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displacedyankeedem Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 10:57 AM
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Mark Warner '08 People Check In Here
I'm certain that Warner will be running for President in 2008. He hasn't been spending a fair amount of time in Iowa and New Hampshire assessing corn and dairy production, if you catch my drift.

Warner is eaxctly what the party needs, a young telegenic, Southern governor who has a proven track record with rural voters and knows how to pull our country out of the financial mess its in.

We need to begin planning now for 2008, so lets get started.
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redherring Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:04 AM
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1. I hope he runs for president. Forget VA senate
He knows he can win if he runs for President. VA is one of those Southern States that can in fact go either way. It's not terribly red like are some states deeper to the South.
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JSG Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:05 AM
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2. I'm on board. Tell me how to help. n/t
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RafterMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:06 AM
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3. Does anyone have a Warner multimedia page up?
I'd like to see him in action.
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redherring Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:09 AM
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4. Only a few days ago, someone posted a draft warner page
I don't know the link.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:13 AM
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5. What do you want us to do? I'm fully on board
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displacedyankeedem Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:14 AM
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6. I think we can start by talking up the guy at party meetings
and to Democrats we know, that's a good start for now.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 01:54 PM
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16. Yep. Let's get the buzz started. Buy doing so this early in the game..
we can let the other would be candidates with no shot of prevailing know who will get the lions share of the blogosphere support. I'm not advocating that we should all absolutely lock into only Warner. I just want other potential contenders to know that unless they have consensus support they should not be jumping in simply to massage their egos.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 11:43 AM
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7. The only southerner I would support
Outside of Edwards. And I would support him not because he is a southerner, but because I live in Virginia and I know what a good governor he has been...especially in the face of an overwhelmingly Republican legislature.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:06 PM
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8. Here is his DNC convention speech
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04_dnc072904_warner.rm

Notice what he closes with.
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RafterMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:15 PM
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11. Yeah, that was a good close
And he didn't cringe in the usual Democratic fashion when he said "values".

I think he could use a little more "grittiness", but maybe that's just me.
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Comicstripper Donating Member (876 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 01:55 PM
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17. I loved that "burning Bush" line
Thought it was really clever. Plus, the south eats that Bible shit up.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:08 PM
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9. I will support him if he runs.
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Bush was AWOL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:12 PM
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10. I've talked to others that think he's the guy too
I fully will support him, but we need to find out what he's done in the past (ie, does he have skeletons in the closet). Also, what kind of campaigner and speaker is he? I think it should be Warner/Clark or Warner/Richardson or Easley/Richardson Easley/Clark.

What else has Mr. Warner accomplished?

What is his favorability in Virginia?
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:19 PM
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12. His favoribility in Virginia is remarkably high.
Somewhere in the high 60s.
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:51 PM
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14. I believe
he grew up poor and made a bunch of money after starting his own business. He was chair of the Democratic Party in Virginia and then challenged John Warner for Senate. He barely lost in what would have been a huge upset. He then ran for Governor. He reached out to the Rural communities as well as NOVA. As Governor, he completely reformed the tax system to have revenue to pay for schools and roads--the biggest state expenditures. He did this in a way that had the Republicans attacking each other instead of him. He's a good speaker, not dynamic.
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 12:41 PM
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13. I'm here
I've been talking about him for a few days.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 01:49 PM
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15. Until I see someone who gives me more hope than Warner, I'm in.
Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 01:50 PM by Kahuna
:thumbsup:

Now if he can just hang out with Wes Clark for a while to learn about national security.. we could be looking at our next nominee..
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