That Bush & Rove put on a good front means nothing.

[eallen]

That is part of Bush's job. He does it well. That's really all there is to it.

Any Democrat who avoids the polls this momentous Tuesday ought to be dragged out of their house on Wednesday morning and mde to kiss Rove's butt.

[fooj]

1. He put on a good front when he lost the general election in 2000, too.

These bastards lie, cheat and steal as a natural reaction.

[pocoloco]

3. And the stakes are much higher this time....

Lose the elections ...... go to jail!

[salin]

2. It is part of their arrogance

they simply cannot believe/accept that they will not prevail - not only in keeping congress - but in establishing a 'one-party rule system' (Rove's purpoted political goal). They don't see anything but their own reality - and they arrogantly believe that their cynical media manipulation/perception management bs will ultimately win as it has in the past.

They are delusional.

[eallen]

5. Perhaps. But it's also part of the whole leadership game.

In politics, in business, in war, leaders are taught and broadly expected to assume victory. That is part of what keeps the team together and motivated. It has, at times, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

Of course, it also generates substantial cynicism when the smiling and confident leader maintains the death march long past the time when most involved realize that the plan is dead and the goal is not going to be met. In business, the chief burden that puts on those who follow false confidence is that they stay employed at a business far longer than they ought, when their own careers would be better served by earlier jumping ship. In war, the downside is much greater. When false confidence leads to a military route, soldiers are slaughtered or captured or sometimes end up committing suicide. In politics, there really isn't much downside at all. When the Republicans lose in Novemeber, they merely would say they read the tea leaves wrong, and are correcting their tactics, and will do better in 2008.

[acmavm]

4. Good, bad, indifferent, bush** is oblivious. And KKKarl is depending on

Diebold again.

Don't know what to think myself except that if things are allowed to go honestly, we've got it made.

If we can't prevent the election chicanery any better than we did in the last three (2000, 2002, and 2004) elections, we're screwed.

[The Magistrate]

6. Hear Hear, Sir!

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"