Reply #27: I have to agree....

[RandomKoolzip]

We have so much in our arsenal now, but look at what they've got:

Moolah: Bush and Dick have raised probably the most campaign money of any president EVER. These dudes were already mega-ludicrously rich, and now they've bilked something like 160 million (I'm not too sure about that figure) from corporations to put towards re-selection. The Dem frontrunners have nowhere NEAR that amount to spend on campaigning. More money=more dirty tricks.

9/11: Unfortunately, a lot of Americans turned off their cerebral cortexes when 9/11 happened, and decided that they would never question the government again. Seriously. I know several of them just at my restaurant alone. What happened on 9/11/01 was so scary to them that it shook their ability to tell fiction from non; they still believe there are terrorists around every corner, under their beds, with shoulder-to-air rocket launchers or a nasty dirty bomb...and the Bushmeister is the only one who will protect them. The crap about Homeland Security and Iraq and our "allies" in the SOTU RESONATED with these folks. they were for the IWR and nothing will sway them. Not even LIHOP.

Fundamentalism: A large section of the populace believes Bush is God's representative on Earth. Period. Sad, but they really believe that shit. If Bush said it, that must mean Gawd approves.

Incumbancy and loyalism: We can talk all we want about how more and more repubs are becomin disgusted with the Boy KIng, but to jump from that to "they'll vote Dem" is a long leap indeed. Bush has got the name reconition, he's got the patina of macho righteousness WE can see through but others are unwilling to, and he's got the epic "living in big times" miasma around him that leads so many to declare that he knows what he's doing, he's a "beer buddy," etc. They get real defensive of the chimp. To make the assumption that lots of crossover votes will take place is to count those chickenhawks before they're plucked.

Tax Cuts: even though those famous bribes didn't do anything to really benefit the working class or the middle class, somehow just the fact that the president would be so nice as to send li'l ol' ME a 3 hunnerd dollar check in the mail has convinced many that Bush is lookin out for them. Never mind that those checks were an advance on their rebates.....And the mere mention of the words "tax cut" gives lots of folks in this country big veiny purple boners. The tax codes upset and vex a large part of the repub base, for some reason....they think our tax system is TOO progressive. They are obsessed, they are sick, they are Grover Norquist. I wish there was a bathtub big enough for all these slapnutses to fit into.

BBV: need I say more?


We got a big big fight ahead of us.