Nope, Bush is going to win. I’ll be linking back to this post in two weeks.
“The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of Karl Rove’s dirty tricks.”
If Bush wins, then fine, I’ll admit I was wrong.
Will you do the same if Kerry wins?
Besides an an ardent opponent of Bush, should you not wait before you throw in the towel so early? It betrays a want of fighting spirit.
Ditto.
At least it’s slowing down the Christmas hype.
I, too, live in Ohio. I haven’t felt this important since my wedding day. I got, count 'em, TWO phone calls today from political lobbyists.
I assured the first woman that every member in my household was going to fervently support George Bush for re-election, including the dog if I could get him past the election watchdogs.
I assured the second caller that the Pundits were supporting John Kerry all the way and we didn’t like the way country was headed with George W. Bush.
I figure it’s my duty as an American to make things interesting for these folks.
Hah! I see your Ohio and raise you New Hampshire (the state that voted Bush in 2000 by a margin of Nader).
I got 4 calls today (most were recordings though). 3 glossy mailers. Everyday I get a minimum of 2 calls and 2 glossy mailers. Friday I got 5 glossy mailers. They were NARAL Pro-Choice America, Bush-Cheney '04 Inc, America Coming Together (x2), and someone else I’ve forgotten at this point. I’ve gotten at least 3 calls from the Sierra Club. At least they’re not sending out paper flyers.
I don’t know if I’m a special target because I’m registered as unenrolled, but I did manage to make $75 on a focus group out of it all.
In general though, I don’t believe any of the polls at this point, because I’m so damned sick of these calls that I make up things.
Regarding my previous post – I should mention that I’m the only member of my household who’s a registered voter so I feel extra-special that they’re spending all this money just on me and me alone.
MrValley is not a US citizen.
I’ve always admired your sense of humor! 
My thoughts about this are pretty clear–I’m going to cast a losing vote, just like you. I’ve never wanted to be more wrong in my life, but the last 4 years have allowed my cynicism to flourish and dominate my very soul.
If Kerry takes it, I’ll start my own crucible thread linking to my every remark of doubt on this score and will blissfully taste the lash of the steadfast members of the Left. For even as my cyberblood flows at the biding of the “Told’ja so” whip, it will cleanse my being of the filth and malice nurtured by Bushco. And when released, I will roll euphorically in the crimson pool … and then splash it all over the blind shitsuckers that stuck to their guns and stayed behind the Fascist from (most recently) Texas.
man…it’s been too long since I quit the D&S scene…
I have to correct myself here.
Earlier this week I posted the following…
Well, today I got a glossy flyer from the Sierra Club. :smack:
Stop killing the trees! I get it already!
I’ll just be glad as hell when some more entertaining subjects for threads in my beloved bbq come back, rather than the political stuff I am sick to death of reading.
Would someone please give me a rant that doesn’t involve How the left or the right are openly plotting to fuck the country up six ways from Sunday?? Something I can sink my teeth into that might even make me laugh? C’mon!
ugh
I’m bumping this thing after 48 hours repose because new pieces of idiocy have appeared on my TV screen out here in the land of the tall corn. I’ve been in trial this week so there hasn’t been much time to mess around with these boards or to watch much TV. When I got home this evening having managed to avoid being handed my head by a jury of somebody’s peers I find our Vice-president hunched over a microphone, glowering at some carefully vetted pack of syncopates and intoning in a patriarchal growl that if John Kerry is elected President of the United States some unspecified evil doer will undoubtable set off an A-bomb in downtown Omaha.
If that isn’t bad enough the ad that follows it has some senatorial voiced voice-over guy telling me that John Kerry and the Liberals in Congress tried to take six million dollars away from the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11 thereby making you and me more vulnerable to terrorists. This was followed by film of a wolf pack stirring around and stalking toward the camera. I’m told that among Europeans and the European descended the image of the wolf is just about as scarey an idea as there is – thus Little Red Riding Hood and Peter and the Wolf. Apparently if John Kerry is elected the wolves will bestir themselves and come out of the forest to gobble me up, just like Little RRH’s poor old grandmother.
I suppose it could be worse. There could have been film of bats with the implicit suggestion that John Kerry or some Liberal Congressman, probably Leonard Boswell or Tom Dashel, was going to creep into my bed room and bite my wife’s neck. Presumably George Bush will be standing by with a crucifix or a clove of garlic to prevent this outrage if he retains his office. What the President will do about the wolf pack is not clear. I suppose he could go after them with a sporterized —16 with a 30 round magazine or a left over F-4 from the TANG.
Give me a break for the love of all that is rational.
Not so fast. I’ve found a way to defeat you and all of your republican cohorts. You see, November 2 is not only election day; it is also my birthday. For my birthday, I want everyone to vote for Kerry!
MUHUHAHAHA!! Your conservative values will not allow you to ignore a birthday wish!!! MUHUHAHAHAHAHA
On topic, I can’t wait for the election to be over either. Michigan is turning into a battleground state also (aren’t they all this time :rolleyes: ) I’m getting a bit sick of all the letters and phone calls from the campaigns. That and I want all of my birthday presents
P.S. If ya can’t get me a Kerry win for my birthday, I’d settle for a clear winner. I’m allergic to lawyers, recounts, chads, butterfly ballots, etc. 
I’m moving to DC (Og willing) in the nest few weeks.
I’ve already voted. I voted absentee as I’ve been on vacation out of state.
I wish I had always voted absentee. I took my ballot and googled everything and everyone, county clerks included. Though my choices left a lot to be desired I’ve never felt so good about my decisions.
Hope you can wait until May when the court battles get quieted down a notch.
Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004
By DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The genetically vicious nature of presidential campaigns in America is too obvious to argue with, but some people call it fun, and I am one of them. Election Day – especially a presidential election – is always a wild and terrifying time for politics junkies, and I am one of those, too. We look forward to major election days like sex addicts look forward to orgies. We are slaves to it.
Well… Yeah. He’s HUNTER S. THOMPSON, after all.
Frankly, I’m looking forward to a reduction in the predictions that the world will burn burn BURN if the wrong person wins.
Obviously, it won’t go away, but any reduction would be good, 'cause, MAN I’m sick of it.
For maximum irony, you must remember that yesterday, George W. Bush accused the Kerry campaign of using extreme scare tactics on the voting populace.
What I find more aggravating than the scare tactics, the non-stop shaking of bushes and howling in the shadows, is the blatant and obvious misrepresentations. We have had any number of Stirling examples of that but the ones that come to mind immediately are the Vice-president’s denials that he or anyone else in the Administration asserted that Saddam was in cahoots with Osama and the President’s parsing and editing of Senator Kerry’s comment on the impact on him of 9/11.
We have been over the Saddam-Osama issue all too often here. The President’s misrepresentation for those of you who have just gone to bed and pulled the covers over your head, is that Senator Kerry said that 9/11 had no significant effect on him. That, the President says, shows that Senator Kerry has a “September 10 Mentality.” What Senator Kerry actually said was that for him 9/11 had confirmed the danger and the need for action that Senator Kerry now says he foresaw before 9/11. Whether Senator Kerry did indeed see 9/11 coming is another question but the fact that the President would distort, and apparently deliberately distort, the Senator’s comment is pretty disturbing and raises once more questions about this Administration’s fundamental honesty.
You can’t help but wonder if stuff like the VP’s “A-bomb in Omaha” and “never said Saddam had WMD’s” and the President’s dishonest parsing of Senator Kerry’s public statement is indicative of an over all pattern of operation based on the old idea of means justified by goals or simply reflects a new level of desperation in the approach to a doubtful election.
I can’t help but wonder what our old friend Richard Millhouse Nixon would have done in like circumstances.
Well the damned deception campaign got me. The President’s claim that Senator Kerry and the Liberals in Congress had tried to take money away from the CIA in the wake of 9/11 does not say that. It says the de-funding was after the “attack on the World Trade Center.” So it was. It was after the bombing attack in 1993. It was after the 1993 attack, not after 9/11, that Congress adjusted the CIA budget to compensate for the CIA’s slush fund.
So the President’s claim is technically correct- Senator Kerry joined in the adjusted CIA budget - but functionally deceptive in the attempt to link it to the post-9/11 period. What was it the President once tried to say? Fool me once… Oh, to hell with it.
What we have is simply the Administration trying to frighten people by trying to persuade voters to believe something that the Administration KNOWS is not true. Is this in any way defensible?