Posted on 06/10/2004 1:42:56 AM PDT by kattracks
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The democrat party is the "Party of Marx, Lenin and Stalin" and ann Coulter is right on target.
Kennedy was raging about the treatment of Terrorists and trying to blame GW Bush.
Where the Hell was Fatso Kennedy when the Thousands of Catholic Children were being Sexually RAPED and TORTURED by Barbaric Catholic Priests over the last 40 to 60 years that we know about.
He was as silent as Mary Jo Kopeckne, and he still is.
Isn't Kennedy a Catholic???
Kennedy is the Face of the democrat party!
I think that's factual. He waged his battles, created consensus and went home at the end of the day either a victor or least getting things to move in the right direction. And most people in the process didn't have wounds to lick at the end of the day. That cannot be said now.
I refuse to let them re-write history to suit themselves.
And yes, there were many unkind things said about Nancy, just as there have been many unkind things said about democratic first lady's by right leaning reporters. Her use of astrology was, let's say, different. He did appear shrill and high strung. It stuck because to a point it was true. Should that have been part of the debate? I don't know. But we've obviously been active in our assualt not only on Hillary because of her political aspirations, but also on Gore's wife. We sometimes went after Roselyn Carter, and she was pretty inert.
Partisan politics isn't pretty. We remember the attacks on us (our side) and forget those we make on them.
For example, Maureen Dowd has a column today which ends with her comment that Ronald Reagan was exhilirating, but right or wrong, George Bush is a bummer.
Maureen Dowd had a front page story in the New York Times accusing Nancy of cheating on her husband with Frank Sinatra.
THAT is the two-faced type of behavior I am talking about. I don't expect the media to fall all over themselves in praise, nor do I expect tacky criticism. I would appreciate it if they wouldn't LIE about their past behavior.
But fact is, there will be conservatives that will write puff pieces when Ted, Clinton, Jimmy Carter and other democratic dignitaries meet their maker.
The popular Pat Schroeder of CO was on C-SPAN this morning to explain how she coined the term the "Teflon President." She was cooking eggs for her children one morning during the 1984 Gary Hartpence primary campaign and was outraged that nothing seemed to stick to Reagan. So she said that Reagan was just like this "Teflon pan." And history was made by the smiling, smiling Schroeder, who was in a gleeful mood today. She had even considered herself running for president to succeed Reagan, whom she loathed.
You should be a huge Al Smith fan. He was the last Democrat that a conservative could have supported!
Liberals though said that Smith was jealous of FDR's success in politics and turned against the master for petty reasons. Smith did support Alf Landon in 1936. Smith was personally crushed that NY state supported Hoover in 1928.
Myself, when asked for an opinion about Clinton on his death, I will say "He made me pay more attention to politics" and then I will remain silent. I will respect his passing as a past president and neither say hateful things nor pretend I was fond of him.
Schroeder also accused Reagan of being "personally opposed" to the MLK Holiday Act, which he signed into law in 1983. She said that Reagan was also "personally sympathetic" to the apartheid government of South Africa and had no interest in getting the communist-sympathizer, Nelson Mandela, released from prison.
Listen, with all the luck and popularity that "Bill" Clinton as had, the odds of that many of his contemporaries outliving him is pretty small!!!
And if I don't, I have left instuctions with my children. :-)
Yes. Tokyo Rose didn't broadcast from American soil.
Pretty sad that "center" is now considered rabid right wing and left wing liberalism is considered the norm in the Republican Party today. Seems we have incrimentally marginalized ourselves into a corner in what use to be the conservative party.
I would (and will) vote for Zell Miller if he was running against someone like Liddy Dole, John McCain, Arlen Spectre, etc.
Not to mention the help of Perot, without him G. H. W. Bush would have had a second term, the Klintoons (both of them) would have been irrelevant in 1996, the FBI files would have never been stolen, 9/11 probably woulda never happened, and the whole world would be different today.
Thanx again Ross, you filthy SOB.
Appreciate your thoughts and insights.
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