I would like more social conservatives in the lineup, but this is hardly the disaster some are trying to portray:
Monday, August 30, 2004
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani
- Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
- First Lady Laura Bush
- Secretary of Education Rod Paige
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
- Mrs. Lynne Cheney
- Vice President Dick Cheney
- Senator Zell Miller (D-GA)
Thursday, September 2, 2004
- Governor George Pataki
- President George W. Bush
5 or 6 social libs, 5 or 6 social conservatives (unsure about Paige).
These are the primetime speakers, not the day speakers.
I would like to have Keyes in there or Santorum frankly. I would like another STAUNCH conservative in the lineup.
But at the same time, it isn't like all the speakers are liberals.
Pataki is the missing link in this. what is he doing there just ahead of Bush? he has no national appeal, he is unknown outside NY, he is not a particularly great speaker.
We would have been better off with Powell in that slot just before Bush - nationally, he's probably got the highest favorable rating of any Republican.
Paige is a decent man.
Seems loyal to President Bush.