Posted on 07/15/2004 6:16:26 AM PDT by Pokey78
New Tagline! "Democrats have stood their own arguments on their heads so often that they now stand for nothing"
NFP
Steyn ping
Tom Cruise ?
Depressed? Consider who guides the universe. Has He not been faithful throughout the ages of time?
Revelations says there will be ½ hour of silence in heaven. Could that be the "ah-hah" moment when we finally see the His grand plan of history and all our worries and questions are silenced?
I don't think much of that mystery. Being a writer and an on air personality are fundamentally different. While amazingly efficient and prolific, he obviously carefully prunes every words and phrase to exactly perfect ideal. That wouldn't necessarily translate well into on air. By the same token, I don't think much of the writing of most on air personalities. They are by and large very shallow as far as writing goes.
Wow. This has to be mandatory reading for all concerned Pubs and Indies. PTL
Yes, it's possible but not likely. remember, Republicans are much more likely to go to the polls than Democrats.
Look at it this way: what states will Kerry get that Gore did not? Ohio? No way. Florida? Nope, Bush is up there. WVA? Bush is up there. AR? TN? No and nope. Name one state Kerry will get that Gore did not.
There is a better chance of a Bush landslide than of a Bush defeat. If Bush is ahead the last week, a lot of the independents will jump on his side, because they want to vote for a winner. Can you say 325-350 electoral votes?
I was going on 15 at the time of Nixon/McGovern. I still remember the commercials citing that McGovern would cut the military by 1/3. Even with Viet Nam winding down, if I can still remember that, it is probably a safe bet to say that the majority of Americans thought that would not be a bright thing to do.
-PJ
Thanks so much for the ping, Pokey! I love it, love it, love it! This article is just a classic, and should be sent around to everybody to read. Please note my shiny new tagline.
Say what, now? Care to run that one by me again?
...Good on yer and the post, and a ping...
I've been saying this for weeks. Blacks aren't going to the polls for Kerry the way they did for their Brother Clintoon.
One thing -- and perhaps the only thing -- that Bush II and Clinton share, is the common touch. And that's what it takes to get real voter turnout, especially in a close election.
When lefties were calling Clinton the nation's first black president, I think that was just their way of saying that he had that common touch. It was also an indirect tribute to black racism. As more and more cities with large black populations started voting in black mayors, a large if indeterminate proportion of blacks decided that there should be no more white mayors, and thus that they should not be voting for white candidates. That's what happened in New York; blacks simply refused to recognize that Rudy Giuliani was mayor, just as they had long refused to recognize whites in the roles of social workers, teachers, and police officers. But they liked Clinton, so they essentially said, "We don't even think of you as a white boy."
...Great line, agreed. But, take it as Kerry cusing out the nuts that couldn't get him elected...
Richard Gere.
If people all around you vilify you, and you say nothing, most observers will take that to be an admission of guilt. This election will be a referendum on the media, more than it will be one on John Kerry or even Goerge Bush.
LOL! Willie and his AFL-CIO/Luddite bozo pals are really working the playbook here aren't they?
Emma,
Part of John (the younger)'s Two Americas Speech had a hypothetical potrait of a young girl without a winter-coat whose parents had to choose between food and clothing. It's a lawyer's fantasy world, where a hand-me down coat isn't available at Goodwill, or where stacks of warm sweaters for under 10 dollars at WalMart don't exist. And whose fault is it that we have Two Americas? Big Bad Republicans, of course.
One has to wonder how many employees suffered at the various companies that Edwards bilked out of millions upon millions as an ambulance-chaser. Or maybe he didn't think those judgements against the corporations he sued would effect their bottom line. After all, in his America, it's all about the noble worker vs. the evil elite. And the lawyer who makes 29 million over four years while a poor girl goes without a wintercoat.
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