Russert Has Dean for Breakfast on MTP; Dean is Toast

NBC ^ | June 22, 2003 | nwrep

[nwrep]

Dean is Toast; Russert skewered him on MTP

Please post your impressions of this morning's Meet the Press. Here are some revelations about Dean that Russert dug up, thanks to his thorough research staff:

1. Dean actually wants to raise payroll taxes, and increase taxable income from the current 85,000 dollars to 100,000.

2. Got a Vietnam deferrment for a bad back, but spent the same year skiing in Aspen (1971).

3. Wants to recognize gay couples who get married in Canada.

4. Lied to NARAL by withholding critical, relevant information about parental consent during the abortion of a 12 year old girl. Got totally hammered by Russert on this.

5. First said no cuts in SS, Medicaid and the military, but on being pressed, conceded he may have to cut atleast the rate of growth in all three.

6. Changed stance on the death penalty recently, but argues his "thinking" started changing in 1994, but offered no proof of it (how could he? It is easy to say my thinking started changing long before I became a presidential candidate).

7. Claims to be strong on guns, but has "no problem" with gun control laws being "as tough as they want to be" in the states. (My comments: "As tough as they want to be"? Mr. Dean? No respect for the constitution? Have you read the second amendment?)

8. Argues he did not apologize to Sen. Graham, merely said "I am sorry I said that". Russert laughed and asked, "That is not a apology?" What a phony this "straight-talker" is turning out to be!!

9. Got completely shredded to bits on the military when he could not remember the strength of our armed forces, could not say how much he wanted to increase the Afghanistan forces, got flat footed on his statement about ours will not always be the strongest military. Came across as completely unworthy of being a steward of our armed forces.

10. And best of all, wants to increase our income taxes by rolling back all the tax cuts passed last month.

It is hard to imagine a worse performance by a major party candidate. Even Sharpton came across as more believable!!!

[Arkie2]

Is it true that when you get out of the Marine Corp you're still a baby killer?

[IAmNotAnAnimal]

No, the marines are above that, they leave baby killing to us Army grunts...nice post BTW...don't let facts get in the way of a good argument

[Arkie2]

Just a little humor along the same lines you used. Maybe crude remarks about Ark don't strike me as funny as the reference to the Marine Corp obviously doesn't strike you as funny.

[IAmNotAnAnimal]

Truce...I'll bring the BBQ, you bring the beer

[Arkie2]

Sounds good. Guiness OK with you?

[Aquinasfan]

2. Got a Vietnam deferrment for a bad back, but spent the same year skiing in Aspen (1971).

A miracle? LOL! Thanks for the good news.

[csvset]

Big Al Sharpton should be coming up soon. Wolf mentioned him prior to the break.

[q_an_a]

Most of these NE states have a population of a small suburab of most major cities. I know the 2 senator system works, but I wish there was some way to change the primary system so that candidates had to work hard in ONE large and ONE small state for the opening round. That would smooth out the flaws of small states. IOWA, NH and SC are not real good views anymore of what Ameirca is all about.

Your comment is right on.

[RippleFire]

bump

[jagrmeister]

>10. And best of all, wants to increase our income taxes by rolling back all the tax cuts passed last month

Please. Let's not let Democrats off-the-hook with the "rolling back tax-cuts" line. What they are advocating is a $1T tax increase. We must hold them do that. The tax cuts are a done deal. So Democrats must sell the American people on raising taxes by $1 trillion.

[jagrmeister]

A lot of Russert bashers here. Russert is one of the toughest and most evenhanded journalists out there. He grills almost everyone he interviews (exceptions are the non-political types that he has on occasionally). Compared to Schieffer and Stephanopolous, he is a godsend.

[texasbluebell]

Her heinous? I'm sure it's not original with me!

I think I've read it before on these boards!

But it certainly does fit that woman.

[Grampa Dave]

Please take notes for me. I would not watch Blitz or CNN for 3 minutes let alone 3 hours.

[Trident/Delta]

Listen A$$**le.. I was born and raised in Perry, AR. If you can't take the heat, go over to DU to be a queen.

Semper Disgusted

[KC_Conspirator]

3. Wants to recognize gay couples who get married in Canada.

Yes he does. Dean wants to shove this perversity down the throats of normal citizens of America and he blatantly lied about his intentions today becasue he knows his agenda is totally unacceptable.

[Arkie2]

Sounds like a personal problem to me. Sorry about your childhood. Hope things get better for you. Take two aspirinn and call a doctor.

[codercpc]

bump for later read.

[Phantom Lord]

rarely watch MTP. I couldn't tell you the last time I did. But yesterday I watched Fox News while having breakfast, feeding the dogs, etc... When I finished with breakfast I started getting ready for a magic show I was performing for a corporate party yesterday afternoon (plotting my routine, what effects and tricks to include, what childrens stuff to bring, etc...) and decided to put on MTP for background noise. Had no idea Dean was going to be on. He got his ass handed to him badly yesterday. Real bad. It was almost embarassing how bad he got pummeled.

As a side note, the magic show was a great success. People love when you entertain their children at events kids do not usually enjoy and the people love seeing their boss messed with.

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

How can he be toast? The libs love this kind of double talk.

[nwrep]

Great to hear your kids had fun.