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.
Fear of Hillary is built on a faulty premise. Republicans who decided their primary votes based on Fear of Hillary are ill advised.
“I doubt that Fred is interested at all in being ANYONE’s VP.
That’s probably true, but his wife might be interested in being the VP’s wife. Besides, who better than Fred to step in the event of a crisis that requires the VP actually step up into the most important part of the job description?”
Teddy Roosevelt HATED being VP, but did it for the sake of his party. He compared it to “a pail of warm spit.” He was only the VP for a month or two when McKinley was assassinated.
Government bureaucrats would have a field day with Romney — at the expense of my bank account and freedom. I trust Thompson more to protect my freedom.
Norovirus: wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands!
I thought so but was not sure. Thanks. It would make sense for him to support it to since it kind of vindicated his earlier positions.
BTW I think MNJohnnie got a “time out”.
McCain did,indeed, push for more troops in Iraq. I never heard him describe it as temporary...a “surge”. He just thought we had too few combat troops.
But it must be said, he never laid out the kind of counter-insurgent strategy implemented by Patraeus. That honor belongs single handedly to the General.
When all is said and done, al Queda in Iraq laid a lot of the groundwork for our success there. They thoroughly alienated the local population. Petraeus was the one who saw a way to capitalize on it. It’s ironic: everyone says we screwed up in Iraq. But we wouldn’t likely have the success we have today without going through the horrible two years of senseless insurgent violence. If al Queda had followed the despised example of Hamas (charity programs) instead of blowing people up, we would have had a lot tougher time convincing people to join up with us now.
Finny: “That’s funny — I come to the opposite conclusion and while I reject Romney all around, thoughts of his being vicious or unethical are pretty distant. The more I think about it, the more I think Romney is exactly the guy who’d be prone to go for VP slot. It suits his nature and his profession.”
I thought Romney would go for VP with Fred because 1) he respects Fred—that showed in the last debate; 2) He’s young enough (60) to wait 8 years to go for the Presidency; 3) He’s enough of a strategic thinker to realize being VP is a good route to the top job.
If they don’t get their dream candidate then to hell with the rest of us, they’ll take their football and go home. Noe THAT will show us!!
I have no idea which "my-guy-or-the-highway" FReepers you're referring to, and I cannot speak for them.
I DO have every idea of your, and my, presumption on how our actions affect others. We think it matters. Here's where I'm coming from:
"Teach the party a lesson" is your own manufacture. "Teaching" and vengeance are way beyond my ken. What I DO ken is the concept of actions and consequences. They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over when you know it doesn't work.
I ken that much of what we perceive about political realities is illusion presented by selective reporting of conventional news media. My potential choice of deciding that a Liberal Democrat is the lesser of two evils compared to a Big Government/Liberal Republican has nothing to do with "teaching" and everything to do with my thought-through GAMBLE of weathering the consequences in the confidence that it will set in motion a succession of events that will ultimately do more to halt the creep of Big Government usurpation of my labors and freedom, than the obvious FAILED strategy we Republicans have been repeating for the past 20 years.
I am very strong in my conviction that if Hillary won the whole gig, her presidency would be short-lived indeed, her allies in congress would quickly become her critics, and the damage to the Democrat party would be akin to what Nixon did to the Republican party with Watergate. That's my REAL motivation of adopting a courageous, aggressive approach of STANDING UP TO HILLARY IN ANY EVENT.
All that "take their football and go home!" stuff is your own manufacured motivation in my case, and probably in a majority of the folks you criticize. I've been in your shoes before and will no doubt, God willing, be in them again because such battles are the dynamic reality of politics. But REFRAIN from attributing such stupid, shallow, and morally courrupt motivations to ME, please, and I promise I will regrain from attributing them to others when I find myself in your shoes again.
Phsstpok’s Father has been very, very ill.
There’s been some good news last week, but he’s not out of the woods yet.
We could all pray for him and his Dad. I am!
He might be a gospel-singing “compassionate” reporter, who ‘feels’ that Republicans are “mean.”
I rarely watch the weekend Fox shows, but used to read comments from others of their observations that Kelly Wright made remarks that were decidedly tilted away from Bush and Republicans.
The Latino vote *is* the union vote.
The Culinary Union endorsed Obama. I believe it's the biggest union in the state, and encompasses positions you wouldn't normally think of a "culinary": housekeepers, some slot attendant positions, etc. I'm going to guess that it's made up of at least 50% latinos.
Her thighness is screwed.
Just catching the re-run of Fox Sunday with wallace....
what a jerk!!!!
I'm torn when it comes to McCain. He earned a lot of points from me for his standing by GWB during the lowest points of the war.
As for his role in the surge, they say "all is fair...". He's turned it to his advantage. But I do NOT think Petraeus' strategy is what McCain was describing before the surge.
(I'm also bugged by his new boast that go get Bin Laden and chase him to the gates of hell. Kinda implies that GW knows where OBL is but isn't going after him, doesn't it?)
It’s wonderful to see pols now scramble to take credit for matters related to Iraq!
Bin Laden is carbon dust.
Uhhhh....O.K.
I just heard Mara Liason on the panel say "The Clintons always use two sets of brass knuckles when one would do"
Pretty good for a Dem operative.
I’m very disappointed that you let things get so out of control today.
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