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Bush Twins Get a Little Payback in Prime Time
New York Times ^
| 09/01/04
| JODI WILGOREN
Posted on 08/31/2004 11:30:11 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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I thought the Bush twins speech was on target for the audience they were trying to reach --- 18-29 year olds (females, in particular). Their pop culture references seem to have gone over some people's heads here, but it's exactly what those folks understand -- the twins were speaking their language. They meant no disrespect for their grandmother Barbara with their Sex in the City joke --- the looks on their grandparents faces prove they knew it.
Anyway, this article's not that bad for the Slimes.
To: conservative in nyc
She hated that joke; don't ask me how; I just know.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:33:00 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
To: conservative in nyc
"For a coming-out party, the girls were notably underdressed:" I'll bet you ten bucks that the NYT's never noted in print that the Kerry daughter's "coming-out" party in Cannes included wearing a totally see-through dress. TALK about underdressed!
To: Howlin
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:34:49 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: Howlin
"Alexandra, briefly stole the show with at the Democratic convention in July." Well I declare, I would just bet there are some NYT's staffers on this forum tonight. It sure sounds like the same material!
To: conservative in nyc
I thought the Bush twins speech was on target for the audience they were trying to reach --- 18-29 year olds (females, in particular). I dunno. My wife is 25 and she was highly annoyed by the Bush daughters. She said (and I quote), "God! They sound like a couple of airheads!"
Now bear in mind that my wife is as Conservative and Republican as they come (she's the daughter of a U.S. Marine) and she thinks the world of the President and First Lady. The same goes for me, yet I have to agree with my wife. I thought the Bush daughters was a low point in the convention...a real let-down after Governor Schwarzenegger's say-it-loud-say-it-proud speech.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:38:59 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
To: cyborg
Everyone should be talking about Arnold's great speech and Laura's genuine account, instead their talking about the Bush twins. It was an extremely bad PR move to let these girls speak.What was the RNC thinking?They should now by move the Republican can not make zero mistakes.First Bush's statement yesterday and the twins today.I am disappointed.We have the lead lets not hand it back to the Dem's
To: patriciamary
Sorry for my errors,they should know by now!
To: patriciamary
Effin' isn't going to get a bump thanks to the Bush twins. Trust me.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:44:01 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cyborg
The media will jump on anything that they can to put a negative spin on it!Then they are relentless.
To: patriciamary
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:47:18 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cyborg
Do you mean that Kerry will not benefit from the twins? Sorry, I don't understand your comment.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:48:40 PM PDT
by
Kay
To: patriciamary
His statement that we will never be able to win with ALL the terrorists? That they'll be around until the end of time?
Who didn't know that.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:49:45 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
To: conservative in nyc
I missed it because I was on my way to work. Read the transcripts and didn't see anything to silly. A little cutsie but thats it. I think some folks are blowing this out of proportion.
Of course I'm biased. They are pretty darn cute ;)
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:50:29 PM PDT
by
kb2614
( You have everything to fear, including fear itself. - The new DNC slogan)
To: Kay
exactly what I meant... I hear the sucking sound of Kerry's poll numbers.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:50:42 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: patriciamary
"It was an extremely bad PR move to let these girls speak. What was the RNC thinking?"
That the growing numbers of college students actually tuning in to politics might want to hear someone from their own generation speak?
To: Prime Choice
I dunno. My wife is 25 and she was highly annoyed by the Bush daughters. She said (and I quote), "God! They sound like a couple of airheads!"
That's exactly the point. Today was a day for breaking the tired stereotypes on who is or should be a Republican. You had a self-made Austrian immigrant who came here with nothing yet made millions in acting and real estate before becoming governor of Cal-e-for-nee-ya. He tried to explain why legal immigrants and every-day hard-working Americans should be Republicans. You had the "Clueless" twins breaking the stereotype that all young Republicans are stiff, stuck up aristocrats, to get the youth vote. And you had First Lady Laura Bush trying to explain mainly to women voters why President Bush isn't an evil warmonger. Today's speeches weren't really directed toward the Republican base; they were meant to reach out to swing voters and women.
To: cyborg
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:53:04 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
To: conservative in nyc
I thought they were irreverent, fresh, energizing, and full of everything we all felt when we were twenty-one, and thought that we owned the world.
I'm glad they were there.
I've followed these threads and read all the criticism of the Bush twins, and it struck me that they call it the Grand OLD Party for a reason.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:54:26 PM PDT
by
Luis Gonzalez
( Even Jane Fonda apologized. Will you, John?)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Good point. But "Sex in the city" is such crap.
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posted on
08/31/2004 11:56:20 PM PDT
by
Kay
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