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Just saw Shep Smith on Fox interviewing Harold Ickes.
FOX | 31OCT'08 | mapmaker77

Posted on 10/31/2008 12:51:25 PM PDT by mapmaker77

I just saw Shep Smith on Fox interviewing clintonista Harold Ickes and these guys are terrified. Ickes, talking about what a terrible campaign Mac is running, was asked for a specific example and after hemming and hawing for 30 secs. finally came up with "it's awful for Mac to talk about zero palling around with terrorists". Of course the next thing out of his mealy mouth was the obligatory Sarahcuda is the worst VP pick in history and yadda-yadda-yadda the polls this and the polls that. These goons are going to lose big and I think they know it!


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: haroldickes; johnmccain; sarahpalin
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To: stevem
I thought Obama had a lock on all fifty states.

Hmmm...I thought Obama had a lock on all fifty-seven states. ;^D

21 posted on 10/31/2008 1:17:34 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: stevem

Naw man... it was fittyseb’n not fitty.

LLS


22 posted on 10/31/2008 1:19:30 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except when it comes to dims!)
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To: mapmaker77

It figures this b@st@rd would come slithering out again. His father, also Harold, was a major league commie radical in Roosevelt’s administration.


23 posted on 10/31/2008 1:19:59 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: mapmaker77

If Miss Shep Smith were on any other cable network he would have been cancelled. He.......sucks. FOX made him successful. He did not make FOX successful. Proof of this: What was the name of the woman(successful at FOX), who went to CNN, and hasn’t been heard from since?


24 posted on 10/31/2008 1:19:59 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: DoughtyOne

“cold cocking this rat bastard”

lol. Got my laugh for the day with that one.

I know you were serious, it’s just that RB is one of my favorite terms. Still chucklin.


25 posted on 10/31/2008 1:20:52 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: DoughtyOne
That’s because Rove is a toss-up IMO. For all the talk about this guy being a great mastermind, I sometimes seem him as a great disaster-mind.

I think Rove had a lot of luck a couple times, but everything else was just hype.

If Rumsfeld's resignation had been announced a few days BEFORE the 2006 election instead of the day after, that election would have certainly had a more favorable outcome.

26 posted on 10/31/2008 1:23:08 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: JZelle
He said Indiana and Montana were toss ups last night.

why would he say this? neither side is campaigning in Montana...

27 posted on 10/31/2008 1:23:52 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: stevem

Fifty-seven to be exact.


28 posted on 10/31/2008 1:25:44 PM PDT by rlferny
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To: rlferny; Right_in_Virginia; LibLieSlayer
Fifty-seven to be exact.

It must be fifty-nine. There were a couple where they wouldn't let him go (until Granny got sick, and there were records to seal). As of this moment I'm not sure who "they" are.

Since Obama is ahead by an infinite margin, it must be fifty-nine.

29 posted on 10/31/2008 1:34:50 PM PDT by stevem
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To: vietvet67

I laugh about it too. It was one of those right time at the right place, or wrong time at the wrong place, toss up moments. You take care.


30 posted on 10/31/2008 1:35:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Our nation is uncomfortably close to having B.O. We need to use a Republican roll on by 11/04.)
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To: wagglebee

I think you’re right. It was insulting to have him announce on the day after the election. If for no other reason than us looking like cold calculating bastards, it shouldn’t have been done that way.

It should have been done at least thirty days out, preferably before the election. Let folks know we’re willing to make changes when they are warranted. It would definitely help IMO.

Thanks WaggleBee...


31 posted on 10/31/2008 1:38:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Our nation is uncomfortably close to having B.O. We need to use a Republican roll on by 11/04.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yep, if Rummy had resigned in early to mid October we would have probably kept the Senate and done better in the House. Resigning the next day just made him seem like some sort of sacrifice.

One thing that Bush has never seemed to understand is that at that level the public’s perception of appointees is the most important thing, that’s why there has always been a fairly high turnover for the secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury and Attorney General, other cabinet secretaries leave for any number of reasons but there is seldom any public demand for it. Gates isn’t doing anything that Rummy wasn’t going to do, it just seems that way to the public.


32 posted on 10/31/2008 1:50:08 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: DoughtyOne
Fox n Friends is generally pretty good in the AM. And then it goes down hill all day.

Stuart Varney is in fine form today, subbing for Cavuto. Stu put the smackdown on Mike Papantonio, a real tool.

33 posted on 10/31/2008 1:53:36 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: stevem

That’s 57 states


34 posted on 10/31/2008 1:55:31 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
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To: wagglebee

I agree. I’ll add that I think the public finds it refreshing when a cabinet official states that an adjustment in policy has been deemed necessary.

I’m not convinced Rumsfeld had to go. That being said, he may have been obstinate, and may have needed to go. I can’t know that.

If he had come out and said a surge was indeed necessary after all, he could have flowered up the announcement with comments like, “Losing is not an option. We are in this to the bitter end, for our friends in Iraq.” He would have come off sounding like a guy determined to stabilize Iraq for our friends. Most people would have gotten it.

You can’t keep the leftists happy no matter what, so we needn’t try.

Gates has been fine. We didn’t have to sacrifice Rumsfeld IMO. It is possible I am wrong, as in the scenario above though.

Take care.


35 posted on 10/31/2008 1:59:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Our nation is uncomfortably close to having B.O. We need to use a Republican roll on by 11/04.)
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To: stevem
I thought Obama had a lock on all fifty states

Don't post stuff if you don't know what you're talking about! It's all 57 states, dipstick! Geez! /sarc off ;)

36 posted on 10/31/2008 2:08:38 PM PDT by RaiderRose (Don't be a racist. Vote for 0bama.)
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To: RaiderRose
Don't post stuff if you don't know what you're talking about! It's all 57 states, dipstick! Geez! /sarc off ;)

Posted slightly earlier:

It must be fifty-nine. There were a couple where they wouldn't let him go (until Granny got sick, and there were records to seal). As of this moment I'm not sure who "they" are.

Since Obama is ahead by an infinite margin, it must be fifty-nine.

37 posted on 10/31/2008 2:29:58 PM PDT by stevem
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