Posted on 10/13/2004 3:20:45 PM PDT by kingattax
Recent Bush/Cheney campaign rhetoric strongly suggests that the president's target in this debate will be John Kerry's liberal Senate voting record.
The Kerry campaign should be worried; in St. Louis their candidate was as afraid of the liberal "label" as Dracula is of crucifixes and wooden stakes. Kerry's record is demonstrably, unequivocally liberal, his handlers know it, and they are petrified at the thought that the Bush campaign could use Kerry's record against him.
This election is coming down to just two states — Ohio and Florida. Neither are culturally liberal and both have significant rural and exurban communities that offset Democratic advantages in the metropolises.
Liberalism, as defined by opposition to the death penalty, and support for higher taxes, race-based affirmative-action programs and partial-birth abortions is not a winner in these states. Liberalism as defined by serving as Michael Dukakis's lieutenant governor and voting lockstep with Ted Kennedy is not a winner in these states.
To win tonight's debate, Bush doesn't have to promise more goodies or eloquently describe the healthy-forests initiative, he has to clearly paint a stark ideological choice for the voters. He needs to make Kerry squirm. The voters have a keen visual sense and they know when a candidate is hiding something.
To this end, watch for Bush tonight to return again and again to Kerry's liberalism. And expect Bush to use humor to get his point across. It is not beyond the realm of imagination for Bush to turn Jeff Foxworthy's famous "you could be a redneck if..." routine into something like the following:
"Senator Kerry seems to have some trouble figuring out if he's a liberal or not. I'd like to help him out.
Senator Kerry, if you voted for the largest tax increase in American history, you could be a liberal.
If you support more than two trillion dollars of additional federal spending, you could be a liberal.
If you consistently opposed the death penalty, even for terrorists who kill Americans overseas, you could be a liberal.
If you support race-based quotas in hiring, you could be a liberal.
If you support partial-birth abortion as a choice, but are against Americans choosing to have private Social Security accounts, against parents choosing the best schools for their kids, and against Americans freely choosing weapons to defend themselves, you could be a liberal.
If your biggest supporters are the Hollywood elite, Michael Moore, and Barbra Streisand, you could be a liberal.
If you were Michael Dukakis's lieutenant governor, you could be a liberal.
If you vote the same way as Ted Kennedy more than 90 percent of the time, you could be a liberal.
If you have the most liberal voting record of any senator last year, you could be a liberal.
If you have a more liberal voting record than Hillary Clinton, you could be a liberal.
If Al Gore's campaign manager says you're more liberal than Al Gore, you could be a liberal.
If you are all of these things, Senator Kerry, you are a liberal."
—Robert Moran is a vice president at Republican polling firm Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates. He is an NRO contributor
"Need some wood?"
oooops...terrible lag...sorry 'bout that! Two Reagans in every Garage!!!
If you think that Barbara Streisand makes sense on foreign policy, you could be a liberal."
If you pay less in tax than your account but you still think he is one of 'the rich',....
If none of your cars, homes, yachts are in your own name,....
If your second language is French,...
If most of your foreign policy knowledge comes from talking to people on the slopes of a Swiss ski resort,....
If you want to run the country but you've never run a company....
If all your pets have French names....
If you believe that the 2nd Amendment was written to protect hunting and skeet shooting.....
If in 30 seconds you can name more winemakers than beermakers....
If your kids refer to your wife as "Stepmoney"....
Ah, that does my heart good.
"There you go again."
If you've assaulted a Republican in the name of free speech.
Dennis Prager
Http://www.dennisprager.com
Dennis asks several questions on this topic very interesting. If you link to Prager you will find this under written by Dennis
LOL....that was funny
...and: both are among the several states targeted by the Soros-funded and massive DNC vote-fraud machine
That is so funny! I would love to see Bush use a few of those tonight.
If you believe that every baby is a failed abortion, then you could be a liberal.
Humour Check:
To be a DemLib, you have to believe that:
The AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
Trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid.
Global temperatures are affected more by a suburban soccer mom driving an SUV than by documented, cyclical variations in the brightness and intensity of the sun.
Guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Businesses create oppression and government creates prosperity.
Self-esteem is more important than doing anything to earn it.
There was no art before federal funding.
The NRA is a bad organization because it stands up for certain parts of the Constitution, but the ACLU is a good organization because it stands up for certain parts of the Constitution.
Taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.
Standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas are not.
ANY change in the weather is proof of global warming.
National wealth is determine by what we consume, not by what we produce.
The only wars in which America should become involved are those in which our national security is not at risk.
It is possible to tax the country into prosperity.
Perjury and obstruction of justice are impeachable if a Republican president commits them but a harmless, private matter if a Democrat president commits them.
America can have a strong military without spending money on it.
The way to improve public schools is to give more money and power to the very people who have misused that power and money to destroy the public schools.
Hunters and fishermen do not care about the environment but pasty-faced activists that rarely venture out-of-doors do.
A bureaucrat living in Washington, D.C. can make better decisions about how to spend the money that you earn than you can.
Being a movie or television star qualifies you to speak out on public policy.
Hillary Clinton is a wonderful example for young women of feminine independence even though she has never accomplished anything worthwhile without riding on the coattails of her husband.
A handful of religious whackos living in rural Texas are more of a threat to public safety than Islamic terrorists who wish to plant bombs in major American cities.
Passing new laws are a much better way to curb crime than enforcing the existing ones.
Tax cuts are for people who don't actually pay income taxes.
And if you;re French, a rich lady's pet, and won't protect your master, you're either a poodle or John Kerry.
Earlier in the campaign, President Bush's advisors were urging him to use the dreaded "L" word. Mr. Bush said he was opposed to that idea on the grounds that most Americans don't know what a Liberal is anymore. I think that the President's political instincts were correct in that Liberal Democrats and their MSM allies have gone a long way toward driving the word Liberal into extinction as a political term: "we shouldn't use labels...I'm a moderate...I once voted for a tax cut, does that make me a conservative." I would have much preferred the term "Left Wing" to "liberal". People still know what a Left Winger is. He's the ACLU attorney who's defending the NAMBLA chapter president. She's the angry militant feminist who wants to keep partial birth abortion legal. He's the judge who want to ban the boy scouts, and to declare same sex marriage a "right". Most of all, the Left Winger is the person your average Democrat wants more than anything else "not to be identified as".
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