Kaye Grogan
Write in James Dobson for President . . . in 2008
By Kaye Grogan
Of course Hillary Clinton is the favorite Democratic presidential candidate, if you poll groups like NOW, People for the American Way, pro-abortion groups, etc. But if a legitimate poll is taken on the other end of the political arena — the favorable numbers would plummet like a skydiver with a faulty parachute.
Since most of us know that Senator Hillary Clinton is adamantly against allowing herself to appear in a bad light, naturally the polls have to be manipulated or discarded altogether.
The "tricks of the trade" by pollsters is older than Methuselah. One way to address how unreliable polls can be, is to look at the "bogus" polls in the last 2004 presidential election. Exit polls unanimously gave the appearance that Senator John Kerry was comfortably ahead of President Bush, but the polling proved to be considerably flawed when Kerry lost the election.
According to the group "Hillary Now" she's the most popular woman in America. Well, shucks . . . what else would you expect her supporters to say? I believe a more appropriate description of Ms. Clinton might be: she's the most controversial person in America, and not qualified to lead the country.
The President of the United States is supposed to have a lot of tact and diplomacy. In Hillary Clinton's case, everything that went wrong during her presidency the blame would be unfairly attached to the right-wing folks or as she refers to them as right-wing fanatics. What kind of loyalty would Ms. Clinton feel she owes to all Americans? A president can't pick and choose who they will be president to.
The new ad set to air depicting an animated type characterization of Hillary Clinton (looking like a bag lady or maid) picking up garbage cans with issues dealing with the war on Iraq, health issues, etc. written on them and tossing them into a garbage truck (in other words, supposedly cleaning up President Bush's messes) sounds childish at best. As a backlash — somebody needs to depict a cartoon character cleaning up the White House offices after they were trashed, and the walls had to be painted over due to the vulgar graffiti left behind by some of the Clinton Administration staff members. Oh — how quickly they forget to clean up their own messes.
A recent poll (which is questionable) conducted by the Gallop Organization shows that Senator John McCain, and former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani are favored above Hillary Clinton or Senator John Kerry to win the presidency. Well, since all three of these possible presidential candidates have major flaws on issues that I hold dear — I guess I'll write in James Dobson. At least he focuses on the family.
While Giuliani appears to be the most popular of the three — his pro-choice stance is going to alienate the Christian voters causing a "madder" than an ole' wet hen uprising. And Senator McCain can't be trusted to keep his word from day to day. Besides, he might be concentrating more on his movie career these days.
The GOP is going to have to look closely at the uphill battle of making a pro-choice candidate viable in the 2008 election. The last thing they want to do, is to create a situation where Christians get angry and stay home "bypassing" voting altogether. Do we need another Clinton to get in the White House by default?
Now, on the other hand — the Democrats would rejoice if the Christian community stayed home sulking. I will definitely have to agree with Stan Greenberg a Democratic Pollster that his party is not standing on much of anything. How can they — when their main objective is to avoid pressing issues while concentrating primarily on "siccing" their attack dogs on the Republicans 24/7.
Hopefully, the GOP will find a really "fantastic" presidential candidate — to introduce to the voters — even if they have to resort to pulling the ole' rabbit out of the hat.
And that's just my opinion!
© Kaye Grogan
Of course Hillary Clinton is the favorite Democratic presidential candidate, if you poll groups like NOW, People for the American Way, pro-abortion groups, etc. But if a legitimate poll is taken on the other end of the political arena — the favorable numbers would plummet like a skydiver with a faulty parachute.
Since most of us know that Senator Hillary Clinton is adamantly against allowing herself to appear in a bad light, naturally the polls have to be manipulated or discarded altogether.
The "tricks of the trade" by pollsters is older than Methuselah. One way to address how unreliable polls can be, is to look at the "bogus" polls in the last 2004 presidential election. Exit polls unanimously gave the appearance that Senator John Kerry was comfortably ahead of President Bush, but the polling proved to be considerably flawed when Kerry lost the election.
According to the group "Hillary Now" she's the most popular woman in America. Well, shucks . . . what else would you expect her supporters to say? I believe a more appropriate description of Ms. Clinton might be: she's the most controversial person in America, and not qualified to lead the country.
The President of the United States is supposed to have a lot of tact and diplomacy. In Hillary Clinton's case, everything that went wrong during her presidency the blame would be unfairly attached to the right-wing folks or as she refers to them as right-wing fanatics. What kind of loyalty would Ms. Clinton feel she owes to all Americans? A president can't pick and choose who they will be president to.
The new ad set to air depicting an animated type characterization of Hillary Clinton (looking like a bag lady or maid) picking up garbage cans with issues dealing with the war on Iraq, health issues, etc. written on them and tossing them into a garbage truck (in other words, supposedly cleaning up President Bush's messes) sounds childish at best. As a backlash — somebody needs to depict a cartoon character cleaning up the White House offices after they were trashed, and the walls had to be painted over due to the vulgar graffiti left behind by some of the Clinton Administration staff members. Oh — how quickly they forget to clean up their own messes.
A recent poll (which is questionable) conducted by the Gallop Organization shows that Senator John McCain, and former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani are favored above Hillary Clinton or Senator John Kerry to win the presidency. Well, since all three of these possible presidential candidates have major flaws on issues that I hold dear — I guess I'll write in James Dobson. At least he focuses on the family.
While Giuliani appears to be the most popular of the three — his pro-choice stance is going to alienate the Christian voters causing a "madder" than an ole' wet hen uprising. And Senator McCain can't be trusted to keep his word from day to day. Besides, he might be concentrating more on his movie career these days.
The GOP is going to have to look closely at the uphill battle of making a pro-choice candidate viable in the 2008 election. The last thing they want to do, is to create a situation where Christians get angry and stay home "bypassing" voting altogether. Do we need another Clinton to get in the White House by default?
Now, on the other hand — the Democrats would rejoice if the Christian community stayed home sulking. I will definitely have to agree with Stan Greenberg a Democratic Pollster that his party is not standing on much of anything. How can they — when their main objective is to avoid pressing issues while concentrating primarily on "siccing" their attack dogs on the Republicans 24/7.
Hopefully, the GOP will find a really "fantastic" presidential candidate — to introduce to the voters — even if they have to resort to pulling the ole' rabbit out of the hat.
And that's just my opinion!
© Kaye Grogan
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