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Re-Elect President Bush - HARTFORD COURANT
The Hartford Courant ^ | 10/24/04 | editorial

Posted on 10/24/2004 7:02:06 PM PDT by jwalsh07

Re-Elect President Bush October 24, 2004

As in many past elections, Americans are closely divided over who should be the next president. It's not a clear-cut case of one candidate being far superior to the other. Yet history is not made by those who stand on the sidelines and wring their hands. The people must choose on Nov. 2, and The Courant recommends George W. Bush over John F. Kerry.

(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...


TOPICS: Announcements; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: bush; endorsed; endorsement; fourmoreyears; gwb2004; hartfordcourant
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The Courant endorsed W in 2000 as well. The endorsement is pretty good although they take a few potshots at W and brand social conservatives as "fundamentalists" because we believ marriage is between a man and a woman and killing unborn babies is not a good idea. Oh well, I'm a big boy, I can take anything the Rockefeller Republicans can dish out and give back more.

You may have to register to read it in its entirety but its pretty standard fair although they do note that Kerry's muddled position on the WOT and Iraq is their primary reason for backing W.

1 posted on 10/24/2004 7:02:06 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
Guess the Courant did not like TRex trying to gin up the use of raisins.
2 posted on 10/24/2004 7:03:29 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (Flush John 'Fonda' Kerry)
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To: nutmeg; CT CONSERVATIVE; deadhead; Torie

FYI


3 posted on 10/24/2004 7:07:47 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Always ask yourself, does this pass the Global Test?)
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To: ProudVet77

New Haven Register also endorsed Bush. Their editorials tend to be pro war and pro Bush lately so I wasn't all that surprised.


4 posted on 10/24/2004 7:07:51 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: ProudVet77

Guess not.


5 posted on 10/24/2004 7:08:02 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Always ask yourself, does this pass the Global Test?)
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To: jwalsh07

It should also be mentioned that George W. Bush is the only President born in Connnecticut.


6 posted on 10/24/2004 7:12:53 PM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

Yeah, but Bush is all Texan.


7 posted on 10/24/2004 7:13:59 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Always ask yourself, does this pass the Global Test?)
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To: jwalsh07

ty


8 posted on 10/24/2004 7:23:59 PM PDT by CT CONSERVATIVE (NOT FAIR-That's Dan's Story to Break!!!)
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To: nutmeg; RaceBannon

Ping.


9 posted on 10/24/2004 7:25:12 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: jwalsh07
I read the front section of the hardcopy Hartford Courant a few times each week before heading off to work. The Tribune masters must have made a decree. The local editors must be howling. It is the most leftist little rag that you can imagine (second only to the local Lynchburg VA paper). The editors can never find enough government solutions to the many problems of Hartford. The Bush bashing has been served up on a regular basis, mostly by reprints of damning articles from the LA Times and Washington PravdaPost. The "endorsement" will carry no weight and lacks credibility and I expect the local bashing to increase in intensity.

The local CT RATs have already announced a fund ready for someone to challenge Lieberman in the RAT primary during the next round. As a note, on my drives through the back-country of CT (twice a week between Hartford and NYC for the last two months) I see mostly Bush-Cheney signs.
10 posted on 10/24/2004 7:27:56 PM PDT by sefarkas (why vote Democrate-lite???)
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I live in the NE woods of CT. I am quite familiar with local and state politics and the journalist in Nutmeg Land. Ct is a dem state, period. The only republicans holding office are the Rockefeller type. Not my cup of tea but we do the best we can.


11 posted on 10/24/2004 7:32:24 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Always ask yourself, does this pass the Global Test?)
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Amazing...the Hartford Courant, the New Haven Register, and the CT Post have endorsed Bush and there is still not a prayer that Bush will win CT - makes me want to move.
12 posted on 10/24/2004 8:13:15 PM PDT by wtf
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To: wtf
makes me want to move.

LOL, I dream of the day when we cross the Mason Dixon line for the last time.

13 posted on 10/24/2004 8:17:25 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Always ask yourself, does this pass the Global Test?)
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To: jwalsh07; StarFan

Wow, this is stunning... thank you both for the pings. I'll ping my CT list.


14 posted on 10/24/2004 10:47:49 PM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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To: RaceBannon; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; MrSparkys; monafelice; ...
ping!

See post 12 also

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

15 posted on 10/24/2004 10:49:05 PM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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To: jwalsh07; nutmeg

The Courant has a lefty reporter by the name of Jarrett Murphy, who was head of the College Democrats when I was VP of the College Republicans at Fordham.


16 posted on 10/24/2004 10:57:58 PM PDT by Clemenza (This thread needs more cowbell!)
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To: TNCMAXQ
"New Haven Register also endorsed Bush."

As did the Connecticut (nee Bridgeport) Post, and I believe the Waterbury Republican (CT's only large conservative paper).
Konnecticut is an extreme Lefty state, but it appears every large city newspaper has endorsed W.
Interesting.

17 posted on 10/25/2004 3:51:23 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: jwalsh07; #1CTYankee; .303 Brit; Agamemnon; AGBRUHN; always vigilant; Anarchist; Andonius_99; ...

Oh my Gosh!! This is hugh news!!!


18 posted on 10/25/2004 4:27:49 AM PDT by RaceBannon (KERRY FLED . . . WHILE GOOD MEN BLED!!)
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To: RaceBannon

oh be series willya;-)?

I could write a tern paper on these paper endorsements if I needed the monsy.

Electoral-vote.com shows CT as "weak kerry" which means that there is plenty of room for surprise.

thanx fer the ping.


19 posted on 10/25/2004 4:32:55 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: jwalsh07

The COURANT still s*cks.


20 posted on 10/25/2004 4:33:48 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (I've been freeping for 14 % of my life?)
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