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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (424445)7/9/2003 12:51:24 AM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
I see 2004 as more like Goldwater/Johnson than McGovern/Nixon. In 1972 there was a massive public vomiting on the anti-American Democrat candidate, but it didn't affect the Congressional races much (that may be about the time O'Neil said "All politics is local."). The people just told the anti-American left to take Hanoi George and shove him.

1964 is a better parallel. Johnson won his landslide, and brought in dozens of House and Senate members on his coattails. The Congress became a virtual subsidiary of the presidency for the next 20 years. The biggest strategic error of the last 3 years has been the Democrats screaming, even from a minority position in BOTH houses, that they will obstruct for partisan purposes without compunction until someone fires enough of them that they can't do it anymore. They have thus missed the single biggest message in the 2002 results: The public has HEARD them, and is proceeding to DUMP them...
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