Posted on 11/12/2006 4:58:59 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean; presidential counselor Dan Bartlett.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Joe Biden. D-Del., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Bolten.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Bolten; Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
For sure, we have to play it a lot smarter next time.
Laura Ingraham has been griping about Bush since the Harriet Miers nomination, and I don't value her opinion either.
So if you are taking your cues from those two I suggest you re-think your position.
And now I am out of here for a while...my husband needs the computer.
"If our candidates stick to our party & President without "distancing" themselves, the results would have been different."
I agree w you Anita. Pelosi had the Dims corraled and most did not dare speak out (except for a few 'botched' jokes and misstatements by Dean - which everyone expects).
Not only did the Pres have the media and Dims and foreigners spinning against him on the WOT (including Iraq), there were those that are supposed Pubbies that did him NO favors - McLame, VP Lindsey Graham, Pat B, et al, and, of course, those at the Weakley Standard with Kristol (I want McLame to be Pres) one of the worst. Other supposed 'conservatives' such as blathering Savage didn't help either. And, the 'leaders' in Congress were not out there selling our message - - I'm glad Hastert and Frist are stepping down/leaving their leadership roles.
We need some fresh faces in leadership who will be on top of selling our message and calling the Dims on untruths, bad policies, etc. I pinged some of you to a thread on Alexander being in leadership, with Lott thinking of running, etoo. We need to try to stop this!
IMHO having Lamar or Trent as the face of the Pubbies in the Senate would be a disaster! We need Sessions, Cornyn, Kyl, Coburn or Chambliss to be out there as the face of the Pubbies in the Senate telling our message.
In the House Pence or Shadegg would be great.
They need to get over themselves about seniority and leadership and do what's best for the party and the American people.
Alexander says he'll be whip
Sun Herald ^ | 11/11/06 | Maria Recio
Posted on 11/11/2006 3:48:40 PM PST by tennmountainman
Sen. Trent Lott is being coy about whether he'll run for minority whip in the GOP leadership elections slated for Wednesday. But while Lott plays his cards close to his vest, his presumptive rival, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has already declared himself the winner.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737063/posts
Way to go Laverne!!
Great inspiring post! Thank you Alas !
We are not whiners....the MSM is a 24-7 commercial for the Dems and an attack hit machine to the Repubs.
How can any reasonable citizen withstand this?
We have our work cut out for us.
Most of our deadwood has been retired or will step out of leadership. Rush did carry water. It is time for conservative leaders who will challenge the libs and the media every damn day! We had no one leading the fight, which makes new congressional leadership so important.
On the other side of the aisle, they elected as many as 60 blue dog Dems who are either pro-military, ex-GOP, ex-military, pro-life, and/or pro-gun
I have heard that same whine from others in the media. Suddenly straight party line voting is un-American if it's for republicans???????????????
The Republicans also set this up a long time ago, by not continuing to act like Republicans. Most disappointing of all was George W. Bush, who seems to have made a deal to get rid of Don Rumsfeld AFTER the election, when it was too late to affect voter reactions. What a horrible decision that was.
And I would prefer that the President had stuck with Mr. Rumsfeld, who has performed well under adverse conditions and remained loyal. If GW Bush wanted to let Mr. Rumsfeld take the blame for Iraq, he should have done it before the election.
Now, instead, we have lost the services of a good man, and we get a Democrat Senate and House. If this was planned, Karl Rove should stick to hurricane machines.
A close look at Missouri voting results will show you that he actually did cost us that race. That's all I am going to say right now.
Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center do an oustanding job of reporting on media bias. If you haven't signed up for their emails every day you might want to sign on.....keeping in mind that you must keep your blood pressure meds at the ready.
Brilliant catch here anita, when the impeachment talk against GW starts, and they won't be able to help themselves have no question, we need to go after their leaders twice as hard as they do ours. It's all they understand.
Anything else, like getting along, is seen as weakness.
Nice to see Steele not taking any garbage from the callers or Ms. Donna Brazier.
Speaking of Rangel, his recent insulting of the people of Missisippi alone would have cost him his chairmanship, if his party is R instaed of D.
Fox News Channel Sunday programming is indistinguishable from any other network. It is consistently liberal.
EXCELLENT points Fishtalk!
Thanks, OldFriend. That 's one of my fav.bookmarks.
We, as conservatives, may never have the opportunity we had after the 2004 election.
Instead of standing with our moderate/conservative coalition, everyone went off on a tangent. Every talking head found something to bash Bush on, suddenly he wasn't conservative enough on every issue for some conservatives.
There were plenty of warnings on FR about what the consequence of such an approach would have. Oh well...we were in a minority for forty years and the nation survived.
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