Archive for October, 2004
« Previous EntriesOn The Stephanie Sandlin Show
Saturday, October 30th, 2004This is my appearance on the Stephanie Sandlin Show on KSBN in Spokane, WA on October 20th.
OBL Video… Sounds A Lot Like Kerry
Friday, October 29th, 2004All it needed was a disclaimer by Kerry saying how he approved the message.
Terrorists Want Kerry To Win
Thursday, October 28th, 2004
Interview with Richard Miniter
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004Last weekend I interviewed Richard Miniter, author of the new book, Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror.
Check out the interview at Blogs for Bush
Democrats Suppress The Vote in Florida
Sunday, October 24th, 2004Democrats claim they want “every vote counted” and are very trigger-happy when it comes to allegations of voter intimidation. However, they see it fit to intimidate and suppress the votes of Republicans and Bush supporters … in Florida of all places.
On Election Day, voters will be protected from campaign pressures by a 50-foot cone, an invisible barrier that campaign workers cannot breach. Not so for early voters.
While the Voter’s Bill of Rights in state law says they have a right to “vote free from coercion or intimidation by elections officers or any other person,” a glitch in the newer early voting law does not include the same 50-foot guarantee.
As a result, with early voting taking place in busy public places like City Halls and libraries, voters are voicing complaints of being blocked by political mobs, or being singled out for their political views. Others say they have been grabbed, screamed at and cursed by political partisans of all stripes.
Republican Rep. Tom Feeney of Oviedo said the antagonizers are “Kerry thugs” out to harass Bush voters.
“If you ask me whether I believe there is an organized effort to intimidate Republican voters, the answer is absolutely yes,” said Feeney.
The Republican Party is calling on the secretary of state’s office for help, asking that early voting rules be clarified.
The secretary of state’s office has not yet responded.
“Significant numbers of people have already been deterred from voting,” wrote Republican Party Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan to Secretary of State Glenda Hood, “and this will continue until corrective measures are taken.”
The Democrats of course have to make a counterclaim:
“We have had incidents as well,” said Christine Anderson, spokeswoman for the Kerry campaign. “We’ve had quite a few.”
She said the party hasn’t taken affidavits from voters and found it shocking the Republicans were so focused on the issue rather than working to make sure people can vote.
“It’s just absurd they would try to accuse us of intimidation efforts,” said Anderson.
Excuse me? A Democrat says it is absurd to report incidents of voter intimidation after the Democrats’ preemptive strike to make accusations of voter suppression even when none exists?
John Kerry Flip Flops On Faith
Thursday, October 21st, 2004John Kerry during the second presidential debate on October 8th:
“…I can’t take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn’t share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can’t do that.”
John Kerry last Saturday, pandering to social conservatives in Xenia, Ohio:
“I will bring my faith with me to the White House and it will guide me,”
Manny Ortez In The House?
Thursday, October 21st, 2004The Red Sox are going to the World Series….
So, is John Kerry going to tie this into his next campaign speech? Probably. Considering he’s such a big fan, he’s the only Sox fan who remembers “Manny Ortez” playing for the team.
John Kerry’s Pre-911 Mindset
Sunday, October 17th, 2004This morning I watched the beginning of Meet The Press, featuring Bush’s campaign manager Ken Mehlman, and Kerry’s senior strategist Bob Shrum.
One of the things that repeatedly bothers me about the Kerry campaign is their pre-9/11 mindset, and Bob Shrum made no effort to hide that mindset today.
Recycling lines we’ve heard John Kerry saying recently on the campaign trail, Bob Shrum suggested that the war in Iraq was a diversion from the “real war on terror,” that Osama bin Laden was let go in Tora Bora, and that we’re basically not going after the ones who attacked us.
Great rhetoric Mr. Shrum, I’m sure it gets your partisan crowds going wild, but all far from the truth.
For starters, Retired General Tommy Franks, who planned both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, has explain that John Kerry’s assertions are false. I do not know how many times Tommy Franks has to explain this, but clearly it has not penetrated the Kerry campaign yet. Franks has explained what happened in Tora Bora, from the fact that U.S. troops were there, and the job was not “left to Afghan warlords” and that there was no intelligence that said Osama bin Laden was definitely there, in fact various sources of intel suggested bin Laden was in a number of places.
Not that the Kerry campaign cares that it continues to lie to the American people.
Regardless, Shrum made the point that Saddam didn’t attack us, and that the 9/11 Commission said there was no connection between Saddam and 9/11. Shrum made a juvenile remark to Ken Mehlman that perhaps only he, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney haven’t read the 9/11 Commission’s final report.
For one thing, the 9/11 Commission Report goes into much detail about various connections between Saddam’s regime and Al Qaeda. I have a variety of pages of my copy of the 9/11 Commission Report flagged that go into these known connections, should the Kerry campaign be interested in actually reading them.
What is most disturbing about this attitude by the Kerry campaign is that it reflects a pre-9/11 mindset. Kerry and his campaign surrogates have made it clear that they think any terrorist who did not attack us on 9/11 is not worth going after. That’s why you see them carefully choosing the language they speak of the issue of Iraq, Al Qaeda and 9/11.
When you hear a Kerry campaign person or Kerry himself talk about the connections, they will always say there was no connection “between Saddam and 9/11“. They do not say “between Saddam and al Qaeda.”
Why not? Because the connections between Saddam and al Qaeda are numerous and documented. But John Kerry doesn’t care about that.
I’d like to ask John Kerry why he thinks connections to Al Qaeda do not merit action on our part?
I’d like to ask John Kerry why he thinks the only terrorists in the world who want to kill us are Al Qaeda.
George W. Bush on September 11, 2001 said, “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” On September 20, 2001, Bush told our country “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”
John Kerry clearly thinks the war on terror begins and ends solely with Al Qaeda, if not just Osama bin Laden himself. He does not see the big picture. The capture or killing of Osama bin Laden will not end terrorism throughout the world. The war on terror is a global effort, fought on many fronts in many nations. John Kerry sees the war on terror as being about just one man, or just one group, in just one country.
If John Kerry wants to fight a limited war on terror focusing on just one person, then good for him, but he can’t think we’re going to let him be our Commander-in-Chief with that attitude.
John Kerry pre-9/11 mindset will be the worst possible setback to the war on terror, yet his campaign regularly chooses to remind the country of their dangerous attitude. On November 2nd, they’ll Americans reject that attitude, and vote for George W. Bush, who wants to eliminate all terrorism, not just a small part of it.
Of course, George W. Bush actually sees terrorism as a real threat, not just a “nuisance” like John Kerry does.
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