[Graybeard58]

"bush is finished?? (please tell me i'm wrong"

You are wrong.

[goldstategop]

They bashed Ronald Reagan in '83. It was frightening. People said then he was gonna lose. Ergo, a year later he buried Mondull on the way to his political triumph ever. The Democrats are still searching for the anti-Bush. All they seem to come up with is the Flavor-Of-The-Month candidate. As it is they're so constantly negative and full of doom and gloom its a wonder any one is paying them any attention at all. The Texas Hombre is by no means finished.

[MEG33]

You are wrong.

[Ronin]

I confess to a bit of anxiety myself. I keep telling myself that Bush is NOT stupid and he has his father's real-life experience on how a popular wartime leader can suddenly and totally fall from the charts -- but he is not doing any of the things that I would do to turn things around. Why? Or more appropriately, why not?

He has good help. He is not too proud to take advice. His cabinet is packed with brainpower...

I just don't know. I really want to believe that he is saving his ammo. I hope to hell that this is part of a carefully thought out strategy that is designed to avoid peaking too soon. I do indeed hope so because right now, it looks like that if Hillary jumps in, it will be a photo-finish and he might lose.

And, deep inside, I know that the Hildebeast WILL jump in. Ther promise to New ork may has well been written on water for all it is worth.

The uneasy feeling in my gut is not going away.

[znix]

Its not time to panic. It just seems bad because of the democratic nomination race. We have 10 candidates and their congressional allies bashing Bush daily. Its a race and the press is covering it. Thats all.

This should make you feel better. The Dems have to fight it out amongst each other, all 10 of them. Dean, the leader of the bunch has raised about $25M. The others fall below that range. The DNC will scrape up $20M or so for the nominee. Bush meanwhile, is sitting on an $80M warchest and hasn't even begun campaigning. Estimates put him over $200M by next year.

This is the time to lay low. Don't do anything that might give them more ammunition - everyone will notice. I expect them to really turn on each other on Thursdays debate. Sure, they'll unamiously attack Bush, but ignore it. Why waste time, money and power now fighting 10 opponents now? Wait until there is one and overwhelm him.

[ladyinred]

I am concerned too, not just for Bush, for the entire country. The left has gone way beyond politics now and they are downright nasty and endangering our security. There is something going on here that I do not like at all, and will voice sooner or later. For now I will just say that I am worried also, and it doesn't help that the pubbies are not united either. That is really a concern of mine. There are those who would dictate to us what we have to believe to be considered a pure republican.

[dangus]

Like his father, Bush seems intent on selling out his domestic Republican base, only this time, the base is so glad he won the war, they aren't watching domestically to see him run the country to the left of Kennedy. Looking like a one-timer. Fortunately, in 1994, those wild-eyed conservatives he hates so intensely destroyed the spawning grounds for future Demonrat presidential candidates, so the only governor they could find was a guy from that Marxist village known as Vermont, so he might just win, anyway.

Will I vote for Bush? Yup, he's better than a Democrat.
Will I be happy about it? Nope.

[Hugin]

People are still misunderestimating Dubya.

[KC_Conspirator]

You are wrong. The election is 14 months away. The same time it took for us to blather in front of the UN before we put Saddam out of business.

[roylene]

WRONG

[ThreePuttinDude]

You are wrong

[Samwise]

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