Posted on 10/29/2004 6:10:26 AM PDT by dirtboy
CFR was supposed to take the corruption of money out of the campaigns and everyone was going to be nice.
I am 50 years old. I have voted in every single Presidential election since I was 18. John Kerry has conducted the most negative campaign in my lifetime.
Politics is a dirty business and it gets rough. I understand that and know it goes with the territory. But what comes out of John Kerry's mouth is beyond the pale.
There is no class, no character. Attack with a lie, attack with a lie, attack with a lie, and on and on and on.
MSM being what it is, overlooks the not only the lies, but the extent of the negative rhetoric. When the dems make the claim that George Bush has divided this country no one, not even FOX, counters with the fact that the dems are responsible for the devisiveness.
He was selected, not elected. He is not my President. George Bush is the illegitimate President. They have forgotten it was Tom Daschle who broke the tradition "Politics ends where the ocean begins." The first time President Bush traveled abroad, Daschle slammed him in the press for the entire world to hear.
It was Democrats, not Republicans who criticized our President on foreign soil.
Joe Lockhart call General Tommy Franks a liar, for God's sake!!! I did not hear one word about that on the news this morning. Not one friggin' word.
I can only hope average, everyday, work-a-day dems see this. I know the stand-in-line-for-the-handouts dems are going "You go, Kerry! You da' man!"
Kerry has engaged in rhetoric which serves no other purpose than to harvest hate.
When this election is over and George Bush is re-elected, Kerry will not fade into the distance. he will not say, "It is time to put the election behind us and work together." He will do a Gore, but this time every word he says will be given more air time than any other issue.
I am glad to read of this endorsement. I hope there are many other dems who are disgusted with the hate-filled stump speeches of kerry, edwards and wives, and suurogates.
LOL .. I'll never forget that
I heard it too.
Franny is the guy who punched John Street (current mayor) when they were both on Philly city council!
Yup. This guy laid out all the reasons that I switched to the GOP several years ago. The New Democratic Party abandoned working America years ago. Now it is a collection of special interest groups waiting to get a handout from the public trough. They are lead by a bunch of left wing internationalists who would put up a self-admitted war criminal and traitor to be our President.
No, thanks!
Ping.
Great Post!
So what were the callers on the radio program saying?
Did they agree, disagree, waffle - what?
Well, it's true that 20 years ago a large segment of the Dem party was still "conservative."
But the FDR segment, which Francis is a part of, was definitely leftist in important ways. But you are right in that, unlike today's Dems, they held many important American moral values, including patriotism, and Franny sure understands free speech and probably rkba. I do have, as you say, Republican friends who are ready to jettison rkba.
But since the FDR Dems viewed our Constitution as the vehicle which authorized an all powerful government which would give us our rights and dreams, rather than as a government limited by guidelines strict enough so that it could not interfere with our private pursuit of our personal dreams, I stand by my original statement of being bemused by leftist admiration for our Constitution.
Still, it's great to see some old line Dems with good attitudes.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS PERCOLATING IN PHILADELPHIA right now and is starting to be reflected in the changing PA polls (and will be the key to bringing down KERRY)....
..., AND which is going to surprise many come this Tuesday night, it will not just only be "South Philadelphia" with many conservative Italian democrats, 'Rizzocrats', and 'Reagan Democrats', who will be pulling the same lever as Fran Rafferty and help "DO IN" the radical-anti-American Kerry in PENNSYLVANIA, but the other "conservative' Democrat Phila sections of "Tacony", "Port Richmond", "Bridesburg", "Frankford", "Mayfair", "Holmesburg","Pennypack", "Chalfont", "Rhawnhurst", "Kensington", "Roxborough", "Manayunk", "Torresdale", "Fox Chase", "Bustleton", "Byberry", "Oxford Circle"...,
Let us hope and pray.
Wowsers!!!!
Good for you, Franny Rafferty. Tell it like it is. If the Rizzocrats and Reagan Democrats get out the vote, we might be able to take down the Philly fraud machine.
The Bush Army of Volunteers will be hitting the street this weekend for the big push to the finish.
PLEASE - help out with the volunteer effort. We have to know we did EVERYTHING we could to help GW take Pennsylvania.
It must be hard on the man to see what he once loved turned into a Hate and lie party. He's to be commended on his principles.I wish him well, on his new journey with the middle class.
Thanks for this post, it is so true.
The Republican party is now the party of the average normal person, with a moderate social agenda to help those in need within spending limits that we can live with.
The Democratic party is the party of extremism, with no sense of balance, and no interest in accountability.
Some have said that the Democratic party still has a large base of moderates who can work constructively to improve our country. However, it seems to me that the exteremists have taken over and are the leaders of the party, pushing abortion, environment over all else, junk science, more tax and spend, etc.
My prayers for a big Bush win.
Today's Inquirer story about Bush's rally in Yardley mentioned that many people in that part of Bucks County actually work in Manhattan. They lived through 9/11 and many lost friends that day. I live 20 miles west of Yardley and I have neighbors who work in Manhattan. They are all voting for Bush. I returned yesterday from a business trip to California and I could not believe all the Bush/Cheney signs I saw driving home through North Philadelphia and into Bucks County.
I do believe that Pennsylvania is going to be the November Surprise for the Democrats. They have thrown all their eggs into the Ohio basket while Bush has slipped by them in Michigan, Pennsylvania, iowa, and Wisconsin.
Ping.
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