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ZOT! Can there be a serious challenge to Bush in the GOP primaries?
John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach ^
| november 29, 2003
| john buchanan
Posted on 11/29/2003 6:16:23 PM PST by Republican Challenger
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Wow. Thanks. :0)
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:48:23 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: Republican Challenger
You say you are "personally opposed to abortion", if this is so, how can you support first trimester and at-risk abortions ? There seems to be a conflict in your stance on this issue. You should change the wording of "support" to I "accept but do not agree with the US Supreme Court ruling on this issue". That would be easier for someone like me to digest , being someone who opposes the procedure completely.
"I would enforce our borders as energetically as I would homeland security." ..... I do not know your record on enforcing homeland security, so I cannot come to a conclusion on what you would do to address the illegal immigration issue. What about "all" the illegals currently in this country , would you support deporting them as the are picked up? I need a few more specifics.
"I would re-vamp and better enforce the entire visa process as a critical matter of national security."
This is a nice sound bite that appears to take a hard stance, but again lacks the specifics for me to come to a general idea of what you would actually do about the H1B and L1 visa issue.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:48:38 PM PST
by
Peace will be here soon
(Beware, there are some crazy people around here !!! And I could be one of them !!)
To: Chad Fairbanks
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:48:42 PM PST
by
eddie willers
(Molly Ivins...the love child of Noam Chomsky and Minnie Pearl)
To: Dan from Michigan
He's writing a book - has a deal with a publisher - about his presidential run. Need I say more?
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:49:27 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: Republican Challenger
Perhaps never before has a U.S. President so divided the country, according to a recent Time cover story. Despite Bushs promise to be a uniter, not a divider,Bill Clinton is the prime culprit. Clinton's cynical, self-serving, and lamentable presidency fractured the left and right into sharply polarized camps, and incited them to contend fiercely against each other in a great cultural civil war.
In this war, the left is losing. Its Godless ideology of enforced socialism to "improve" the people has been discredited and proven to be an expensive and catastrophic failure. The left has no fresh or workable ideas left to it. All it has is its rage, but that is enough to keep it dangerous. When liberals such as Dukakis lament that this is the darkest and most bleak period of American History, they are really betraying their own sense of impotence and increasing irrelevance. They will not go quietly into that dark night.
Yet Bush has pushed through liberal-oriented legislation such as the Leave No Child Behind Act, the Medicare prescription plan, and the Africa AIDS initiative. These have won him no support from the the left. They have merely howled more loudly. What do they hate about Bush? In large part, they despise him because he rejects the moral relativism of the left and wears his Christianity openly and unashamedly. And the depth of their loathing is a reflection of their own panicked sense they are losing the debate.
And to answer your question, you don't have even the slimmest of chances of mounting a credible challenge to Bush in the primary. No Republican does.
To: eddie willers
He is simply mining fodder for his upcoming book.
Maybe he'll plagiarize us and then we can sue him and make a mint. :-)
Bookmark now, reap the benefits later.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:49:49 PM PST
by
CounterCounterCulture
(The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?)
To: eddie willers
We nailed that at the same time.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:50:03 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: Republican Challenger
Heck, go ahead and run. I know of one County in Florida, that is good for 3000 votes, just on your name alone. The Nazi article you expound, has to be good for a few thousand. At the very least it will add a few bottom feeders over at DU to your total. Your cutting edge medical care proposal, will perk the interest of the trans- gender community, add a few more votes. If you can come up with a few more key proposals, you will have people voting for you, that you would not have in your own house. Yeah! keep going, thats the ticket.!
To: Chad Fairbanks
BWHAHAHA! I was just going to post this excerpt to you.
"He also has a deal with a publisher to write -- after his race is done -- a book about his 2004 run.
Look at this, the media "profiteer" is running on a platform to stop the "war profiteers". How fitting!
To: Kaslin
LOL!
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:51:01 PM PST
by
ConservativeMan55
(The left always "feels your pain" unless of course they caused it.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Very true. I see he just wants to make money off this too.
Money grubbing... oh I forgot he is a journalist That means that it is ok for him to make money off of politics.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:51:09 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(I shot an arrow in the air. / Where it falls I do not care. / I buy my arrows wholesale)
To: Chad Fairbanks
I figured that from the start.
Free press....free advertisement. Some people can make a lot of money from presidential and gubenatorial runs.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:51:24 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Why does it happen? Because it happens, roll the bones")
To: A Citizen Reporter
Yup. Stir up some controversy, make a pretty penny with a book deal, and accomplish absolutely nothing of social value. Just like Liberals.
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:51:36 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: Chad Fairbanks; Cultural Jihad
We nailed that at the same time. Cultural Jihad picked up on it too.
He's just in the race in order to sell magazine articles to greedy corporate interests. There ought to be a law!
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:51:59 PM PST
by
eddie willers
(Molly Ivins...the love child of Noam Chomsky and Minnie Pearl)
To: KDD
You need to bone up on your Adam Smith. He's at the core of my economic plan. He favored pure market economics, not "free trade" as practiced today. I'll have a detailed economic package position paper shortly and Adam SMith will be prominently featured.
To: Chad Fairbanks
This is what it's all REALLY about. Not values, beliefs, priniples or anything like that. It's money, pure and simple.
Sounds like...capitalism...evil corporate America...maybe he should spread his wealth to "the masses" (us) if he becomes evil-rich off the book (which he won't)
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:52:28 PM PST
by
CounterCounterCulture
(The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Dan from Michigan
It dives me an idea though - maybe I can run as a republican on the democrat ticket, and write a book... wonder what my advance would be? ;0)
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:53:08 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
I don't begrudge anyone making an honest buck - but, I'd prefer they at least be honest about it :0)
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:53:55 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
To: BJungNan
Afgahnistan is becoming an embarassment. Iraq is already an embarrassment. North Korea has saber rattled to the point where Bush looks foolish. Iran's the same. Where's the perception of our 'might" -- a key factor in winning the Cold War?
To: Republican Challenger
Afgahnistan is becoming an embarassment. Iraq is already an embarrassment. North Korea has saber rattled to the point where Bush looks foolish. Iran's the same. Where's the perception of our 'might" -- a key factor in winning the Cold War?So, does this mean you'll be making joint appearances with Hillary Clinton on her next Demoralization Tour of the Mideast?
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posted on
11/29/2003 8:55:41 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Of course there's more to Science than just hurting animals, but frankly its the part I like best.)
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