Posted on 02/22/2004 11:10:53 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
WASHINGTON (AP) - In Arizona, Judy Donovan says she feels desperate for a new president. In Tennessee, Robert Wilson says he finds the president revolting. In Washington state, Maria Yurasek says she'd vote for a dog if it could beat President Bush.
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Yep.
In other words they don't simply hate Bush, they hate all of us who are conservative Christians. It is something worth noting. Forewarned is, after all, forearmed.
A steady 33% hated Clinton.
If Her Scariness were to run, I'll bet that number jumps to 40%!
"A Bush opponent can vote against the president only once in November, no matter how intense the anger. So does it matter how much voters dislike him, if these are people who would have voted against him anyway?"
Hahahaha - they can shove a bunch of punch ballots into a single machine and then get a judge to put the law aside to divine the intent of a bunch of bent chads that only dimpled. The law don't count if you're on the side of "good" versus "evil" Bush Republicans.
The hippies have smoked too much grass.
After all it was the Beatles who sang, "All you need is love, love, love" in a time of war.
Your schtick has been known for a couple of weeks, Lizard Queen.
Punk the Prez- Moby's anti-Bush Tricks
One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes."
Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.
"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.
Last month, Bush did propose reforms to immigration policy. But he insisted, "I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship [because it] perpetuates illegal immigration."
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson likened Moby's proposal to "dirty campaign tactics we're already seeing from John Kerry."
"His campaign was willing to use these kinds of voter suppression tactics against members of his own party in Iowa and New Hampshire," Iverson says. "John Kerry is a hypocrite. He pledged to run a clean campaign. Then he uses the lowest form of gutter politics to impugn his opponents, Democratic and Republican. It's unfortunate but this is probably just the beginning of the kind of tactics we're going to be seeing from John Kerry in the months to come."
Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, "I doubt that Moby was suggesting anybody suppress the vote. We did not use any dirty tactics against any candidate.
"When it comes to dirty tricks the Republic party wrote the book. We've already seen Republican attacks and we haven't even won the nomination yet. The Republican Party is clearly afraid of John Kerry."
Are you saying that this is true or do mean if it was true?
1. The presence of this article as well as a similar NYT article is obviously no coincidence. The new leftist talking point apparently consists of claiming there's a lot of hate out there for Bush, including among those who previously voted for him - and the implication is more votes for Kerry or Edwards. That's patently false: Any dislike of the president's policy will more likely suppress turnout, but no conservative will vote for Kerry instead.
2. Folks who pointed to the fact that the Democrat Party was on the verge of collapse have been proven wrong. Regardless of the AP/NYT's motivation for printing these articles, they do illustrate the larger point that this country is divided and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
MoodyBlu
They only see the military as a jobs program.
Republicans wave the flag and mean it.
They don't stand by one just for a photo.
In a time of instant gratification, one should remember that the best things come to those who wait.
Bush has initiated a fiscal and economic plan that will result in 40,000,000 new jobs in the next 15 years.
Who could have imagined that the policies that Reagan started in 1981 would result in 40,000,000 new jobs in the two decades that followed?
He has an amnesty proposal?? You're just making that up aren't you? Or are you flat out lying? And what is an alient?
Yeah, and I've made some of them. But that's different from this visceral, irrational hatred the left feels for Bush. I don't hate Bush - I just realize that for everything he does that advance the conservative agenda, he'll do a thing or two that advance the liberal agenda. But that's what he said he was going to do during the campaign, so it makes no sense to hate him for that.
No, the left hates Bush because he is the embodiment of the fact that the left is falling apart in this country. Their philosophy is obviously a failure to anyone with a shred of objectivity. Young people are laughing at leftists. Comics and writers from Dave Barry to Dennis Miller to Mark Steyn are skewering them daily. Their irrational positions on the Iraq War and other things connected to the fight against terrorism show that they are disconnected from reality, and most people see that. Leftists are by turns shunned and ridiculed.
And they just can't stand it. After two generations of holding the high ground via their lackeys in the press and academia, they are now losing ground rapidly. Since they believe in their socialist philosophy as a matter of faith, they can't turn their back on it. All they can do is lash out at symbols of their failure. And Bush is the biggest symbol around.
Bush is as innocuous a president in terms of personality that we've had in a long time. But that doesn't matter. He's the symbol of leftist failure, so he's the target of hate. They would rather do that than confront their own failure.
WMD: What is important about WMD is not what we thought we knew or knew we didn't know but Proliferation. Will John Kerry or George Bush do a better job taking nasty toys away from people who hate us?
Jobs?: What would Al Gore and now Kerry have done to prevent the loss of manufacturing jobs? More public programs for public sector jobs over private sector jobs? Thus, higher taxes.
Immigration: Gore? Now Kerry? Ignore it all, at least Bush wants to get their addresses.
Campaign Finance Reform?: Gore/Kerry - CFR only for Republicans probably.
So pick your issues wisely when thinking about sitting the election out or voting the Constitution Party. Principles are admirable. We should challenge our politicians to have more of them. But it is a choice of two forces in America. For me WMD proliferation is important because as my father used to warm me about defensive driving, "You ain't right if your're dead.
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