Nevada Republicans put president at arm's length

[NVMojo]

a sign of the times?

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Some of Nevada's top Republicans running for re-election appeared to distance themselves from the Bush administration on Saturday at a gathering of party faithful.

"We need to get back to the party of Ronald Reagan," Sen. John Ensign told about 130 Republicans assembled at the Clark County convention to amend the platform and vet this year's crop of candidates.

Secretary of State hopeful Brian Scroggins also pointed to Reagan as his role model, while Rep. Jon Porter made only passing reference to the president in his more than 10-minute keynote speech.

Porter said he wasn't trying to snub the president, but he has no plans to rely on the administration's record to win his seat.

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"I think George Bush has been a great president in many, many ways, but right now the spending issue has me upset," he said. "Republicans ... are spending too much."

Ensign said he voted against the budget and a measure to increase the debt limit out of concerns over increased deficit spending.

"We are the party of limited government and we need to push government back to down to a smaller level than what it is today," he told the group, made up largely of long-time activists.


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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/mar/18/031810613.html

[NanceGreggs]

1. GOPer with a brain?

"Porter said .. he has no plans to rely on the administration's record to win his seat."

A SMART Republican? Who'dda thunk it!

[salin]

12. Smart? Nah - just skeered

doesn't want to be tanked by the negative association.

[billybob537]

2. Right let's get back

to selling arms to our enemy's.(Iran) Helping drug lords(Noreaga) import cocaine and destroying democraticly elected governments. (Nicaragua}That's much better.

[Nashyra]

3. 130 attended

Well, well, well. The attendance report for the Clark County Democratic Convention had their attendance at close to 600. The Washoe convention itself had 150, and down in Douglas County there were at least 50, which is pretty darn good for predominately Repuke County.

[NVMojo]

5. we know they lied ...Bush barely beat Kerry in Nevada ....

[kurth]

4. "The spending issue has me upset," cuz I spent and spent and spent

like a drunken whore just like every Republican in Congress.

[kestrel91316]

6. Oh, I get it John:

The theocracy part and the warmongering part you are perfectly ok with. It's the idea of the existence of government (which has to be paid for) that you're NOT ok with.

You were stupid in vet school, too. You never had me fooled.

[Judi Lynn]

8. The very idea of that guy as a vet is alarming.

He DOESN'T seem nearly bright enough, it's true!

I'm worried about "the spending" part, too. _Bush has squandered so many human lives for his ugly, ultra-sneaky, utterly dishonest war on helpless people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

[kestrel91316]

11. In theory you have to be VERY smart to make it into vet school,

but if you have political "pull" as his family certainly did, then smarts may not be such a necessity. His folks own the casinos at tha CA-NV border (Cactus Kate's,Whisky Pete's)on the road to Barstow/LA. BIGTIME casino money behind Johnny Boy. Mommy and Daddy probably paid for his hospital, too. He wasn't out long enough to build one on his own, unless maybe they had already given him an "inheritance". We're talking MILLIONS in this family.

[DRoseDARs]

9. Eww, you had to be in the same room as him in school?

Was his hair always so fake looking?

[kestrel91316]

10. Almost.

He always was a bit of a Ken doll. I was a teaching assistant my senior year, in a freshman vet school course. He liked to ask questions, not for personal enlightenment, but to get noticed, IMHO. He was not the smartest person in class by a long shot.

[Rainscents]

7. I will stay ARM length until I get re-elected.

Once, I get elected again, I will embrace him (Bush) with all my heart.

[meow2u3]

13. Election-year moderates, all of them

No sooner than they get (re)elected do these scumbags show their true fascistic, tyrannical colors--again!

How the people keep falling for this ruse, I don't know.

[depakid]

14. "We need to get back to the party of Ronald Reagan,"

I have news, dimwits.

This IS the party of Ronald Reagan- right wing extremists, all of them.

It's EXACTLY what you and the rest of this lying pack of jackals worked for all those years.