Disenchanted Bush Voters Consider Crossing Over (Independent joins GOP in just two weeks time!)

NY Times ^ | 2.22.04

[Admin Moderator]

You read it here first: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20030612.shtml

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[neverdem]

BTTT, Can I ask how did you know how to do that? Did you have visions of Jason Blair? It's quite amazing.

[Neets]

I'll have to agree with you on that ST.

A classic example:

We have a visiting professor from a rather prestigious university with us this year...

He walked into our office the other day and joined in a conversation....he started by mocking The President and calling him names and then railing on about how all the President cares about is his tax breaks for his rich buddies and the quagmire and mess he made in Iraq ...(p.s...this professor didn't mention to the individual he was speaking to, that HIS salary is $150K+ a year)

[SpyderTim]

"...Mr. Bush...Mr. Bush...Mr. Bush...Mr. Bush..."

Mind you, that's PRESIDENT BUSH to you, Ms. Rosenthal.

[Triple Word Score]

I would like to see statistics on how many servicemen and women would have died if they were home on leave instead of in Iraq.

I'm willing to bet it's statistically safer to be serving your country in Iraq than home on the interstate.

If we had done a survey of Americans right after 9/11 and asked them how many American military personnel would die in the war to come, to avenge the WTC and the Pentagon, I bet no one would have DREAMED the number would be as LOW as 500 by this point...or that we would have successfully captured Saddam Hussein, killed his lousy sons, and most probably killed Osama Bin Laden (he's certainly been ineffective since we took Afghanistan away from the Taliban, even if he isn't dead.)

500 servicemen and women dead...but we have made tremendous gains getting there!

And if the economy isn't Barbie's Dream Economy, I do not see the street full of starving children with bloated bellies. We don't have any idea how freaking GOOD we have it.

[jern]

great catch

[the Real fifi]

ambrose--you darling--the NYT has done this repeatedly--send this to their ombudsman and to andrewsullivan.com and instapundit.com--this is too good to be for our eyes only..I beg you.It's your scoop--run with it.

[bootless]

Great catch, ambrose!

I was not at all surprised to see that it was the NYT splashing this story around. Seminar interviewees, eh?

"Hi Rush, I'm a life-long rock-ribbed Republican Christian Conservative, but I'm not going to vote for Bush this year because {insert DU propaganda}."

I highly doubt these are actual Republicans they're talking to.

[longtermmemmory]

NYT with the stay home white whale editor.

[GeronL]

That wouldn't be this Bill Flanagan would it?

[GeronL]

this one

retired newspaper man

[bootless]

Exactly, Sabertooth! They've got the wrong talking points.

Oops.

[ambrose]

BTTT, Can I ask how did you know how to do that? Did you have visions of Jason Blair? It's quite amazing.

Whenever you see some media article quoting a "Republican" who is slamming Bush, using Democrat Talking Points, look up the so-called Republican's name via google or Open Secrets...

[Triple Word Score]

btw, I was so incensed by the article that I missed your comment--you're BRILLIANT. Wow.

[Neets]

While sharing a sandwich at the stylish Beachwood Mall in this Cleveland suburb, one older couple ? a judge and a teacher ? reluctantly divulged their secret: though they are stalwarts in the local Republican Party, they are planning to vote Democratic this year.

How many CSeminarPAN Callers do you hear calling in WITH this line?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

It's really scary to think that these disenchantees are voting,let alone operating heavy machinery. Logic and facts are AWOL, just the DNC and MSM talking points caroming around their brains.I'm sure they also think Dick Cheney runs Halliburton.

[livius]

Yes, I think it's a Moby.

[bootless]

Re: servicemen and women dying while home on leave.

Anyone know the homicide count for Detroit or Chicago (both Dem cities) for 2003? I'll bet it was higher than 500.

Traffic accidents? Way higher than 500.

[ambrose]

You nailed it on the head...

Blabbering about Haliburton is a dead giveaway that we're dealing with a "Moby Republican"...

[section9]

I will tell you right now that this story is happy horseshit.

The editors probably consulted with some power hour types in Washington, either on the Kerry Campaign or at the DNC. This week's meme is "Kerry is getting surprising support from dissatisfied Republicans". Watch; this will be picked up by other papers, beginning with those rags (such as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune or the PB Post) that are owned by the Times Company.

The Republicans who are wobbly on Bush right now have been your basic RINO's, the Jeffords types. I strongly suspect that our friends quoted here, especially the one quoted twice on two different days, were antiwar Republicans from the getgo.

Be Seeing You,

Chris