A first(?) thread on 2008: McCain,Giuliani & the Republicans

<b>Bootsie Collins</b> wrote:

Hey Foxy, here's my likeability evidence from February 7, 2005

Fair point, but do you really think Jimmy Carter was more likeable than Gerald Ford?

<b>Bootsie Collins</b> wrote:

Hey Foxy, here's my likeability evidence from February 7, 2005

Fair point, but do you really think Jimmy Carter was more likeable than Gerald Ford?

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

<b>Bootsie Collins</b> wrote:

Hey Foxy, here's my likeability evidence from February 7, 2005

Fair point, but do you really think Jimmy Carter was more likeable than Gerald Ford?

Jimmy Carter's television persona came across as a lovable, cuddly, gentleman and most importantly, a Southern gentleman that took many of the Southern conservatives off guard. That, plus the public resentment of the Nixon pardon, and the cowardly way we abandoned our allies in Saigon, cost Ford the election. It was unfortunate too as history will show that Ford was doing a heck of a job. Had Carter kept Ford's policies in place, Carter's own term of office with runaway inflation, double digit interest rates, etc. would likely not have been so disastrous.

I still remember after Carter was elected though, sitting at the table with my husband's Arkansas sister who said with serious emphasis in her pronounced southern drawl, "It's really nice to have a president who doesn't speak with an accent."
_________________
--Wonder Woman

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I still remember after Carter was elected though, sitting at the table with my husband's Arkansas sister who said with serious emphasis in her pronounced southern drawl, "It's really nice to have a president who doesn't speak with an accent."

<b>Wonder Woman</b> wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

<b>Bootsie Collins</b> wrote:

Hey Foxy, here's my likeability evidence from February 7, 2005

Fair point, but do you really think Jimmy Carter was more likeable than Gerald Ford?

Jimmy Carter's television persona came across as a lovable, cuddly, gentleman and most importantly, a Southern gentleman that took many of the Southern conservatives off guard. That, plus the public resentment of the Nixon pardon, and the cowardly way we abandoned our allies in Saigon, cost Ford the election. It was unfortunate too as history will show that Ford was doing a heck of a job. Had Carter kept Ford's policies in place, Carter's own term of office with runaway inflation, double digit interest rates, etc. would likely not have been so disastrous.

I still remember after Carter was elected though, sitting at the table with my husband's Arkansas sister who said with serious emphasis in her pronounced southern drawl, "It's really nice to have a president who doesn't speak with an accent."
_________________
--Wonder Woman

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I appreciated Jimmy being from the South, having a "fresh" face, and being an unabashed Christian. At the time, I also appreciated his being a Dem. (albeit slightly to the right of the Dem center).

Ford seemed to be stuck in another time (Remember WIN Gardens?) and he followed the noxious Nixon. Poor sod.

Hands down though, he was more likeable than the sanctimonious Jimmy.

Carter's presidency was a disaster, but he will get his posthumous props for his post-presidency activity. The good that he did do after he left office will, in a time when everyone will want to speak well of him, will overshadow his horrible presidency and his inane post-presidency meddling.

I really though that Clinton would be the first president to break the unwritten law about criticizing following presidents. I was wrong, it was Jimmy. Actually Clinton's been a lot quieter than I expected.

REDEFINING "SOPHISTICATED":

"Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they.... are coming to see [Fred] Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but from his role as Manhattan district attorney on the TV series 'Law & Order.'"--Bob Novak, in today's Washington Post

Unsophisticated activists tend to give more weight to his performance in Aces: Iron Eagle III.

--Christopher Orr

Cant help it, this made me LOL - and the laughing is mostly at Novak:

Quote:

REDEFINING "SOPHISTICATED":

"Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they.... are coming to see [Fred] Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but from his role as Manhattan district attorney on the TV series 'Law & Order.'"--Bob Novak, in today's Washington Post

Unsophisticated activists tend to give more weight to his performance in Aces: Iron Eagle III.

--Christopher Orr

Cant help it, this made me LOL - and the laughing is mostly at Novak:

Quote:

REDEFINING "SOPHISTICATED":

"Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they.... are coming to see [Fred] Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but from his role as Manhattan district attorney on the TV series 'Law & Order.'"--Bob Novak, in today's Washington Post

Unsophisticated activists tend to give more weight to his performance in Aces: Iron Eagle III.

--Christopher Orr

Can't imagine wryness from a conservative pundit?

nimh wrote:

Cant help it, this made me LOL - and the laughing is mostly at Novak:

Quote:

REDEFINING "SOPHISTICATED":

"Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they.... are coming to see [Fred] Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but from his role as Manhattan district attorney on the TV series 'Law & Order.'"--Bob Novak, in today's Washington Post

Unsophisticated activists tend to give more weight to his performance in Aces: Iron Eagle III.

--Christopher Orr

Can't imagine wryness from a conservative pundit?

Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they cannot vote for Giuliani under any conditions and have no rapport with McCain or Romney. They do not view Sen. Sam Brownback, representing the social right, as a viable candidate. They are coming to see Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but from his role as Manhattan district attorney on the TV series " Law & Order." The part was molded to Thompson's specifications as a tough prosecutor, lending him political star power.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Can't imagine wryness from a conservative pundit?

Umm.. Bob Novak? Wry? About Fred Thompson?

You didnt read the column, did you?