Yeah, Artie baby----you Christian-hating fink---you got that right. Now go away, and shut the hell up.
"flamboyantly bashing the president"
ROTFLMBO!!!
Looks like an Andrew Sullivan situation... Gay marriage trumps all other issues.
It's not Bush's fault that Pataki won't become president. It's Pataki's fault. Pataki would lose the South, lose California and he'd even lose New York. That doesn't leave much.
Interesting, considering the party was more conservative when he joined.
At first I was pleased when the media announced that this election was very much about values. Now I see they are going to use this information to falsely accuse and seriously bash Christians. Despicable.
And despite your idiocy we'll prove to be the best friends your people ever had.
The Reliable Source (column)
Washington Post, September 18, 1996
By Annie Groer and Ann Gerhart
Online at http://www.gridlockmag.com/finktwo/gossip.html
"There seems to be no end of news on the private lives of political consultants. The latest exposee is Republican pollster and strategist Arthur Finkelstein, 51, whom Boston magazine calls a "semi-out" homosexual living with a male companion and two adopted children in a posh, horsey section of Massachusetts's North Shore.
This wouldn't be news had Finkelstein not worked for such vocal Senate gay-bashers as Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Bob Smith of New Hampshire. On the other hand, Finkelstein also works for Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York, a gay-rights champion."
Most Freepers may not know this, but Al D'Amato lost his Senate seat to Chuck Schumer in 1998 after he (presumably on the advice of his "political guru") deliberately avoided seeking the endorsement of the Right to Life Party in New York. After the snub, the RTL party ran their own candidate . . . and D'Amato lost by several thousand votes in a race where the RTL candidate received tens of thousands of votes.
Let Pataki and Spectre sit together and gripe!
Interesting given that Bush did not push the gay marriage issue during his campaign. The Dems did that themselves via the Mass. Supreme Court rulinlg and the activities of the Mayor of San Francisco. The high turnout to oppose gay marriage was spontaneous on the part of Christians who didn't like seeing a two thousand year old institution being destroyed by Judicial fiat.
-"Finkelstein accused Bush of trying to "dictate to America how to live and what to believe in."-
We voted for him, jackass! Pataki didn't have a chance, anyway. I don't want anyone from NY running. Guliani? Forget it!
You tell him, girl!
Pataki could never become President. You have to have personality to do that!
I still remember him having the balls to go out in front of the crowd at Yankee stadium and thorw the first pitch in the payoff game. I also remember him going to Iraq. Both were remarkable. For that I admire the man and was a reason why a lot of folks may they be Christian or like me voted for the guy.
what a joke- Paturkey has absolutely no chance of becoming President
Some strategist.
The simple truth of the matter is, if President Bush can get O'Connor (and maybe Stevens OR Ginsburg) off the Supreme Court, allowing the will of the people thru Legislation to be unimpeded by Liberal Justices, A SOCIAL MODERATE would have an easier time getting elected against a Democrat.
Once the People feel confident in expressing legislatively, and having upheld judiciously, their values, they will not see a social moderate as a threat, and will then be free to debate the value of that candidate against his opponent, rather than against their values.
Fixing SCOTUS is bad juju for the Left in this country because it allows the (R)'s big tent to becaome a REALLY big tent.
Thank you, Arlen Specter.