Posted on 10/04/2004 7:07:30 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina
These leftists don't seem to take the evil of Saddam seriously. In fact, they don't take anything of substance or importance seriously.
1. Hitler
2. Nazis
3. The Taliban
4. Well, you get the point.
bttt
He had trouble getting his point across cuz he was thinking how to take on an ex GOP chairman, current associate member in the Young Republicans, and a former teacher. If he goes thru with it, he's done. If he drops the threat charges, it will look like a political agenda. Either way, Weasley is done.
A darn good way for an incumbant to bring his challenger back into the race. Keep it up, Mikey!
I watched the highlights of this debate. I live in NC. I don't know much about Balletinte. Is he any good? What I saw I didn't like, he didn't talk abotu school choice at ALL and tried to talk about how he wanted to raise money for all these programs and improve education, yadda yadda yadda....
Disappointing. School choice is the only thing that will solve our education problems.
Easley NEVER stood behind the podium except at the very beginning and the very end. He did NOT want to be shown in the same frame with the handsome and taller State Senator Ballentine.
Patrick was - in a word - brilliant - despite Weasley's tactics.
No they don't take serious things seriously, but they're real serious about frivolous things.
No they don't take serious things seriously, but they're real serious about frivolous things.
Loud raucous cheers for that - cover your ears. ... Okay, I'm done.
I'm happy to read that Ballantine voted against these additional drivelly programs, but now how about some courage? How about pointing out the the ignorant public that MORE "education" spending consistently produces LESS educational achievement? The facts are out there ... ignoring them is like pretending that gravity doesn't work!
"I'm happy to read that Ballantine voted against these additional drivelly programs, but now how about some courage?"
Yea, as the gov was reading of his charges about how Ballantine didn't vote for all this muck I was like, "hell yea!" But then Ballentine was like, "Well that's not true, I support this and this and this and blah blah and my oppponnet didn't support yadda yadda"
Are we in such a minority that politicians can't talk about school choice? They are supposed to be leaders, not followers. I dunno. I'll have to see a lot more from Ballentine before he gets my vote.
Ballantine bump!
DOUBLE-HEADER TONIGHT!
Watch the Education Debate
Patrick Ballantine MELTS "Tax-Hike-Mike" Easley
Immediately followed by Dick Cheney v. John Edwards
On your local UNC-TV outlet, beginning at 8 PM
SEE NOW Patrick Ballantine's Latest (Oct. 4) Television Commercial
I was talking about this to my husband earlier, and it occurred to me that there ought to be a constituency to stop throwing money down the "education" hole. Wouldn't you think a majority of voters either ... don't have kids ... have kids over 18 ... homeschool ... use private schools ... or support educational choice on principle?
Admittedly it would be harder to organize this constituency than it is for the teachers unions, but the numbers should be there.
I wonder if anyone has asked Mr. Ballantine, who surely has more money than this family will ever see, whether his child will be attending her local public school next year.
Retch! I just watched about 50 minutes of the governor's debate. Both are Gawdawful. It's sad to say, but I think the current Dem Governor is better than Ballentine. There is NO WAY I am voting for Ballentine. Did you hear about his new 'poverty plan'! His whole platform is that he's going to turn NC into a Big Governemnt state.
I am hoping there is a libertarian candidate out there. If so, I'm voting for him. If the Dem gov comes up with some decent proposals I might consider him....
Now I wished I'd watched it (except my 2-year-old was watching "The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka" for the 4,239th time ...). Bad enough to vote for the Democrat? That's scary!
I'll tell you this much. If you didn't know which one was a Dem and which one was a Rep you would have gotten them backwards. I vote for the conservative Candidate. Ballentine is NO conservative. He will not get my vote. I don't know much about the current gov. I'll have to do some more research on him.
ok, thanks for that update. I'll take your word for it that Sleasy is no conservative either. Strong sentencing isn't anything to run on. Let's get the word out not to vote for Ballentine. The best bet if you have to choose between a Republican and a Democrat that are basically the same is not to 'knee jerk' vote for the Republican because he will just give the rest of the us a bad name. I'll vote for the libertarian or not vote at all.
Sheesh. How could he win the primary? North Carolina is still a Conservative state is it not?
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