“Let’s make our principles crystal clear right out of the box.”
- The first line of the home page of John Kerry’s web site JohnKerry.com. For effect, you probably have to read it out loud in a deep, lugubrious voice.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)There’s a report in Tuesday’s New York Times about genetic influences on party affiliation. Using twin studies, the authors found:
… after correcting for the tendency of politically like-minded men and women to marry each other, the researchers also found that the twins’ self-identification as Republican or Democrat was far more dependent on environmental factors like […]
If you’re able to pick up the Economist this week (June 9), there’s a great short article, “Looking for a Plan,” summarizing how the Democrat’s anti-everything policies are leaving them bereft of ideas going forward.
You can sum up the Democrats’ current economic strategy in three words: “Just say no.” Whether it is George Bush’s ideas […]
[Ed. Note: The second post from our newest contributor, who may have even voted Democratic in the last election. He’s young.]
A major problem with being an American of reason and intelligence is trying to figure out exactly what the hell people like Jesse Jackson and Howard Dean are talking about … a problem John Edwards […]
James Taranto of the WSJ’s OpinionJournal.com finds the quote about John Kerry that we needed the other day. From a NY Times article last year:
Some aides and close associates say Mr. Kerry’s fluidity is the mark of an intellectual who grasps the subtleties of issues, inhabits their nuances and revels in the deliberative process. They […]
Democratic leaders stand up for Dean (The Boston Globe)
How ironic that Howard Dean, the man who promises to make Terry Schiavo (the now-passed brain-dead Florida woman whose death watch became a national media event) a political issue, has himself become a political issue and the subject of a media death watch due to his own […]
“Howard Dean is the gift that keeps on giving,” John McCain told Cybercast News Service outside the Rock the Vote event.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Which major newspaper is missing yesterday’s best story?
New York Times: Kerry’s Grades Near Bush’s While At Yale
Boston Globe: Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student
Washington Post: Kerry’s Yale Grades Similar to Bush’s
Los Angeles Times: Kerry Makes His Military, Medical File Available
Yes, in an 853 word piece, LA Times staff writer Stephen Braun manages to […]
Sen. Hillary Clinton, quoted in Tuesday’s New York Times:
“I can tell you this: It’s very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they’re doing. … It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth.”
A little close to home?
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)John Kerry finally gave his Navy records to the press. From today’s Boston Globe:
Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student
His 4-year average on par with Bush’s
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 7, 2005
WASHINGTON — During last year’s presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, […]
You can read Howard Dean’s loopy speech to the far-left “Take Back America Conference” here. This is appears to be a redacted version — Ankle Biting Pundits, who had a person there, has some quotes that did not make it into lefty site AlterNet’s transcript. It’s so bizarre at the paragraph-by-paragraph level that it would […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)To: Democratic National Committee Members
From: DNC Human Resources
Subject: Employee Howard Dean / Probationary Period Review
Employee Howard Dean has been Chairman of the DNC for 100 days. At the end of that probationary period, we review each new hire’s performance and make recommendations for improvement or other action.
Mr. Dean’s duties are in three principal areas:
1) Fundraising
Performance: […]
Given the important role that new media played in the early stages of the 2004 presidential election, Independent Sources is evaluating the Internet efforts of each of the 2008 hopefuls.Please note that sites reviewed are not necessarily affiliated with the campaigns as our criteria was to pick the highest ranking web site of each candidate […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)For Immediate Release:
Edwards 2008 Campaign Heading To Canada?
John Edwards, former plaintiff’s attorney, U.S. Senator and running mate of John Kerry in their losing 2004 presidential bid, has a problem if he intends to follow John Dean’s lead in using the Internet to mobilize youthful voters in the next election. This is because the most appropriate […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)For Immediate Release:
With the next presidential election just three years away, Independent Sources reports that the Democrats have taken a commanding lead in the all important messaged wrist band category.
According to the Think Blue Dems web site, over 86,000 of the little blue buggers have been sold. While this might seem like a small number […]
