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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:24 PM
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Why Republicans Fear Obama


If he performs against the GOP like he has against Hillary in South Carolina, there could be blood in the water.

By Byron York

Columbia, South Carolina — I went to Barack Obama’s rally here, on Sunday night, with a Republican friend who had never seen the Illinois senator in action before. Watching the crowd of more than 3,000 fill up the convention center, watching the people send up waves of energy to Obama, and watching him play off that energy in a speech that was one of the best political performances anyone has seen this year, my Republican friend said, simply, “Oh, shit.”

He recalled the scene from Jaws, in which the small seaside town’s sheriff realizes how big the shark he’s tracking truly is, and says, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” What my friend didn’t have to say was that he was deeply worried that Republicans just don’t have a bigger boat.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjU2ZjQ3MGNiZjNmZjYxOGQ3M2Y4NmY2NDVhMDk0Mjg=&w=MA==
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:26 PM
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1. no boat no captain
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:15 PM
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17. No boat No captain..
No nothing. I think the Dems are going to win in 2008 and I want it to be someone who can take this country in the best direction away from the bloody money grabbers', business as usual in DC.
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Tarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:27 PM
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2. the National Review == neoconservatism's Ground Zero.
Why would anyone here be interested in their analysis?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:29 PM
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5. It's a puzzler for sure.
I smell a trap. And the scent gets stronger every day.
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Skwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:00 PM
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10. Oh please. They know they can tell the truth and many Democrats
will disavow it as a trap.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:09 PM
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14. Hey, you disagree and that's fine...
but I don't know about how often they tell the truth.
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Skwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:17 PM
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20. Many would say the same thing about the Clintons.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:24 PM
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23. Yup... but one's kinda more on the side of our liberal agenda.
:P
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:29 PM
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3. Of course--I've been saying this for months. But no, we want the
polarizing 90's retread that will bring Repubs and Indies out of their caves and crawl spaces to vote AGAINST her.
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Skwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:20 PM
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22. How to ensure that the Democratic Party can't become a majority
after 8 years of Bush - make sure that it's controlled by a power hungry couple that will lead the Democratic Party off the cliff.

The Clintons are a gift to the Republican Party.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:42 PM
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24. They had their chance to lead--Bill left our party embarrassed and in shambles
by 2000, giving a complete moron the chance to wreck our country for the past eight years--and now they want ANOTHER shot to lead, through her? Are Democrats this self-loathing, this masochistic, to let these two take the reins YET AGAIN? Fresh blood, PLEASE!
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:29 PM
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4. Hate to tell you this, but the GOP fix for Obama is already done.
And his name is Rezko.

Interesting reading. Barack has some explaining to do. A lot of it.
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Metric System Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:35 PM
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6. Listen,
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 02:35 PM by MetricSystem
the Republicans attacked Mondale, Clinton, Gore and Kerry, and now I'm supposed to believe that they will roll over/play nice/whatever for Obama? Huh?!?
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:01 PM
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11. Where did I say that?
:shrug:

Obama has some real worries ahead of him, and it isn't all going to be coming from the Republicans, although they will take advantage of it, without a doubt.
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Metric System Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:03 PM
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13. Sorry,
I wasn't replying to you. I meant to reply to the OP.
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old guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:35 PM
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7. The repubs don't fear any Dem candidate IMO.
What the repubs fear most of all is an election where all the votes are counted honestly. They will do anything to ensure that does not happen.
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:11 PM
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16. You are absolutely correct
As much power as the corporate machine has gained in the last 7 years ($$$$$$$$$$) they can pretty much do what ever they want with this election and stealing it a third time will be much easier..If we thought that we were shocked in 2000 and then again in 2004,well brace yourself because its about to happen again..This corporate power group has too much to lose and they are not about to give up anything...Nothing has been done to insure honest vote counting...
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golddigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:15 PM
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18. You nailed it old guy! n/t
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BringBigDogBack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:40 PM
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8. haha
great story. I took a pubbie freind of mine with me when I saw him in Austin way back at the start of his campaign.... His words/feelings were about the same. :thumbsup:
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 02:53 PM
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9. Yeah, sure.
Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 03:02 PM by Benhurst
The Republicans are :scared: :scared: :scared: of Barack Obama.

And The National Review is telling us about it.

Are we to believe Bill Buckley and The National Review have been won over by the Obama Revolution and are now working for Truth, Justice and the American Way?

If so, they'll probably quit the Republican Party any day now and join up with the Democrats.

:rofl:
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water Donating Member (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:02 PM
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12. They like him because he is the most centrist...
... and the most likely to compromise while in office. In other words:

He has the best chance of being elected and winning re-election.
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Blarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:11 PM
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15. Per senate votes
he is far more liberal than Hillary
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water Donating Member (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:16 PM
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19. United States' or Illinois'?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 03:18 PM
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21. Great story, Magic...
and fodder for the hilarys to use their little scared icons to show that ..they don't think the repubs are really scared of Obama..they want hilary to be scared of.
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