ANALYSIS: Hard right left on sidelines of GOP convention

[Kadie]

ANALYSIS: Hard right left on sidelines of GOP convention

By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer


Last Updated: September 1, 2004, 03:35:00 PM PDT


NEW YORK (AP) - Moviemaker Michael Moore is the "anti-Christ." Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter is a selfish hedonist. Cultural wars need fighters from here to Oklahoma. These are the views of President Bush's political core here - delivered quietly and mostly offstage so GOP convention cameras don't see and swing voters don't hear.
Prime-time speeches are reserved for poll-tested words about Bush's wartime leadership and "compassionate conservative" agenda. Cultural conservatism is shunted to the sidelines. The right gets to wing it, but only when the network cameras are turned off or the media are banned.

As when Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas told an invitation-only Bush rally for Christian conservatives, "We must win this cultural war." He offered an agenda strikingly different from anything voters will hear from the convention platform, including a proposed requirement that pregnant women considering abortions be offered anesthesia for their fetuses.

Democrats said Republicans aren't kidding anybody by softening the hard right.

"Underneath a thin veneer of compassionate slogans, there's a divisive, negative agenda that is driving the Republican Party and has controlled this White House and their policies for the past four years," said Mary Beth Cahill, campaign manager for Bush rival John Kerry. "The Republican Party has miscalculated again if they thought they could keep their true extreme agenda under wraps while middle class families have been suffering from it all along."

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. But they aren't doing that ..they're trying to scare the shit ot of people

[David Dunham]

2. Tonight was VERY HARD RIGHT.

[lapfog_1]

4. The whole f'ing convention

has been hard right. I haven't heard a compassionate speech yet,
or even one that acknowledges that even some can, in good faith,
disagree with the rethugs and still be good Americans.

What I pile of crap.

These reporter are so f'ing lazy... they take what the repugs
SAY is going to happen (and the pundits agree), and write
headlines and stories as if that is what happened. Never mind
the facts.

[diamond14]

6. wrong!...tonight's KKK reTHUGlican rally was their 'compassionate' right

you should be well aware by now, the reTHUGlicans are DELIBERATELY keeping their hard-right off the stage at their KKK convention....

what you heard and saw is actually the more sane reTHUGlicans....which is why we need to work even harder on the Kerry campaign...you have now seen the future....and we are standing on the edge of Germany 1939....how will America move???


http://www.JohnKerry.com

for those of you in Virginia, please roll up your sleeves and get to work...
http://www.NoVAforKerry.com

[Just Me]

3. BWAHAHHAHA,...if MM = "anti-christ",...we are in deep caa caa,...

,...but even more insane is the completely obtuse headline, ",..hard right left,..." thingy.

Does that headline make any sense,...at all?

NO.

[lapfog_1]

5. The whole f'ing convention

has been hard right. I haven't heard a compassionate speech yet,
or even one that acknowledges that even some can, in good faith,
disagree with the rethugs and still be good Americans.

What I pile of crap.

These reporter are so f'ing lazy... they take what the repugs
SAY is going to happen (and the pundits agree), and write
headlines and stories as if that is what happened. Never mind
the facts.