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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 01:37 PM
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Do we need a Rapid Response Team to the NRO Rapid Response Team?
Actually, as you read these samples from the Republican Rapid Response Team, you will see that most of their comments are nothing more than juvenile ranings with no insight or anything of value...
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NRO= National Review Online

http://www.nationalreview.com/symposium/symposium200407280046.asp

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Dan Casey:
About 30 seconds into Ron Reagan's one-note speech, I realized there was something vaguely familiar about it. Another 30 seconds, and it came to me: He sounded just like the Jurassic Park cartoon figure who describes how they managed to make dinosaurs from mosquitoes trapped in amber. I really couldn't concentrate on the speech after that.

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Barbara Comstock
Sally Field as First Lady? "I Love You, Too" gushed Teresa Heinz Kerry to the convention audience tonight. ("You like me. You really like me...") This was Teresa's hey-I've-got-the-mega-millions-and-I-can-demand-a-prime-time-speech night. Miss the part about John Kerry's "strengths"? Well, tonight was all about Teresa. The speech had to have been personally written by Teresa. No self-respecting speechwriter (even a Democrat one) would be caught near this self-indulgent vanity play.

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Larry Sabato
This is the night no one saw, when the convention crashed in the forest with no major network TV camera to broadcast it. With apologies to the 24-hour news channels and our beloved C-SPAN, no one but the hard-core junkies watched much of anything political Tuesday evening. Few saw Ted Kennedy stumble through his speech, or Howard Dean give a strangely emotionless and anticlimactic version of his 'take back America' stump scream, or Senator-designate Barack Obama deliver the most ballyhooed keynote speech in the entire television age. (Cliches aside, Obama proved himself a superb rhetorician.) Ron Reagan, who all but endorsed the Democratic ticket, also found a new home in the party of his native liberalism, alongside the Hollywood pals he made not at Dad's side but on the stage of Saturday Night Live, running around in his underwear, back in the 1980s. (What a courteous way for young Reagan to repay the sweet eulogies delivered by the Presidents Bush at his father's funeral just weeks ago.)

....and a couple of more voices in the article
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 01:39 PM
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1. "ranings" should be "rantings"
Not able to edit????
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