'Southern strategy' will be a Dem tactic in 2004

Media General News Service ^ | Aug 12, 2003 | MARSHA MERCER

[gridlock]

"I say, I say, I say boy, you are about the weakest chicken hawk I have seen in fifty years of public service!"

....(Insert sounds of chicken hawk kicking ol' Foghorn Leghorn all over the barnyard....)

[wasp69]

Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts early on said in San Francisco that "Al Gore proved you can win the election without a single Southern state -- if only he'd won New Hampshire.''

Ignore the South at your own peril you elitist, Yankee prig.

[Liz]

Prig? Do I look like a prig?

[wasp69]

Does you posting that picture directly to me allow me to sue you for recovering the cost of my lunch? I mean, seriously, I could get emotional damages from even the most conservative judge ;P

[Liz]

LOL. I knew it'd "get" you in the solar plexus. Why do you think I posted it? LOL.

[wasp69]

LOL. I knew it'd "get" you in the solar plexus. Why do you think I posted it? LOL.

It was more like a swift kick to the nether regions. Besides, that was just plain old "mean spirited" (hehehehehee).

[Liz]

Jeepers, i didn't intend to be "mean".......(snicker).

I can't help it if Kerry is the spitting image of a prig.

[Sloth]

Kerry quickly backed off the notion that he didn't need the South, campaigning in South Carolina, saying he had killed people in Vietnam.

Was he the cook?

[#3Fan]

WASHINGTON -- For decades, the phrase "Southern strategy" has had a negative connotation of Republican presidential candidates playing to the racial fears of Southern whites. In 1968, Richard Nixon wooed Southern Democrats with the idea that he wouldn't push too hard for progress on civil rights. He railed against court-ordered busing and affirmative action. In 1980, Ronald Reagan won Democrats in the South and elsewhere by focusing on traditional values, complaining about "welfare queens" and promising to move able-bodied "young bucks" off the dole.

Holy cow look at the liberal bias in these first three paragraphs. If you're against forced busing, affirmative action (quotas), people ripping off the welfare system, and putting lazy people to work then you're a racist and have fears. Sheesh!

[#3Fan]

Should be "and for putting lazy people to work...".

[Liz]

Heheh......probably got a medal for giving 'em high blood pressure by oversalting K-rations.

[Spruce]

[Liz]

Amazing resemblance....LOL.

[samanella]

"Dean said on Larry King Live, "The South is a region I am always interested in as somebody from the North.""

As we say down here in SC "We don't care how you did it up North."

[Liz]

Howie'll be happy to hear it....LOL.