Did Tom Daschle get to answer any questions with his favorite three words?
"Nyet!! Nyet!! Nyet!!"
Posted on 09/19/2004 5:05:29 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 19th, 2004
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and former Rep. John Thune, his Republican challenger for re-election.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke; Sept. 11 commission vice chairman Lee Hamilton; Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi; Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Joseph Biden, D-Del.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Reps. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., and Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger; Spanish Ambassador Carlos Westendorp.
Those dems are going to rue the day they started invoking those crockuments.
He was pretty proud that the greens were deprived of their candidate.
Well, I am definitely going to change my vote for Kerry now. /sarcasm
This is where Thune needs to come out and say "YS, I do belive he gives comfort to the enemy, Yes Tim I do!!" End of story.
Tom is now deeply saddened
Juan got popped by Brit Hume again! heh heh. I think Mara would really like to take Juan's side but she knows in this CBS incident there is no credability from the CBS side. I wish she would stop wearing jackets all the time. Looks like the source of her coughing is pretty ample.
"Did TD actually say -- "I am deeply disappointed"?? That whole spiel he went through was a complete parody of himself!
A real man would have stood up and knocked Thune off his chair for that. Instead little Tommy just blubbered and hid behind his momma.
I just witnessed Daschles' MTP Moment of Truth. Sans voter fraud, his goose is cooked.
I was expecting a "gosh, golly gee tim.... heaven's to betsy, jimminy crickets and goodness gracious...." as well.
i was actually deeply disappointed to only get a "deeply disappointed" :)
It's the first time I have ever actually seen him, though I have been hearing about him for months. I was just giving an off-the-cuff first impression.
As long as he beats Daschle, he's okay with me.
Anyone notice that on Meet The Press today he went over the state polls that are battleground. He only reported on the red states all of which the President has a lead in. I found it interesting that he did not mention any of the blue states that Gore carried in the last election.
Good point podguy911. Overall, this was a fine debate. One could only wish that the President and Skerry would do as well. There are several weaknesses of Thule as a candidate but none are blatantly obvious. Daschle reveals himself as vulnerable on several issues. As far as the demeanor of both candidates it was respectful and reasoned; however, Daschle tried his best to fake sadness and tearfulness when discussing how he felt unfairly attacked on Iraq. He failed. Politicians should learn faking sincerity is extremely difficult since human nature has hard wired tuning to detect insincerity.
Rather than go over the present performance, I think it wise to look to the future. The real excitement in the debate (IMHO)came when discussing Federal Judges. Someone (preferably a 527) has to point out that the judiciary has been disenfranchising both the electorate and the Congress by their judicial fiats. In almost the same breath one has to portray Daschle as treacherously undermining judicial nominees in favor of liberal group think by using the filibuster. And, to top this off point out only Daschle, as majority and minority leader, has used this in the entire 200 plus years of the US Senate.
The whole idea is to focus adds onto issues that overtly pay and also covertly pay by casting a pall over Daschle's integrity and character. Humans are social animals and over hundreds of thousands of years have been wired for the absolute necessity of transparency and honesty in difficult situations. The judicial nominees fit this perfectly.
Another issue that fits in this vein is the one over the War in Iraq. It is wounding for Daschle to be labeled as "cutting and running." If I were Thune I would point out again, again and again he voted for the War and has done everything possible, including virtually declaring our defeat, to defeat us in war. Again, human nature, especially in small groups, values aggressive pursuit of self-interest and treasures loyalty to the cause. By focusing on the duplicity of Daschle on the war, Thune would focus on Daschle's weakness--treacherous action on the basis of political expediancy and gaining power.
All said, the best avenue of an attack on Daschle would be the judicial nominee one. The war issue may be tricky and has to be used sparingly but forthrightly where necessary.
Russert said they'd have polls on blue states tomorrow on NBC Nightly News w/Brokaw.
You are right about that one. It's going to be an all out assault on Iraq. That's about all the Dimwits have left. Of course, the insurgent know it too. If they can cause enough trouble between now and 11/2 then they have a real chance to get rid of W once for all.
did anyone watch Fox this morning?? I thought I WAS watching CNN...the guy on there talking about how terrible awful disgusting bad bad mean mean losing 10 years cant win gotta stay etc etc about Iraq .. He was a Fox security "contributor" she said....he ranted for 10 minutes about what a MESS we are in, our troops, bush gotta level etc etc.....I almost fainted... WHO was this guy and why was he on such a tear and WHY didnt anyone on Fox ( only that girl was questioning him ) challenge his comments??
Brit really took Juan to the woodshed today. It was almost too brutal to watch, but not quite.:)
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