Good point. Maybe it's just a way of saying Thanks.
Mark Martin? lol
He was one of the lonesome few who was a Clinton backer.
Eat exhaust fumes , Kerry. ;-)
Last I checked, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania were swing states.
Mark Martin? lol
He was one of the lonesome few who was a Clinton backer.
Eat exhaust fumes , Kerry. ;-)
Insert Viagra joke here :-)
NOT TRUE! Martin was told that He would be giving the 'toon the tour at the Daytona 500. He in no way was happy about it.
the reason the job was pawned off on Martin was that He was from Batesville, Ark.
Racing icon stumps for Bush
NASCAR legend Jack Roush visits Beckley to promote president
By Mannix Porterfield/REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
NASCAR legend Jack Roush made a pit stop Tuesday in Beckley, the first leg of his tour to help President Bush win the checkered flag in his second race for the White House.
Race fans and Republican supporters converged on Nextel Cup car owner Roush after he arrived in the late afternoon at Nell Jean Square to talk cars and politics.
On both subjects, Roush talked non-stop to anybody within earshot. Anyone who wanted it got an audience with him.
"I'm stumping up votes for Bush," the straw hat-wearing Roush announced to a knot of NASCAR fans clustered around him.
"I think George Bush has done a good job for a first-time president. I'm anxious to give him a chance to go back and finish his work."
Asked why, the race mogul quoted his 89-year-old mother as she filled out her absentee ballot, "I trust him."
"When he said he would do something, he would do it," Roush said.
"I like the fact that he's a friend of sportsmen. He's a protector of the Second Amendment."
In fact, when the Clintons captured the White House, Roush said, he bought up a hardy supply of semi-automatic shotguns and ammunition for sporting purposes.
"I thought they were after them," he said of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Another selling point for Roush is Bush's commitment to stalk terrorists around the globe, he said.
"Anybody that wants to cause us trouble, if we know where they're coming from, we'll see them on their back door," he said.
"We're not going to fight them on ours."
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Roush said his biggest beef with John Kerry is that "right now, he's standing in the way of George Bush's second term."
"I think it's real important to the economy and it's important to the social programs he's got going," he said of the Republican incumbent.
Moreover, Roush said he favors Bush over his pro-life stance and his conservative values on other issues.
"I don't think Kerry would have the same values that most people in this part of the country and that I have got," he added.
Roush plans to join veteran driver Bill Elliott as the tour moves into Charleston, the second stop of their tour. Elliott was unable to make the Beckley appearance due to flight difficulty.
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No stranger to his area, Roush grew up in Manchester, Ohio, about 40 miles from Portsmouth.
"I used to get television back in the '50s from Huntington and Charleston," he said.
"I look to the east and West Virginia here for a lot of things."
Roush has five teams involved in Nextel Cup races and says the racing phenomenon is growing.
"That's fairly easy to understand," he said of racing's popularity.
"It's nice, clean competition, a good family sport. They keep the rules consistent enough that if you watch it this year and you get involved where you can't watch a race for a while, then you come back and watch it again, you find the same people with the same good fight and struggling over space at the race track."
Among his stable of drivers, three are in the chase for the Nextel Championship, points leader Kurt Busch, Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth.
"There's a lot of drama being acted out by the personalities, as well as by the manufacturers and sponsors," Roush said.
"There are so many different levels of competition. It's just fascinating."
- E-mail: mporterfield@register-herald.com
Bush daughters, NASCAR champ rally for president
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