I like that!!!
"Bottom Line:
Unless they catch Fred Thompson in bed with a dead girl or a live boy; he will be the next POTUS."
But we are all going to have to chip in and do our part!
Posted on 09/05/2007 12:05:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Yesterday, I read Bob Novak's column titled "Republican Melancholy," which correctly caught the current depressed mood in GOP circles. President Bush's position on illegal immigration has deeply alienated much of the loyal rank and file Republicans across the country. Key Republican incumbents, such as Sen. John Warner of Virginia and Rep. Debbie Price of Ohio, are announcing their retirements. Sen. Larry Craig's cringe-inducing disgrace only adds to the funereal mood. And, of course, the Iraq War, for all the surge's success this summer, remains vastly unpopular with the public. To top off this GOP discontent, none of our presidential candidates has so far come even close to being seen as our "next Reagan."
It is undoubtedly true that most Republican professional strategists and pollsters are bracing for a potentially grim election night 14 months from now. I share that assessment and that mood.
But it is also true that the mood of an individual, a party or a country tends to be a trailing indicator of reality. A mood is the sum of emotions responding to past and present events. And, just as a 3-year-old child can instantly swing from tears to joyous laughter as soon as he is given previously denied candy or a toy, so can seasoned political operatives and adult voters everywhere switch their moods and their judgments of political events on a dime.
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Are all those keyword yours? That’s impressive!
Especially since I’m a two finger typist! LOL
this part is not true.
Regards
What bothers me about this, is that it seems more about what happens at the polls than what happens at the border or the federal piggy bank or the War on Terrorism. Forget those things, how are we going to do in November of 2008?
Look Tony, take care of business and November 2008 will take care of itself.
I happen to agree with you about the WOT, but your take on illegal immigration and big government spending leaves me cold.
People don’t remember that the Democrats have spent like drunken sailers for fifty years. All they remember is that the Republicans spent like drunken sailers last.
How can conservatives go out and talk to their neighbors assuring them that Republicans are fiscally conservative? Right now, they simply can’t. How can Republicans convince their neighbors that our party will take care of the illegal immigrant problem, after eight years of singing the praises of a guest worker program that transitions to citizenship over time? Well we can’t.
What we can do is pump the war issue. Okay that’s great. I don’t mind doing that, but our party used to stand for more than this. The military was a given. Physcal restraint was a given. The sanctity of our nation sovereignty was a given. Well not any more, and election days mean less and less to me, and what takes place between them is becoming more and more important.
If the RP wants my vote, they damn well better get off their duffs and earn it over the next 14 months. Put that under your crystal ball and park it.
To the contrary, I have a GOOD feeling about the GOP prospects in the 2008 elections.
The Dimwhits have shown themselves to be total cave-ins to illegal immigrant wishes, Islamo-nut job wishes, govt.-run healthcare desires, etc. etc.
My bumper stickers continue to get a thumbs up everywhere I go...
REPUBLICANS KEEP THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY.
DEMOCRATS KEEP THE WORLD SAFE FOR TERRORISTS.
It is an undeniable fact, and even the Democraps know it.
“I have a GOOD feeling...”
Me too. While the dems wail about “culture of corruption”, the republicans are the only ones interested in culling the ranks of the corrupt—I think it should make for some really good publicity come election time.
“It is undoubtedly true that most Republican professional strategists and pollsters are bracing for a potentially grim election night 14 months from now. I share that assessment and that mood.”
The congress has an approval rating of 18%. It will not stay that low, but will NOT rise to more than double this number. If anyone can point to a reason why it would he is reading some secret material from somewhere because I sure don’t see it. Okay, so this points to an Election day where the rat controlled congress is at a rating level where the American controlled congress was last year when we lost. If anyone can explain the advantage this gives the rat, I’d love to hear it.
Now for the moment let’s leave the senate aside.
At the top the rat will be running the beast. She has the largest negative numbers ever recorded and these numbers are the worst kind because they are “I’d NEVER vote for Hillary Clinton.” That’s NEVER and that number is at least 45%, but it has been recorded at 52%! Not once by an RNC poll but by Rasmussen and Pew and Gallup and everybody else. The ratmedia and the rat himself can make believe these numbers are not important, but how can they be ignored? They can’t.
lil dick morris’s non sense aside, the beast will draw out women who NEVER voted before, but certainly not every one of them will be voting for her. She will get some bump in women, but enough to overcome the 45% NEVER vote? I don’t believe she can.
So how does the rat senate “shine” so brightly that it picks up seats? How does it overcome the drags above and below? I’d like to hear that explanation.
When the Sept 7 hearing happens if Kendall can not get the beast and clinocchio off the witness stand and the Sept 15 report disproves the rat’s Iraq lies, things will get a little worse for the rat.
Bottom Line:
Unless they catch Fred Thompson in bed with a dead girl or a live boy; he will be the next POTUS.
I only hope & pray he does a better job than the last last guy. In fact, I can only think of one decent president in my lifetime, RR.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Most non-Hispanic Americans don’t vote based on immigration reform. So it really doesn’t matter if they agree with us a little more than the Dims.
THIS STORY HAS GOT ME SINGING - GIMME THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION OF REAGAN CONSERVATISM
Why I feel Fred Thompson can revive that old-time religion of genuine Reagan like conservatism. It’s his ability to communicate, honestly and openly and with such flair.
A major irritation of the Republican base has been Bush’s trouble articulating. Given a prepared speech he can deliver it with the best of them, but slap a microphone in front of him like at a press conference and we Republicans cringe. His sloppy speaking style only serves to bolster the perception of his incompetence.
That is why the most important but least discussed asset we are looking for in a candidate is the ability to communicate, and Fred Thompson seems to be what we the Republicans are yearning for.
We need to not just get a victory in 2008, but we need to look beyond Bush and focus on the long term vision of the Conservative movement. Each of the candidates running have good attributes, and maybe just maybe a few of them have what it takes to beat Hillary, but where will they take the party?
Is this just about beating Hillary? Yea, we get some sweet revenge, but four years of more of the same politics as usual in D.C. . Or is this about a rediscovery of our values and our common sense as a Nation, and the resurgence of national pride? We need the President to be the “Nations President” once again.
It’s been written not long after the mess in Florida with the hanging chads, that to half the Nation, President Bush was their President, but to the other half he was not President at all. We can as Americans no longer afford to have that sort of a divide between our people.
Ronald Reagan said he left the entertainment world for politics because he wanted to protect something precious. Well the office of President is something precious and the respect for it should be preserved. The President once again needs to be “Our President”, weather you voted for him or not. Out of all the potential presidential candidates, Fred Thompson is the one that can unite us and move us forward to better things.
In President Reagan’s Farewell Address he said, “I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things.” Fred Thompson is a communicator of great things and I am honored to be behind him.
There is trouble in the Dems waters and I would love to see their day-after reaction when Bush is replaced by another Republican.
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