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Monday, May 31st, 2004Showing no shame, John Kerry chose to play politics on Memorial Day, attacking President Bush while in Virginia:
Democrat John Kerry ventured in to Republican leaning Virginia on Monday with a Memorial Day pitch targeting military families and a charge that President Bush “didn’t learn the lessons of our generation in Vietnam.”
Kerry joined Virginia Gov. Mark Warner for a Memorial Day parade in Portsmouth, home to naval shipyards and other big military installations, and later promised he could get American troops home from Iraq sooner than Bush would.
“I believe I can lead us out of Iraq effectively by accomplishing goals we need to accomplish but without putting our troops at greater risk,” he said.
No shame, no honor, no respect.
John Kerry has taken a day of remembrance and taken advantage of the grief and mourning of veterans, the families of veterans, and all Americans.
Kerry saw it fit to attack Bush on Iraq, and promising “he could get American troops home from Iraq sooner than Bush would.” Which is interesting since he already said this past week he’d send 40,000 troops over to Iraq.
Kerry also regurgitated the false claim that Bush has ignored the needs of veterans. Kerry has claimed Bush has cut the VA budget, even though it has never been cut and actually increased funding by 40%.
John Kerry, who never misses an opportunity to remind everyone he’s a Vietnam Veteran, dishonored all Veterans by turning Memorial Day into a campaign event for himself.
Once again, I am shocked, appalled, and ashamed of my senator.
Running Out of Air (America)
Sunday, May 30th, 2004Things continue to get worse for liberal talk radio. From Drudge:
FLASH: Al Franken has agreed not to draw a salary at AIR AMERICA, hoping to keep the fledgling talk-radio network afloat… Developing…
Well, it looks like it’s only a matter of time before Air America completely runs out of air.
Liberals can expect a really nice “We told you so,” when it happens.
UPDATE: Air America’s ratings in NYC leave little to be desired:
- 7. WABC (Rush, Hannity): 3.9 (up from 3.7)
21. WOR (O’Reilly, Savage) : 2.1 (down from 2.2)
24. WLIB (Air Idiot): 1.4 (up from 1.3)
Hat tip to Leather Penguin.
The Jobs Just Keep Coming
Sunday, May 30th, 2004Seems like we’ve been saying this a lot recently, but once again things continue to look great for the economy:
The Labor Department may report Friday that U.S. companies added 225,000 workers to their payrolls last month, fueled by an economy that’s raced ahead at the fastest clip since 1984, economists said.
The projected increase would bring to almost 850,000 the number of jobs created since March, for the best three months of job creation since the year 2000. The Labor Department may also report the unemployment rate held at 5.6 percent.
Separate reports from the Institute for Supply Management are forecast to show manufacturing and the service industry expanded this month. A report from the Commerce Department is projected to show that construction spending rose in April.
“It’s hard to say the economy is slowing if you get payrolls growing more than 200,000 and an ISM index above 60,” Robert Mellman, an economist at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in New York, said. “The economy is doing just fine.”
Other reports expected to come out this week may show that productivity is up, from an estimated 3.5 percent. First-time claims for unemployment insurance probably fell to 335,000 from 344,000 the previous week.
I blame the Bush tax cuts.
The Kerry Campaign Needs A New Star
Saturday, May 29th, 2004The Kerry campaign would like to believe that Bush isn’t doing too well in the polls, and that his ad blitz on Kerry was ineffective, however, it is the Kerry campaign that is actually in some serious trouble – and the Democrats know this:
Top advisers to the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, have asked Bill Clinton to play a starring role in the final months of the Massachusetts senator’s campaign.
Four years ago, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the former vice-president Al Gore distanced himself from Mr Clinton, during his race against George W Bush. But after heated internal discussions, the Kerry camp has decided that Mr Clinton’s personal charisma is needed to bolster the appeal of Sen Kerry, who has been accused of running a lacklustre campaign and failing to take advantage of President Bush’s problems in Iraq.
We’ve gone from Kerry needed a pro-life Republican on his ticket to boost his campaign, to enlisting Bill Clinton to stump for him in order to boost Kerry’s appeal.
Just what exactly is going on in the Kerry campaign? First McCain was Kerry’s savior, now it’s Clinton? Sounds like things aren’t going well at all for the Kerry campaign. If Kerry can’t be the star of his own campaign, than what does that say about him as a candidate?
“There has been talk about the danger of Bill Clinton overshadowing John,” said a senior Democrat last week, “but the decision has been taken to accept him as being centre stage and hope that some of the magic rubs off”.
Can Kerry not carry the water for his own campaign that it takes someone like Clinton to get Kerry votes? Clinton couldn’t boost the campaigns of Democrat candidates during the midterm elections – what makes Democrats think he’ll do magic for Kerry?
Adding to Kerry’s troubles, his own campaign staff sees him as an uninspiring lackluster candidate:
“I’ve never heard him tell a joke,” said one campaign worker at a Kerry fund-raising party last week.
“I’ve never seen him look as if he was genuinely enjoying himself. He just needs to come across as more human. If Clinton can help with that, then we sure need that help.”
The former New York governor, Mario Cuomo, still an influential figure in Democrat politics, has also advised Mr Kerry to exploit the Clinton factor.
“Whatever you can do to use Bill and Hillary, big time, use them. The sun that makes your plants grow and makes everybody strong and gives life to the world is so big that when it shows up everybody tends to notice it. So what? What do you get from the sun? You get nourishment. You get life.”
This is really bad news for the Kerry campaign. In the wake of 9-11, the American people want a leader – and Kerry isn’t cutting it and the Democrats know it.
The confident front put on the Kerry campaign can’t hide that this strategy of having Kerry’s surrogates attempt to win the election for him means that they know they’ve got a weak candidate.
Surrogates are supposed to campaign for you they’re not supposed to win the election for you.
To make matters even worse for Kerry, not all Democrats agree the Clinton can boost Kerry’s campaign – but rather detract from it:
At the Kerry campaign headquarters in Washington, some aides are less confident that their candidate can hold his own, if forced to share the stage this summer with the biggest star of Democratic politics during the past 25 years. “Al Gore made a mistake when he didn’t use Clinton,” said one campaign worker.
“John Kerry is not going to make that mistake. But he will need to be very careful. How many Democrats are going to look at Bill during the convention and think: he’s still the best candidate we have.”
The Kerry campaign is in real trouble.
Does He Ever Support His Home Team?
Friday, May 28th, 2004I knew that John Kerry would say anything to get elected, but for crying out loud, he’s really pushing the envelope now.
John Kerry was in Green Bay yesterday campaigning, during which he committed treason against his home football team the New England Patriots:
“’No matter what it means to the New England Patriots … you’re looking at the biggest Cheesehead in America,’ Kerry told the crowd, which responded by banging green and gold noise makers.”
Yes, it must be a coincidence that in Green Bay he claimed to be a big Green Bay Packers fan.
Perhaps John Kerry is turning his back on the New England Patriots because Quarterback Tom Brady was a guest at Bush’s State of the Union this year…
Nevertheless, this seems like Classic Kerry. He hasn’t done much in his Senate career to support his home country, he shows more support for U.N. backed efforts than U.S. backed efforts. Looks like a pattern to me.
Good News For The Economy, Bad News For Kerry and the Democrats
Thursday, May 27th, 2004Once again, we have more good news on our economy:
The economy grew at a 4.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of this year, slightly faster than previously thought and fresh evidence that the recovery possessed good momentum as it headed into the current quarter.
The increase in gross domestic product from January through March reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday marked an improvement from both the 4.2 percent pace first estimated for the quarter a month ago and the 4.1 percent growth rate registered in the final quarter of 2003.
New applications for unemployment benefits also dropped, another piece of evidence of the economy’s recovery.
Although consumers and the federal government did their part to support the economy in the first quarter, the better reading on GDP for the period in large part reflected stronger investment by businesses to build up inventories, a good sign that companies are more confident about the economy’s prospects.
From April to June, the economy is expected to grow at a rate in the range of 4.5 percent to 5 percent, according to some analysts.
More bleak news for the Democrats, consumer spending increased also:
Consumers, whose spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of all economic activity in the United States, increased their spending in the first quarter at a 3.9 percent rate. That was slightly stronger than previously estimated and up from a 3.2 percent growth rate in the fourth quarter.
Of course, I blame the Bush tax cuts.
With the economy being a key issue in this presidential election, the good news for the economy is bad news for Kerry and the Democrats.
The Headlines vs. The Frontlines
Thursday, May 27th, 2004The Big Trunk over at Power Line Blog brings us a letter from a Marine stationed in Iraq, regarding the abuse stories. Big Truck summarizes the letter:
The letter describes how Marines kicked their own out into a sandstorm/rainstorm in order to give shelter to three Fallujah detainees, an event we’re sure is more representative of how detainees are actually treated in Iraq than the news would indicate. The Marine describes how he was initially angry, and then proud, about this situation. We’re pretty sure this is one story that won’t make it into the mainstream media.
Read the Marine’s letter at Power Line, but here’s a quote from the Marine, reflecting on his experience:
Who else, other than Americans, would kick their own men into a storm so their enemy could sleep in peace? Who else, other than Americans, feel so strongly about laws and rights that they would go to such extremes to protect captured terrorists during a war on terrorism?
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I assume whatever happened with the alleged prisoner abuse is leading headlines back home, but I wanted to share this story with you, because it’s not one you’ll ever see in the news. What I’ve described in this letter is indicative of how my unit operates, and I would venture to guess that it’s representative of the other 99% of detainee handling throughout Iraq.
It’s Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004How important is money to a presidential campaign? Well, it’s so important that John Kerry is considering not accepting the nomination at his nominating convention! Kerry might postpone accepting the nomination so that he can raise more money and spend it (once he’s nominated, he gets a fixed amount of public funding.)
Underhanded tactics like this are giving Democrats an advantage in fund-raising. But we can still beat them because there are more of us willing to donate to the Bush campaign.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, over one hundred bloggers ask their readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.
If you’re a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays simply by putting up a post like this one every Wednesday, asking your readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign. And then e-mail wictory@blogsforbush.com so that you’ll be added to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll, which will be part of the Wictory Wednesday post on all participating blogs:
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