about her on his radio broadcast.
And isn't it wonderful how both Russia/Soviets and the Red Chinese are in there signing solidarity, oil, and military assistance agreements. Time to invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
Another DimocRAT showing his true colors. Let him squirm.
Chavez is nothing but a tin-pot dictator that can't even knot his own tie. Actually, in a beauty contest with Manuel Noriega, Chavez would come in second.
I agree. Other countries are all over VZ. Last week the Spanish Defense Minister made a secret (well, it was supposed to be secret) visit to Chavez to sign the contract for a naval vessel and 20 patrol boats Spain is building for Chavez. Zapatero (Spanish PM) was going to visit Chavez during his Socialist solidarity tour of LatAm last week, but was dissuaded from doing so at the last minute.
Jeb in 2006!
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LOL!!!!
Thanks!
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