ZOT! Can there be a serious challenge to Bush in the GOP primaries?

John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach ^ | november 29, 2003 | john buchanan

[MissAmericanPie]

I would like to give you a well thought out response, not something flippant off the top of my head.

At this time I think the only one that can defeat Bush, is Bush himself and he is a very astute politician. There is no doubt that he has lost some of his conservative base. How much is the question. Has he picked up more votes from the conservative democrat and minoirity hispanic side to offest and surpass the net loss of conservative voters?

If there were no WOT going on I think 2004 might prove to be another squeaker, but because there is a WOT, it would be hard to unseat him just out of the voters instinct not to change horses in the middle of a stream or an important ongoing war.

The Republican Party has moved far left, there is no way to tell if that was a smart move for the Party until 2008. Conservatives have been dumped and they know it, now they have zero representation in this nation and no reason to go to the polls other than national security because of this war.

If you would be President my best advice would be to run in 2008 and make immigration a part of your platform. Take on the issue that concerns most Americans and that all but a few politicians are running from and you will gain a ton of votes from people that haven't voted in years on that one issue alone.

The majority of Americans sit out the polls because both parties are the same and moving ever more left. Give them a reason to vote. And don't be afriad to use EO's, get your judicial appointments through during recesses, and play dirty with demoncrats.

Now if there is a major terrorist attack on American soil due to our unprotected borders all bets are off. Bush will have cut his own political throat from ear to ear with the voting public that is already up in arms about our protecting borders all over the world yet claiming it's impossible to do here, along with their upset over the cost of illegal immigration to our budget and culture.

Make your platform about American sovereignty, Fair Trade, instead of artifically manipulated Free Trade, point out the U.N.'s effect on our daily lives, outsourcing that builds the economy and military capablilities of a dangerous enemy, point out to the voting public the battle going on for the soul of this nation between communist/socialists, big business, and conservative constitutionalists and there will be alot of voter registration going on.

Rail against the taxes and regulations that make business's flee overseas while condeming the greed that prompts them to risk the security of the nation for their slave wage bottom line. Talk about balance between creating wealth while guarding the foundations of freedom.

Compassion begins at home would be a good slogan. As far as alienating Europe, we cannot go the direction Europe is going. It's time for a parting of the way. They are speeding down the road to totalitarianism. What Germany could not take in war they are taking by deceit.

We must develop new alliances with Eastern Europe and people that still remember the fresh horror of the communism that they just came from. Trade with America breaks or makes most nations of the world, use that power wisely to punish and reward.

[Dan from Michigan]

Even better...change your name to a similar one to the dems and run......

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Can I be your running mate?

I want to mouth off to reporters. It's my dream!

[Dog Gone]

So you claim to be a journalist, and even quote a Time Magazine cover story in support of the fact that our current Presidents sucks.

How much money do you think I'll give you?

[Republican Challenger]

Excuse me, but fairness and accuracy in reporting are not censorship issues. They are at the core of a free and responsible press that carries its public responsibility with honor. Otherwise, there would obviously be no justification for ANY kind of a press at this point -- and that's from a journeyman journalist and editor.

[okie01]

"He's writing a book - has a deal with a publisher - about his presidential run. Need I say more?"

And we are helping him write the chapter he will entitle "Extremism on the Internet: And Why It Should Be Regulated".

[Republican Challenger]

Wrong, Carnac! No book deal. I am a working newspaper journalist, with a byline in The New Hampshire Gazette (www.nhgazette.com), the oldest newspaper in America and the one that gave Samuel Adams his first byline. I'm pretty proud of that affiliation.

[PRND21]

No.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Even better...change your name to a similar one to the dems and run......

Hmmm... let's see... Dennis Zuchini... no... ummm... hmmm... how about Howard Deen

[Republican Challenger]

How can a career journalist who is calling for a MORE free and vigorous press be accused of trashing the First Amendment? As for the second, I think the right to own a gun is sacred, and should have minimal restrictions. Violent criminals are the recurring problem, not guns. Period. Any more questions about my views on the Bill of Rights, for which I would die at 53?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Sure. Why not? We can call reporters a-holes, and people will dig it!

[eddie willers]

Where's the perception of our 'might"

Nothing that a nuke on the Rock-Of-The-Dome won't cure.

Oh...and make sure you quote me correctly in your book.

And spell the name right...

eddie "Nutcase Right Winger I Found As I was Trolling Looking For Wacky Quotes " willers.

[AgThorn]

No

[Chad Fairbanks]

Of course we are helping him - that much is obvious...

[Jim Robinson]

Enough of this foolishness. See ya.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I don't begrudge anyone making an honest buck - but, I'd prefer they at least be honest about it :0)

Ditto that (see: Hillary's "Liv^ying History")

[Chad Fairbanks]

UH-oh. I bet he'll have awful things to say about you in his book... ;0)

[eddie willers]

UH-oh. I bet he'll have awful things to say about you in his book... ;0)

Bwahahahaha

[Dog Gone]

Thanks.

[Kaslin]

This guy is clearly a RAT in Republican clothing. He's a joke. I am outta here.

Looks like you and I can smell a rat from miles away