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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Supporting Hillary for President?
WorldNetDaily has Sheehan thrashing ‘war hawk’ Hillary
Cindy tears into Clinton for Iraq support, compares her to radio’s Rush Limbaugh
Cindy Sheehan, the so-called “peace mom” on a crusade to end U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, is publicly blasting Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for her continued support of the ongoing conflict.
“I think she is a political animal who believes she has to be a war hawk to keep up with the big boys,” Sheehan writes in an open letter. “I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don’t think she can speak out against the occupation, because she supports it. I will not make the mistake of supporting another pro-war Democrat for president again: As I won’t support a pro-war Republican.”
“I believe that the intelligent thing for Democrats to do for 2006 and 2008 would be to come out strongly and correctly against the botched, bungled, illegal, and immoral occupation of Iraq,” Sheehan added.
The open letter to Hillary is here on Michael Moore’s website.
She was granted a meeting with Sen. Clinton to discuss the war effort, but says the Democrat “apparently” didn’t listen, as the senator told a reporter for the Village Voice, “My bottom line is that I don’t want their sons to die in vain. … I don’t believe it’s smart to set a date for withdrawal. … I don’t think it’s the right time to withdraw.”
“That sounds like Rush Limbaugh to me,” Sheehan said. “That doesn’t sound like an opposition party leader speaking to me. What Sen. Clinton said after our meeting sounds exactly like the Republican Party talking points I heard from Senators Dole and McCain.”
Rush is busting a gut!
Flap will hold his breath for any Iraqi War pronouncements from Hillary.
In the meantime, Rush…….
“There’s trouble in paradise out there on the far left extreme which has become the Democrat base,” Limbaugh responded today on his national radio program.
“You don’t do this, folks. You don’t publicly as a Democrat disavow a Clinton and live to do it – well, you just don’t do it again and again without something happening. So she’s one gutsy lady or stupid, one of the two. But something’s going to happen to this woman. Something’s going to silence her.”
Rush has it RIGHT!
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Condoleezza Rice Watch: I Don’t Want to Run for President
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shake hands as they meet in Moscow, October 15, 2005. Rice is in Moscow on a surprise trip to seek Russia’s support for a hard line policy against Iran.The ASSociated Press has Rice: I Don’t Want to Run for President.
For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no means no — and no again — when it comes to whether she will run for president.
“It’s not what I want to do with my life, it’s not what I’m going to do with my life,” Rice said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
No means No for Condoleeza.
Flap sees no reason why the new Republican President would not wish to continue her in his administration but Flap predicts she will return to academia and a less public life.
Flap handicaps the 2008 Presidential Race as Giuliani-Allen Vs. Clinton-Richardson.
Technorati Tags: Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Rudy Giuliani, George Allen, Bill Richardson
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Condi Vs. Hillary
The New York Daily News has Condi vs. Hillary?
New book sez only Rice could keep Clinton from White House
There is only one force on Earth capable of preventing Sen. Hillary Clinton from winning the White House in 2008 – and her name is Condoleezza Rice.
That is the thrust of a new book by former Bill Clinton adviser-turned-nemesis Dick Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann. A copy was obtained by the Daily News.
In “Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race,” Morris and McGann paint a potential presidential catfight as a struggle between good and evil – and New York’s junior senator is wearing the black hat.
“There is one, and only one, figure in America who can stop Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State Condoleezza ‘Condi’ Rice,” they write.
Rudy Giuliani will be the next President of the United States. George Allen will be the Vice President.
Condi will continue to be Secretary of State or return to Stanford.
Technorati Tags: Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Rudy Giuliani, George Allen
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: “I Plan to Return to Politics”
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) greets former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani during their meeting in Tel Aviv September 22, 2005 in this picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office.The ASSociated Press has Giuliani: I Plan to Return to Politics.
Rudolph Giuliani said Wednesday that he plans to return to politics but that it is too early to say if that will be for the 2008 presidential campaign.
“I think I’ll return to politics,” Giuliani said in a speech to business leaders.
Understatement of the 2008 Presidential Election.
Look at how Rudy is doing over at Patrick Ruffini’s September Presidential Poll.
Main Ballot:
Giuliani 
6183 (32.9%)Allen 3521 (18.7%)Romney 1779 (9.5%)Undecided 1648 (8.8%)Tancredo 1330 (7.1%)McCain 1259 (6.7%)Barbour 1125 (6%)Brownback 493 (2.6%)Huckabee 452 (2.4%)Frist 415 (2.2%)Pawlenty 381 (2%)Hagel 138 (0.7%)Pataki 84 (0.4%)America’s Mayor will be the next President of the United States.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Will Decide Next Year for 2008?
Former New York City Mayor and possible 2008 US presidential candidate Rudolph Guiliani speaks to the press in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen Sunday Oct. 2,2005. Guiliani thanked local firefighters for raising money for the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Guiliani said he will be considering soon whether or not to run for president in 2008. Behind is Frederiksberg Mayor Mads Lebech and at right is US Ambassador to Denmark James P. Cain.The ASSociated Press has Giuliani to Mull 2008 Decision Next Year.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday he will contemplate next year whether to run for president in 2008.
“I will be considering it next year,” Giuliani said during a visit to Denmark. But he added that playing with the idea of running for the Republican nomination for president did not mean he would actually do it.
“Sometime you warm up and get ready and you don’t get in and pitch,” he told reporters, in a baseball analogy.
Flap handicaps Giuliani will win the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and beat Hillary Clinton to become the next President of the United States.
Technorati Tags: Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton
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Patrick Ruffini’s 2008 Presidential Poll for September – Have You Voted Yet?
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Patrick Ruffini’s 2008 Presidential Poll for September
Patrick Ruffini has his 2008 Presidential Straw Poll up here.
Last month’s GOP primary straw poll got over 17,000 votes (!) and provided reams of state-by-state and blog-by-blog data to chew over. This month’s poll has all the features you know and love — the results by blog referrer, the state data — plus this twist: you can now “tag” your vote, like you’d tag a blog entry in Technorati or a photo in Flickr.
I’ve modified the candidate list slightly to get a sense of what impact these changes might have on a real primary. Newt Gingrich is given a bye in this poll, with two notable additions to the big ballot: Tim Pawlenty and Haley Barbour. (I’ll be monitoring what a sample of Newt supporters do this time.) Mark Sanford is added as a fantasy candidate, as he has said he won’t run.
Here are last month’s results. Let’s see if we can beat the overall total. This poll is completely unscientific. Use of these results for anything other than their entertainment value or while operating heavy machinery may result in severe bodily harm.
Main Ballot:
George Allen
Haley Barbour
Sam Brownback
Bill Frist
Rudy Giuliani
Chuck Hagel
Mike Huckabee
John McCain
Tim Pawlenty
George Pataki
Mitt Romney
Tom TancredoSo, what are you waiting for…….get over there and vote.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.BTW, Flap voted for Rudy Giuliani again
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Internet News “RETHINK”
The Drudge Report has FLASHBACK: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS INTERNET NEWS NEEDS ‘RETHINK’
China on Sunday imposed new media restrictions designed to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, sharply restricting the scope of content that can be posted on Web sites.
In 1998 during a meeting with reporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that “we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with” the Internet because of the handling of White House sex scandal stories on Web sites.
Clinton was asked whether she favored curbs on the Internet, after the DRUDGE REPORT made headlines with coverage of her husband’s affair with a White House intern.
“We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values … Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?” she said.
Hillary Clinton Continued:
“I don’t have any clue about what we’re going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically — I don’t have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I’m a big pro-balance person. That’s why I love the founders — checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be — political, economic, technological –out of balance, you’ve got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people’s rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we’re going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to –”
REPORTER: Sounds like you favor regulation.
MRS. CLINTON: Bill, I don’t know what — that’s why I said I don’t know what I’m in favor of. And I don’t know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it’s one of those new issues we’ve got to address. We’ve got to see whether our existing laws protect people’s right of privacy, protect them against defamation. And if they can, how do you do that when you can press a button and you can’t take it back. So I think we have to tread carefully.
Typical of the LEFT…..if you don’t like the news…….REGULATE ………spelled
CONTROL
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The Bush Era is Over: Lame Duck Years
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California Republican Party Convention Watch: Senator George Allen To Speak at Dinner
Senator George Allen, R- Virginia, will be speaking as one of featured headliners (Governor Schwarzenegger will speak tomorrow at noon) of this convention.
The Senator, a non-declared but running nevertheless candidate, for President is spreading his name among the party faithful – to mine those contacts and fundraising powers of the California GOP.
Flap remembers Senator Allen’s father, also George Allen (George Herbert Allen), who was the coach of the Los Angeles Rams — when Los Angeles had an NFL franchise.
Flap remains skeptical that the younger Allen can score a Super Bowl win to the Presidency in 2008.
The Vice Presidency?
Live Blogging will commence within the half hour.
Senator Allen has been introduced by the Chairman of the California Republican Party.
He starts his speech by saying Governor Schwarzenegger has been leading the fight for real change in Sacramento and gives him credit for balancing the California budget without raising taxes.
He is happy to be back here in Orange County. The Senator was raised in California when his father was the coach of the Los Angeles Rams where the training camp was at Cal State Fullerton. He remembers meeting Governor Reagan who came out to the camp to watch the Rams. Reagan was elected Governor of California in 1966.
Then he moved to Virigina when his dad went on to coach the Washington Redskins where he got involved with Virginians for Reagan.
He credits his start in politics here in Orange County and with Ronald Reagan.
Discussing a broad range of issues:
1. Supports permanent 15% capital gains tax
2.Elimination of Estate (Death) Tax
Protestors are heard through the door of the hall….chanting …..?
Nahhhh relax it is a demonstration for a young Republican campaign.
The Senator is also supportive of less litigation – tort reform; energy independence from foreign sources of oil via drilling for domestic sources in Alaska.
Questions from the audience:
He supports parental notification for abortion – supports California Proposition 73.
He is now discussing illegal immigration:
1. Secure the border
2. More detention and patrol
3. Effective Guest Worker Program and not the McCain-Kennedy bill but more like the Cornyn bill
He finishes with a Ronald Reagan story and the Cold War. How he was ridiculed and discounted in the war against communism but because of Ronald Reagan perseverence people in Eastern Europe are now free…… so it goes for Iraq.
America must be patient, support our troops in Iraq and persevere.
America must stand strong for freedom!
Thanks to SactoDan for the photo.Technorati Tags: George Allen, Ronald Reagan, California Republican Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger
