Posted on 09/17/2006 5:26:28 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; national security adviser Stephen Hadley.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. George Allen, R-Va.; former Navy Secretary James Webb, Allen's Democratic challenger.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Hadley.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Hadley; singer and songwriter Jewel.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; George Soros, Democratic financier; Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, governor of Pakistan's Waziristan province; Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.
He's 62, I think, but he's looking more like 70 to me.
There's big money to be made in these causes and he's having a field day. (He took lessons from Kofi Annan).
He also narrated a new documentary shown on the Sundance Channel on 9/11 this year, Dust to Dust, about the health effects on first responders at the World Trade Center.
He will run circles against any comers in the brains department. Even the "smartest woman in the world" is no match for Mitt when it comes to academic credentials. On top of that he is actually accomplished in the private sector. He hasn't spent his life living off the taxpayers.
Please Lord, don't tell them the rest of what I did, I"ll be good next time.I
. seeing Bubba in church praying let's you know that acting is not only for actors but politicos as well.
I'll take that bet. Even if I lose, I win. Imagine getting Stein, Krauthamer, Williams and Sowell on one panel!
That would qualify for pay per view!
Forget that. That crew could solve the ultimate question of the universe! I propose a quadra committee to rule the world!
Of course, we'd have to make room for Brit somewhere...
How about Brit for President and these guys as the primary members of his cabinet?
No, I think you are wrong...even President Bush was making a big deal about how both he and Clinton are turning 60 this year..
In fact, I think President Bush is older by a few months.
I may be wrong...but, I got the impression that has been kind of a running "gag" about them turning 60.
Victoria wields a neat scalpel, doesn't she? Clarice Feldman goes over this in her Weekly Standard article, also citing Corn's assertion in his first article that the WH engaged in a deliberate, thuggish payback for Wilson's op-ed piece, and endagered Wilson's wife and every spy she ever met, or merely passed in the street, and made the ghost of Kim Philby weep.
Corn did not decorate that paragraph with "allegedly," "it's possible," "it appears" and other fake attempts to stay within the libel laws. He outright trashed honourable men, knowing that partisan hacks like Matthew Cooper, husband of long-time Hilary friend and current campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald, and Kathleen Matthews' wife, would bring up the braying chorus of fake outrage at the "crimes" against Joe and Val.
Of course, these aren't serious people and the real crime, the one that put us all in peril if they had gotten away with it, was a conspiracy to bring down not just a sitting president, but his entire administration in a time of war.
I hope the courts do not throw out the Libby case. I want
the Libby defense team to go into discovery with subpoenas for the Democrat senators who attended the meeting on May 3, 2003 on the Eastern Shore. I want depositions taken of all media in attendance, Kristoff. and Matthews, and all waiters, photographers, chambermaids, manicurists and Botox technicians, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, secretaries. I want the notebooks and tape-recorders of all the writers from NYT and NYT magazine, Wshington Post Magazine, and Vanity Fair, or their assistants who were present at that meeting.
I would like to subpoena all of the people Joe Wilson referred to in the Joe and Val puff piece in Vanity Fair, names he dropped as willing to verify his remarks. All of these people, if I recall correctly, refused to comment. So what were their reasons for not backing up Old Joe? And more importantly, why did he use their names to back up his crock of makeshifts and evasions?
I would like the authorette of the Vanity Fair puff piece, to explain, under oath, why she claimed that only Right Wing extremists questioned Joe's connection to Rock Creek Corporation. I want her to lead us through the intensive examination of Mrs. Wilson's scarves which led her to conclude that "little is known of Rock Creek Corporation, and besides Joe Wilson only rents office space from them."
Can the authorette swear under oath that she is unfamiliar with search engines and so should be excused for not knowing who owns Rock Creek Corporation?
The defense of Armitage revolves around his reputation as a harmless gossip, someone addicted to "dish" whose telephone call to Novak, out of the blue, just to chat, had the unintended consequence of revealing Mrs. Wilson's identity.
It reminds me of former President Clinton's response to a reporter tossing him the news of Sandy Berger's arrest for stealing documents from the National Archives. Clinton laughed, "Well, that's Sandy. You guys know him; he's a big bear, not too tidy, always papers sticking out of pockets. Heh, heh, heh."
I want to know who started this. I already know why.
Bogus as she is she still would have far more in the way of name recognition. Sometimes we place other candidates attributes ahead of what it takes to get elected,IMHO.
You gotta remember for eveyone of us, extremely politically savvy political types,their are 100's watching football, drinking beer and wondering who Mitt Romney is and if he was named after a catcher's mitt.
We have to concentrate on what really gets people elected, and for an amazing part of the mix you have name recognition. It's not that Mitt can't get elected(if he has the charisma that bubba had minus the BS factor) but that it's a huge gamble with huge stakes against someone who already has it,(name recog) negatives aside. Just a guess there.
Giulani/Romney would work,but bad for demographics.
Who knew anything about the peanut farmer or Bubba? All I knew of Clinton was that he talked non-stop at the Democratic Convention ,where they nominated Dukakis ,and he made an ass out of himself.
(grin)
Romney doesn't have a Boston accent to boot. He's not from here.
60. I made a typo. sorry.
Hillary's name recognition works more against her than for her. Her negatives are through the roof, which is why the "powers that be" in the Dhimmirat party are trying to seduce her into taking control in the dims in the Senate from Reid in exchange for not running for POTUS, at least not this time.
Of course, that only has appeal if they take control this time or have a reasonable shot at it next time, and that's not a lock.
But when it gets to one on one in November 2008, both the Republican and Dhimmicrat nominee will be even in terms of name recognition. Romney has the advantage and disadvantage of not yet being defined in most voter's minds. Hillary is already defined in 90% of the voters minds and the majority of voters view her negatively.
Advantage: Romney.
:-) LOL. Well done. Although the easy answer against an energy tax is that it is a tax on the poor and will cost more than Charles may appreciate
LOL I am with you. And I did think of bringing in Thomas Sowell, but I thought that Professor Williams would have more fun with it.
At the time we really didn't know how to go up against someone who was on every side of every issue all the time. How do you defeat such an enemy.
Now we are better equipped, plus the New Media will destroy such fools nowadys, ever heard of John McCain?
Victor Davis Hanson put it best in an earlier post of mine. Bubba was a Southerner with enough charm and enough of a Southern drawl to convince everyone he really was conservative when he wasn't.
He never convinced me of anything other than the fact that he was a fraud and a phony.
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