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Mark Warner pays a visit to America's heartland: GOP area of MO and WI
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^
| Apr 9, 2006
| TYLER WHITLEY
Posted on 04/09/2006 5:44:31 PM PDT by Ligeia
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner showed off his presidential credentials in the Show Me State on Friday. Warner told an overflow crowd of 700 Missouri Democrats that the Democratic Party should stand for opportunity rather than an extreme ideology.
"I think we've got to change the whole debate in this country from liberal versus conservative, left versus right, to the future versus the past," he said at the Jackson Day dinner.
He brought his message of "the sensible center" to one of the most conservative areas of Missouri, a bellwether state that has correctly chosen the winning presidential candidate in every election but one since 1900. The state voted for Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 election won by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Southwest Missouri is heavily Republican, prompting local Democratic officials to invite Warner, seen as a moderate alternative to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, in the presidential nominating contest in 2008. Warner has not announced his intentions but has given every sign he plans to run.
He spent much of last week boning up on foreign policy at the Harvard School of Government.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Missouri; US: Virginia; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: markwarner; warner2008
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posted on
04/09/2006 5:44:34 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
To: Corin Stormhands
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posted on
04/09/2006 5:58:13 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: Ligeia
Warner is going to clean Hillary's clock.
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posted on
04/09/2006 5:59:24 PM PDT
by
zarf
(It's time for a college football playoff system.)
To: zarf
I can't decide if I want Hillary! in the General or not.
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:02:51 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: Ligeia; EDINVA; iceskater; xyz123; Mudboy Slim; Corin Stormhands; jla; Flora McDonald; ...
You used the wrong picture...
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:04:16 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://www.cafepress.com/liberalitees - Because they're too fun not to mock!)
To: Corin Stormhands
I thought you might fix that!
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:05:31 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: Ligeia
At your service, ma'am. ;-)
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:06:16 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://www.cafepress.com/liberalitees - Because they're too fun not to mock!)
To: Ligeia
If he helps keep the Hildebeast from getting the keys to the Oval Office, then he will have done a great service for his country.
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:06:23 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: Corin Stormhands
Much obliged. It's important the heartland see the real Mark Warner.
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:07:43 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
If he helps keep the Hildebeast from getting the keys to the Oval Office, then he will have done a great service for his country. We're rooting for a conservative, of course, but if a Dem wins, I'd certainly rather it be Mark Warner than the Hildebeast.
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posted on
04/09/2006 6:09:50 PM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: Ligeia; Corin Stormhands
"It's important the heartland see the real Mark Warner"
In that case, didn't Corin post the wrong end?
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posted on
04/09/2006 7:31:51 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: Ligeia
Wait! Aren't these his parents??
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posted on
04/10/2006 2:50:33 AM PDT
by
Watery Tart
(Feingold (CFR-WI): "[W]hy (were my) actions necessary, appropriate, or legal?" Censure whom?)
To: Ligeia
That's it! The rat wins back the Whitehouse. The ratmedia has told us that mark warner is visiting Red States. That means he will be the next president. Oh woe is us.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:55:31 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(John Spencer is the warrior we have been waiting for.We can trust him with our future.)
To: Ligeia; Corin Stormhands
I've actually seen some describe Dork Warner as attractive in the physical sense. Other than the bulge of his... checkbook, I can't imagine who really thinks that.
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posted on
04/10/2006 5:14:56 AM PDT
by
Coop
(Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
To: Coop
He needs to pick a hair color and stick with it.
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posted on
04/10/2006 5:35:37 AM PDT
by
Ligeia
(Woohoo, GMU!!)
To: Coop; Ligeia; Watery Tart
I've actually seen some describe Dork Warner as attractive in the physical sense. Other than the bulge of his... checkbook, I can't imagine who really thinks that. I dunno...but I'm beginning to see the connection.
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:06:53 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://www.cafepress.com/liberalitees - Because they're too fun not to mock!)
To: Coop
Attractive? With those teeth? I don't think so. What are those folks smokin', I wonder???
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posted on
04/10/2006 7:25:14 AM PDT
by
iceskater
(One person's mess is another person's filing system.)
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