The Official Free Republic 2003 Predictions Thread

Me, Myself and I | December 31, 2002

[Timesink]

This is it folks, the place where we all gather 'round once a year to prognosticate about the year to come, for the sole purpose of hopefully being able to come back and gloat in 365 days.

So without further adieu, I'll get it started:

1) Hillary Clinton will not become president in 2003.

[MattinNJ]

1)The Iraqi's collapse like a house of cards;

2)The terrorists hit us big time with massive casualties;

3)The liberals try and use the terrorist attack on Bush saying he has not done enough;

4)Use Rove-Jitsu, the public rallies around GW causing the Dems to self destruct even further;5)Gw, realizing he has not done enough, starts to use military checkpoints along our borders and harbors.

[dighton]

Rosie what's-her-name, desperately trying to forestall oblivion, will confess that her "coming out" was a publicity stunt. As proof, she'll marry Michael Jackson.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

It will be a mess in the Mid-East. OK. That's easy. It will be a worse mess in the Mid-East, but may be heading towards resolution towards the end of the year because.

1. The U.S. will attack Iraq, successfully, during which.
2. Iraq will attack Israel, causing Israel to respond, which, in combination with
3. The assassination of Yassir Arafat, by even more radial Arab terrorists.
4. Will cause an all out war in and around Israel.
5. Just to make things interesting, Iran will have a Democratic uprising; even money whether it succeeds before the year's end.

But, if the U.S. and Israel can win big and quick and if Iran turns Democratic, things by the end of the year will actually seem promising.

Some more easy ones:
1. Barbara Streisand will say something stupid.
2. Alec Baldwin will say something stupid.
3. Cher will retain the one brain cell she shares with Babs and Alec and keep her trap shut.

The tough one:
Sean Penn will seethe over how the Iraqi government used him and, sometime in late summer or early autumn, apologize to President Bush.

A few more:
1. The Democratic party will start to split, between anti-war and pro-war factions. By the end of the year, there will be noises that several more left-wing representative are considering joining the Greens.

2. A serious terrorist attack will be prevented, because a private citizen had her gun and knew how to use it.

3. India will have serious Muslim riots. Russia will have even more Muslim terrorism. Both of these will draw them closer with the U.S. and Israel.

4. France will have Muslim riots and subsidize the sale of matches.

5. South Korea will pay Dane-Geld to North Korea, to keep them from continuing their nuclear program. Not that it will actually stop the North Koreans. Diplomatic tension between South Korea and the U.S. will lead to serious discussion of the U.S. military leaving Korea and Bush will have to back-off on the issue. Until Hell breaks loose there in '04 or '05.

One more:

I will actually finish the rewrite of one of my novels and submit one of them somewhere.

That’ll do for now.

[MattinNJ]

Oh yeah, I forgot, the G-Men win the Super Bowl.

[jpl]

Another one million illegal immigrants will make their way into our country, no doubt including a handful of dangerous terrorists. The federal government will do nothing...until the next large successful attack.

[Sparta]

"Oh yeah, I forgot, the G-Men win the Super Bowl."

Not a chance. The Saints will actually win enough games to get to the playoffs and come alive in the playoffs.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

As much as I'll be cheering for the Giants, it's going to be the Raiders. They have the hotter hand right now, even with the Giants' winning streak.

[Fintan]

Fin's Fearless Forecast For '03

• Al Gore will claim he was robbed in the 2000 election.
• Hilary Clinton will get her long-awaited sex-change operation and become a female.
• Countless Hollywood celebrities will continue to demonstrate their ignorance. No one will notice.
• Fintan will meet, date and marry Britney Spears. They will live happily ever after.
• Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Spike Lee will make vicious, hateful, and racist remarks on a daily basis. The media will not report these remarks.
• Katie Couric will lick a Democrat's, any Democrat's feet on national TV.
• PBS will produce and air a "documentary" on Mohammed that will portray him as a really swell guy and Islam as the only religion in the world worthy of respect because it's a very peaceful, loving and all-embracing faith. Hey...wait a minute: That was last year...
• Chelsea Clinton will get 'faced, tattoed and 27 body piercings. People magazine will publish a special commemorative issue to celebrate what a stunningly beautiful, intelligent and classy young woman she's turned out to be.
• The State of California will change its state flag to the hammer & sickle. Massachusetts, Washington State and Oregon will protest, claiming they had the idea first.
• Smoking in public will be punishable by firing squad.

[denydenydeny]

1. The Islamic government in Iran falls in a mostly nonviolent revolution.

2. The Chavez government in Venezuela does not last out the year.

[lainie]

John McCain will resign from the Senate for medical reasons.

And retire to Vietnam.

[boris]

From my post on the other 'predictions' thread:

At least one more terrorist atrocity will be carried out on U.S. soil. I dunno whether it will be chem, bio, or nuke, but I'd bet a dinner it's coming.

Hillary Clinton will announce or be drafted for President or possibly Veep if she is convinced the VP post will position her for some 'tragic' ascendency to power.

Evidence will accumulate that Osama Bin Laden is still alive.

Public schools will continue to get worse, as test scores get better.

Tort reform will fail, and massive class-action lawsuits will continue against fast-food makers, gun manufacturers, you name it.

Illegal immigration will continue and the government will do nothing to stop it. The INS will remain a quagmire of incompetent/corrupt bureaucrats.

The 'movement' to outlaw the death penalty will continue to roll forward, and may even reach its culmination in 2003-04.

The Bill of Rights will continue to be attacked and degraded.

Clintonite hold-overs in government will remain safely in their sinecures.

Some of Bush's nominations will leak past the Democrats but they will Bork all of the important ones.

Just a few from the fertile(?) mind of Boris.

[LisaFab]

All arms of the Democratic party (gays, gals, greenies, shysters, unions and all unfortunate minorities still in bondage on their plantation) will unite in calling for the re-instatement of the draft - clearly defining our military personnel as enslaved members of the underclass ruled by rich, white...you get the picture - instead of the free, brave, patriotic and honorable individuals that they CHOOSE to be.

This pathetic movement, a scantily disguised further attempt at class warfare and race-baiting will be dramatically embarassed as our troops easily depose Sadaam and proceed to whup the rest of the Axis of Evil.

[Fzob]

1. Bill Clinton will still not go away

2. Hillary will make a lot of noise about running for President but it turns out to be a smoke screen to make some other Democrat look like something other than a socialist pig compared to Hillary.

[Revolting cat!]

Long term prediction for next year, the longest possible in fact:

On December 31 2003 there will be a thread on Free Republic containing predictions for 2004. On this thread Revolting cat! will issue the following prediction:

"On December 31 2004 there will be a thread on Free Republic containing predictions for 2005. On this thread Revolting cat! will issue the following prediction:"

"On December 31 2005 there will be a thread on Free Republic containing predictions for 2006. On this thread Revolting cat! will issue the following prediction:"

"On December 31 2006 there will be a thread on Free Republic containing predictions for 2007. On this thread Revolting cat! will issue the following prediction:"

[f.Christian]

Trent Lott discovers his moral compass was bugged by the nytimes and he is walking in parallel circles with jimmy carter!

[TommyDale]

President George W. Bush will make TWO appointments to the Supreme Court, both conservative to right-of-moderate.

[Revolting cat!]

Not one of Jean Dixon's predictions will come true!

[alnick]

My prediction: The Big Nine will hold for the Plaintiffs in Grutter v. Bollinger (the U of M AA cases) by a bitterly divided 5-4 court.

If that happens, the media will make endless references to the 5-4 decision, "the same breakdown in the decision that appointed Bush president in the 2000 election."

[lainie]

The Amazing Kreskin predicts 2003

[Uncle Miltie]

The revolution in Iran will commence before the last bomb falls on Iraq. Iranians will be free by the end of the year with no effort required of the US.