Novak say's Bush has uphill battle to beat Kerry

[59millionmorons]

I thought he was going to cry after he said that. Novak has Kerry leading 301-238.

[canuckybee]

1. Someone please make him cry !!!!!

[Upfront]

2. Who Cares

Novac is a douch bag against liberty. I don't care what he says.

[MoonRiver]

6. Agreed.

But it's significant that he's finally admitting the TRUTH.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Could it be old no facts is feeling the heat

from the Valerie Plame outing?

[MoonRiver]

3. I heard it too!! I briefly switched on CNN out of curiosity, and voila!

there was Novak, sweating nails over the EC!! :bounce:

[soothsayer]

11. cute! but do you mean voila? (i like your version, tho...!) nt

[MoonRiver]

22. Yeah. I forgot how it is spelled. I took German fer God's sake!

on edit: I fixed it! Thanks!

[RichardRay]

33. Support underappreciated mid-sized string instruments

It should always be spelled that way! Who the heck knows what the other spelling means?

[DaveinMD]

4. Novak

should go to prison for his role in the CIA leak incident.

[TheDonkey]

5. novak was very depressed

giving so much rethug bad news. But I stilldon't trust him, this might be a ploy to seem like everything is going down until the convention and them BAM the Joementum kicks in.

[buycitgo]

9. "somebody said that there must be a catch.....

.....with a fool and his money"

"HUH NEY"

seriously.....something's amiss here

is it a game of lowered expectations, being played on the electoral scale?

do you for one moment TRUST anything that comes out of those lying uppers?

think

what's their game with this?


mmmmmmK, I started typing this while numbers 8 and 9 were being posted......pretty obvious, I guess

[emulatorloo]

23. They want to run Bush as the "underdog" - the outsider etc etc

He has no record, only promises.

They want him perceived of as underdog, the scrappy fighter taking on Washington.

Well, at least that would be my plan given the state of things. . .

[janx]

16. The guy assisted in the outing of a CIA agent.

He's a traitor who is not to be trusted.

[cynatnite]

25. Question

I read an article not long ago about Russert having to answer questions about this and another reporter went to jail for contempt of court because he refused to answer questions about this.

What I'd like to know is why in the blue blazes isn't Novak being told to talk or go to jail?

Cyn:)

[Dem_Strategist]

7. DON'T BUY IT

The Note, Charlie Cook, Novak: lowering expectations for Bush to beat post-convention.

[MoonRiver]

12. Maybe, but those same numbers, a little higher for Kerry actually,

have been posted here every day for awhile now. See TruthIsAll's posts.

[West Coast Democrat]

15. And the CNN/Gallup poll will give Bush a 5 pt bounce at least...

no matter what happens at the convention.

[janx]

8. I don't trust anything that guy says.

Anything.

[MoonRiver]

10. Except that what he's saying we know to be true!

We've all been posting the same things here!

[janx]

14. We don't know that. We hope that. Don't trust Novak, even

if he's saying something we hope to be true.

[MoonRiver]

17. We DON'T?

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Kerry 307; * 231. Also check out TruthIsAll's daily posts on EC results. Novak is conceding defeat.

[West Coast Democrat]

18. But remember that the GOP Convention & debates are yet to come...

and we all know how the media will spin these.

[MoonRiver]

20. Yes. Those are unknowns.

I think Kerry is going to win fair and square, though. How much Repuke cheating will go on is another unknown.

[GiovanniC]

30. Are They Known Unknowns?

That is, are they things we know we don't know? Or they unknown unknowns -- things that we don't know we don't know?

[Julien Sorel]

13. Lower the expectations, cast Bush as the underdog.

Yep. I'd be doing it, too. Without any accomplishments of note, without a coherent election theme, he might as well make the theme of his election "I'm an underdog, vote for me."

[The Magistrate]

26. But The Fearless Leader Of A Nation At War, My Friend

Cannot run as the underdog, not without causing a great many people to question his competence or their sanity. The fearless leader of a nation at war must be the top dog, or he is no leader men will follow. Running this wretch now as an underdog is an act of marketing madness akin to tryin, g to maintain a brand as Niemann-Marcus stock while shelving it in the local K-Mart. It really cannot be done successfully. Granted, these people might try it, but if they do, it will surely fail, and amid hoots of derision....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[Julien Sorel]

27. Truman did it in 1948.

Like Bush, he was an unpopular president (he was actually more unpopular than Bush is), who had legitimacy issues (he was elevated to the presidency by FDR's death, of course, plus he was seen as a creature of the machine of Boss Pendergast, an association he never quite lived down). In many ways, Truman was really running for election in 1948, not re-election -- just like Bush.

It's good to see you still hanging around. We have our differences, but we seem to share a rather passionate desire to see a certain person run back to Texas, or whatever other place he chooses to curse with his presence ;-)

[The Magistrate]

34. Glad To See You Still About As Well, Sir

Our agreements, particularly in this matter, are much greater than our differences: the criminals of the '00 Coup must be routed from office and lodged under a jail if the Republic is to be preserved in any form we would recognize from our youth.

President Truman, though, was not at war in '48. Even the Cold War was just beginning at that time. There do not seem to me to be any really useful analogies to the present situation in that election....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[leftynyc]

32. I agree that he can't run as the underdog but

he can run as if he's under siege. He can play it like "not only do I have to deal with the terrorists, but I have these godless democrats who wont just take my word as gospel and look how they're undermining our war and making it so much harder for us".

[The Magistrate]

35. That Would Hurt Him Badly, Ma'am

He would seem weak and petulant. Nobody wants excuses and recitations of difficulties besetting him from a war leader: they want fearless calm and assurance, and above all, competence and victory, that make light of any and all difficulties. These things this wretch cannot provide; he lacks the character for it. His entire life has been a tissue of flops and excuses, and he will be paying the bill for that this fall....

"The eagerness of green troops for combat is not to be relied on much."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[WilliamPitt]

19. Novak: "The sky is blue." Me: Looking outside to make sure.

[Walt Starr]

21. BINGO!!!

Precisely.

BREAKING: Novak drops a shoe.

Followup: Walt Starr is waiting for the other one.

[canuckybee]

28. Novak is just covering his ass

so that when Bush loses he can point to where he "knew it all along".

[John_H]

29. God, I hope the Kerry campaign doesn't actually believe this. but

they way they're campaigning they remind me eerily of this quaote from Too Close to Call: "By the middle of October,Gore figured it was his race to lose." As it turns out, it was.

Chimp is campaigning like an underdog. Kerry is responding like he's thirty points ahead.

[Bandit]

31. He also said if Kerry wins the GOP would implode

He said it would set republicans back fifty years or more. They have much invested in Bush*. They got greedy and blew it IMHO. If they would have put a few of their programs into play at a time instead of trying to ramrod their whole conservative agenda all at once they may just have done it. They overstepped and I truly hope Novakula is right about this. I hope it sets them back so far they never step up again.

[gasperc]

36. we need the house and Senate, they know a tidal wave is headed at them

they will stop at nothing to not get swept away by it, we have to brace for anything and everything