Reply #65: I wonder

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about that.

As far as the post topic, I think Dennis answered it best himself in Sunday's debate.

But I see big trouble on the horizon for the beef industry. I keep my horses next to a huge expanse of land used to raise beef for a generation. When the old rancher died, his family sold it to developers. They plan to put 90,000 tract homes on the place. Development has been held up in court for 10 years, and the land was leased out to a guy running several hundred cattle. I ride over the area several times a week. Apparently the last appeal to development has been cleared, and they are ready to begin building. The lease is being revoked, and the cattle have to go. So the man with the cows has been bringing them down out of the hills to send them to auction; going to sell them all off, since he doesn't have another place to take them. Except that they aren't selling. All of a sudden, he can hardly give them away.

What can Bush promise the cattle industry to earn their votes? I don't know what he can say or do to fix the problem, but I've been thinking all along that the mad cow situation is another amazingly timely event that he would use to scare the masses into supporting him. Again.