(North Carolina) GOP smells victory in 2002

The News & Observer ^ | June 2, 2002 | ROB CHRISTENSEN

[LenS]

For your sake, I hope you never end up in a dark alley with Margaret Thatcher. Because even after her mini-strokes, she'd still kick your bigoted, fanatical butt.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

We will not vote for a woman nor for a black.

I cannot find the words to express the contempt I have for your statement.

[marajade]

For example, bank doesn't get my mortgage check and I blame the Post Office for losing my letter. A black friend says, don't I know banks "lose" a certain number of payments each month so they can boost their profits with late charges?

Maybe he has the same mortgage company I do. Because my bank actually calls me for my payment before I'm late and after I have proof of delivery by mail.

[marajade]

And FR monitors others who post trash just because we support Bush on a policy decision and let crap like that stay right open on the thread for everyone to read? Whatever.

[Theodore R.]

This man has a point. Women, in the Bible, are not even supposed to teach a Sunday school class in which men are in attendance. If any of you guys have been under the supervision of a woman in the workplace, you might well agree with him. I hate having WOMEN BOSSES: I have never had a one who was not arrogant, pushy, and less qualified than I! Many of these arrogant women are in administration because they are women, not because they are suited for supervisory roles. I understand that even the female employees don't much like WOMEN BOSSES either!!!!

[gitmogrunt]

"all some can do here is flail themselves and moan in angst."

That's not all we can do we can:

Hold our Nose and vote for the GOP's chosen candidate,then HURL.

[Billy Bob 357]

I will not vote for E. Dole. I just have a feeling she is a phoney. I may be wrong.

[Redbob]

This all sounds like good news.

Except for the part about Libby Dole being virtually unopposed, that is!

Politics is certainly at a low ebb in North Carolina!

[Demidog]

LOL. Any Judges Bush puts forth will be holeheartedly in favor of the legislation he signs so what difference does it make?

[marajade]

One case says it all: Roe v. Wade.

[marajade]

Really? Have you ever looked at Condi Rice's qualifications?

Sounds like you have a personal issue in the workplace to me. Maybe you should quit your job.

There is no scripture in the Bible that says that women can't be bosses...

[Demidog]

Bush wouldn't want Roe V Wade overturned. He won't appoint judges that would overturn it either.

[FF578]

So you would rather Bowles get elected and Daschle keep control of the senate, so he can continue to block conservative Judical Nominees like Pickering, (Or anyone that is Conservative for the Supreme Court.)

You do realize that the Supreme Court is the ultimate prize in November. The senate races are going to be tight, the the GOP loses North Carolina the Demonrats WILL Remain in charge in the senate, they will continue to block nominees, and Roe V Wade will be that much further from being overturned.

You want that??????

A RINO is better than a Demonrat every day of the week. Consider your vote for Dole a vote for The Republican Control of the Senate and a vote for Conservative Supreme Court Nominees, otherwise, it will be more years of Daschle.

[FF578]

Every Single one of the people on Bush's Shortlist for the Supreme Court would vote to overturn Roe V Wade. Judge J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, is at the top of the list according to many insiders. Do you think for a second Leahy and Daschle are going to let him get on the Supreme Court?????

In addition Bush's appeals court nominees have been outstanding, Pickering was a good example, however he was shot down by the demonrats who hold the senate thanks to liberaltarians who want abortion on demand like yourself.

[Hagrid]

I will not vote for a woman for office. They just are not capable enough to handle it.

Margaret Thatcher was one of the 2 great British Prime Ministers of the last 125 years. Golda Meir was no wimp. Grow up.

[BlackbirdSST]

You failed to answer my question for examples of how the Dems have protected your liberties and freedoms. If throwing destructive comments and names at people is your way having a constructive debate then it's your loss, not mine. Oh, I love the line about "the blood that feeds the tree of tyranny will soon flow." Planning on starting a revolution soon? Your hard-line stance and overt disgust at others who don't share your far-right zeal are a prime example of why the "right-wing" has often been labeled and associated with the word "terrorists." I give what I get! I didn't fail to answer your question, can't you read? Go ahead and elect your RINO, just what this country needs. Patriot=Terrorist, did you author the un-Patriot Act? You wouldn't have cared much for our founding fathers, they certainly would hold you in disdain. If you believe this country can continue the way it's headed, then you are part of the problem. Blackbird.

[BlackbirdSST]

Most of the Senate Republicans are not RINO's. Even most RINO's will not vote to reject one of Bush's nominees. Bush's court nominees have been conservative as proven by the fact that Leahy is keeping virtually all of them bottled up in committee and Thomas Pickering was shot down after a huge smear campaign. Do you know who Thomas Pickering is? I find that people like you usually have no idea what Bush's court nominees are. You just speak in ignorant generalities. OK, give me a list of non-RINO senate pubbies, then I'll keep my "ignorant generalities" to myself. I can't wait to be educated by the great politico called "lasereye". So I guess you consider Dole to be conservative? Just exactly what are her views, on any topic? Your going to help elect her, what are her views? Blackbird.

[callisto]

The difference is that the Dems agenda is much more in the direction of socialism. I don't see everything he's done since entering office as bad, and I see certain actions on his part more as preemptive political manuevering removing obstacles the Democrats would use/tried to use against him or other Republicans. I understand we'd all like to have a President who satisfies our personal intentions 100% of the time I just don't except that the life works that way. IMHO the more Republican seats the party acquires statewide and nationally the better off our country will be. I'm sorry, I seem to be in the small percentage on this thread who still think that a Democrat would do more harm for our country.

President Bush did not campaign as a hardline far-right conservative. From my viewpoint, he appears to be "handling" the domestic issues and removing any recourse the Dems could throw back at him, signing those bills that need to be passed when the best-hopeful compromise appears to have been reached or when the obvious unconstitutionality of CFR will be found as such by SCOTUS. If Bush hadn't signed CFR we all know that up to this day we'd still be hearing how Pres. Bush and the GOP are "the party of big money and his reluctance to sign the bill proves it and that they don't want any form of campaign finance regulation."

You seem to dislike the Patriot Act, and though I will admit there are parts I'm not real thrilled with myself, post-911 action needed to be taken and had our country waited too long to tighten things up we may have ben attacked again before such an act was passed. I don't believe that would've gone over well with the people if our elected officials were bickering and not accomplishing anything constructive while it happened. All of you folks who think a Democrat is better to vote for are forgetting that the Dems let the Patriot Act zoom right on through Congress because they couldn't quit drooling over the reality that they were getting to take so many of our rights away. Just think what the Patriot Act would look like with the Dems in complete charge of writing it. We'd be living in a more-Orwellian world than our worse nightmares.

[callisto]

Dole is our best shot at maintaining the NC Seanate seat as Republican. Why is it so many people from out of state want to tell us how and who we should select? In all honesty, no other candidate can come as close to guaranteeing Jesse Helm's seat remains in the Repub. category. I'm sorry, folks....we don't have any better, stronger candidates. Let's hope our choices are a major improvement next time around, but should we cut off our nose to spite our face because we have no other major players this round? We have enough Democrat problems in our state. Conservatives in other states should be wanting to see the seat remain Republican, and hopefully see us replace so many of our Dem politicians with more Repub ones. Instead division seems to be the rule of the game this election cycle.

[callisto]

I never said that I agreed with the direction our country is headed. What's ironic, is that the problems I see existing in the Patriot Act are those that will be abused by the next Democrat-elected President and all of you Dole-haters and Bush-bashers are willing to vote Demo because you think it's your personal way to "get even" for legislation passing that you disagree with, and you do so under the rubric that "there is no difference between Rs and Ds anymore." Your vote for the Dems is hurting the country more than my vote for the RINO, in both the short and long run.