Posted on 05/25/2003 7:58:04 PM PDT by ewing
Republican pollster David Winston was the first to identify the shift from Soccer Mom to Security Mom and he warns 'What these women are looking for is solutions to make their families and children safer.
It's about solutions, it's not about partisan bickering'
Democratic political consulant Rachel Gorlin agrees, 'We cant criticize what the Bush Administration is doing unless we make it clear that the criticism is toward a new and improved approach -we are turning people off.'
It is that kind of impatience with point scoring politics that nettles women like 31 year old Stacy McDaniel, who stockpiles water and canned goods in San Diego, and plans an exit route when she goes to a ball game.
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Democratic political consultant Rachel Gorlin agrees, We can't criticize what the Bush Administration is doing unless we make it clear that the criticism is toward a new and improved approach-we are turning people off.'
Democratic political consultant Rachel Gorlin agrees, We can't criticize what the Bush Administration is doing unless we make it clear that the criticism is toward a new and improved approach-we are turning people off.'
Attic? Trash?
I first laughed my head off with Gephardt. He reminds me of a more populist Al Gore.
Then I wasn't laughing. I don't think he'll win, but he's from a Midwest swing state, is pro-union, and against NAFTA/GATT. On paper, he could pull it off, but his congressional record will bite him like Gore's did, and he's always been abrasive, and his trap will get him in trouble. He may win Michigan with his populist stance, but couldn't win the country.
Gotta face it, if Bush's tax plan works, it is all over before it began,
I agree, IF the jobs come back or job losses start to turn around.
Guns is almost irrelevant.
Disagree. It'll be a factor among Yoopers, NE lower Penn, St Clair, Macomb and Monroe Countys which are pro. Also in Oakland(although not as much) and places like Meridian Township(Okemos) which are anti. All swing areas. It's a back seat to the economy though, and guns(and other social issues) factor more when the economy is better.
Subsidized medical care might give some oxygen to otherwise asphixiated Dems. And there you have it.
Graham will scare me if his campaign gets off the ground. Dean I need to see more of, but he scares me some as well. The dem base loves him, and he's a former governor. Lieberman would scare me(simply because I wouldn't know what to expect) if he had any personality whatsoever(He'll be primaried out). I don't think Edwards could win Michigan which has doesn't like tort lawyers at all(Fieger factor).
I understand Senator Kerrey went into a bar and the bartender said, "So why the long face?"
I find the thought that American politics turns on what uninformed emotional air-brains think from a polticial perspective, depressing. Maybe it's just me
It is just you.
I mean, I hope you weren't expecting a discourse on the Nichomacheaen Ethics from this crowd.
People almost always vote their basest instincts. The Germans loved Hitler. Gore won the popular vote.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I wish that were true. I could see women without children voting Democrat since they have no children of their own to protect and may not realize what's happening in our schools. But mothers who send their kids to Liberal government schools to be dumbed down and worse who deliberate vote Democrat are scary, IMO.
Ditto.
I'm also glad to know he's not Irish. Why? One of my ancestors was a Carey. No relation. Good.
Garage :)
If people had listened to Pat's suggestions on border defense, we wouldn't be having half the problems with illegals that we do...
After he was elected, she never called him by any title or even his name. Klinton was known as simply..."the asshole".
I usually called him Klintler or King Klinton.
First you have to invent the steam engine, then develop the markets, then you lay the tracks.
Until we got more media presence in radio and cable news and hopefully maybe eventually broadcast TV, there was no way to keep the leftist media from merely labeling a politician who suggested sensible border control merely a racist.
Just five and ten years ago, the leftist media was able to destroy Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich with labels. Their power to do that to one of our rising stars now is less omnipotent.
We have just begun to fight to get control of leftist brainwashing our kids. Think how much simpler it would be for us if we did not have to painfully and logically reeducate all the young adults that have been filled with anti-conservative, pro-liberal crap. We are homeschooling some, and we are beginning to demand testing, which will mean more time needed to teach for the test, and less time available for leftist propaganda. But we have barely begun this fight. So, as far as the borders went, Pat Buchanan was trying to railroad before it was possible to railroad.
Simpler? Yes, life would be simpler if we had not let the leftists take over our schools, our universities, our movies, our TV, our newspapers, our magazines. Then issues such as our borders could have been discussed openly without committing political suicide.
Now we are doing things under the umbrella of Homeland Security, and we are doing them quietly away from the glare of publicity, because we can still be killed if we do this openly.
Right. A good many of them voted for old Bent Twig twice.
Because Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and Dan Rather told them to. All guys.
Everyone is a snitch.
You must snitch for your own good and the good of society.
Why aren't you snitching more?
He's a snitch.
She's a snitch.
Everyone's a snitch.
Snitching is American, what's wrong with you?
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