Posted on 07/13/2007 9:51:52 AM PDT by PolishProud
What's with Laura Ingraham? This morning Peggy Noonan wrote an op ed which included the following criticism of President Bush:
"Every major domestic initiative of his second term has been ill thought through and ended in failure. His Iraq leadership has failed. His standing is lower than any previous president's since polling began.",
Laura loved Noonan's op ed. Go gal, kick him when he's down.
Ingraham is taking herself too seriously. Yesterday she was aghast over security chief Chertoff's "gut feeling." I don't know why. I would appreciate any source regarding security even Chertoff's gut. She also found Chertoff less than handsome. What a cheap shot.
Ingraham lost me when she went over to the dark side on the Foley scandal. She thought Hastert should have resigned for not protecting male pages from gay congressmen.
Bill Kristol,yesterday on her show, suggested that now is the time that talk show hosts should support the president. His comment went right over her head.
they don’t care for Bush. I was in the military and yes, most of those I served with voted GOP.
Different strokes. I'll bet you love Ann Coulter as most people who can't Noonan do. I personally adore Noonan, and can't stand Coulter.
Anyone who expects the religious right to carry the day in ‘08 is delusional. They are not numerous enough to offset the huge number of people who are just fed up with all of them.
Yep. that’s why there are 31 flavors at the old BR. ;o)
Then keep your money. This is not the forum for defeatists.
Mazal tov!
As a daily listener and a member of Laura 365, I can tell you with no fear of contradiction that you have no flippin'/freakin'/frickin' idea what you're talking about. You sound like the deranged Debbie Schlussel, who pukes all over Laura every chance she gets because she isn't in favor of endless urban sprawl, and thus, she says, isn't a "real" conservative.
In case you haven't been paying attention, let me fill you in: President Bush has turned on his base. He and his mavens (Chertoff and Rove most prominently, with assistance from Tony Snow) have trashed and smeared bonafide conservatives who are against amnesty in a way they haven't criticized liberal politicians that have not only targeted, but out-and-out personally insulted Bush, like Kennedy, Schumer, Murtha, Reid, Pelosi, Durbin, Rangel, Kerry, and more others than I have time to list.
In trying to shove amnesty down the throats of the electorate in general and conservatives in particular, Chertoff, Rove and Bush have intimated that opposition to his plan is rooted in hatred, xenophobia, and bigotry, which is what the Air America crowd says about conservatives. If anyone is ready to join up with the Al Frankenfrauds, it's them! Why is it supposed to be tolerable for Club'Pubs to do it, but not liberals?
I presume you live in the United States, and not North Korea, where you if you have a radio, you can't change the channel from the government channel. You don't have to listen to Laura Ingraham. You're free to hear her -- not listen -- and go off half-cocked on her. But don't expect to do so without being smacked down with a cold hard dose of the facts.
Today, they may vote GOP...there was a time it was mostly the dems they voted for. Until, that party took a HARD LEFT TURN...
Well, if you don't have the press on your side, you find other ways to get your message out. It takes more effort, but it can be done. Bush hasn't done squat in that respect.
Bush, indirectly but certainly, disparagingly referred to the perfectly legal Minute Men as vigilantes.
Bush also has never spoke out against or distanced himself from Michael Chertoff's comment about those opposing illegal immigration: "Maybe they want people thrown in jail for ten years or they want people executed."
I think that when a member of your Cabinet makes an unfounded and asinine accusation that Americans want to execute 20 million illegals it deserves a comment or two repudiating that person, just before they are shown the door.
You have drunk the whole pitcher of Kool-Aid.
"Fear mongering" is an utterly bogus taunt used by libs to bash conservatives.
If "fear" is not one of the things in the mind of a voter when he enters the booth, then he is not intelligent enough to be allowed to vote. Governments do as least as much evil in this world as they do good. Fear is healthy.
And as soon as the libs finish bashing conservatism as "the politics of fear," they remind the crowd that if conservaties are elected social security will be bankrupted and dragging black people to death will be made legal.
I don't think much of your arguments on this thread in general, but seriously, I urge you to bury for all time this bashing of people for arousing "fear" in a political debate. It is a bad play from the other team's playbook. As long as there is government, there will be fear.
Oh my gosh. Peggy has done some splendid work but having ~all~ of one's words preserved surely does have its downside.
I wonder what Laura’s listenership numbers are?
She’s doing great. She and Levin each did more to stop amnesty than Limbaugh and Savage and Hannity put together.
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Do you have any stats or just your wish for her continued presence on the radio?
That she and Levin “did more to stop amnesty” is just silly. Every conservative talk show host in every city in America was on the same page with that dreadful legislation.
Seriously, do you have any numbers of listeners for her or for Mark?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I am not wild about her on her radio program, she is hard to listen to for some reason. She is like listening to a young teenager.
That is EXACTLY what FDR and Truman did. What does Laura expect the President to do, stand up there, wring his hands and cry that things are not going according to the original plan? As she should know, since she's close to military folks, very few battle plans outlive the first battle, and they shouldn't. Military planners should always be ready for changes on the ground.
The news coming out of Iraq is GOOD, and she must be ignoring that to still give the President grief about it. No, Iraq hasn't suddenly embraced democracy or even Constitutional Republicanism, but then, neither had Japan or Germany only four years after large scale military operations had ceased, and there were still elements of terrorism in areas of Germany several years after the war. No, they weren't as pronounced as those perpetrated by Al Queda, but then, that's why it's called the War on TERROR, and not just the War in Iraq.
You mean the tax cut that is going to sunset?
That's what burns my butt about Bush. His domestic agenda & leadership has been, and still is, in the toilet. We gave him BOTH HOUSES of Congress for crying out loud, and he didn't do jack with it.
Yes Roberts was a good pick for SCOTUS, but only after we raised Bloody Hell over Harriet.
Sorry I offended you, but Maureen Dowd...ugh! You really know how to hurt someone, don't you?
Are you a Rachmaninoff fan? I'm aware of the difference in our spelling, but it's the same composer...it's spelled this way on my CD. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 - Variation XVIII is one of my favorite pieces of music. I bet Maureen's never heard of it!!
What’s with Laura? Nothing, really. She got her homosexual brother’s “man genes” and tells it like it is. Obviously has a mercurial temper, and likely would be near impossible to live with.
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