Click for the entire CouNTeRPuNcH Collection
Political Parodies and more
www.counterpunch.us
Posted on 08/28/2004 9:45:36 AM PDT by beckaz
George W. Bush is getting a little bump in the public-opinion polls. He may win, but it will be in spite of himself. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth finally put a little pizzazz in the president's re-election campaign, breaking Democratic momentum at just the right moment, and the president thanks them by threatening to sue if they don't stop it. Republicans don't do politics. It's a game they don't really understand. The soul of the party, such as it is, resides in the corporate boardroom. Republican strategists think like CEOs: When the going gets tough, curtsy and apologize. The veterans, who are not necessarily Republicans, are undeterred by sniper fire. They posted another commercial late yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I am voting for Bush, but only because I am terrified of Kerry and the Rats.
Bush's signing of outrageous McCain Feingold was a direct assault on the First Amendment, and he should never be forgiven for it. I expect better from Republicans.
No argument from me.
Agreed. And add to that his rediculous pharmacy legislation for the elderly, one more entitlement we will have to be burdened with; and the craziness on immigration reform or lack thereof, etc.
Bush has my vote, but I have to admit that if Lieberman or even Zel Miller was put up as a Dem candidate, I would have probably jumped. This 'centering' of the party is going to be the end of it. Bring on the Constitution party or a reformed Libertarian party ... I think the GOP is loosing it lately.
And yes, PS, thank you swiftboat vets for saving this race for our candidate - our apologies for his lack of gratitude.
I support both Bush and Sharon. Both are flawed and have committed grievous errors, but look at the alternatives!
My take is that Pres. Bush's responses are carefully calculated politically, and that the swiftvets know that.
In theory, they are not supposed to care one way or the other if the President thanks them.
In fact, a thank-you could be used as a sign of complicity....the same as would a "cease and desist" order.
The sole defining issue of this presidential election is this; who would you rather have in the White House when it comes to nominating possibly three Supreme Court Justices? Kerry or Bush?
I can't imagine what 9/11 or the aftermath would have been like under a President "Gore".
The Republicans have an impossible task.... fighting the Democrats. There is just an complete absence of FIGHT on the Republican side of the aisle.
Frustrated beyond belief.
KAREN HUGHES, KAREN HUGHES, KAREN HUGHES
The emperor IS naked people! geez.. stop trying to say this was some "clever plan" on Bush's part.. it WASN'T clever, it was stupid and rude. Yes, I'm a Republican, Yes I will vote for Bush again but he is not only shooting himself in the foot, but dishonoring the vets and the rest of America by not letting free speech stand on its own merits. Bush is a good man but he isn't a smart man, and this just clinches it... Conservatives are always complaining that the libs never let anyone have a differing opinion, well let's see if it works both ways..flame away.
Paraphrasing the late Lee Atwater, the Bush team need "to strip the bark off of Kerry and make Michael Moore his running mate."
They need to expose the extreme radicalism that the Kerry Kamp represents as well as Kerry's own history of treason.
But Bush wants to play nice and hopes his adversaries will respond in kind. That may work with most of the kids in kindergarten, but not the bully. And this ain't kindergarten; this is a street fight and the stakes are the no less than the survival of America as we know it.
Okay, maybe some hyperbole, but not much.
AGREE COMPLETELY!
Bush doesn't deserve my vote, but I could never vote for a traitor like Kerry.
"Bush has my vote, but I have to admit that if Lieberman or even Zel Miller was put up as a Dem candidate, I would have probably jumped."
Lieberman fawned at being "chosen" by Gore!
No matter who is "put up" as a Dem candidate, it will be the hard core Radical Left that will control the agenda of the Presidency, should that candidate be elected.
People who believe that any candidate can succeed in being nominated who does not toe the line on the Radical Left's agenda are being far too trusting of the liberty in the hands of those who would lead us back to tyranny.
Pardon. That should be "far too trusting of THEIR liberty...."
Bush is wrong on the First Amendment but he right on killing jihadists. Killing jihadists trumps his 1A digressions for now but he should hear from all of us that he and McCain should keep their grubby little hands off of free speech.
If that is a true statement, the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government have been destroyed by an out-of-control judiciary. We should have long ago restricted power of judges by impeachment and removal from office and outright defiance of their screwball pronouncements.
JUDGES DO NOT MAKE THE LAW! We should be demanding impeachments of runaway leftist federal judges from the district courts on up. They do not stand for election and are operating outside the Constitution in judicial tyranny, overturning laws passed by those who really were elected by the people.
A President can thumb his nose at the Supreme Court and challenge them to enforce their own rewriting of the laws. The President controls the military. What's a judge going to say if a President announces he won't support or enforce this criminal distortion of judicial power? If the only reason we should vote for a presidential candidate is appointment of judges sympathetic to a particular politics, our system is finished. Cowards have let judges run our lives. Brave men have to take our liberty back and end the tyranny.
Bush is not impotent or blameless. He, in fact, signed all these budget-busting laws that have expanded the growth of the government far beyond Bill Clinton.
There is an alternative. It's ugly but it has always been there. We take back this government and slay the bureaucratic monster stealing our property and liberty from us.
Bush is genuinely upset by the Swiftboat vet issue. This is populism which threatens the elites' control of the debate. Bush and Kerry are part of the same club. They are not populists who really want grass roots involvement in policy.
Neither major party is a friend of liberty or the average American.
A stated goal of this web site is to limit government. How can we achieve that with Bush being one of the worst offenders?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.