Steady on the Right, Bush Pitches to the Center (NYT)

[Nambe]

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

To Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Senator Zell Miller, the Democrat from Georgia who delivered a scathing attack on Senator John Kerry at the Republican convention last week, is a rabid opportunist who has become the hate-spewing face of President Bush's re-election campaign.

"He was so frightening that parents took their children away from the television," Mr. McAuliffe told reporters in a conference call on Sunday.

To Mr. Bush, however, Mr. Miller is his new best friend.

Campaigning here on Sunday, Mr. Bush invoked Mr. Miller's support as a reason Democrats and independents could feel comfortable voting for the Republican ticket. Mr. Bush has used a version of the same line at every campaign stop he has made since the end of his convention on Thursday night, and here, as in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio in recent days, it brought rousing cheers from the audience. ..

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[Kagemusha]

1. It's hard for him not to get rousing cheers

with the extent by which local police shield Bush from all political opposition by the general public.

[mmonk]

2. Pitches to the center of what?

Hell?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Expose Bush for the reactive conservative he really is.

[MichiganVote]

4. He was YOUR keynote speaker ya' moron

How stupid do you believe all Americans to be?

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Bush is EMBRACING Zell, folks -- nt

[w4rma]

6. Wow. So, * kicked him out of his press box, and is now embracing him again

flip-flop-flip.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Say It Again, Dubya Talks Centrist, Governs Hard Right

It's again time to remind our less-attentive fellow citizen/voters that the incumbent talks like a centrist but governs like a hard-right conservative. Our fellow citizen/voters need to be reminded that as long as they're willing to fall for such patter, Dubya and his "conservative" allies will continue to push through their reactionary agenda.