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

To: Ish who wrote (582270)	6/12/2004 6:54:50 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

I have noticed that too. My thinking is by the time the debates begin Kerry will be FORCED to take positions one way or the other. I suspect he wants to wait as long as possible to get the feeling of the majority. After being reminded of everything Reagan stood for and did, Kerry now seems SO UNFIT and so BENEATH the level of people like Reagan and Bush that I find it incredible that the people of this country would go for him. jdn

To: Ish who wrote (582270)	6/12/2004 1:19:19 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry will get about 40% of the votes even if he's caught in a Paris Hilton video screwing and killing her... I think that is about right. I suspect that when people get behind the curtain, most will vote Bush because they won't wish to change amidst war to an unknown and, at best, highly questionable quantity like John Kerry. But to persistently expect a minimum 80% landslide wherein the Democrats are all thrown out of office is just non-sense. Of course I'd love to see it happen, if only to perchance see some of my issues brought to a vote for a change. For that reason I have not commented on Cyberken's claim because I don't wish to discourage the fantasy, though obviously it is merely the result a garden variety flake of the most impotent sort. I have a feeling he'll have a Dean moment and blow up. It will be difficult because if the leftists were to do to Kerry what they did to Dean, they'd have no candidate. The media is just not impartial, and Republicans need to learn this. For Kerry to blow up, he would have to strap explosives to himself and mash de button. Notice the longer he doesn't stand for anything the better his numbers get?... He's for the war and against the war so he takes my position? Yup. The trick will be for the Bush camp to exploit this lack of clarity, to consistently pin a few critical positions on Kerry, defining him and refusing to ever allow Kerry to define himself. They have to do this without sounding harsh, as if the positions they lay on Kerry are common knowledge. That will hurt Kerry. He will, of course, come out hard to defend himself, but in merely doing this he loses.