Posted on 11/09/2002 4:40:12 PM PST by knighthawk
GWB garnered a LARGE campaign war-chest. Why? BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKED HIM AND THEY GAVE HIM MONEY.
Repeatedly, the Bush campaign released information that showed that Bush wasn't getting $1,000 contributions from corporate PACs; he was getting $50-$250 dollar donations from individuals.
But people here, as you just did, continued to put out this lie because they just plain didn't like George W. Bush. To those of us who DID like and appreciate him--and I was originally a supporter of Alan Keyes--the venom was pointless.
Anyway, my real point is that there are now fewer folks like YOU among the ranks of conservatives, and more like ME.
That doesn't mean you can't continue to be blind on the subject. You have that right. But you'll still be wrong.
He was my governor; I KNEW what a fine man he was, and what a wonderful wife he had.
The garbage that was thrown his way here on FR, though, did not easily abate. It was really only after 9/11 that that began to happen.
By this past Tuesday, many of the "fence-sitters" had become converts. Add to them, the people in general that had come to recognize what a fantastic leader we had, and when Mr. Bush asked for help from the voters, he got it.
That, IMO, is the story of November 5, 2002.
I think it just might be a long term shift. I admit to being a JFK Dem in the 60's, and I held onto that (Nixon was scum, and not a reason to switch). I was a Reagan Dem after '80, and didn't switch because clintoon is scum - I thought that was an aberration. I switched to GOP when W was nominated. His political ideas are very similar to both JFK's and Reagan's, and he's an honest and moral guy. And the clintoons still had control of the Dems.
Who's the opposition leader? clintoon? hillary? gore? or gary hart, whose name has come up often lately?
On the other hand, the GOP has waiting in the wings Jeb, Condi, Powell, and a long list of pols with the same ideas and high moral standards.
The Dems have a long way to climb out of the muck, and not a clear leader to help them do it. They either need that, or a real scoundrel at the head of the GOP, and it doesn't look like they'll get that.
Absolutely. While I am convinced that the swing to more conservative values is permanent (due to the failure of the liberal "ideas" already tried), converting that into party dominance is not a slam-dunk. IF we can achieve the landslide victory in '04, I believe it will be smooth sailing from then on; if not, it will still come, will take a bit longer, but will happen in my lifetime (I'm 51). All of us with conservative beliefs must work like the dickens and do the best we can for '04.
On the other hand, the GOP has waiting in the wings Jeb, Condi, Powell, and a long list of pols with the same ideas and high moral standards.
It is spectacular how long the list of absolutely incredible Republican candidates (leaders) is, and I'm not going to start adding to your list since if I did there would be scores, and many others would be left out. However, those you mention are only some of the more visible "political" figures, but there are so many in the media arena who could just as credibly be mentioned as presidential timber (Keyes, Hannity, etc.) as well as many others in the arena of business (see Dubya minus 10 years), and other arenas, who could be listed as well
INTEGRITY - HONESTY - BELIEVERS - RATIONAL - COURAGEOUS
what a contrast to the demodogs and their lightweights.
The essence of post-Reagan America. Thank God.
A landslide is possible, but the Democrats must cooperate. They appear to be doing just that, pushing one of their flaming extreme feminazi-liberals, Pelosi, to a top leadership position.
10 posted on 11/09/2002 5:03 PM PST by fatguy
OK, it's 3+ hours later and we're waiting. Long dinner...
I think you are right. Take Massachusetts for example. The socialist Dems ran a candidate (Shannon O'Brien) that should have been a shoo-in. She is a well connected hack (lifetime politician) that had the whole Democratic machine behind her. But she lost by a comfortable margin to a Republican (Mitt Romney) that ran on a conservative platform.
How did this happen in Massachusetts? Talk radio here is dominated by conservatives. For weeks leading up to the election, we had local talk show hosts such as Howie Carr and Jay Severin pounding away at Shannon O'Brien and urging listeners to vote for Mitt Romney. I think it worked.
The worm has certainly turnd so far as the conventional liberal media. More people are getting their news from talk radio or the internet and less people are tuning in Dan Rather or reading the Boston Globe (The conservative Boston Herald continues to gain ground on the Boston Globe in circulation).
Add Rush Limbaugh to the mix. With millions of people listening to Rush Limbaugh, you have to think that he is making a big difference out there.
Very true.
Something the Republicans did not realize and why they lost seats in the following years.
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