Posted on 01/13/2008 5:06:25 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Romney, Huckabee, former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi, Iraqi defense minister.
At this junction I would have to decline the bet on who gets the nomination but may unfortunately feel more confident in saying they would not be the next President.
Based on you residency history, maybe you’d have a nice tale you could put together about the contrasts betwixt Mexico and modern Poland.
Your foreign policy qualifications, based on your comment, appear impeccable. Glad you're on board.
GEOFFREY is one of my all time top ten male names, Snugs.
Am I spelling it right? Here in America we spell it Jeffrey or Jeffry. I like that name too.
With the SCOTUS voter ID case in the news this week, I sure expected one of ours to capitalize on that.
Here's what I'd love for Fred or Mitt to say:
In all our outreach/GOTV calls, I've instructed my people to ask whether the person has a current photo ID. Make sure it hasn't expired. If someone has a problem, I've designated a person on my staff to help them through the process.It's time for the GOP to recognize this for the red meat issue it is. And it's an issue that the vast majority of Americans agree with Republicans on.BUT HERE'S MY POINT: Why haven't the Democrats done the same thing with their supposedly vaunted voter outreach programs??! They brag about registering people to vote, driving them to the polls, babysitting their children and even shoveling their driveways. Ask yourself why they haven't used those contacts to identify anyone who might need help with their ID. I'll tell you why: They want the ISSUE, not the solution!
(And, by the way, we've yet to identify a single eligible voter who doesn't have a photo ID)
Fred stands for the same thing, now recall the efforts of the media, Dems and Bush to undermine what the house did, and the gutting of the fence recently!
***I didn’t see it but from what is being said Fred has turned agressive, and it’s working.***
I'd be happy with any of the 3...just about equally. I'd say I'm in pretty good shape!
Most important aspect: Democrats don’t want solutions, they want issues. This is SO true. Sadly, they will take either side of any issue if the person will vote for them. That’s what happens when someone is not grounded with principles, morals and ethics.
I notice a good number of normally pragmatic posters warning of the candidates McCain and Huckabee. They see both as being, knowingly tools of the left and that they shouldn't be trusted.
It's one thing in the general election to pragmatically vote for a candidate who might be 30% liberal or even 50% liberal when left with a Hillary alternative. It's quit another thing to vote for a candidate who pretends to be conservative but who works non stop undermining the conservative movement.
I believe and this is very hard for me to say, that both McCain and Huckabee should not be supported in the general election if that is the choice we are given.
Maybe come general election day, if given the choice of those two and seeing the dangers of Hillary I would reconsider.
He seems to have turned agressive. About time too. Watch him on You Tube, or someplace, if you can. Maybe it will be posted on his website. I hope so.
-- Placed third in Iowa several points ahead of McCain
-- Raised more than half a mil and went over his goal in fundraising and whose website crashed because of so many visits during and immediately following the Myrtle Beach debates
-- Was immediately hailed as "the winner of the debate" in Myrble Beach by Fox News' very own Luntz focus group (although later the group apparently renegged on that, and how that's possible is beyond me)
-- Has consistently stayed within a margin-of-error or more of the other four candidates in a fraction of the time and using a fraction of the campaign dollars
Fox News' "Talking Heads," who report only what they decide they want you to know, never mentioned this guy except ONCE that I heard, and that was a passing reference by Juan Williams.
Anybody who thinks Fox News attempts bias-free reporting or that it is a friend of conservatism, is sadly very mistaken on both counts.
Fox News is as much part of the drive-by MSM as MSNBC and CNN. They have betrayed the Fourth Estate.
Hopefully, you will. And, hopefully, you won’t have to!
How was it possible that they renegged and changed their minds??
That's what undecideds do when they are pushed. That's why we should not depend on them.
FRink!
Anybody who thinks Fox News attempts bias-free reporting or that it is a friend of conservatism, is sadly very mistaken on both counts.
That is to say that Fox News fails to report the whole story, hence its viewers, like viewers of all the other MSM outlets, lack accurate data of what's really happening in this Republican primary. It is a disgusting and traitorous thing for any news organization to do, and Fox has done it. Fox News is as phony as CNN and MSNBC when it comes to being our eyes and ears on the "what's newsworthy?" front. When a guy comes out of nowhere and in a fraction of the time and on a fraction of the budget manages to get to where Fred Thompson has gotten, that's newsworthy no matter WHAT you think of Thompson.
Brit Hume, you are a worm.
[George Will doesn’t think that Hillary’s choking up moment was contrived.]
I am amazed at the number of people that are ‘willing to give her the benefit of the doubt’! However, they all add, ‘But I think she was faking it’!
Kind of reminds one of leftist politicians claiming abortion should be rare, huh.
Sounds like CNN is really on top of the breaking news of live appearances of the candidates. Hilda from, I think a black church in SC.
It would be very hard for me to vote for Huckabee in the general ... but, I’d have to do it.
I voted for Dole, too. What was my alternative? Bill Clinton?
To paraphrase Rumfeld’s “you go to war” comment: you go into the general election with the candidate you have, not the one you wish you had; I try to see the world as it is, not as I wish it to be. I’m a strategic voter.
Don’t get me started! I could write a book. Funny thing: I like Mexico much better, but Poles have a word for anything that is old, shabby, sloppy - Meksyk (Polish for Mexico). They also have a word for anything that is great, clean, nice - Ameryka! Mexicans are much happier people. Poles seem to be afraid to be happy and thankful. I have a theory. If they are happy and thankful, they have less excuses for complaining. To be fair, they have a pretty sad history, but it’s partially of their own making. Not the post-war era necessarily, but centuries back. By the way, I’m a newbie. How do I post your reply earlier and it italics?
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