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George needs to get his stories straight..from 2000
New Hampshire provoked an obvious consensus within the Republican elite: Bush has to change his act to fend off McCain. But how? Bush launched his campaign with a general-election strategy. Though he's in sync with the dominant right wing of his party--he's against abortion and gun control, for a huge tax cut, school vouchers and privatization of Social Security--he promoted his made-for-November "compassionate conservatism," declaring repeatedly, "I'm a uniter, not a divider." After being clobbered by McCain, Bush turned more confrontational and conservative, and the campaign got nasty. His first stop in South Carolina was Bob Jones University, where interracial dating is banned, and the Bush band began bashing McCain as a liar and as a Democrat in GOP clothing. Bush and his surrogates accused "Chairman" McCain--who accepts donations from corporate lobbyists who have business before his Commerce Committee--of being a phony reformer, claiming that Bush was the real Washington outsider and reformer in the race. (Now, everyone wants to be a reformer.) But after banking $70 million in contributions and bagging thirty-five senatorial endorsements, Bush is hardly positioned to yank the populist crown from McCain. McCain fought back, asserting that he is a true conservative and comparing Bush--ouch!--to Bill Clinton on trustworthiness
The McCain Insurgency (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000228/corn - broken link)
In the process, Mr. McCain changed from an underdog Republican seemingly determined to remake his party in his own image — one that would be divorced from religiousness and without dogmatic socially conservative notions — to a candidate who now claims that he prefers a Christian in the White House.
Right after his bitter loss in 2000, Mr. McCain stood before an audience in Virginia and said defiantly: “We are the party of Ronald Reagan, not Pat Robertson. We are the party of Theodore Roosevelt, not the party of special interests. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, not Bob Jones.”
The latter was a reference to Bob Jones University, where Mr. Bush had kicked off his South Carolina campaign and which, at the time, did not permit interracial dating on its campus.
Last year, by contrast, Mr. McCain said he would consider speaking at Bob Jones University. Further, while Mr. McCain denounced Jerry Falwell in 2000 as one of the United States’ “agents of intolerance,” he eagerly accepted Mr. Falwell’s invitation last year to be the graduation speaker at Liberty University, which Mr. Falwell founded.
And Mr. McCain, who always seemed uncomfortable in 2000 making statements about his own religious beliefs, recently told a reporter he would prefer a Christian as president of the United States over someone of a different faith, saying the affiliation would be “an important part of our qualifications to lead.”
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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN; Excerpt From McCain's Speech on Religious Conservatives - New York Times (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904EFDE1239F93AA15751C0A9669C8B 63 - broken link)
McCANT in Virginia 2000
I am a conservative, my friends, a proud conservative, who has faith in the people I serve. But those who purport to be defenders of our party, but who in reality have lost confidence in the Republican message are attacking me, they are people who have turned good causes into businesses.
Let me be clear. Evangelical leaders are changing America for the better. Chuck Colson, head of Prison Fellowship, is saving men from a lifetime behind bars by bringing them the good news of redemption. James Dobson, who does not support me, has devoted his life to rebuilding America's families. Others are leading the fight against pornography, cultural decline and for life. I stand with them.
I am a pro-life, pro-family, fiscal conservative, and advocate of a strong defense. And yet, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and a few Washington leaders of the pro-life movement call me an unacceptable presidential candidate. They distort my pro-life positions and smear the reputations of my supporters.
Why? Because I don't pander to them, because I don't ascribe to their failed philosophy that money is our message.
I believe in the cause of conservative reform. I believe that because we are right we will prevail in the battle of ideas, unspoiled by the taint of a corrupt campaign finance scheme that works against the very conservative reform of government that is the object of our labors.
The Republican Party will prevail because of our principles, because that's what it's about, my friends, principles, not special interest money or empire or ego.
The union bosses who have subordinated the interests of working families to their own ambitions, to their desire to preserve their own political power at all costs are mirror images of Pat Robertson. Just as we embrace working people, we embrace the fine members of the religious conservative community. But that does not mean that we will pander to their self-appointed leaders.
more of the "change" he promises? He likes the chimp's economic policies so this is what we have in store for us as a nation?
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Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1 percent: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080905/economy.html?.v=9 - broken link)
The jobless rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, from 5.7 percent in July. And, employers cut payrolls for the eighth month in a row. Job losses in June and July turned out to be much deeper. The economy lost a whopping 100,000 jobs in June and another 60,000 in July, according to revised figures. Previously, the government reported job losses at 51,000 in each of those months. So far this year, job losses totaled 605,000.
snippy snip The real politics of the Bridge to Nowhere.... | AndrewHalcro.com
Less than 650 words into her run for the vice presidency, Governor Sarah Palin told a whopper of a lie, claiming on national television that she opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" (i.e. Ketchikan, Alaska). Tonight, she repeated that lie in spite of the fact that there is ample evidence, both documentary and pictorial, to show that she supported the "Bridge to Nowhere," campaigned on getting that earmark, and campaign for the bridge itself, as the photo below shows
more change or as Senator Graham says "bullsh*t"
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The Soft-Sell Side of John McCain's B.S. | BuzzFlash.org (http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/177 - broken link)
South Carolina senator and McCain-sidekick Lindsey Graham, in a previewing memo to Republican colleagues yesterday, described the coming bull**** as a partisan call to arms: "Wake up! We're a party in retreat. We need to regroup, change the way we are doing business."
By that, Sen. Graham only meant, of course, crank up the bull****. And as I listened to Sen. McCain last night, it kept occurring to me that the business model that mad-booster Graham most assuredly had in mind was none other than that of Sears past.
I'm going to be blunt and honest here.. as a liberal democrat....
If mcCANT had won in 2000 we'd be a HELL of a lot better off now. The guy running now? We'll be a hell of a lot worse. It's a shame
Prosecutors in Ramsey County, Minn., have formally charged eight alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee -- one of the groups organizing protests at the GOP convention in St. Paul -- with terrorism-related charges, The Times' P.J. Huffstutter reports.
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change senator? the only change so far has been your change from maverick to lunatic in the last 8 years
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