Kris:
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:59, Kristyne McDaniel wrote:
> Bob,
>
> > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=536594
> >
> > When the Left complains about the "ruthless attack machine,"
> > they are really talking about boogeyman in the mirror.
>
> Your level of surprise over the intensity of anger towards Bush is amazing
> enough to me, but I don't see what in the article provoked that particular
> response from you. Are you that clueless?
Golly gee I must be.
> Have you no idea just how angry
> the populace is becoming?
I think its, shall we say, overstated.
At the end of the day, it'll be a close partisan election. Now, if > 55%
of the voting public votes one way or the other, I'll confess openly and
on this list, publicly, that I was totally clueless. (I don't profess to
be clairvoyant.) There are more Democrats than Republicans, numerically
speaking, and if the partisans can whip up that apparently large chunk
of Democrats who secretly support Bush into an anti-Bush mood, they can
tip the scales.
Short of this massive, bizarre display of trumped-up rage, I don't see
them even coming close to making that happen. For all of there efforts
to date, Kerry and Bush are still pretty even in the polls. Bush Sr. was
15 pts behind Dukakis at this point in the '88 election. We all know how
that went for Dukakis.
>
> Steve and I talk to a lot of military folks out here in the Republican
> stronghold where we live. They are angry, and their anger is being
> communicated to everyone within earshot.
I don't know how that anecdotal information translates to the
world-at-large, but certainly it would be bad for Bush if the military
went against him. I just don't see that happening, though.
>
> Bush has turned the military against himself. That's pretty much the last
> nail in the coffin for a Republican.
I wouldn't declare this a fait accompi yet; I suspect the vast majority
( > 75% ) of armed service people, active and off duty, and veterans,
will support Bush.
But like you say... if enough don't...
Contrary to all that crap about Bush being a dictator, a tyrant, an
emperor, he's just an elected politician, and elections can go wrong and
sometimes the wrong people do win (wrong being, as it were, a subjective
valuation).
- Bob
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Kris
>
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