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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Good Morning!
Here's an article on page A2 of today's WashPost.
Headline:
Democrat Says He Helped Bush Into Guard to Score Points
Here's the photo and caption that accompany it:
At Ellington Field, a Texas Air National Guard base in 1968, George W. Bush, left, and father George H.W. Bush. (Texas National Guard Via AP)
If Kerry thought his head hurt yesterday, wait until he sees this!
Tracking polls released today, 9/3/04, the day after the Republican National Convention ended, show sizeable swings in the public consciousness.
Examples:
-- In New York City, the number of adults who say Bush will win jumped from 39% on 7/22 (the week before the DNC) to 58% today: 19 points up for Bush, 17 points down for Kerry.
-- In Los Angeles, the number who say Bush will win jumped from 38% on 7/22 to 59% today: 21 points up for Bush, 18 points down for Kerry.
-- In Pittsburgh, Bush went from 44% to 64%: 20 points up for Bush, 19 points down for Kerry.
Each poll was conducted of an entire metropolitan area, known as a TV market, and defined by Nielsen Media Research as the "Designated Market Area" (DMA). In no metropolitan area, in any part of the country, did Kerry's numbers go up. Four separate polls of 500 adults each were conducted in 30 TV markets and in 2 states. (128 discrete pieces of opinion research; 64,000 separate telephone interviews.) Each survey has a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5%. (more at link)
DEMOCRAT SAYS HE HELPED BUSH INTO GUARD TO SCORE POINTS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60319-2004Sep3.html
Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., arrives at a rally in Newark, Ohio on Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
Certainly the modest people of Newark, Ohio were impressed with Kerry in his blue blazer with the gold buttons.
Median resident age: 35.9 years
Median household income: $34,791 (year 2000)
Median house value: $85,200 (year 2000)
Good grief...FOUR brass buttons on the sleeve?!!!
Barnes, a longtime Democrat who works as a lobbyist and political consultant in Austin, has said that he is now "very ashamed" of helping "a lot of people who had family names of importance get in the National Guard." He made the statement during a meeting with John F. Kerry supporters in Austin on May 27, a video of which is now circulating on the Internet.
At the time, Barnes was speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and in close touch with the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. James Rose.
But when he spoke to a Kerry supporters gathering on video tape Mr. Barnes tells us he was the Lt. Governor of Texas at the time he pulled strings to get GWB into the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas National Guard. Which is impossible since he wasn't elected Lt. Gov. until 1969 and GWB enlisted in 1968.
I wonder which lie they would like us to believe?
Effin's coming to Steubenville, Ohio today, about a 30 minute drive from our home. Alas, we'll be elsewhere, exploring American colonial history with the nieces and so cannot freep him, but are we to believe this crap from the local Dem organizer (quoted in this morning's paper):
Wilson said those coming to pick up tickets at the furniture store (for the Kerry appearance) have readily expressed their opinions to him regarding the race. He said many are undecided voters who also attended President Bush's visit to Wheeling last Sunday. "One lady told me she voted for President Bush in the last election, but probably not now," he said. "She said a friend of hers had been experiencing problems with her retirement and pension benefits."
A friend of hers has problems with her pension, and so she's not going to vote for the president who is protecting her from Islamic terrorists and rebuilding the economy? Are people really that stupid as to believe Bush has anything to do with their friends' pensions? Or is it Mr. Wilson who believes we're so stupid we'll believe that someone would stand in line two hours to get tickets to Bush's appearance, then stand in line and wait a few more hours to see the president, and sit through his speech, still wouldn't vote for him because of a pension problem with which he has absolutely nothing to do? Unfortunately, I suppose he does, and I suppose there are people that mindless. I just hope they don't vote.
At any rate, less than 60 minutes after President Bush gave a sober, graceful, droll and moving address, Kerry decided to hit back. In the midnight hour, he climbed out of his political coffin, and before his thousands of aides could grab the garlic from Teresa's kitchen and start waving it at him, he found himself in front of an audience and started giving a speech. As in Vietnam, he was in no mood to take prisoners: ''I have five words for Americans,'' he thundered. ''This is your wake up call!''
Is that five words? Or is it six? Well, it's all very nuanced, according to whether you hyphenate the ''wake-up.'' Maybe he should have said, ''I have four words plus a common hyphenated expression for Americans.'' I'd suggest the rewrite to him personally, but I don't want him to stare huffily at me and drone, "How dare you attack my patriotism."
By about nine words into John Kerry's wake up call, I was sound asleep again.
My bet would be that the Bush campaign probably has MILES of video of Barnes saying nice things about his governor and president. We'll see.
My other bet is that 60 Minutes is pushing the envelope, not realizing the considerable fury among TV viewers at liberal bias in the old media. The internet has changed everything and Kerry and his press minions refuse to accept it.
Great piece on that subject by Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) in today's Opinion Journal.
http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005571
so she's not going to vote for the president who is protecting her from Islamic terrorists and rebuilding the economy?
I spoke with two women yesterday. The first has cancer, can't work and is on assistance. She didn't like either Kerry or Bush. We had a talk. I reminded her that my hobby is politics and I have watched GWB very closely. GWB is a good man I explained and for good measure I threw in, what happens if terrorists start attacking us here in the U.S.? The economy will tank, there will be no health care, no education, no Social Security, etc... She will think it over but she definitely won't vote for Kerry because he's gay. Oy vey!
The second lady is an old friend of mine. She didn't care one way or the other. I asked how her brother, the one who almost lost his arm in Viet Nam would feel if she voted for Kerry. Nuff said.
I wonder, do these type of people make up these inane excuses just so they won't have to make a choice because they're too lazy or they're not interested? Maybe they're afraid their choice will lose and they would then see themselves as a loser? *now my head hurts!*
I guess the exertion of running all those 7-minute miles in the middle of the night just got to him. On a totally unrelated topic, have we heard any more about the girlfriend who ran over the Harlem pedestrian?
Nurse Donna Florio-Bronen said Clinton was his usual charming self there. "He stopped and looked and me, put out his hand and said, 'Thank you, God bless you,'" she said. "He looked great." link
No photos of Nurse Donna were available.
And right on the newsstands - in black and white sits GQ containing an interview with Kerry, in which he reveals that he and Marlon Brando had a "phone relationship" and over the years he and Brando would talk world affairs. And sometimes he took Brando's advise, Kerry tells the mag.
Let's all imagine for a moment what the MSM would be doing had those words come from GWB.
Nurse Donna is blubba's kind of girl, she's got her own business to keep her busy and she'll bring in a little cash:
From the Cath Lab Digest - ISSN:
1073-2667 - Volume 12 - Issue 6:
June 2004 - June 2004 :
A Successful Suture-Mediated Closure Program:
Turning Your Lab Into a Profitable Entity
Donna Florio-Bronen, RN, ANCC, Anthony Pucillo, MD,
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York
Blubba running 7 minute miles! LOL!!!
Effin better hope one of his VVAW homies doesn't burn that American flag on his $1,000 lapel. So glad he visited Newark - that's where a group of us (OhioWfan, molly pitcher, dutchess, dollycali, dr.deb, Common Tator, mtntop3 - check out his freep of Kerry dupe Rassmann) had a "party for the president" a few months ago.
Funny! I especially liked the blood shot eyes.
Good Morning. I'm working on a report, but it's so long it would eat up every once of bandwidth JR owns. I will probably do it as a Freepmail to anyone who wants it.
Turn on the weather channel... you've got to see these kooks standing out in the hurricane force winds with a microphone reporting that it's really, really windy, oh, and rainy. :-)
You all might lose me soon, the lights are doing that dimming thingy. Frances isn't supposed to be here until late tonight but apparently hurricanes have a mind of their own.
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