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Key Republicans offering boost for Kerry over Bush
Ex-administration official joins McCain, Hagel
trivalleyherald ^
| 03/23/04
| Jim VandeHei
Posted on 03/23/2004 8:01:17 PM PST by Pikamax
Edited on 07/09/2004 12:51:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign is getting an unexpected boost from an unlikely bunch: former Bush administration officials and congressional Republicans.
In the past week, GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Chuck Hagel (Neb.) have broken ranks and defended Kerry against President Bush's assertion that the Massachusetts senator is weak on national defense.
(Excerpt) Read more at trivalleyherald.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: gwb2004; hagel; mccain; pauloneill; richardclarke
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:01:18 PM PST
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
The problem with some conservatives "holding Bush's feet to the fire" is that they don't stop with the hot foot, they use a flame thrower.
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:04:11 PM PST
by
Texasforever
(I am all flamed out.)
To: Pikamax
Washington Post writer. Figures.
To: Texasforever
BUMP
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:07:37 PM PST
by
GrandMoM
(GOD is working in secret, behind the scenes even when it looks like nothing will ever change! JM)
To: All
I wish the people of Arizona would give McLame the boot already...
To: Admin Moderator; Pikamax
Jim VandeHei, Washington Post Speaking of WP/LAT - this probably needs to be excerpted under the settlement even though it's at another paper too.(I did the same thing the other day)
To: Pikamax
All losers!
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:11:44 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Pikamax
This article reads like it's designed to incite firther infighting.
AKA - Bait.
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:13:58 PM PST
by
Tempest
(Don't blame me, I'm voting for Bush.)
To: Pikamax
What's with Hagel? We all know about McManiac.
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:17:54 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Pikamax
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:23:05 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Eva
Zell Miller.
The lone voice in a "National Party No More".
Zell gets it. Flip Flop Wishy Wash Republicans will fall from favor. The Democrats are the proof.
Here in PA Spechter is in trouble.He deserves to be.
I'm voting in the Republican Primary for Pat Toomey. He's conservative.
Conservative Republicans win.
To: Pikamax
Hagel, a maverick Republican with a reputation similar to McCain's for speaking his mind (Boldface mine)Media Bias Alert!
McCain is terminally bitter about losing the 2000 nomination to Bush. He takes frequent, strategic jabs at Dubya, and liberals just love him. The word maverick is a secret code word the media uses for 'Defecting Republican'.
It's funny, I don't seem to remember Zell Miller being referred to as a maverick lately. Darnedest thing.
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:33:10 PM PST
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: Starve The Beast
I'm used to McCain's act, but I find Hagel to be an especially worthless POS. It infuriates me to hear that bum criticize the president, again and again. On foreign policy, Hagel appears to be an out and out left wing idiot.
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:49:13 PM PST
by
Williams
To: Pikamax
McCain is a backstabber. What a piece of..... He is being petty over 2000. He is also ramping for 2008.
With friends like McCain who needs enemies.
To: Pikamax
LOL I doubt Jeff Flake of all people, one of the premier members of the RLC, is going to become a Kerry supporter any time soon. Sure Kerry is complaining about the cost too, but that's where their similarity ends. Kerry wanted to spend 2x as much - Flake wanted to spend ZERO!
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posted on
03/24/2004 8:52:06 AM PST
by
adam_az
(Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
To: longtermmemmory
"He is also ramping for 2008."
He's too sick to run again. It'll never happen. That skin cancer keeps coming back on the side of his face.
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posted on
03/24/2004 8:53:28 AM PST
by
adam_az
(Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
To: smoothsailing
Conservative Republicans can't win in PA if you don't do something about the voter fraud. I remember that Gore even won Montgomery County, the most heavily Republican Co. in the state, up until that day. Coincidently, Montgomery Co used the same touch screen voting programs as Philadelphia, which were designed by a man who had already served time for voter fraud in another state.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:17:12 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Starve The Beast
Actually the word maverick fits in one regard.
The word "maverick" has bovine connotations.
And we all know what bovines are full of.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:21:36 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
To: smoothsailing
This is a pre-emptive strike against Zell Miller endorsing GW Bush for President. WP leftist reporter trying to say Republicans are split and not united.
I am one of those conservative Republicans who have ripped the President on the spending and CFR but this 9/11 Commission as well as the Dems and leftist attacks on Bush have made me want to go out and campaign for GW Bush again.
These attacks on Bush are only going to embolden his conservative base not make it weak.
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posted on
03/24/2004 3:27:47 PM PST
by
truthandlife
("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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