PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 6, 2006
Florida GOP Candidate Snubs Bush
White House Irked At Gubernatorial Candidate For Ducking President
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, right, hugs his brother, President Bush, left, after introducing him at a campaign rally at Pensacola Civic Center in Pensacola, Fla., Monday, Nov. 6, 2006. (AP)
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To the White House's embarrassment and irritation, Republican Charlie Crist, whom Mr. Bush came to help in his bid to succeed the president's brother as governor, decided at the last minute to skip the chance to be by the president's side. Crist said he needed to campaign elsewhere in the state, CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller reports.
President Bush's aides are now battling the perception he is doing his party as much harm as good and was unwanted in many districts.
The White House did not hide its irritation at Crist for ducking the president, though Mr. Bush still urged Republicans to vote for Crist.
Crist's campaign said it was not a case of Crist distancing himself from Mr. Bush, but White House political chief Karl Rove took something of a swipe, saying he wanted to see how many people turned out for Crist in Palm Beach versus the 9,000 supporters expected at the Bush rally.
The White House already had distributed schedules saying Crist would introduce the president at the rally.
Crist's opponent, Democratic Rep. Jim Davis, seized on the news.
"Now that the president is so unpopular, Charlie refuses to stand side by side with him," Davis said. "It says when the going gets tough, Charlie won't stand up."
Crist's chief of staff, George LeMieux, said the candidate already has strong support in the heavily Republican Pensacola area and thought his time would be better spent campaigning elsewhere. LeMieux said the decision had nothing to do with the president's job approval ratings.
Outgoing Gov. Jeb Bush attended the Pensacola event in Crist's place. Rep. Katherine Harris, who is mounting a lukewarm challenge to Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, was also with the president. Before the September primary, Republican leaders failed to support Harris.
Mr. Bush is using the last day of his 10-state campaign swing to flush out GOP and swing voters needed to keep Republicans sitting in the governor's offices of Arkansas and Texas as well.
It is his fifth consecutive day of campaigning, traveling to states where his advisers believe he can best help fend off the Democratic threat to take over Congress and end up with a majority of governorships for the first time in 12 years.
After Florida, Mr. Bush is heading to Arkansas where the race for governor pits Democratic Attorney General Mike Beebe against Republican Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman and federal Homeland Security official.
The Beebe-Hutchinson faceoff for the open governership already is the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in state history. Overall, Beebe, who is leading in the polls, has raised $6.3 million and spent $5.7 million in his bid for governor. Hutchinson, a former congressman, has raised nearly $3.3 million and spent about $3.1 million.
Before returning to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr. Bush is speaking at a rally in Dallas for Gov. Rick Perry, who is leading the polls in his re-election bid.
On Election Day, Mr. Bush plans to vote in Crawford and then fly back to Washington to wait for returns from the voting.
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Elsewhere, like in the bathhouses.
Rim shot!
ATTEMPTING TO STEAL VOTES
The republicans tell us ALL DAY
they are catching up in the polls
they are going to pull it out of the fire..
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I was watching NASCAR yesterday
Guess who was there to tell the drivers to start their engines
It was the Texas Republican Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson
Talk about a SAMPLE of the REPUBLICAN Party
of ALL the NASCAR fans in the stands in Ft. Worth, Tx
1) A MAJORITY did NOT CHEER for her.
2) those who were vocal, BOO-ED her.
It had to be embarrassing for her, and of coarse Wednesday Morning
we will hear how she just skimmed by and got elected again..
The republicans tell us they are catching up in the polls
it is A LIE...!
We need to make it a CAPITAL CRIME
to Conspire ,Tamper, or manipulate voting BALLOTS
If we catch these people,
they get a SPEEDY TRIAL,
then they are to be lined up against the wall
and SHOT as TRAITORS...!
WATCH OUT FOR REPUBLICANS
ATTEMPTING TO STEAL YOUR VOTES
Get out and VOTE like your life depends on it....
Why this ?
Could CBS be baised ??
Head lines we'd like to see:
How about:
" Polls narrow, Republicans Coming on Strong!"
"Democrats Surprised by Latest Polls."
"Bad Poll News - Kerry Elitist Slip Sinks Ship ?"
"Sammad Verdit Vindicates Republican Strategy - Polls Surge."
Get your real news from Drudge, Little Green Footballs, Rush, Al Jareera, Memri.org, Wall Stree J Editorial Page, and J. Post.
S. Jonston, High School History Teacher
But wasn't it bush and cheney that cut and run during vietnam.
-The American Conservative Magazine, week of Nov. 6, 2006
"I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies"
-Richard Perle, Prominent Neo-conservative, week of Oct. 30, 2006
"The president says he%u2019ll stick with Rumsfeld for the balance of his term in the White House. This is a mistake. It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation%u2019s current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads."
-Military Times Journals (Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force), week of Nov. 6, 2006
"Among the protesters at Allen's appearance was anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who says she came to Virginia to support anti-war peace candidates. Sheehan says she includes Democrat Jim Webb in that category."
Sheehan is pulling for webb! VOTE FOR ALLEN!
Hey CBS wake up, look at the polls! the numbers have dramatically risen for the republicans and Bush has been all over the place...you certainly cant say it is hurting them.... So there is three reasons that this could be
1. Republicans are convincing people to vote for them
2. George Bush campaigning
3. The pollsters have been fudging the numbers for the last month and now they are coming clean because of the need to maintain the integrity of their polls.
USA Today/Gallup 11/02 - 11/05 44% 51% Dems+7%
Pew Research 11/01 - 11/04 43% 47% dems 4%
ABC News/Wash Post 11/01 - 11/04 45% 51% Dems 6%
Apparently Americans dont HATE BUSH as much as the media and the liberals do. Something the media will never admit...lol.
All I know is that this is the Superbowl of politics, and right now the Democratic party are the favorites to win this game.
It's ugly, it's hard hitting, you have serverly injured players ( Foley, ect. ), penalties
( Personal Foul - unsportsman like conduct - Unnecessary Roughness ), and players that like to whine alot, because they did'nt get their way.
And in the end, some of them will go home when nobody is looking and cry, because they now know They%u2019re not or nolonger good enough to be successful.
I got my barbaque pit ready, and plenty of brew to go with it.
GO GET'EM DEMOCRATS.
Angry(yes)Liberal(no) is pulling for Allen the ignorant biggot! Vote for Webb!
-The American Conservative Magazine, week of Nov. 6, 2006
"I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies"
-Richard Perle, Prominent Neo-conservative, week of Oct. 30, 2006
"The president says he%u2019ll stick with Rumsfeld for the balance of his term in the White House. This is a mistake. It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation%u2019s current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads."
-Military Times Journals (Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force), week of Nov. 6, 2006
Nah, that might actually be a question 'ol George would have to think about. Maybe even, God forbid, show some actual compassion about instead of this KKK screamin and yellin he does all the time.
kerry, a coward? how many medals do you have?
And yeah, dixieman06, you're right, we could have had Kerry. In '04 we might still have had a chance at solving the Iraq problem that Bush and his PNAC neocon cabal threw in America's laps.
The bad news is that even if the Dems manage to take over both houses of Congress they're still stuck trying to fix what Bush broke - a daunting task to say the least. But at least the American people will FINALLY have someone in there looking out for their interests instead of just the "Special" ones.
I think you should show your courage by joining up to fight for your country. That's what Kerry did.
Hmmmm, 56? You have not accumulated much wisdom for those advanced years. Still name calling like a child on the playground.
The Bush administration has been selling out the tragedy of 9/11 for political gain six years now, and people are finally beginning to realize it.
FEAR
HATE
LIES
WAR
PLUNDER
has been one massive DISASTER!
In case you didn't notice (of course CBS gave it ZERO converage), Bush signed HR5122, Public Law 109-364 into effect in October, the same day that the military tribunals law was passed. This law basically revises the Insurrection Act and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, allowing Bush (the "War President") to declare martial law. He may need this if the NeoCons are planing to steal this election with their DieBold machines!
Section 1076 entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."
So dixieman06, you just go ahead and tell me what's so great about all that, huh?
Wake up America, we are being fleeced by the rich. The Government is nothing more than a puppet for the Money ******.
But yeah, things suck all over, what to do but maybe try not getting ourselves any further into a country we toppled under false pretenses and back to Afghanistan and Bin Laden, FINALLY implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, getting out of the biggest national debt ever, increase minimum wage, take back a few billion in tax breaks, work at separating lobbyists from government....
So, that's the Democrat's plan, and that's a lot better than we're getting now, and maybe the other problems we're talking about may actually get paid attention to, once they're in.
Bush's foreign policy, if he has one, is a shambles. We need to support the people of Iraq as well as we can - and as much as they request, while leaving them alone to sort out the problems we've created and exacerbated by toppling Saddam Husssein's government. And we really do need to find the guy responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Who do you think is the biggest terrorist recruiter?
Thats right, George Bush. The world was behind us after 9-11. But Bush took our troops out of Afghanistan, letting Osama gang walk into Pakisatan. All to invade Iraq. He exploited 9-11 and LIED his way into invading a country that was NOT a threat. Read the PNAC papers if you want to understand why, read Scott Ritter, Terry Drumheller. Read books by ex-Republican administration people, Richard Clark for example.
Are you the only one left in America who doesn't get it? You believe what you WANT to believe. Research the FACTS. My extended family has. They are life-long Republicans who realize that the Cheney-Rumsfeld NeoCons have Hijacked the GOP. They admit that Bush is the worst president our country has ever had.
If you love America, and if you get informed, you will realize that we need to STOP Bush from running our country into the Ground.
BUSH is a ****ing DISASTER.
"White House political chief Karl Rove took something of a swipe, saying he wanted to see how many people turned out for Crist in Palm Beach versus the 9,000 supporters expected at the Bush rally."
Karl Rove wouldn't diss someone like this if Bush hadn't been snubbed. Yeah, Crist was campaigning somewhere else, but it's obvious Rove and Bush wanted Crist there - equally obvious that Crist knew better than to be caught standing next to Bush a week before midterm elections. And who can blame him?
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by laurieleemoo
November 7, 2006 3:13 PM PST
- pakaal - an independent group did a study on all news related to republicans, democrats over the past year. They came to the conclusion that 88% of what the media puts out for the democrats is positive and 77% of what they put out for the republicans is negative. That proves the media is liberal and that they promote liberal PROPAGANDA. Maybe thats what your problem is---you get all your information from the liberal media. So, whether I read this article or not really has nothing to do with the facts---because this article is NOT FACTUAL!!!
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