If Bush wins... There's still a silver lining.

[Speck Tater]

Four more yers of Bush and he will make things so much worse that the Rebuplican party in general, and neocons in particular, will be discredited for a generation to come. Four more years of rope and the neocons will hang thmeselves so completely that nobody will ever take them seriously again.

[Goldmund]

1. Yeah, and if your wife dies, you'll have more space in your bed at night

Isn't that a silver lining?

[demwing]

21. That was unnecessary

and mean spirited.

Yeah, the original post was a bit lame, but yours was just mean.

[Goldmund]

26. I didn't mean to be mean

It's just an analogy, and an appropriate one I think -- since for a lot of us in this country, and especially in countries such as Syria or Iran, that's exactly what it will mean.

[Kierkegaard]

2. The problem with that theory is:

what will be left to salvage?

[Mountainman]

3. Four more years of Bush and there may not be a world left

Can you say nuclear war.

[BayStateBoy]

4. Our Country, and Certainly Our Environment, Will be Destroyed

Four More Years gives no silver lining. Just crap lining.

[hlthe2b]

5. Tell that to all the countless newly homeless & military dead....

Silver lining, indeed.

[oscar111]

13. bush new fed Budget triples hmless

sf Examiner paper, said 2 million more to be hmless fm new cuts.

1 million now, so if i understand this correctly, bush will triple hmlessness.

Report was here on DU, use Search feature and find , i lack a link alas.

[JPJones]

6. Bullshit argument

You said the same thing four years ago.

How bad do you want it to get?

Did the Nazis get weaker after 1936? No, they just consilidated their power and become even more bold.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Oh, bullshit.

I've been hearing that same argument since Nixon in '68. All that ever happened was that things got worse.

[Davion]

8. Unfortunately

The Supreme Court justices he picks will be making decisions for the same generation, and probably several thousand more young GIs will not live to see out that generation.

While part of me would love to see him have to clean up his own mess, the consequences are just not worth it!

[troublemaker]

9. Fuck this

I'll take a straight-up troll over this kind of crap.

[SheilaT]

10. Aside from that,

how did you like the play Mrs Lincoln?

[dolstein]

11. Haven't the past four years taught you there's no silver lining?

During the past four years, we've seen a shift of trillions of dollars of wealth from poor to rich, from young to old. We've seen our country's standing in the world drop precipitously. We've seen the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks get away while over a thousand American soldiers have died in a war that only exacerbated the terrorism. So much of the damage done to this contry during the past four years can never be undone.

Silver lining? I think not.

[dave123williams]

12. Cold comfort; thanks. I'll vote Kerry anyway.

[TrustingDog]

14. what he can do in 8 years will take decades to recover from.

there is no silver lining here. move along.

edit for simple tpyo.

[ComerPerro]

15. And, hey, who knows

Maybe they will finally repeal that pesky 17th Amendment and push through a national sales tax! Maybe they will make it so there are no longer term limits on the presidency, or maybe Ahhnold can run in 08. That is, of course, assuming there will ever be elections again. Maybe they can get rid of that technicality too!

I appreciate your optimism, but I have to disagree. There would be no silver lining. These people are playing for keeps.

Bush squeaked through on a technicality in 2000. Despite being a court-appointed, unelected failure, Bush treated his appointment to the presidency as a mandate and set out toward right wing extremism of the worst kind.

Imagine how bold and belligerent they will be if they actually win an election!

[Speck Tater]

16. OK, You all convinced me. I retract the statement.

If Bush wins there is no silver lining.

[VOX]

17. There won't be much left in 4 years. Look at what he's done in the last 4.

In 2000, the GOP, after the closest election in U.S. history (had the votes been counted properly, they wouldn't even have won), went full steam ahead as if they had received a complete mandate. They plunged us deeply into debt, got us into an insane war, killed thousands of innocent people, cut education funding, turned loggers and strip-miners loose on the environment, allowed corporations to pollute like crazy, gave massive tax breaks to the wealthy, opened the door for big business to get into Medicare, and appointed 201 conservative federal judges, more than the per-term averages for Clinton, Reagan, and Bush senior.

Can you imagine what these criminals will do if they hold onto the executive branch tomorrow?

Sorry, but there just aren't another 4 years left in the tank. It's do or die time.

[Deja Q]

18. There will be no homeland left to secure.

We must get these jackals and vultures out of power.

You've seen pics of them.

Cheney looks like he's silently enraged/deranged.

Ashcroft looks like evil incarnate.

And * smiles like he's always eating goat shit.

(I saw the pic in a campaign flyer, need to scan but it's huge.)

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

19. Nope, sorry, run along now, wrong post, wrong place, wrong time

No silver lining.

[Rebellious Republican]

20. Just remember, "There is a dark cloud behind every silver lining"

[zi0n]

22. Nah!

I don't see ANYTHING silver to Bush winning. All I see is more tragic mistakes that will be made in our name.

[regnaD kciN]

23. Remember the "how to cook a frog" story...

If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. If, however, you put it in a pot of cold water, and then gradually raise the temperature, the frog will stay there until it cooks.

That's something like the Republican strategy from 1980 on. Don't immediately implement all the pro-rich policies that will impoverish the middle class and turn it against you. Instead, just make things bad enough so that people will think "it could be worse," or that other people have it harder than they do, then keep making things gradually harder and harder while average Americans don't notice it.

Look at how far we've sunk since 1980. Back then, there was a viable middle class with safety nets like health care and mandatory overtime beyond 40 hours per week. Back then, an average manufacturing job paid enough to support a family. Now, none of that is true. The economy is tanking, unemployment has become epidemic, gas is $2-plus a gallon, and the middle class has become the working class. If all these things had happened over the course of a year or two, people would be storming the White House gates. However, since it's happened over two decades, people have gotten used to the notion that "it's just the way things are," and are accepting it as their lot in life.

If Bush and his minions get another four years, expect the temperature in the pot to be raised another few degrees...and the likelihood is that, by 2008, that will be accepted as "par for the course," and people will take it in stride as another Republican lays claim to patriotism and "family values" as their exclusive provenance.

Seriously, if we don't win this time, I don't see a whole lot of hope for turning the tide in this country for the forseeable future.

:-(

[UL_Approved]

24. Silver lining?

If a silver lining was found, Bush would claim it was terrorist funds, seize it, and pass it along to his pals from Enron and such.

[The Crazy Canadian]

25. I agree.

With the Iraq war going so badly, it might be a good thing to have the neocons still in power to see that this war can't be won. They won't be able to blame it on anybody but themselves for their failed policies.

On the other hand, a Bush win may radicalize them even more and push for more wars in the Middle East.