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MANCHESTER, N.H. - John Kerry easily won New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday, overpowering Howard Dean and other Democratic rivals for a second-straight victory to establish the four-term senator as the party’s presidential front-runner.
“It’s an enormous victory, a huge turnaround,” Kerry told The Associated Press. “We were written off for months, and plugged on and showed people the determination we have to defeat President Bush.”
Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark were in a distant race for third as early returns trickled in from across the Granite State. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut was fifth, his candidacy in peril.
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{brilliant comment brought to you by my 10-year old boy, inspired by the Dean screech, YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGH HHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}
A Veitnam vet that was one of the biggest anti-war people on his return; he actually testified before Congress about the matter (mostly lies it would seem). Should be interesting when he has to start explaining that.
Now that we're gotten the pre-emptive primal scream outta the way, it looks like I'm gonna lose the bet. I had Dean to win the nomination and then get his ass handed to him in Nov. Now it looks like John Kerry for the win, creating a much closer race in November than thought. Oh well, it's only $20.
Fire up those VCRs folks, maybe Dean will favor us with another performance for the ages. He's got a huge American flag as the backdrop for his speech, sort of like Patton. Hey, maybe he'll come out screaming wearing a helmet, a Dean/Dukakis two-fer. OK, not really. Do wonder though if he'll be on valium still like the last few days.
Speaking of which, Kerry's about to wheeze on about something or the other.
Ah, but wait folks, we're forgetting. GWII was a war, while Vietnam was a police action. Expect that point to come up at least once in a future debate. Doesn't make much difference to the dead, but I doubt the average LLL voter will recognize the simple fact that war is war, declared or not.
Kerry at times can have gravitas. However his political background is Massachusetts liberal and I do not care for Yankee liberals. Nevertheless he is 100% improvement over Howard the Duck Dean. I wish Bush would start hitting back.
When I was in elementary school, we would carve heads out of apples. They would dry & shrivel, and we would shellac them and make bodies & clothes for them.
Off topic, a muslim girl claims a UK schoolteacher made nasty shoe related slurs about her faith then tugged off the girls hijab resulting in a scratch from a pin holding it on. sounds fishy to me as shoe related slurs aren't exactly standard English swearing.
Man, I'm glad I've got my own steaming cup of Columbian Joementum here right now. So much for "They control everything." Meanwhile, it looks like Dean's donor list is starting to go dry. Apparently they're selling matches for $100 bucks a pop at the Dean rally for the after-party. Hey, can't let that flag prop go to waste.
Will someone please sum up Kerry for me? All I hear is Charlie Brown's teacher:
Yeah, he testified before Congress but his performance was scripted. His speech was written by one of Robert Kennedy’s speechwriters and he was coached on the delivery.
For a full account of Kerry’s treachery see
this account.
Well, it looks like the Democrats of New Hampster have voted and chosen a man that thinks that dyin' to live free is so not worth it. Come to think of it, all save one of the Democrat candidates agrees with him. A proud moment for the followers of Bertrand Russell and all New Hampsters.
That Donks so ugly I would sc**w her with your D**k!
Is it my imagination, or have the Donks turned into the American version of hamas? They don't seem to have any platform other than 'HATE' for GeeDub. It don't seem like a very good platform. I'm voting for da Shrub!:)
#23 RightIsRight: Hey homey, you know the double-play that's coming up soon. The GOP is letting them run with this "special interest" bashing, while knowing full well they have a long laundy list of special interests the Dems are beholden to. And who's the senator up for re-election this year, whose wife is a Congressional lobbiest for Boeing (small mom-n-pop agro-collective, I think), who won't reveal her income figures? Who most likely had her fingers in the military leasing jets that the military could have had cheaper by buying them outright? Heheheheh.
#13 Joel: Patience sir. Bush knows every one of these candidates is toast except for one. No need burning up ammo until the nomination is nearly settled, best be busy looking presidential and doing things that matter. I think there's probably only 10% of people who'll vote that are paying any attention to all this right now, and 95% of those already sure of which party they'll be voting for.
Well, this throws my strategy of voting in the primary of the party out of power, and selecting who I believe to be the best candidate for that party to vote for (eg, although I lean Republican, I voted for Tsongas in the Texas dhiimi primary in 1992, because although he was a liberal, he didn't radiate dishonesty like Clinton did to me even then), since one of the two halfway decent candidates, Gephardt is already out, and the other one, Lieberman looks hopeless, I may have to change the strategy.
I will have to vote for the moonbattiest dhimmi that has a chance for the nomination. No wasting votes on Kucinich. If Sharpton is in the top 4 by Texas, maybe him, otherwise, Dean.
As the Newsweek poll showed, the French looking John Kerry is the most electable of the dhimmis. Yet the man wants to dismantle the CIA, cut the military, and essentially surrender the WoT.
Therefore, it is my patriotic duty to try to throw a monkey-wrench, if I can, into the Marxist dhimmicrap party machine by helping ensure that the those who most embarrass the party, whether Dean or Sharpton, have full exposure in Boston at the convention.
#28 Ed Moran:Abu Yes: Another strategy: Have the primaries drag on for as long as possible, because the opposition does a lot of the work for you when it comes to digging up dirt, it gives more opportunity for slip-ups and hard to defend statements, and it saps money from all contenders and their donors.
Well, I had hoped Dean would be the nominee, but although Kerry will be tougher to beat, I think that he will be beaten. Liberal Dems from Mass. haven't done real well in Presidential campaigns from 1980 onwards. And Kerry's left a long paper trail in the Senate; it'll be easy for Rove to nail him.
The candidate which really makes me nervous is Edwards. He's a good speaker, he's as slick as Billy Jeff, and a lot of people won't mind that he's a trial lawyer - they'll buy his guff about "standing up for the little people." Edwards also has a chance to pick up at least a Southern state or two - if Kerry had had a snowball's chance in hell in the South, he blew it by basically telling them to go to hell the other day.
What might put people off of Edwards is his looks. Yeah, he's cute if you like the Ken doll look, but he looks like he only recently started shaving. America is aging - will boomers vote for someone who looks like their kid brother - or their son?
Peggy Noonan wrote last week that Kerry looks like "a sad tree." Personally, I think of basset hounds, although I like basset hounds more than I like Kerry.
This primaries will be in play through the spring--Dean actually improved his standing in NH, coming in a strong second, and has the money to keep campaigning. So the Dems will bleed for some time in public.
The other "candidates" will have to demonstrate viability after Feb. 3, when 7 states hold primaries. Although I do believe that the Very Reverend Al Sharpton will be sticking his face in the Demos faces through the nominating convention regardless of the actual results.
OT, New York City WSR-88D NexRad Doppler radar shows heavy snow band (with some sleet mixing in along the South Shore) approaching Nassau county. Snow fall rates, where not cut back by sleet, may reach 2" an hour.
Sleet may cut down accumulations NYC and LI to 6", but closer to a foot away from the immediate coast.
Up to Albany, flat lands 6 to 12", but along the east slopes of the Catskills/Adirondacks upslope enhancement could deliver localized 12-18" snows.
Northern edge of snow cuts off fairly sharply, such that Boston gets 6-8", southern New Hampshire gets 3-6", but southern MA just inland from the coast (which may see a mix with sleet) could see isolated amounts in excess of 16". ( Note to our British/Norwegian/Israeli/German/Canadia n readers, convert snow amounts to cm by multiplying by 2.54, or if you don't have a calculator (look at "Accesories" under your "Programs" menu ( go to "Start"), double the snow, then triple it, then take average.)
Bobby Flay is visiting a crawfish restaurant in El Campo, TX ( about halfway between Houston and Victoria) that catches its own crawfish in the marshes of El Campo.
Personally, I think Bobby Flay made a fool of himself on Iron Chef when he jumped up on the cutting table after his battle with Iron Chef Morimoto.
But our lease operator ("pumper"), in West Gueydan (Vermillion parish) tells me that crawfish season has already started. Of course, to me crawfish is just ok, I like it that it is a good excuse to drink adult BEvERages (note, I'm not drinking malty hoppy elixirs much, due to carbohydrate concerns, although I suppose I could drink a few lo-carb Miller Lite. Actually, I plan to support my favorite drivers, Dale Jr. and Rusty, by consuming a few Buds and Lite's (no fair weather fan me, Rusty sucked last year). I got me a Dale Jr. #8 DEI Budweiser Chevy Monte Carlo t-shirt at the 2000 race at TMS, and, lo and behold, Junior won his first Winston Cup race. Does he owe me? Maybe)
Mi'sposa isn't a beer drinker, which is too bad, but we did share a small glass of Red Infidel (Ste. Genevieve- from the highlands of the Llano estacado, no cheese-eating surrender monkey wine for me) with dinner tonight.
John Kerry: Working hard for the people of Massachusetts.
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has missed 63 (of 183) Senate votes, or a little more than a third of all votes. Some of the major legislative issues Kerry missed include AIDS funding, homeland security, education, and partial-birth abortion.
Right is Right: Actually, I thought of those talking trees in "The Wizard of Oz" who throw apples at Dorothy, although they are really more angry, Dean-style trees than your depressed weeping willow Kerry types:-)
Geez, I suddenly don't feel that good and I CANNOT be sick tomorrow - I have a presentation to give. G'night, all.
Cash-and-Kerry
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 27, 2004
PONTEFICATIONS
WILL COMMUNIST VIETNAM BE AMONG THE BIGGEST behind-the-scenes bankrollers of the Democratic National Convention this July 26-29 in Boston? It already has been, via a de facto intermediary, thanks to the Massachusetts boy and friend of Hanoi now likely to be nominated there as the Democrats’ presidential standard-bearer.
Senator John F. Kerry has a long political career, distinguished by his willingness to go farther Left in politics and lower for money than most other American politicians would dream of going. He has been largely unnoticed outside the liberal Northeast and the approving pages of leftist magazines and newspapers
"As the Newsweek poll showed, the French looking John Kerry is the most electable of the dhimmis. Yet the man wants to dismantle the CIA, cut the military, and essentially surrender the WoT."
Well, of course he does! He represents the People's Republik of Massachussetts -- the last surviving member of the Warsaw Pact. Someone told me a little while back that Harvard still teaches classes on Marxist economics. Think "Berkeley East" and you get the picture.
What else would you expect from a state that keeps re-electing Ted Kennedy? (campaign motto: "Support Ted Kennedy -- A Blond in Every Pond!")
Massachussets -- so anal they once tried to institute stringent firearms transportation laws that were so draconian, they effectively barred the participants in the annual Lexington Minuteman-versus-Redcoats re-enactment from bringing their replica flintlocks. Can't have citizens carrying arms -- especially if they have the dreaded bayonet lug!
Kerry, yeah -- he really represents the common man.
I like the new slogan for Chappaquidick Ted Kennedy. I'll have to remember that.
You got the state's name wrong, though. It's the People's Democratic Republic of Taxachusetts. Also, it's not just Harvard. UMass in Amherst is known for its Marxist (read: bulls**t) "economics" courses, even today. I'm sure there are others that teach that excrement here as well.
"As the Newsweek poll showed, the French looking John Kerry is the most electable of the dhimmis. Yet the man wants to dismantle the CIA, cut the military, and essentially surrender the WoT."
How exactly does that differ from the other members of the weakest group of what was nine since the 1962 New York Mets? I don't recall hearing Leslie Clark or Johnny Edwards talk about ruthlessly fighting this war or killing the Islamofreakazoids. Do you?
Too bad Liberman and Gephart are the only two Dems that really believe in what they say and both of them are toast. Sad to see good men on the wrong side. In the Democrat world, good guys always finish last.
Dukakis also passed a law that if a home invasion occurred the occupants would be in violation of a felony if they tried to defend themselves whether or not they owned firearms. It would have required the occupants to do everything possible to avoid or otherwise ignore the intruder even if that meant running barefoot outside of the dwelling in the freezing cold. The law was very quickly rescinded.
I suppose it's no coincidence that Dukakis is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
French looking?
Gore Vidal said that Kerry looked like Lincoln--after the assassination. That's even nastier, and from left field.
#49, Big Digger
Yeah, but I don't hear anything from Bush about "killing the Islamofreakazoids" either. It's still the TOP to him, and the Islamo....are just a few rotten apples in the barrel. He needs for Condi to summarize one of Lewis' books on Islam, or maybe read a Pipes column, or...
I'm unfamiliar with U.S. politics, so perhaps someone can explain this to me:
How is it that both Dean and Kerry can both say without busting a gut laughing that they won't be beholden to special interests? And why is it that their noses didn't start growing when they said that?
Off topic, a muslim girl claims a UK schoolteacher made nasty shoe related slurs about her faith then tugged off the girls hijab resulting in a scratch from a pin holding it on. sounds fishy to me as shoe related slurs aren't exactly standard English swearing.
Does anyone remember Dieter--Mike Meyer's character from SNL? He used to insult people by saying "you are my shoe!" Perhaps the teacher [Miss Dick...you can't make this stuff up!] is a fan??
Lovely morning. BBC trounced in the Hutton Report. Dean loses. Almost makes up for the fact that my banana roze solid on the drive into work this morning.
Some Hutton gems:
"Whether or not that source was subsequently shown to be unreliable, the central allegation made by Andrew Gilligan in his BBC report was unfounded"
"Andrew Gilligan's report that Downing Street "probably knew" the 45-minute claim in its Iraq dossier was wrong was a grave allegation and attacked the integrity of the government and the Joint Intelligence Committee"
"Editorial system at BBC was defective in allowing Mr Gilligan's report to go to air without editors seeing a script"
"BBC management failed to make an examination of Mr Gilligan's notes of the interview with Dr Kelly"
"There was a defect in the BBC's management system relating to the way complaints were investigated"
"BBC governors failed to investigate Mr Gilligan's actions properly "
My banana FROZE not roze. (Fingers still numb from their death grip on the steering wheel due to cold, ice fog and slippery conditions. Must remember preview is my friend.)
I'm not implying the other Dhimmicratic candidates don't also feel that way. All I did was grab a few handy lines from a previous entry that were relevant to the point I wanted to make*. On the contrary, all of the dwarves (except maybe Lieberman) are dangerously naive on the issue of defending Western civilization.
*And the point I wanted to make was, "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." Similarly, you can take Kerry out Massachusetts, but you can't take the America-hating, French-loving Socialist out of Kerry.
*And the point I wanted to make was, "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." Similarly, you can take Kerry out (of) Massachusetts, but you can't take the America-hating, French-loving Socialist out of Kerry.
Good point.
#52 observer
Yeah, but I don't hear anything from Bush about "killing the Islamofreakazoids" either. It's still the TOP[sic] to him, and the Islamo....are just a few rotten apples in the barrel. He needs for Condi to summarize one of Lewis' books on Islam, or maybe read a Pipes column, or...
BTW, has a standard description for these orally flatulating buttheads been settled upon? Is it Islamofreak, Islamofreakozoid, Islamof**khead, Islamodickless, Islamofascist, Islamonazi, merely "scum that's better off dead", or something else?