GOP Chairman Hits Democrats' 'Pessimism'

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GOP Chairman Hits Democrats' 'Pessimism'

By RON FOURNIER
The Associated Press
Friday, July 25, 2003; 3:22 AM


NEW YORK - Rising to President Bush's defense, the new GOP chairman says Democrats are force-feeding Americans "a steady diet of protest and pessimism" in absence of real solutions to the economy and Iraq.

"The contest for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination sometimes seems to be a contest to see who can be the most pessimistic, who can protest the most angrily and who can take their party further back in time," Ed Gillespie said in a text of his address to the 165-member Republican National Committee.

Gillespie, who as a young activist manned phone banks in the basement of GOP headquarters, was expected to be voted chairman of the party Friday. The prominent Washington lobbyist replaces former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, who left the RNC to head Bush's re-election campaign.

Gillespie, 41, hoped his maiden address would help turn the tables against Democratic presidential candidates who have raised questions about the president's use of shaky U.S. intelligence to justify war in Iraq. Both Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday made strong defenses of the war, with Cheney telling a conservative think tank in Washington it would have been "irresponsible" not to take on Saddam Hussein.

[Not a robought]

1. and what's wrong with that?

Protest and pessimism tastes much better than the BULLSHIT these "sacred cows" have been feeding us.

[dfong63]

2. meanwhile the GOP has been force-feeding us with

... snake oil, bile, and wishful thinking.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Exactly what I would expect...

the new head of the GOP to say.

He wouldn't mention that the GOP has no real solutions to the economy or Iraq either, would he?

Or mention that the GOP is largely the cause of those problems?

[punpirate]

4. Why not be pessimistic about Bush...

... he's a class A-1, dyed-in-the-wool, lying, uninformed, useless piece-of-shit fraud who's doing everything he can to convince the American public they should eat shit and like it for the good of the rich and powerful.

Pessimistic? More like realistic....

Damn, these right-wing Republicans are brainwashed....

Cheers.