Here is one voter's list: 1. John Kerry was described by Lynne Cheney as "not a good man" after Kerry used the Cheney daughter's sexual orientation to score political points. She may be right. As William Safire writes, "The sleazier purpose of the Kerry-Edwards spotlight on Mary Cheney is to confuse and dismay Bush supporters who believe that same-sex marriage is wrong, to suggest that Bush is as 'soft on same-sex' as Kerry is, and thereby to reduce a Bush core constituency's eagerness to go to the polls." Even the press, Safire notes, has respected Mary Cheney's right to privacy. 2. John Edwards, Kerry's choice as his running mate, is a trial lawyer who has made a fortune suing hospitals. Like many in his profession, he has made America a worse country. However, even more of his character was revealed when he said after the death of Christopher Reeve, "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." As Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer, himself wheelchair-bound from paralysis, wrote, "In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable. . . . There is no apologizing for Edwards's remark. It is too revealing. There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected." 3. Normally even partisan observers of elections say nothing about the wives of presidential candidates. Aside from propriety -- the families of candidates should remain off-limits to political attacks -- every wife of every presidential candidate and of every president in living memory has been an asset to the country. It brings me no joy to say that Teresa Heinz Kerry is not worthy of being the first lady of the United States of America. From her public utterances -- such as young American men and women dying in Iraq because of American "greed for oil" -- and her many years of financial support for radical groups, it is clear to me and many others that this woman does not particularly care for this country. Her primary identity is that of world citizen, and her values are those of France and anti-American Europe. 4. John Kerry represents the Party of Michael Moore. This America-hating Marxist was given a place of honor at the Democratic Party Convention in Boston, seated next to Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic president who said that Moore's Goebbels-like propaganda film "Fahrenheit 9/11" was one of his two favorite films. 5. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Michael Moore, the ACLU, Ted Kennedy, trial lawyers, George Soros, the leftist academics who morally confuse generations of young Americans, and for Dan Rather, CBS News, and nearly the entire news complex that daily presents a proctologist's view of America. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson, whom Kerry has named a top adviser; and for Al Sharpton, with whom Kerry campaigns; for Sean Penn and his Hollywood world; and for the passionately pro-Kerry MTV, the greatest destroyer of young people's minds and souls in American history. And a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the countries that have abandoned us and against the countries that are helping us. Two unimpressive men have been nominated by the Democratic Party to be president and vice president of the world's greatest country. If they win, this country will, for the first time, begin relinquishing that greatness.
Yes, my, that was all crap. I hope you aren't really basing your vote on the National Enquirer issues you mentioned. Oh, and you left out: 6) Smart people scare me.
Or this one... 7) I believe in giving Bush another chance, even though he has failed at everything he set out to do from domestic policy to the war on terrorism. After all, you don't have to succeed as long as there's money behind it..... LOTS of money, Saudi money, oil money, and payoffs from bigwig corporate donors.
You know, the whole frivolous lawsuit business is misleading. When a plaintiff sues a business or a health care provider and wins a verdict, it isn't the trial lawyers or the Judge that makes the award; it's a JURY made up of twelve ordinary citizens just like you, AV8R. Jurors are usually harder headed than a non lawyer might think. Lawsuits that end in awards are almost by definition NOT "frivolous"; the jury has to be convinced that harm was done and that the defendant was at fault.
Just as I expected...the usual bunch of lefties (Carl, et al) who want to see America weakened and turned into some sort of socialist paradise. I'm surprise Mr. Engineer and Tom57 have yet to grace us with some of their words of anti-wisdom. I've noticed that there really are just a small handful of people on this board who actually go along with these guys. Unfortunately, they are the most vocal.
Aviator, I'm with you, bro. I wonder if any of these lefties ever served in the military. I used to be a dem, then changed to GOP when I joined the Army. I realized how democraps don't give a crap about national defense. Here is another one: If kerry wins, unborn babies lose. HOOAAH and death from above. "There are three kinds of men: The living, the dead, and the AIRBORNE."
The small handful phenomenom... Ever notice how when someone attacks you, it is always just a "small handful of people" who are the most vocal? Isn't this the same argument/logic that the degree mill shills scream at Dr. Bear and Rich Douglas and the "gang of four" from time to time about the bias of Degreeinfo against their crappy little criminal colleges? Actually, there are far more of us than meet the eye - both in the anti-diploma mill crowd and those of us who want to see our country saved from another 4 years of Bush.... I also wonder why you conservatives automatically assume that "us liberals" are all alike? Where do you get the idea, for example, when I criticize Bush for his failed military strategy and tactics in the response to terrorism that somehow this means that I'm anti-military? Far from it. I believe that our military should be focused, strengthened, and used wisely and effectively with the appropriate amount of preparation and force deployment so that we can actually WIN when we go to war. That's something that has apparently escaped the Bush administration, who have done everything they can do to lose our battle with terrorism and al-Qaeda. There's some more words of wisdom from "the left" for y'all....
Yes, AV8R, I have served in the military. I entered active duty in the U.S. Navy in November of 1976, left active duty in May of 1981 and remain an active reservist. I was not called up during the first Gulf War; I had command of a reserve supply unit ASB-511(sm) in Albuquerque. The unit call ups started on the eastern seaboard. By the time they got to Oklahoma City, they had enough, that having been a well planned war. I therefore left my job and sailed in the Merchant Marine as a civilian in support of Operation Desert Sortie. I feel that the present administration has demonstrated criminal incompetence in the Iraq War. I also feel mislead, lied to and manipulated by the Bush team into supporting the Iraq invasion. Donald Rumsfeld says he takes full responsibility for errors but he doesn't resign. Bush cannot think of a single mistake he has made as President except for a few appointments that he will not discuss. As a veteran and present member of the reserve, I am disgusted and repelled by the Bush Team and look foward to their defeat in November.
