Rossi is going by the old 2000 Bush playbook. Don't be fooled!

[Cascadian]

Remember people, do not be misled into thinking that Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi is a moderate. He is playing the moderate "compassionate conservative" game that the Bush Monkey played in the 2000 election. The first red flag should be the fact that the Bush regime hand-picked Rossi as the Republican candidate for governor. The other red flags are Rossi's record as State Senator is unabashedly right-wing neocon. He is anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-corporate, anti-labor, and at some point recommended that Christian creationism be taught in the public schools. He also rammed through no new taxes budget that cut public services.

Rossi may be charming and comes across as a "uniter not a divider" type nice guy but do not be misled. What is scary is that he is the best chance the GOP has at retaking the governor's mansion in 20 years. People must get behind Chris Gregoire not because she is the best choice. Like Kerry, Gregoire is the one person that stands from stopping the right-wing agenda.

John

[The Chronicler]

1. Kerry is better than Gregoire

but the rest of your post is correct.

[chascarrillo]

2. How does that contradict the earlier post? -nt

(nt)

[lakemonster11]

5. Well...

in my opinion, the wording of the original post could be construed to mean that Kerry isn't so great in himself, but he's better than Bush, since it compares Kerry to Gregoire, who is, according to the post, maybe not so great, but better than Rossi.

I think the reply was just pointing out that Kerry is pretty great in himself and not just our only non-Bush choice for president.

Anyway, that's my translation---who knows if I'm right?

:)

[KT2000]

3. Basic Health Coverage

In Gregoire's ads they say that Rossi wanted to cut so many children from health coverage - sounds like Basic Health insurance program to me.

That program is a life saver and if he one of the people who was fighting to get it abolished - lots of people will be in big trouble.

His soft spoken manner on TV is contrived but effective. He is scary.

[AmandaRuth]

4. the Sunday paper said he has an Ann Coulter

action figure in his office. Yeah, the lady who advises talking to liberals with a baseball bat seems to be a personal hero to him.

And why can't the repuke party get someone who has a normal voice? Why does it seem that almost every rightwing candidate and spokesperson has that sanctimonious, more-moral-than-thou, i am soooo much better than you type voice? Just asking....

[lakemonster11]

6. Rossi's dog's name is Dubya.

Need I say more?

[geniph]

7. Dino's a salesman,

and the product he's selling this time is himself, wrapped in a metric fuckload of horseshit. He's pretending to be some kind of moderate because he knows Washington state won't vote for someone like him if he actually dares to air his extremist views, but he's further right than the likes of John Carlson or Ellen Craswell. He's been in the state Senate for some time, and his preferences are a matter of public record. He's a far-right lunatic wearing the disguise of a moderate. But a turd in a gift box wrapped with a pretty ribbon is still a turd. Don't be fooled by a slick salesman!

[ArthurRuger]

8. Rossi, Nethercutt and business talk.

Talk is cheap. With the election of 2000 and a sitting Republican president, conservatives finally got their chance to put their less-tax/less-government corporate-lobbied theories to the test. The results are in and they reflect the shallowness of intellectualizing economic theory without factoring in human factors of greed, ambition and selfishness.

Rossi tosses out a vague cloud of "business-talk" implying that state government has failed to run like Halliburton and that he's the man to make it so.

The American Dream is still only a dream - an idea from which one can set goals and create a program for personal progress. The American Dream was never a concrete formula based on an economic foundation of unfettered free-market capitalism.

What Corporate Republican "conservatives" have demonstrated is an ability to ignore the reality of human nature and how that reality impacts some of the fundamental elements of society. That all citizens are not born with equal opportunities is only a minor point. A much larger point is that aspect of an unfettered capitalism (and no, I'm not against capitalism) that tempts business to seek greater and greater profits at the expense of labor and sound business practice.

When events affect the market, unfettered capitalism does not possess within itself the necessary resources to insure much more than survival of the fittest. That's why we have corporate welfare into which more American dollars are poured every year by far than what is spent on human social services.

Rossi and Nethercutt must address this as part and parcel of their political and philosophical positions.

Talk is cheap.

Criticism spiced with promises couched in conservative-sounding generalities is not something upon which we can vote our endorsement. We hear this demand for specifics in our national election and state candidates are not exempt from that same demand.

Honest campaigning is hard to find these days. The real objective of a campaign is to differentiate one's self from your opponent. Negative ads - attack ads - are not the same thing as ads intended to accentuate differences.

Candidates still need to demonstrate a personal integrity that implies that there are points of dignity beneath which they will not stoop in order to win a victory for which too much has been sacrificed.

Arthur Ruger
The American Choice
http://swandeer.com/