Posted on 07/27/2006 12:32:29 PM PDT by eartotheground
Jeb's approval ratings aren't going anywhere. The man could run for Senator and have the job as long as he wanted it. I wish he would have ran instead of Harris.
King was a complete dip****. Has he changed?
No. And I'm no one's mother, either.
Unfortunately there is a big contingent here who agree with him/her. They lost their minds over Terri and haven't recovered them.
A move Jim King called the biggest mistake of his political career.
King said his vote to save Terri Schiavo in 2003 "was probably one of the worst votes that I've ever done."
For Jeb Bush to praise King is deeply disturbing.
"The man could run for Senator and have the job as long as he wanted it. I wish he would have ran instead of Harris."
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AMEN.
Despicable.
So, have there been any polls showing where King and Terry stand at the moment?
I'm thinking that King will get re-elected pretty easily. Terry's just too much of a loose cannon, in my opinion. I don't live in Florida, though, so I have to rely on opinion from there.
I doubt that FR is a good guide to what the voters will do there, frankly.
I think he "doth protest too much."
And though they will never admit it, they are in the VAST minority of Republican/Conservative voters. I talked with literally hundreds of people during the Terri thing and almost all of them thought that Jeb and the Gov't were going too far on Terri's behalf. And the majority of these were people that the media would tag with the "Evangelical" label... Red State Christians who vote a straight Republican ticket.
Everyone needs to stop believeing the Bushes are movement conservatives. They're not, they are "whale-pants" conservatives.
They have a larger percentage of supporters here than any other place that I know of. Many good people were driven away from FR by their fanaticism and outright lies.
I see your recovery is not complete.
"And though they will never admit it, they are in the VAST minority of Republican/Conservative voters. "
Yes, they are, but you'll never get them to admit it. Terri is not an issue in this election. It probably never was. My guess is that Randall Terry will lose, big-time.
Too many ugly skeletons hanging in the closet there, and opponents will be displaying them prominently.
I will never, ever, vote for another Bush for President and I don't think I'm in the minority.
Just because Jeb says something, doesn't mean it's true or that everyone believes it. If the RINO JIM KING had not rallied several REPUBLICAN SENATORS with him over a chicken lunch the bill to help Terri would have passed. Jim King interfered because he considers having a feeding tube as life saving equipment, got it passed into law, and will not allow anything to change "his legacy". The legacy part is King's own words.
Are you operating on past or current experience?
There are also a lot of people who are sick and tired of lying sacks of whatever, that want everyone to think that they are conservative. IE Jim King. He runs his mouth about everything all over FLorida but not a dang word from the media in town about his VERY liberal bent. Not a peep about the trip to Canada that cost the Republican party thousands of dollars in repayment in order to save face. The man thinks homosexuals would be great adoptive parents!
The dems here have said they do not need to come up with an opponent to run against KING because he gives them what they want!! There has not been any democrat opponent running against King! DUH!
I am no fan of King but with a certifiable nutcase as an opponent he looks to be a shoo-in.
They are liberal on almost all major issues, but duck and cover on them, so as to not be smoked out, and get torched and pitchforked politically. From their profligate big-spending, promotion of multiculturalism, feminism in the military, et al., AWOL or worse positions on many other issues such as immigration, balance of trade, and even some social issues (ever wonder why federal funding for abortions is continuing?) or their underspending on defense deployments? Not restoring the American Military to strategic and tactical predominance (apparently they actually bought into Clinton's/Allbright/Talbott's world view that we should not be a hyperpower, or even a lone superpower.) Hence no actual NMD being deployed. Not for the U.S. mainland from any axis other than North Korea anyways. Leaving the "backdoor" wide open to ship-borne launches of SCUDs or what -have-you.
The litany of failuires: Knifing the Bomber fleet in half, and putting all the eggs in one basket...i.e., one base. Not replacing the lost ASW muscle Clinton killed off. Not replacing the Oilers or Mine-Sweeper capabilities Clinton destroyed. Knifing the U.S. counterforce retaliatory deterrent, the MX and even the Minuteman III,...while Moscow openly scoffs and talks about keeping their SS-18s to 2017. Allowing the surface and submarine fleets to implode, refusing to keep enough production going to sustain industrial capability to ever replace what we are losing. Retiring F-14s w/o a truly capable replacement (F-18 SuperTiger just isn't up to snuff...nor will the F-35) And failing to deploy F-22s in anything like credible number. Failing to deploy THEL is costing Israel dearly right now. Failing to develop the Theater Ballistic Missile Defense. TBM. Failing to deploy a fleet of Aegis dedicated NMD ships. Failing to upgrade the SM-3 missile that Clinton deliberately dumbed-down and forced to be slow and low. Failing to deploy Patriot batteries around the U.S. coastline. Failing to wall off Mexico. Etc. All trivial with the economy we supposedly have. But he won't do it.
All while our industrial infrastructure is bled away to China and the Pacific Rim. China now makes more steel than the next four countries put together....
Let's hear Jeb criticize his brother on any of these issues. If not, you know he will just be another back-stabbing lying phoney RINO.
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