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So, you'd rather see the Democrats back in power, right?

Great question. Why don't you pose it to someone who can really influence the outcome: George W. Bush himself?

Shriekers like you always seem to assume that the individual voter is the only dynamic factor in a presidential election. In your world Bush is a helpless static factor, imprisoned by circumstances beyond his control. It is thus up to the individual voter to rescue him from his prison.

In truth, Bush can vitally affect the outcome of the election depending on the strategy he adopts. On the advice of people such as Karl Rove, Bush has calculated the odds and determined that he must suck up to seniors and illegal aliens to win. That is the "winning" strategy he has adopted, and he has adopted it in the full expectation that he will lose the "unappeasable" conservative voters such as myself.

Has Bush miscalculated? If you believe he has, whine to him about it. If you believe he is right on the money, why are you complaining at all?

That is the "winning" strategy he has adopted, and he has adopted it in the full expectation that he will lose the "unappeasable" conservative voters such as myself.

And still will win reelection in a landslide.

Sadly enough, in politics making everyone happy is an impossibility, and Carl knows this to his credit.

I'm sorry... did I neglect to turn down the volume on my speakers before I posted? Umm, not to put too fine a point on it, but what the hell are you talking about? "Shreiking?" "Complaining?". Read the post again, this time without your PO'd-at-the-World Hat on. There is no anger and no complaint in my words. My point, if you would pause to consider it, is that George Bush is a far better alternative than the Wall of Left-Wing Voodoo that opposes him. He controls his own agenda and makes his own decisions - he's no puppet of Karl Rove or anyone else. He just doesn't agree with you or me 100% of the time. As for me, I'll vote for the guy who agrees with me 80% of the time, and not stalk off in a corner somewhere, demanding a perfect score on my personal wish list. That would require a President who would abolish the Departments of Education, Labor, & HHS, among other things, and that ain't gonna happen soon. I just don't believe in making the Perfect the enemy of the Good.

"On the advice of people such as Karl Rove, Bush has calculated the odds and determined that he must suck up to seniors and illegal aliens to win."

Your point is well made. The election is President Bush's to lose if he expects people to vote for him no matter what he does he is a member of the wrong party.

If he can get the vote of two illegal aliens to make up for every conservative vote lost then he can not help but win.

My hope is he will end up changing his mind about flooding our country with illegal aliens.