I don't see where it says I would die if I did not vote for Bush (which is what you claimed happened in the other thread). :D
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bush, Cheney tie Dem win to terrorists / GOP leaders turn up the rhetoric to > stoke voter base > Article:Bush, Cheney tie Dem win to terrorists / GOP leaders > tu:/c/a/2006/10/31/MNG1GM2U2M1.DTL > Article:Bush, Cheney tie Dem win to terrorists / GOP leaders > tu:/c/a/2006/10/31/MNG1GM2U2M1.DTL > advertisement | your ad here <http://www.sfgate.com/mediakit/> > > [image: SFGate] </> Back to > Article</cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/MNG1GM2U2M1.DTL> > [image: SFGate] > Bush, Cheney tie Dem win to terrorists GOP leaders turn up the rhetoric to > stoke voter base > > Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post > > Tuesday, October 31, 2006 > > *(10-31) 04:00 PDT Sugar Land, Texas* -- President Bush said terrorists will > win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq, as he and Vice > President Dick Cheney escalated their rhetoric Monday in an effort to turn > out Republican voters in next week's midterm elections. > > Faced with potential GOP defeat in both the House and Senate, Bush and > Cheney aimed to avert that by convincing voters they cannot risk giving the > opposition party any power in Washington. > > "However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The > terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of some 5,000 > GOP partisans packed in the arena at an earlier stop at Georgia Southern > University in Statesboro, Ga. "That's what's at stake in this election. The > Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq." > > > Democrats reacted sharply to the latest White House attacks. Senate Minority > Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Bush "resorted to the same tired old > partisan attacks in a desperate attempt to hold onto power." House Minority > Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said Bush is looking to retain a > "rubber-stamp Republican Congress that has done nothing to change our failed > Iraq policy." > > Cheney, meanwhile, said in an interview with Fox News that he believed > insurgents in Iraq are timing their attacks to influence the American > elections. > > "It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we've got an > election scheduled," he said. Cheney said the insurgents believe "they can > break the will of the American people. ... That's what they're trying to > do." > > The increasingly combative tone from the White House signaled a coordinated > GOP effort to use every channel to remind conservatives why they should turn > out to vote, despite what many say is their disenchantment with the Mark > Foley page scandal, anger over escalating federal spending and anxiety over > the course of the Iraq war. > > The president's travel schedule in the final week of the campaign is a stark > reminder of his political weakness in many parts of the country -- and in > many swing districts -- where it is too dangerous for GOP candidates to be > seen with Bush. After his rally in Georgia on Monday, Bush flew to Sugar > Land to stump for the GOP candidate trying to succeed former House Majority > Leader Tom DeLay, who won his seat by 14 points two years ago before > resigning his seat amid the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. There was no > sign of the man who once relished his Capitol Hill reputation as "The > Hammer" on Monday's visit. > > "The fact that Republicans are working hard to hold onto one of the most > Republican districts in the country -- that tells you the depth of the > Republican struggles around the country," said Amy Walter, who tracks House > races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. > > White House aides disputed this characterization, saying the Sugar Land race > is a special case since DeLay resigned too late for the courts to allow the > GOP to replace him on the ballot. Instead, Republicans are promoting Shelley > Sekula Gibbs, a Houston city councilwoman and dermatologist, as a write-in > candidate. > > The crowd at Georgia Southern seemed to respond most enthusiastically to > Bush's most conservative lines, roaring after Bush criticized last week's > ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court that gay couples are entitled to > the same rights as heterosexual couples. Bush said the ruling "raises doubt > about the institution of marriage." > > "We believe that marriage is a union between a man and a woman and should be > defended," Bush shouted. > > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/MNG1GM2U2M1.DTL > > This article appeared on page *A - 5* of the San Francisco Chronicle > © 2006 Hearst Communications Inc. </chronicle/info/copyright/> | Privacy > Policy </pages/privacy/> | Feedback </feedback/> | RSS Feeds </rss/> | > FAQ</chronicle/faq.shtml>| Site > Index </index/> | Contact </staff/> > > > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/MNG1GM2U2M1.DTL&type=printable > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? 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