The bash/bash strategy and

[ProSense]

fear of Kerry.

Bush sinks; Democrats can't swim
By Randy Schultz

Palm Beach Post Columnist

Sunday, March 05, 2006

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Imagine what Mr. Bush's numbers might be if the Democrats had someone better than Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in charge.

Some days, Democrats must wonder who the party chairman, the Senate minority leader and the House minority leader are working for. Dr. Dean sounds like someone who wants to run for office, which is the last thing a party wants from the national chairman. No one assumes that Dr. Dean's counterpart, Ken Mehlman, spends his time on anything but raising money and trying to keep the GOP's majority in Congress. Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi haven't offered anything noteworthy. As the comedian Lewis Black said, "We've got the party of bad ideas (Republicans) and the party of no ideas."

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My theory is that so many Republicans spent their careers running against government that they don't know how to run it. To them, tax-cutting is running government. I do know that the past 12 months have laid bare the failings of the Bush administration, and many people are looking for an alternative. John Kerry lost because he couldn't adequately answer the, "And your plan is...?" question. He still can't.

Imagine the irony. A candidate does emerge to grasp the nation's attention. He or she talks of a smart national security strategy, an economic growth plan that helps Americans at all income levels, a smart energy strategy that emphasizes technology. The candidate offers an alternative to George Bush. And the candidate is a Republican.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2006/03/05/a1e_schultzcol_0305.html

Does the author of this piece of trash really believe the 2004 election had anything to do with plans? Let's send him as many of Kerry's plans proposed before and since the election as we can (just saying). Kerry was right then and he's still right.

Another question: Does the author really believe that a Rubber Stamp Republican can emerge to offer an alternative to Bush?

[nolies32fouettes]

1. good point!

And the book only had like 600 pages of complete plans (providing that Congress was going to support them too.)

[globalvillage]

2. It's so easy to write to these people.

[e-mail]

Sen Kerry and Sen Edwards wrote a BOOK on the Democrats' plan for America. It's appropriately titled "Our Plan for America". If you like, I can send you a copy.
Both Kerry and Edwards explained (although America's attention was continually distracted by timely placed terror alerts) what they want to see for this country. Were you listening?
Repeating right wing talking points is just lazy journalism. You can do better.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Pittsburgh, PA

[sandnsea]

4. Thanks

I wrote and sent links to PLANS. What a complete idiot.

[globalvillage]

17. Randy's response

Kerry should have had that plan in 2004. I'll save this for all the conservative readers who think I'm a tool of the Democrats.

Hello??? Maybe he didn't really read my e-mail.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. Did you watch Real Time this week ?

I turned it off, it was nothing but bash Kerry week, between Judith Priest and Maher. They actually said Kerry never talked about HEALTHCARE,in their words I guess he never spoke on anything. This crap has got to stop. I swear anyone involved with the media (television) doesn't have a clue what the hell was said during the campaign. Maher does not help our side when all he does is knock down Dems. The black guy on the show I forget his name was the only one who spoke like he knew what the hell he was talking about.:banghead:


I swear they all had their heads up their asses during the campaign.

[ProSense]

5. Is it Christie? Not only has Kerry spoken about it,

Teresa has too. These people are idiot lying Repug enablers.

[fedupinBushcountry]

7. The comic/actor

was D.L Hughley and I messed up it was Dana Priest.

[ProSense]

10. I misunderstood.

Clueless Christie would definitely not get it.

[sandnsea]

6. I saw it

And yes, DL Hughley (the black guy), clearly got it. I loved what he said about white folks just catching up with what it's always been like to be black in this country. Ignored, abandoned, spied on, powerless. It was funny because I had just been thinking that same thing. We could probably learn a thing or fifty from minorities about how to fight when you've got everything stacked against you.

Other than him, and Bob Baer and Harry Anderson, the show sucked.

[globalvillage]

8. Hughley was great.

He gets it and he's really funny. The rest of them, not so much of either.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Yes

Hughley did really well and he gets it. He did great and was the only reason why I didn't turn the channel. Didn't he used to have a show called "The Hughley's"?

[sandnsea]

11. Yep

He also had a program on Comedy Central for a while. But it was like Friday and Saturday night, like at midnight or something. Too hard to try to remember so I only watched it maybe once. Too bad, because it probably would have been good. Makes you wonder if he hadn't been a minority whether he would have been given such a cruddy time spot.

[ProSense]

12. OMG!

DL Hughley was awesome during the campaign.

BROWN: So are you voting for John Kerry? Are you voting against the president? Where are you on that?

HUGHLEY: I'm very clearly voting for John Kerry. I am. I'm very -- you know, to me, I have a hard time voting for a dude that I'm pretty sure I could beat in a spelling bee.

So you know, it's funny because I was watching the last debates, and all of the people were going, "Well, you know, Bush, that's not his format. He's not a good public speaker."

This is a rich white dude who went to Yale. He didn't go to Compton College. If -- if a rich white dude who went to Yale doesn't have command of the English language, he's lazy. That's the deal. He didn't have to walk through a gang-infested neighborhood to do that, just walk past the servants and go to school.

So I think that -- that tells me about the -- the guy who I think he is.

BROWN: Here's what's unsettling for me. I am reasonably sure, because I believe the spell checker was the greatest invention of the last century, that he can beat me in a spelling bee.

HUGHLEY: No, I'm sure. This dude blow up everything he can't spell. How do you spell "Baghdad?" Boom! "That's how you spell it."

I mean, you know, I -- I joked because that's my gig. But I think, also, really I'm not pleased with the way I've seen the country go. I think that this election is -- as it is for all incumbent presidents -- a referendum on what we've seen.

You know, everybody likes to say what would John Kerry do? I can't know that. I don't have a crystal ball, as I'm sure many political pundits do. But I do know what George Bush has done.

And almost every promise he's made to us has -- has -- he constantly asks Kerry how can you trust a man who you don't know where he stands? Well, how can you trust a man who everything which he tells us turns out to be wrong?

So I think that there is the opposite side of the coin, also.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/09/asb.01.html

[karynnj]

13. Thanks for posting this -

This was fantastic after arguing with a poster DU-P (WEL, I now agree 100% with you on this person and regret ever saying a single positive thing!)

The comment about blowing up everything he can't spell is precious. As was his knocking down all the excuses for Bush, with his Yale education.

[sandnsea]

16. All he had to do was walk past the servants

and go to school. :rofl:

That was priceless. Democrats clearly need to hire some new writers.

[karynnj]

14. What idiots

i guess they didn't even hear the debates.

[JI7]

15. what the fuck does Bill Maher know ?

he was one of those who pushed the crap that Bush and Gore are alike with the term "Gush". and i see he hasn't changed one bit. but i guess he loves being seen as "cool" in front of the miserable so called liberals who do nothing but whine about being martyrs. dumb fuckwads.