Posted on 08/09/2005 3:06:48 AM PDT by The Raven
If the RATS would have put up someone half-way normal and decent, GWB would have gotten destroyed handily. The RATS are their own worst enemy and lose because they put up circus clowns, not because the GOP puts up good candidates.
Many of us held our nose in this election and are already smelling the BS and garbage.
There is no such thing as an unnecessary graphic.
It's so overdue.
The amount of FReepers who want a return to monarchy is sickening.
A monarchy is the power to rule passed along through hereditary with no free elections. Both President Bushes came to power by winning free elections. If Jeb does run for president one day(which I think he will just not 2008 although I can see him as the VP candidate in 08) and wins he will be president because he earned it in a free election. He shouldn't be disqualified just because his last name is Bush. He's well qualified, has been a very successful Governor of the 4th largest state in the U.S., and is more conservative than his father and brother. Let's judge the individual that's running. We elect a president and not a presidential family every 4 years.
Agreed.
Jeb did not show alot of courage, nor smarts with the Greer thing. He was a total wuss, even in the facade PR sense. Nope, cannot support him after that.
Let's not kid oursleves- Bush's margin of victory wasn't big. We still have a lot of work to do.
As for FDR, the Democratic myth that he was a widly popular President is mere fantasy. He won in a landslide over Hoover because of his optimistic outlook vs Hoover's noticeable lack of ideas. In 1936 the GOP ran what may have been their most inept candidate in party history and the voters overwhelmingly decided to continue with FDR. By 1940, things were different. In 8 years FDR had tripled taxes and accomplished absolutely nothing for private sector employment. Economically, the nation in 1940 was pretty much where it was in 1932, but with a much larger debt. FDR won in 1940 only after a late October pledge to "not send our boys into a foreign war". In 1944, few had realistic expectations that FDR would survive another term. The "let's not change horses mid-stream" theory carried the day for FDR, but the election was really between Truman and Dewey.
Jeb is our best candidate, and hopefully Jeb understands it.
Oh my!
Everyone clap!
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