Saturday

The Republicans are using the time honored pitch that the "Liberals" want to raise taxes and give your hard earned money to deadbeat welfare bums and foreign devils.

The Democrats are ranting that John Kerry is a genuine soldier and GW Bush is a rich brat who ran away to Alabama when he could have gone to 'Nam and got shot all to hell like Kerry.

So much for intelligent discourse.

Theodore Roosevelt once warned of the "lunatic Fringe" taking over politics in America. Well, they did!

The country is tired of GW Bush. This has been a eight year presidency rolled into one. The Democrats smell blood and are after the kill.

What is sad is the terrible realization that Mr. Bush in a perverse way is perfect for a war on Terror. He is simplistic in his thinking and cares not one whit who says so. He scares the Muslims for ALL the wrong reasons, but it works. No trouble here since 911.

Only when Mr. Bush goes home will this ugly time in our national life finally end.

I loathe Bush Cheney, but I respect their dogged devotion to protecting America.

John Kerry is a better man, but sometimes seeking nuance is not a virtue.

Barry Goldwater grasped the truth that our enemies were generally our own creation and sometimes just plain psychopath and we had to make the distinction.

Ronald Reagan understood the universal desire to have toys and be happy and wanted to make it happen. He only lacked the right words to get the rest of us on his parade.

I really wonder if Dick Cheney will actually go home if he and Bush lose or if he will stage a last stand at the observatory? (VP Residence)

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Rachel Lucas has returned to the Blog sphere. Read her and have a sweet time!

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David

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This has been a remarkable summer and it may well be seen as the calm before the storm.

Losing credibility is the curse of all politicians. It can happen in the lest expected of ways and once it starts there is rarely a comeback.

Bill Clinton is the truly rare exception. By the second year of his presidency he was unpopular and seen as unbelievable and increasingly unimportant as GOP leaders in congress assumed greater authority. And then Speaker Gingrich arrived and showed himself to be a greater liability and in a few months made Clinton look good. By the summer of 1996 President Clinton was in a new birth and he managed not to bungle it until the spring of 1998.

After the impeachment Clinton faded only for a few days and came right back as the House GOP looked truly disgusting on the floor of the Senate. Rep Henry Hyde was pathetic and his antics gave the President yet still another life. However clumsy Clinton was, people detected in him a genuine innocence regrettably poisoned by foolish impulses. The GOP was seen as malevolent and at times perverse.

 

All of Clinton foibles are forgiven because he was truly honest in a most peculiar of ways. Yes he lied and played games, but it came from a kind of over enthusiasm and readable inability to resist temptation. He was every man writ large. The GOP leaders were seen as simply predatory.

 

The Bush Administration is increasingly revealing itself as more than predatory or even ideological. It is seen by almost all honest observers left and right as simply calloused and even willfully arrogant.

The Vice President has succeeded in creating a myth about himself as mean, cynical, and tenacious in being dead wrong on critical issues again and again.

 

GW Bush increasingly looks to be less a serious leader. His strong stands are less commitment to an idea as blind stubbornness.

The country is coming out of its grief over 911 and has less and less tolerance for the Administration stridency.

 

In the end Bush might win because Kerry foundered. But you have to wonder. The angst is real and the feeling in many quarters of four more years of this bunch is unbearable.

 

They lied to us in a way that has cost lives and treasure, who wants more of that?

 

Many things are happening. The genocide in Sudan, the evident crumbling of the Palestinian Authority's ability to contain violence in Gaza and the West Bank, an increasing whiff of economic slow down here at home, and a growing concern over Iran.

People fear the harsh and pointed thinking of the Bush Administration in dealing with all these matters.

Strength that was seen as positive two years ago is increasingly seen as a reactionary mindset that is shallow and finally too dangerous in and of itself.

 

GW Bush may lose simply because he has exposed himself as too conservative for America's conservatives and far to cold blooded for a society that dose have and savors a genuine compassion.

The United States is not a mean country. The Bush Administration comes across a not just mean but deliberately so. Angry men on a evangelical mission.

General resistance to that way of thinking is creeping into the public conversation.

The President is losing credibility because he is less and less a likeable or believable leader.

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David

Crellin@Audiea.com

 

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The Kerry-Edwards ticket just might defeat Bush-Cheney.
There is a genuine bitterness in several key GOP factions. The traditional business community resents the federal deficit. They rightfully see it as wasting money and depleting the liquidity of the lending markets. The Religious Right suffers from increasing hostility from a growing part of society: the next generation.
We are in a time when little gets done. Did not Bush promise to unite not a divide? People hate such a atmosphere and will rebel by voting the incumbents out.
In 1994 as Bill Clinton floundered the Democrats in Congress suffered a bloodbath at the hands of Newt Gingrich who offered something different.
As strange as it seems John Edwards could lead the Democrats to a great turning of GOP Congressional seats while losing the Presidency.
America feels the GOP has become nasty, too conservative, and unreasonably combative. The endless attacks on “Liberals” have become a tiresome whine. Talk Radio has become stereotyped as "White Guys Ranting" that is not good.
People become weary at relentless vilification. The endless ridicule of the Clintons and the failure to offer a positive view of anything erodes even core supporters.
Kerry might lose because of concerns over international terrorism, but Bush may lose what matters most, a GOP majority in Congress.
The Supreme Court is set for changes in personnel and the Military is already in a generational change. The country is getting wise to VP Cheney and his contempt for the public. He is genuinely disliked by a lot of people simply because they see him as a stuffy old white guy.
Kerry gave himself a chance with Edwards. Edwards may well be a rising star, who could become president in 2008.
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David
Crellin@Audiea.com