I'm here in Dallas, which of course is totally Bush country and where any other vote was a waste of time. We here in Texas have our critics of Shrub, as they call him here, such as Molly Ivins and others of the diehard Democrat species, who are particularly hapless, having long ago been trampled by the likes of Kay Hutchison and Phil Gramm. I for one find it almost impossible to believe that our next president could be that guy who was the owner of the Texas Rangers not that long ago <G> He seems to be likeable but fairly lightweight. An interesting sidebar is that Bob Bullock, who was the longtime ultra-powerful Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Texas under Ann Richards and others predicted before he died a few years ago that W would be the next President of the United States and he endorsed that. In fact, I believe that W was one of the speakers at Bullock's funeral. It was a very big thing here for Bullock to make that statement and support W in that way.
However, although I have rather a Democratic bent politically and am truly repulsed by a lot of the Republican idealogues and fringe groups, I find this circus in Florida to be appalling. I can't even bear to read the headlines anymore. The disingenuousness of the Democratic rhetoric and blatant attempts to steal the election using any means possible is completely unpalatable. I did not pay that much attention to Gore during the election (I favored Nader) but the speeches and comments he's made since the election are so paternalistic and phony that I simply had to turn it off before I threw something at the TV set.
I have a horrible sick feeling that these people are going to find a way to literally rip this election out of the hands of Bush and declare it the true will of the people. They have maneuvered Bush and his side into a corner such that if they manage to "find" enough votes to overturn the count, he will be helpless to fight them unless he wants to be seen as wanting to extend this national nightmare for his own benefit, yet what did they do?
I was repulsed personally by Bill Clinton and Hillary - don't even get me started - yet impressed by his policy initiatives and even the reasoning in his vetoes of certain legislation. I end up with the thought that other than his personal problems, he did a pretty good job. Maybe we should just keep him <G> What the hell, they want to throw out the EC, let's change the law again and let him have another term. How about two more <G>
P.S. It does make for easy money made, though. Simply short QQQ the second Warren Christopher or that Daley reptile hit the TV screen. |
