Don't be surprised if Marc Racicot , one of Bush's best friends, gets the AG post. He was Attorney General of Montana before becoming governor, and Bush's campaign chairman. He would be very well liked by people on both sides. He is probably the most popular governor in Montana's history.
Giant Douche. Actually he's pretty moderate and butted heads many times with the conservative leadership in the state legislature.
bob, I know all about Racicot, I grew up in Kalispell and was in Montana during Racicot's first term. He was so popular by the end that he could have ran for king and been elected. I was holding out hope that Bush would consider him for VP, but knew it was a long shot since a. he's from Montana and b. He's too moderate, in all likelyhood. by the way, you graduate high school in Billings? which one?
Yeah, because conservatives are racist. It's replies such as this from the liberal elite, totally out of left field and without basis, that have resulted in your election losses. +4 Senate, +6 House, majorities both, and the Presidency, and most of the state legislatures and governorships.
Well, If Rudy didn't look so southern Italian, maybe. But the legacy of the lower half of the boot lives on. If they can attack McCain why can't they attach Rudy?
Huh? Unless you're claiming that the redneck south are "neocons," I'm not sure of the argument you are trying to make.
The neocons would have zero problem with Rudy. It's just the evangelical/fundamentalist wing of the party (similar, but not identical to neocons) would have a hard time swallowing a NY (I'll leave out Eye-talian) pro-choice moderate (save for crime) divorcee for any larger post like President. But I could see him getting the Attorney General's post without too much flack since he is viewed as so tough on crime.
Yep. Fundamentalists and neocons have similar foreign policy views, but they aren't the same domestically (neo-conservatism doesn't even really have a domestic policy application, as far as I can tell).
When I was studying public policy in college, the term "neocon" was largely used to discuss individuals like Charles Murray and others who were advocating welfare reform, school vouchers, and other similar domestic policy prescriptions. Foreign policy didn't play into the discussion at all (perhaps because these were classes dealing with social welfare policy). It's one of the reasons I've found all this talk about "neocons" to be based on a lot more heat than light (the other being the thinly veiled anti-semitism behind several of the attacks).
Woot! And here's a link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...u=/ap/20041109/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_cabinet
"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved," John Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush. Man, Ashcroft, you are ********ing DELUSIONAL. Go away, forever and ever, Amen.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye I'm multi-tasking and reading a slashdot article on this right now, and somebody else pointed out the chilling notion that Ashcroft may have resigned to prep himself for a Supreme Court nomination. <gulp> Now, I have to believe that there would be enough Dems willing to filibuster this one to put it to bed if he should be nominated, but my chest still feels like an elephant is standing on it.
Re: Ashcroft Goes Bye-Bye "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved," John Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush.