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x-g.o.p.er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:39 PM
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The "Reagan Bounce" seems to have failed. What next?
Although Ronald Reagan and his widow received glowing press this past week, it seems that little of it has rubbed off on the "Uniter, not the Divider."

Karl Rove has to be plotting something now, but with Clinton's book coming out, that will take up most of the press' attention up until the Dem convention. Then we'll have the convention, then the Olympics.

My rambling point is this: what are these boys plotting in the proverbial cigar-smoke filled room to get the attention back on Bush?
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:41 PM
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1. The Reagan Resurrection bounce
His tomb will mysteriously open and only a casket and shroud with Reagan's holy image burned into it will be left. People around the country will then see him everywhere. Finally, the story of his life written by four of Bush's staffers will be added to the official canon of the bible.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:50 PM
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5. You Forgot Where His Transfiguration Appears To Peggy Noonan
and tounges of flame appear around Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle's heads... after which they disperse to speak babble throughout the land.
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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:50 PM
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6. Reagan Rises Again
Actually they're trying to suppress the story of Reagan's resurrection. Seems he came back from the dead as a maundering 93-year old who still doesn't know where he's at. Now they don't know what to do with him.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:52 PM
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7. delete - dupe
Edited on Mon Jun-14-04 07:52 PM by LostInAnomie
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Pale_Rider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:08 PM
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16. Better yet ... the Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004 campaign.
Cheney has already been dropped and Reagan's corpse is being zombizied.



Scary Times Call for Scary Leaders
http://www.zombiereagan.com/
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I_like_chicken Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:47 PM
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2. I've heard rumors of a Giulani Vic presidency
I dont know the likely hood of that happening, but it wouldnt surprise me if it did.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:53 PM
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10. Won't happen.
Rudy is pro-choice. Bushler's base won't turn out for a pro-choicer with more dirty laundry than Clinton.

Rudy wouldn't even be able to pull his own state.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:08 PM
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15. Maybe not Rudy, but I bet crashcart will be replaced on the ticket.
He's become a liability.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:47 PM
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3. I think Nancy's performance upstaged any bounce that was...
...supposed to happen. Wasn't that dramatic when her children rushed to pry her off Ronnie's coffin.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:49 PM
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4. I think their new plan is to...
... draw parallels between * and Raygun. The one that I have noticed the most is Bushler's "optimism" something that they credit to Raygun as well. If you noticed, hardly any article about Raygun in the last week mentioned his optimism. They were setting the stage. The news ads for Shrub that came out this week talk about his optimistic approach to government and Kerry's pessimism.

Also in Shrubya's eulogy every characteristic that he mentioned about Raygun were the same characteristics that Bushco try to assign to W.
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loudsue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:01 PM
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11. Optimism???? Bush???? Terra, terra terra, terra, they hate our freedoms,
terra, terra....

Depresses the hell out of me!

:kick::kick::kick:
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:52 PM
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8. I'm guessing they'll get some mileage out of Iraq
When we turn "full ownership" over to Iraq on July 1, Bush will likely claim some sort of victory. There was something in the news about Saddam Hussein being turned over to the Iraqis at that time also. I know both of these events could backfire badly on Bush, but the press could also make it look like America is moving beyond Iraq. We'll see.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 07:52 PM
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9. I have a feeling the backroom boys are....
Edited on Mon Jun-14-04 07:53 PM by Jade Fox
about out of moves. That may be wishful thinking, however.

I'll believe the Guliani for VP rumor when I see it, but they've done
dumber things.
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:02 PM
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12. What is next has already been revealed
the kindler gentler bush, praising Clinton, etc. Look for him to hug more black people and maybe some disabled people, too.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:04 PM
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13. Averted Terror Attacks in all the Swing States, Starting w Ohio
EOM
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:06 PM
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14. They just tried the Poppy Bush Bounce...
...but his chute opened.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:12 PM
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17. lmao
good one.

:toast:
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kymar57 Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 08:17 PM
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18. If I were G.H.W. Bush
I think I'd stay close to home.
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