Posted on 07/11/2004 5:41:54 PM PDT by Pikamax
RON REAGAN, JR. TO GIVE PRIMETIME SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ON STEM CELL RESEARCH, Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter tells ABC News' Dan Harris...
Why does anyone give a rat's butt what this disloyal twit has to say about anything?!
Yes, he and his beard will be headliners there.
As he speaks of Ronald Reagan not bringing his religion into politics, I sure hope at the Republican election they show a montage of President Reagan that especially shows he in fact never abandoned religion at all during his Presidency.
In fact, I hope they point this out to son by saying, "Some close to President Reagan claimed he never mentioned his faith in politics, but that was not so".
Then go into a montage of clips.
Good for the American people to see as well.
Well put.
Blah, blah, blah. These people always like to say they're independents. I don't care how someone is registered. The question is who they support, with their votes and their speech. Ron clearly intends to attack Bush and help Kerry, and in so doing, he betrays his father's legacy less than a year after his death. Any way you look at it, it's disgraceful. I'm sure part of his motivation is indeed to promote stem-cell research. But that's not all of it, by a long shot. He should have shown far more restraint, and should also find a better way to promote his supposed issue.
But again, he has more "issues" than that, in both senses of the word.
That assumes people see him as twit. Not everyone knows what we know. Some people will think Ron is really speaking for his father. Never underestimate the voters' stupidity.
It is a sure way to lose elections.
Your prediction is absurd. I'd suggest you come down to planet Earth and look at the facts.
One of those facts is that no president in modern American history has ever received 65 percent of the vote, which you predict for President Bush.
As for Kerry being "so far behind" ... you'll have to come up with a theory for why the polls are off by 10 points.
They rarely are. Sure, some polls oversample Dems and undersample Republicans. But the good polls show a close race. If Republicans continue to show the same complacency you have, or the same despair that some on FR have, we will indeed lose.
You are speaking of personal issues. I don't deny that she was very devoted to Reagan in a personal sense. And I don't deny that she conducted herself well during the week of mourning. So what? You are confusing the personal with the political, to an extent that I doubt your ability to understand politics at all.
RR's legacy is not about what Nancy did for him as a person, but about how his political achievements hold up over time. In that respect, I believe Nancy will be of little help. There is a long record to back that judgement up.
I remember when the RATs made fun of jr. and implied he was a homo. The pubs need to drag out some of those old quotes to run when the RATs show off their new boyfriend.
The jerk never voted Republican anyhow..he belongs over
with that hypocritical crowd....we'll take Del Miller at
our convention .....he probably voted against his own Dad..
He is another..opportunist....stem cell research just means
he has it to harp on....Ronald Regan would be taking the
stance on this like President Bush...you want to pepetuate
the horrors of abortion?..that's all that this is about...
young women would be on the market to give up their fetus
for a price...Jake
And your point is?
hahahaha ! Amen to that. RR2 the Troll !
Oh, I agree with you that the younger Reagan will vote for Kerry and he is betraying his father's legacy with his upcoming speech to the Democratic Convention. I don't know what happened to cause him to become like he is. The thing about it is he will only hurt himself. Bill Buckley had some choice words for the younger Reagan in Novak's column.
I sense a struggle within the younger Reagan's soul. His dad was a happy man but younger Reagan is not. I suggest that we all pray for him.
I think there are better people to pray for.
If Michael Moore's crazy film can fool some people, so can Ron Reagan and the inevitable media hype surrounding him.
We can't just assume that people will see through it or ignore it. We have to fight everything the Dems throw at us.
I am not despairing at all. I just think we'll have a damned tough race. We can win, if we work harder than ever and aren't complacent. Indeed, I believe that we will do these things, and therefore will win.
It is quite possible to win by a big margin in the electoral college based on narrow victories in many states. I think there is a chance of that happening for Bush. What will not happen is a blowout (57 percent or better) in the popular vote. Just not in the cards.
You cite Reagan '84, Bush '88, and Bush junior in '94.
I don't know which of these elections is the least like the one we face today, but all are quite different from it.
As for the post-Sept. 11 magic ... it was there two years ago or more, but it's long gone. Look at the polls concerning Iraq. Better yet, look at the polls in which people rate the most important issue facing the country.
Even granted that the real numbers are probably more favorable to Republican candidates and positions than the poll results would indicate, the issue rankings are rather discouraging. They tell me that lots of people would like to stick their heads in the sand and pretend we can turn the clock back 5 years to Clinton-style peacetime. Kerry is appealing very blatantly to this sentiment. It will undoubtedly work with more people than we'd like to expect. The question is whether we can counter it and get the American people to think and vote like adults.
Bush deserves a landslide, especially because of the extreme irresponsibility of the Democrats. But the liberal media and other Democratic forces and institutions are too powerful in this country to permit any more 60 percent landslides by conservative Republican presidential candidates. In addition, cultural and demographic trends have been running against us for decades.
Any political analyst, left, right, or center, would agree with the latter two statements. If you find a serious political analyst who doesn't, tell me. I'm all ears.
Bush has a new ad out. I don't know if you've seen it or not, but it just came on my TV a couple of minutes ago. It goes something like this:
"John Kerry has missed 2/3rds of all Senate votes this year. He missed a vote to lower health care costs by restricting frivolous lawsuits. He missed a vote to protect our troops. Yet he found time to vote against the Laci Peterson law, which protects pregnant women from violence. John Kerry has his priorities. Are they yours?"
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