Posted on 08/02/2004 8:19:08 AM PDT by KMC1
Declaring that "America needs continuity in such tough and challenging times," St. Paul Minnesota Mayor Randy Kelly has joined the swelling ranks of elected Democrat officials and is backing Republican President George W. Bush for re-election.
"The President and I do not agree on a lot of issues, but in turbulent times what the American people need more than anything is continuity of government even with some imperfect policies," said Mayor Kelly.
Kelly follows the lead of former two term governor from the state of Georgia, United States Senator Zell Miller.
Miller appeared on "Meet The Press" on Sunday declaring that "the democratic party had gone so far too the left that democrats can't even win statewide offices in the south anymore."
"The reason being," the senator said, "because they are so closely aligned with the national democratic leadership."
Miller went on to assert that most Georgian democrats support his views that President Bush is taking and will take the war on terror seriously.
"Americans would rather be fighting the terrorists there, than on the streets of America," Miller stated.
Fellow United States Senator, Minnesota's Norm Coleman said the actions of Miller and more importantly Mayor Kelly demonstrated "bi-partisanship at its finest."
When you couple the fact that actual elected, sitting, democrats are the ones making these statements - and getting good press time doing it (KARE 11 TV), with the new results of the USAToday/CNN/Gallup polls that show Bush gaining close to a five point bump following Kerry's speech. (And if you stay within the Gallup poll since the beginning of July - Bush has bumped 10 points.)
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
Kerry's negative convention bounce...
but they still needed to be INTRODUCED to John Effin.
Look at me! I'm a giant blueberry popsickle!!!
I hope the Pubbies have a good plan in place to counter any NJ type "Torch" moves by the Dems, say like replacing Kerry with a different candidate between now and Nov.
LOL! Then they sure as heck blew a wad of money for a useless convention, didn't they? Well, I guess it makes sense - they nominated a useless candidate.
This is just the beginning of the trend of Democrats rejecting the liberals and supporting President Bush. The Democrats need to remember it not unpatriotic or unethical to switch alliances if that's closer to what they believe in. I just can't believe that most Democrats can be that far to the left like Kerry and Edwards? Their party is crumbling before their feet and I believe most Democrats are now seeing it.
We're melting......melting!!
Rep. Kahn accused of taking GOP fliers
Dane Smith, Star Tribune
July 23, 2004 KAHN0723
State Rep. Phyllis Kahn, a 32-year veteran from Minneapolis and a key figure in the DFL House caucus, was stopped by New Hope police earlier this week after a citizen complained that she was removing a Republican House member's campaign literature from doorsteps and replacing it with a DFL opponent's material.
The case has been referred to the Anoka County attorney's office for possible charges, officials said.
I don't give a hoot about the polls at this point, after all the Republicans haven't had their convention, and the debates are yet to come.
BUT, every elected Democrat or previously "famous" Dem that openly supports Bush will have a major impact, IMHO.
Each of these Dems were elected by Dems and they will have influence int he minds of the voters that elected them. Influence that would not be otherwise felt by the Bush campaign alone.
Surely you don't mean... 
A ten point bump for either candidate based upon one or two politicians' comments is highly suspect and almost certainly worthless.
Maybe so. Let's see what happens after the R convention and into the homestretch of the election season. The momentum seems to be on Bush's side coming out of the D convention.
I have to give the dems credit for their foresight, however. They have no platform, stand for trivial and vague issues, have the worst possible national candidate, yet managed to make a race out of this election based solely on hatred of the opponent. That wouldn't have been possible, however, without the massive assistance of the media.
Yeah. I'd probably switch parties and vote for Miller if he was in an election.
Man hired to round up pesky chickens in Key West quits his post
By Associated Press
Monday, August 2, 2004
KEY WEST, Fla. - The man hired to rid this resort city of its prolific and unabashed chickens quit his post, saying city leaders were not committed to the cause.
Parra said the city issued "chicken lists'' telling him which poultry to capture. He said the birds' wanderings made his job impossible.
"You either catch them or you don't,'' Parra said. ``This thing about getting designated chickens in designated areas, that's impossible.'
AWESOME PIC! Passed it on.
I really like our chances at this point.
I think the Reps exaggerated the expected Kerry convention bump on purpose, just to rub their noses in a smaller gain.
Everything about Kerry is artificial, I suspect even his poll numbers are inflated by any way possible.
And I would just as soon see shrillery get on the ballot and be defeated and sent away this year rather than 2008 if it comes to that.
Keep introducing and reintroducing Lurch, its helping us because people just dont like him.
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