Flash: GOP ticket will NOT be Bush/Cheney!

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Jim March

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It'll be Bush/Cheney/POWELL.

Huh?

Yep - Bush is about to announce Colin Powell as future Secretary of State, who will then campaign actively all the way to November.

This per Martin Schram, a political analyst for the Scripps Howard news service. I can't find it online but the upshot is, by doing the ticket in such radical fashion right off the get-go, it'll eliminate any possible concerns about Bush's inexperience in foreign affairs. It also won't hurt with the black vote any.

If Schram is right, my take is this is excellent news.

I also like almost all of the newest rev of the GOP party platform. Lots of stuff in there that can be arguably phrased as "anti-immigrant" from previous years has been stripped out, thank God. Guys, Prop187 in California was a total disaster, the Calif Latino "core values" are a lot more conservative than they are Feinstein-style liberal, but the GOP tossed that whole segment away for nothing, when the courts gutted 187. Bush oughta go to LA, do a "hispanic issues town hall" televised meeting, in Spanish which he's fluent in. Cut as much of that "politics of division" crap as possible.

Anyways. Go Bush. If he manages to take this state away from Gore, he's liable to help feed a "conservative backlash" that'll help elect a GOP assembly.

Jim
 
Just out of curiosity, isn't the SecState the one who would step into the VPOTUS slot if the next heart attack should (God forbid) do him in?

LawDog
 
No, LawDog. The order of succession is:
VP.
Speaker of the House.
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
SecState.

If the VP leaves office, none of this applies. The President gets to appoint a new VP (remember Ford?). Only if the first 4 people on the list (counting the POTUS) become unable to serve does the SecState step into the office.

TB., NC
 
I'd also be delighted to see Gen. Powell on Bush's team, and hope that the story is true.

BTW, it seems to me that Bush's selection of Mr. Cheney should quieten any lingering fears about his position on the RKBA.
 
Lawdog: been reading Tom Clancey, have we?

:)

(In one of the books, the whole top half of gov't is bombed out of existance and the protagonist ends up POTUS from a much lower rank, SecState if I recall correctly :).)

Jim
 
Mixed feelings on Powell -- he is another Beltway critter and more inclined to Big Government. It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that he saw nothing wrong with gun registration.

If it does come to pass, and I think it's a shrewd political move, hopefully Chaney will counterbalance any of Powell's gun control input.

I don't think Powell will attract many Democratic black votes. In the perverse mindset of that constituency, "Powell only made it because he kissed up to the white man" (yeah, like he had no talent). This from a couple of black coworkers in Detroit, who were not in that "victim" category.

Now, all they have to do is get Alan Keyes for Press Secretary. That guy would chew up the liberal press and spit out little pieces.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by LawDog:
Just out of curiosity, isn't the SecState the one who would step into the VPOTUS slot if the next heart attack should (God forbid) do him in?

LawDog[/quote]

You're thinking of Alexander "I'm in charge here" Haig.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tim Burke:
No, LawDog. The order of succession is:
VP.
Speaker of the House.
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
SecState.
TB., NC[/quote]

Yeah yeah yeah . How long before it gets down to ME ??



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TOM
SASS AMERICAN LEGION NRA GOA
 
LOL. Just checking. I couldn't remember if it was SecState or Speaker of the House.

I've been hearing the Democrats starting to harp on the fact that Cheney has had multiple heart attacks and I was wondering if the choice of Powell was a pre-emptive strike. :D

LawDog
 
Paratrooper:

If your turn does come up, at least you won't have to jump out of Airforce one. They'll roll the ramp up for you. :D

Jim
 
Oatka, you're correct. Colin Powell is anti-Second Amendment.

Several years ago, I watched him being interviewed by one of the pap dispensers on teeeeeeveeeeee, and when the fluff head asked Powell about "gun control," Powell said, "Well, I own some guns, but I think everyone should have to register their guns with the government, take training classes, and I don't think anyone needs assault guns...."

Powell is your standard red herring. FWIW. J.B.
 
I have a number of reservations on Powell. If he were Secretary of Defense it would suit me a whole lot better. Time will tell.

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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."

Better days to be,

Ed
 
Hear, hear!

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
 
What is interesting to me about Powell is that he could have been elected President in 1996 and 99% of Americans know nothing of his beliefs or his politics. I have seen enough to believe that he is not all he is cracked up to be. I believe that Stormin' Norman also had his reservations. As a "party unity" choice it might work.

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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."

Better days to be,

Ed
 
I don't have the cites to back this up but I have read some scuttlebutt about Powell being a dyed in the wool one worlder and very positive about the U.N.

Anyone have any more info ?
 
LawDog, Jim March,

Ever read "The Man"? I'm trying to remember the author ... Maybe Fletcher Knebel.

Sec'y of State accedes to POTUS in one fell swoop. Great story. It was made into a TV movie in the early '70s. Book is a lot better.
 
Waterdog, it was Hubert Humphrey. Oddly enough, Humphrey made one of the most eloquent statements regarding the importance of the 2nd that I've heard from any politician. Of course, that was back in the days when, as a teen, I could walk down the street of my subdivision with a .22 rifle, heading to the woods to do some plinking. And nobody thought a thing of it.

Dick
Want to send a message to Bush? Sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/monk/petition.html and forward the link to every gun owner you know.
 
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