Posted on 07/09/2004 10:03:14 PM PDT by dts32041
">Edwards to Iraq? Before he announced his presidential candidacy last year, Edwards declared aggressive action against Iraq was needed because weapons of mass destruction were there. Like John Kerry, Edwards voted for the war resolution but against the $87 billion bill funding the conflict. MCCAIN'S CONCERNS Sen. John McCain, whose enthusiastic endorsement is being used in a television ad for George W. Bush, is privately advising colleagues that the president is not in good shape politically and faces an uphill fight for re-election. McCain tells fellow senators that he is particularly concerned about his own state of Arizona, where he feels Sen. John Kerry will be hard to defeat. Although all polls show President Bush still ahead in Arizona, the White House has long been worried about retaining the state because of the rising Latino vote there. Losing Arizona would cast a cloud over the president's national prospects. A footnote: Moderate Republican senators grumble that some longtime contributors are refusing their usual contribution to the Republican presidential campaign. Their biggest grievance: Bush's endorsement of the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment. FLORIDA CONCERNS Florida Republicans fret that they will find it difficult to blast Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards for being a trial lawyer opposed to tort reform when Senate candidate Mel Martinez has been a prominent Florida trial lawyer himself. Martinez in the late 1980s was president of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and fought against a state cap on punitive damages. Edwards was an officer of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. The problem facing the GOP is that attacks on Edwards in other states will be turned against Martinez if he wins the Aug. 31 primary. The former secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Martinez was urged by the White House to run for the Senate. A footnote: Florida Republicans also are worried that the new voting machines may gave Sen. John Kerry some 15,000 votes that Al Gore lost in 2000 because of "overvotes." Those are people who voted for more than one candidate, thereby disqualifying themselves. AIDS IN VIETNAM President Bush did not please his social conservative constituency by deciding to send anti-AIDS money to Vietnam, a communist country that funds abortion with government money. While Bush had targeted the money for 14 countries, Congress adopted a Democratic proposal mandating a 15th state. It stipulated that the country could not be in the Caribbean or Africa, where governments tend to be socially conservative and advocate sexual abstinence to combat AIDS. Vietnam was selected as the 15th country even though it failed to meet U.S. criteria, such as commitment to human rights and religious freedom. VEGAS HOLIDAY Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, one of the most powerful appropriators in Congress, is soliciting Washington lobbyists for a four-day September "weekend in Las Vegas" at the deluxe Bellagio Hotel. The cost for the holiday: $2,500 per political action committee, $1,500 per individual. The money goes to Rogers's political action committee (HALPAC) for distribution to other candidates. That money could fuel a future bid for House Appropriations chairman by Rogers, who is now fourth-ranking Republican on the committee. Beginning with dinner on Friday Sept. 17, the weekend hits high gear Saturday with golf, cocktails and a showing of Cirque du Soleil's "O." A brunch is scheduled for Sunday with the weekend concluding at Monday's fund-raising breakfast.
Robert Novak July 10, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Tentative plans are being discussed inside the Kerry-Edwards campaign to send vice-presidential candidate John Edwards to Iraq as soon as possible.
Edwards has not gone to Iraq since the U.S. invasion last year. His visit there would be designed to try to fill the senator's lack of experience in national security policy. It also would provide the campaign with photo opportunities showing Edwards in close contact with U.S. troops in Iraq.
©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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Novak is reduced to a gossip columnist.
He's gonna get burned in this Joe Wilson thing.
Gee, what an uplifting load of, um, um, information...yeah, that's it, information.
With friends like Novak, who needs enemas...
This actually pisses me off.
Send Edwards ? Kerry hasn't been there yet...
What the heck is Kerry gunna do when Edwards reports back that things are going better than what's being reported ?
Maybe Kerry and Edwards could see if they can find their way to THE JOBS THEY ARE BEING PAID FOR IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
I must be getting old. It's getting more difficult to read the text on this forum.
News is that Edwards is going in search of all those freedom fighters his buddy Michael keeps telling him about.
Irgaq would provide a graet photo backdop for Edwards to explain to the wildly cheering troops why he thinks F9/11 is his favorite movie.
Not anymore ridiculous than he looked allowing Kerry to fawn over him with his hands. Those photos will become more well known than Dukakis'.
Or why he voted against the 87 billion.
Fat chance of that happening.
LOL!
Imagine, a ticket with the two most liberal senators -- and the two who have missed more days in the Senate than all the rest combined!
--- President Bush did not please his social conservative constituency by deciding to send anti-AIDS money to Vietnam---
I'm pleased.
This thing about Edwards doing a photo-op to Iraq might be very good for us. Consider that Edwards was never in the military and never took the opportunity to visit Iraq or Afghanistan, as far as I know, even though as a Senator he could go there at almost any time.
I don't think I'm the only one who is sick of Novak's doom and gloom about Republicans.
That's what I want to hear him being asked by soldier after soldier after soldier after soldier...with an equal number of "Hey, kid, ask that Kerry guy why he didn't want to help us either. What's with you millionaires anyway?"
John Edwards: The political equivalent of breast implants.
Neither was Michael Moore
What the heck is Kerry gunna do when Edwards reports back that things are going better than what's being reported?
The information will be suppressed until after the election (just as 1992 was "the worst economy in 50 years/President Bush is cooking the books", and after "it wasn't so bad as it looked").
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