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Kristol: "Fair Game"
The Weekly Standard ^
| 10/25/04
| William Kristol
Posted on 10/15/2004 1:39:29 PM PDT by Pokey78
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:39:29 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
I rarely agree with Kristol, but he nailed this one!
-Toonces
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:42:43 PM PDT
by
Toonces T. Cat
(The Token Republican in Deep South Texas...)
To: Pokey78
I have long respected Kristol. He always seems to me to be pretty level headed.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:43:13 PM PDT
by
badmatty
(http://badmatty.com)
To: Pokey78
WAS JOHN KERRY born a shameless and ruthless opportunist....? Umm, yeah.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:43:50 PM PDT
by
mattdono
("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
To: mattdono
When Kristol's right ...he's right
To: Pokey78
Outstanding. You rarely see Kristol really outraged, but he was Wednesday night after the debate. His reasoning here is spot on. This was a deliberately planned attack but Kerry muffed it. My own theory is that this was the "secondary attack" of Cheney, after Halliburton, and Kerry couldn't find a ways to say Halliburton in the third debate, so he went to the secondary attack. The smarmy words about the Cheneys "loving their daughter" was written very deliberately to send these messages: first, to the bigots, that Dick Cheney has a gay daughter and loves her; and second, to suburban women that Dick Cheney has a gay daughter and says he loves her, but doesn't want to talk about her and doesn't want to fight the right wing for her rights. Either way Cheney looks bad. Edwards got away with it because Gwen Ifill mentioned Cheney's family in her question. Bob Schieffer didn't.
I also suspect the gasps from the reporters that Howard Fineman wrote about were because they all knew what the strategy was, they were just horrified that Kerry blew it in the way he said it. They knew immediately what the blowback would be.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:47:03 PM PDT
by
Dems_R_Losers
(Proud to be a Reagan Alumna!)
To: Pokey78
How I wish THIS piece would run in the New York Times > speaking of pipe dreams.
To: Pokey78
The Democrats are terrified of a debate on same-sex marriage, and used Mary Cheney to try to brush back the Bush-Cheney ticket from forcing a real policy debate. Yeah, he's right here. This makes much more since than the theory that they are trying to get Bush's base to turn on him because of her. They are trying to scare Bush-Cheney away from the topic.
It won't work.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:48:40 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(It must be scary to be trapped in John Kerry's mind. No wonder he's nuts.)
To: Pokey78
Oooh, this is a good one! Go BK!
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:48:54 PM PDT
by
NetSurfer
(Proud member of the Pajama-Wearing Lunatic Fringe)
To: Pokey78
I thought McCarthy was a good guy.
To: Pokey78
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:50:02 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(A torpid disinclination negates the inclusion of a tagline with this post.)
To: Pokey78; MeekOneGOP
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:51:07 PM PDT
by
EdReform
(Have you seen FAHRENHYPE 9/11? - www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240926/posts)
To: mattdono
WAS JOHN KERRY born a shameless and ruthless opportunist....?
Umm, yeah.
His own mother recognized that & that is why she had to tell him 3 times to get some intregrity.
To: Pokey78
When you see Kristol this upset, you know it is devastating to the Kerry camp. I think Kristol is a fairly respected guy and this is a very passionate slap in Kerry's face.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:53:20 PM PDT
by
Woogit
To: Pokey78
Does this mean Kristol is trying to get back in Bush and the Republican's good graces after his hissy fit following the 2nd debate?
To: Pokey78
I agree. Kerry is a scum bag South end of a North bound donkey.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:54:39 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Bushworld)
To: Pokey78
WAS JOHN KERRY born a shameless and ruthless opportunist....? Yes. When he was born, I think he considered suing his mother for "reckless infliction of physical discomfort upon his person" due to what he considered to be her "application of excessive expulsionary force" during birth. He also sought damages for "loss of former habitation" and "forced exposure to distressing sensations such as hunger and wetness and humiliating social dependence" during those first years of life..
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:56:38 PM PDT
by
lsee
To: Pokey78
Well-written article and an important message. Vital that he mentioned the malice aforethought - it wasn't a slip of the tongue, it was a cold, calculated attempt...
Kristol still has some butt-kissing to do though... He's on the s***list
To: Dems_R_Losers
Imagine the fodder if Mary Cheney had also worked for Halliburton ...
God bless the Cheney family.
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posted on
10/15/2004 1:57:32 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
To: badmatty
He says their's no liberal media, that it's all a ploy. I do NOT trust the guy, as level-headed as he SEEMS.
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