Watch Out, Karl Rove – Kerry's Coming

NewsMax ^ | 1/23/04 | Susan Estrich

[wylenetheconservative]

KERRY COULD BE DANGEROUS. ATTENTION NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS: CROSS OVER AND VOTE FOR DEAN ON TUESDAY. PRESIDENT BUSH IS COUNTING ON YOU.

[ElkGroveDan]

I can't speak for all conservative Republicans,

Or how about fickle voters who don't vote that often, who might be motivated to vote by a motivated Republican neighbor coworker or church member? What happens when you turn some of those formerly fired-up team players into hold-your-nose voters? How many people do they coax to the polls on election day?

Our side is constantly miscalculating the power of motivation and turnout. The danger is when they imagine that it is always a fixed cross-section of voters who vote the same way, and the so-called moderates make the difference. The voter base on each side grows and shrinks based on how excited the candidate gets people on various hot-button issues.

Rove is killing Bush's chances by watering down his appeal to the hardcore base.

[nickcarraway]

Do you really think that a Democrat attending a flag burning would destroy their chances of becoming president? Somehow, I think it'd be treated as ho hum.

[Enterprise]

I agree and I somewhat dread the coming election if too many conservatives decide to stay away because they disagree with what President Bush is doing. Again, I have seen Republicans blow it in California, and it can easily happen again on the National level. To your other point, the three magic words in voting are - turnout, turnout, turnout. That being said, I wager that the media will once again somehow do something to disrupt the elections. And because California is "last" of the big electoral college States because of time zones, it may cause the Republican challenger to Boxer to be defeated.

[Righty1]

His natural horse face.

[Yaelle]

If you listen to his radio show you've probably noticed how he begins a tease at the top of the first hour and then it turns out, much later in the show, to be a tiny glimmer of an interview or sound bite and sometime never materializes at all.

Not to be a Hannity apologist, but all he does is tell you what's coming up in hopes that the guest or soundbite will be enough to get you to listen or watch. It does me a service both ways; if I don't like the guest I don't have to stick around. All the radio hosts have their own way of talking to the audience. Larry Elder tells everyone every 5 minutes whom he's talking to, for each new person that just got into the car. It drove me crazy until I listened to someone recently who had an interesting guest on and at the end of the segment never even mentioned who the guest had been, just "Thanks for the interview!"

If this big disclosure is about Kerry cheating on one of his wives - it will go nowhere. That is accepted even admired in democrat circles now, thanks to the demon from Dogpatch.

Naw, it can't be that. Hannity's opinion was that it would keep him from ever attaining the White House. Maybe it was the flag-burning, if that really occurred.

[Yaelle]

Do you really think that a Democrat attending a flag burning would destroy their chances of becoming president?

You do have a point there. Sadly.

[woofie]

He has a metal plate in his head and periodically suffers halucinations in which he imagines he is Tinkerbelle

[longtermmemmory]

I think Bush's State of the Union lines about protecting marriage from homosexual invasion is a direct message to conservatives.

Remember, Bush did not actually make an executive fiat or directly order a bill. He basically openned the floor for a debate. Hassert has already said immigration reform is not going to be addressed this year.

I don't fee taken for granted. I guarantee conservatives shall be ignored by any of the 7 dwarves.

[HHFi]

Nobody else has mentioned this point in the article, so I guess I will: If you're a two-income family and you're facing bankruptcy, you are spending too damn much money. The last thing in the world that you need is a government run by Democrats, who will dream up even more new programs that have to be paid for with tax dollars that will be liposuctioned out of your paychecks, leaving you even closer to bankruptcy.

[edwin hubble]

"He'll get killed in the South. Won't carry a single state there.
No northeastern liberal is going to be president of the United States."

If everything remains the same (as 2000) Kerry will need Florida, and (because of the 2000 census in Texas) either W. Virginia or one other additional.

[edwin hubble]

"His natural horse face."


- Speaking of having a 'horse face'...joke follows -

OK..
Kerry walks into a bar.
Bartender says: "Why the long face?"