Posted on 08/27/2004 1:48:36 PM PDT by KevinFL
Lifelong Democrat and former New York Mayor Ed Koch tells Bill who he’s voting for in this presidential election, and the answer may surprise you! Don’t miss this.
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It'll be W. We already know that!
you never know these democrats are known to flip-flop
Ed Koch is da man. I really respect someone who goes against the flow and with his conscience. He describes himself as a "liberal with sanity". The unspoken insult here is that he obviously believes the rest are insane.
First time poster.
I sure respect Ed Koch for coming out for Bush. I hope he sticks with it.
I have to say, I don't really hate liberals - the sane ones. There's lots of room for debate with them about the direction of our society, the way to improve things for everyone, helping people who are down, helping businesses to create more jobs, environmental issues, etc.... There is lots of room for debate and, yes, even dissent. That's what a good opposition is for. I can compromise on a lot of issues involving taxes, government projects and the like, and even some welfare. That's all fine.
What I can't compromise on is the security of our nation. There isn't any room for compromise on that issue. There isn't any room for debating whether or not we should be allowed to win a huge war which was started against us by a barbaric and ignorant enemy. Ed Koch, I believe, agrees with the same thing.
I really respect liberals who come out and agree with this because they are the ones who best serve this country right now. The sad fact is that the Democrats have shifted over to the sheer lunacy of the radical Left who hate this country, don't want us to win a war, and don't care if we all die. Liberals who come out and denounce them for what they are, and denounce the Democrats for what they have become, I can only tip my hat to and admire.
They might be the opposition in many heated political debates, but at least they are still Americans and proud of it. That's what counts in my book.
The lunatic fringe shows the direction the party has gone, and sane Dems like Koch, Miller, ect. thankfully help to point it out. I have respect for FEW dims, but the ones who don't just tow the party line no matter what are OK in my book, too. Unfortunately, I can count them all on my fingers.
The way Oreilly's been lately, he'll probably try to talk Koch out of his position.
Better if he had appeared on another FOX show.
Britt Hume or Tony Snow.
Yes, it's really unfortunate that there are so few.
I know I'm on the Freep site and saying this might sound blasphemous, but I really wish they had more like Bill Clinton, and I'll tell you why (before you all flame me for such scurrilous remarks):
I didn't see Bill Clinton as being such a far Leftist as the base now seems to be. I know he screwed up in so many ways, and lied, and cheated, and screwed up some more and, heck, defamed the Presidency. But I don't believe that he was such a terrible President when you compare him to other Democrats now vying for position. Compare him, for a moment, to Jimmy Carter. Carter is a fool and a Leftist of the worst sort. Clinton was furious at one point with Carter for intervening with North Korea, to end us up with the mess we have today. Clinton did try to deal harshly with Saddam, but this country didn't have the political will to carry it forth. He said he would have supported the invasion of Iraq - even though he would have done it "differently" (a line, I suspect, to throw some platitudes to the worst now inhabiting his party).
I don't blame Clinton for the terrorism of 9/11, just as I don't blame former President Bush for not going all the way in Iraq in 1991. There was no political will for it and there was only so much that they could do.
The person I am most dissapointed in is Gore. He has been so full of venom, hate, and lies that it has taken his senses. Look at him ranting for the Deniac crowds of Leftist morons who think that Kucinich is a great choice if he were more "electable". Look at him comparing Bush to Hitler and Stalin. It is absolutely insane and we all know it.
Thankfully, Lieberman came out in defense of the war. I completely respect him for that. Yet look at what the Democrats did to him for saying it. Liberman has more balls than most of the Democratic party put together at this point in time.
It isn't hard at all to see where the Democratic stance is these days. I can't but surpress a smirk of noted irony when I hear Kerry support a "different" war, straddling the anti-war and pro-war fence. He knows that his base hates the war no matter how you slice it for them, and he knows that he can't win the majority of this country without actually saying he is a strong military leader. Clinton might say that he would have done things "differently", but he doesn't say one day that he would have gone in, and turn around and say the next day that we should never have gone in. (His wife is an entirely different matter, and I absolutely loathe her at this point)
I don't believe, for a moment, that Islam has been "hijacked" by extremists; I do believe that the Democratic party has been "hijacked" by Leftists or, even worse, simply invited in as a more motivated base. That was a huge mistake and one which the Democrats will pay for in huge losses in the future if they don't rectify it now. We are in a world war and it's time that they wake up and realize that cold and unpleasant fact before it comes to bite them in the ass.
I think Clinton WAS far left, but realized that to accomplish anything at all, he would need to compromise. Today's libs are so maniacally obsessed and agenda-driven, that I can't see them giving in. They're right, and they will bang their heads against the wall until someone else gives in, or they pass out. They (most) are truly emotionally ill, IMO. I give Lieberman credit, too. Try getting a far-left lib to even admit that there is a single decent Republican out there. They can't do it - blinded by hate.
I'm not so sure. Of course I disagreed with him on many Leftist issues, and I suppose that the problem with Clinton is that nobody can really know his mind since one of his great failings is that he is an habitual liar.
Still, he was far less Leftist than old Jimmy "Peanut". And I'll still give him points for not trying to say that Bush is Hitler and/or Stalin for going into Iraq. Honestly, any Democrat who doesn't come out and plainly say that Bush is just Evil Incarnate gets points in my book at this time.
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