Reply #6: Your scenario takes into account that everything is going to hell, right?

[ozymandius]

Bush now has a proven track record of a feculent King Midas. It appears that just about anyone would stand a good chance at a run. Provided that any candidate has an above-average I.Q. (which, by the way, Bush does not) and the courage of their convictions backed up with a parcel of knowledge and rhetorical savvy to deliver it.

Labor Department records show that there are about 3 million unemployed people who probably will not vote for Bush. But then, I will grant the notion that some will refuse to get his bad taste out of their mouth after all these years. Then there are the people whose lives have been thrown away over senseless wars. Then you have first-responders who were promised huge amounts of money, the sun and the moon in the wake of 9/11 - yet nothing has been done. In fact, New York City has laid-off some first-responders due to the budget crisis precipitated by 9/11. The state of the State of Texas shows the deep footprints of the Bush legacy. It ranks among the top in the country with the poorest air quality, ground and water pollution. The then-Bush administration was the harbinger of Enron and Halliburton.

It is clear that Bush is a photo-op president and a champion of the oligarchs.

How is that going to work for Bush? Pretty damned poorly, I think. How is that going to work for the opposition, any opposition? Pretty damned well.

Proselytizing the DU masses is your priviledge here. However, I have never seen any thread that has yielded any converts to any camp.