Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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

Posted on 11/29/2003 6:16:23 PM PST by Republican Challenger

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 321-340341-360361-380 ... 481-495 next last
To: Republican Challenger
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.
341 posted on 11/29/2003 8:55:56 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chad Fairbanks
Even better...change your name to a similar one to the dems and run......
342 posted on 11/29/2003 8:55:57 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("Why does it happen? Because it happens, roll the bones")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 337 | View Replies]

To: Chad Fairbanks
Can I be your running mate?

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

343 posted on 11/29/2003 8:56:01 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I shot an arrow in the air. / Where it falls I do not care. / I buy my arrows wholesale)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 337 | View Replies]

To: Republican Challenger
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?

344 posted on 11/29/2003 8:56:09 PM PST by Dog Gone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eddie willers
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.
345 posted on 11/29/2003 8:56:30 PM PST by Republican Challenger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 294 | View Replies]

To: Chad Fairbanks
"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".

346 posted on 11/29/2003 8:57:14 PM PST by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 324 | View Replies]

To: eddie willers
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.
347 posted on 11/29/2003 8:58:46 PM PST by Republican Challenger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 309 | View Replies]

To: Republican Challenger
No.
348 posted on 11/29/2003 9:00:30 PM PST by PRND21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dan from Michigan
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

349 posted on 11/29/2003 9:00:41 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 342 | View Replies]

To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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?
350 posted on 11/29/2003 9:00:55 PM PST by Republican Challenger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 312 | View Replies]

To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Sure. Why not? We can call reporters a-holes, and people will dig it!
351 posted on 11/29/2003 9:01:28 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 343 | View Replies]

To: Republican Challenger
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.

352 posted on 11/29/2003 9:01:29 PM PST by eddie willers (Molly Ivins...the love child of Noam Chomsky and Minnie Pearl)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 339 | View Replies]

To: Republican Challenger
No
353 posted on 11/29/2003 9:01:37 PM PST by AgThorn (Go go Bush!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: okie01
Of course we are helping him - that much is obvious...
354 posted on 11/29/2003 9:02:08 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 346 | View Replies]

To: Republican Challenger
Enough of this foolishness. See ya.
355 posted on 11/29/2003 9:02:27 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 345 | View Replies]

To: Chad Fairbanks
Ditto that (see: Hillary's "Livying History")
356 posted on 11/29/2003 9:03:12 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 338 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson
UH-oh. I bet he'll have awful things to say about you in his book... ;0)
357 posted on 11/29/2003 9:03:22 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 355 | View Replies]

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

Bwahahahaha

358 posted on 11/29/2003 9:04:55 PM PST by eddie willers (Molly Ivins...the love child of Noam Chomsky and Minnie Pearl)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 357 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson
Thanks.
359 posted on 11/29/2003 9:05:30 PM PST by Dog Gone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 355 | View Replies]

To: Wait4Truth
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

360 posted on 11/29/2003 9:05:54 PM PST by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 252 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 321-340341-360361-380 ... 481-495 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson