21 Reasons
Scott Elliott, who maintains the Election Projection (which is interesting in its own right, and well worth a look) has come up with 21 reasons that Bush will be reelected in November.
Several of these are fairly compelling, and at the very least it's a good starting point for trying to put your own spin on how things will turn out.
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I have been reading this bog
I have been reading this bog or is it blog (?) periodically, at first as a concession to my son, curiously called Buckethad, and then more seriously as a student of politics and a nervous supporter of Bush in 2004. Very interesting, and at times edifying, if occasionally gratuitously vulgar. When I look at this current world, I dream of being morphed back to the 1950s, to cruise around Akron Ohio again in my 1948 Mercury convertible.
Please take your hateful,
Please take your hateful, talentless, war-loving, trailer-trash family back to rural Ohio, where your kind belongs. Oh, that's right, they only have real jobs there, not shameful, government-waste, meaningless, busywork jobs like yours. And may God help your hapless son.
Dad, I believe I am to blame
Dad, I believe I am to blame for the gratuitious vulgarity, and happily so. Vulgarity is the refuge of the small mind.
BH, those are some interesting predictions, especially because Elliott has collected in one place all the conventional wisdom of Bush supporters. I'm NOT a Bush supporter, and I can't find a lot to argue with here. He very well might be elected again.
I'm going to take this opportunity to say again what I said before the 2000 election: it's not so much W who I don't want around, it's his cast of helpers. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Tom "Shemp" Ridge all have to go, and it seems like Bush is incapable of getting rid of incompetence (Ashcroft, Ridge) as long as said incompetent knows how to toady.
Oh, by the way RegretsYou, if
Oh, by the way RegretsYou, if that's not some sort of joke, do be so kind as to take it elsewhere.
Who you callin' trailer trash
Who you callin' trailer trash, you low-rent, semi-french, zero-degrees-of-separation, ambulatin' superiority complex?
These are MY Republicans. Go find your own.
And if RegretsYou doesn't
And if RegretsYou doesn't take it elsewhere, he can at least come out and post under his real name, since it's not very hard to tell from context who he is.
Wow. Anger issues AND
Wow. Anger issues AND passive-aggressive behavior in one happy package. Why does RegretsYou "sound" sooooooo familiar? I have to think on this one for awhile.
Meantime, back to the 21. This might be a little dated as it overestimates Dean (he hasn't won jack yet) and understimates Bush's "lightning bolts." While there may be no sudden and dramatic discoveries in the retro-spin for the Iraq war's rationale, the Commander-in-Chief's "AWOL in the Reserves" story might grow legs. But I've been wrong before. And the Power of Guiliani? Please. He rose to the occasion magnificently, but the voting public will have largely forgotten him by next November.