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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (532664)	1/30/2004 11:00:15 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

While the day of the COMPETENT Democrat politician disappeared decades ago (when it became so obvious the party could never again reach 50% in a presidential election) the standard of abandonment is still the same, and I believe it's what you'll see. Any Democrat leader with a slim chance of still having a career after the 2004 disaster will utter a mumbling endorsement of the sacrificial lamb, then procede with other business. That way they can't be later accused of the abandonment of the party that such a half-hearted endorsement actually emphasizes. Call it the "Lesson of Rockefeller". Rockefeller's presidential prospects evaporated permanantly-facilitating the Republican conservative reform that led, eventually, to the Reagan Revolution-because, in 1964, he could not hide his bitter contempt for Goldwater and his supporters. Rocky thus assisted a major change in direction of America-a direction he neither understood nor wanted-by tossing himself casually in front of the conservative's speeding bus. Leiberman and the Clintons seem to know the "Lesson of Rockefeller", while Algore, as usual, is clueless...