Just For The Hell Of It: A Couple Of Rash Political Predictions

[clar]

for the fall.

In California:

1.) McClintock will drop out.
2.) The Recall will narrowly succeed.
3.) Muscle boy will be elected Governor.

In Democratic Presidential Politics:

1.) Dean supporters will meet the 5 million dollar challenge.
2.) Dean will "only" raise 12.9 million dollars this quarter.
3.) Clark will raise 3.5 million by the end of September.
4.) No one else will raise over 6 million
5.) Graham will drop out
6.) No one else will
7.) By the end of the year Clark, Dean and Kerry will be battling
for first place

President Bush

1) His poll numbers will not rise significantly
2) Dems in Congress will attack him more vigorously


Off the wall and pertaining to nothing, but big news:

1) Pope John Paul will die.

Ok, I'm going to bookmark this just to see how wrong I am.
So, what are your predictions?

[RobertSeattle]

1. I predict Cheney will be dropped as VP running mate

"Health Reasons". He'll stay on as an "Presidential advisor" but someone else will be Bush's 04 running mate.

2.4 Million Americans will die next year.

[AlinPA]

9. Agree on Cheney. Powell will replace him on the ticket.

Scares me, because I think Powell would get a lot of votes.

[Redneck Socialist]

18. Nope

Even if (heaven forbid) bush is "re elected" powell won't be part of his cabinet. He is out of synch with the neo con cabal that are running the show there. There has already been rummors that he will step down for the ever popular "family reasons." The only reason that he hasn't so far is that he is too much of a good soldier.

[renie408]

12. Damn

And I was so proud of thinking that one up on my own.

I think this is a definite possibility. I thought that they left him out in the cold pretty quickly over his comments on MTP.

[hang a left]

15. will die of what?

[RobertSeattle]

21. Just having fun

About 2.4 Million US Citizen die each year regardless of who is President or whatever.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock

Every 13 seconds someone dies...

You can always shake up a Freeper by saying, "Oh my God, if Bush Get reelected 2.4 Million people will die in 2005!"

[hang a left]

22. you got me, i thought there was yet another conspiracy

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. I think you got California wrong.

I don't know if Davis will survive, but I doubt McClintock will drop out. I've read that the one time he dropped out of a race, he really regretted it and that his base is very energized and behind him. I also read he won't drop out because what he is really after is maximizing his exposure and building alliances and a network to run in '06. If he drops out and leaves his crowd holding the bag, he can forget about that.

[clar]

8. I hope like hell

you're right and I'm wrong. But I imagine there's some pretty heavy leaning and wheeling and dealing going on right now.

[slappypan]

3. OK, just for fun

1) In 2004, the stock market will fall below last October's lows.

2) Bush will not be reelected, and will leave office the most unpopular President since Richard Nixon.

For entertainment purposes only, please, no wagering.

[piece sine]

10. here we go....

The ten Democratic candidates maintain their individual constituencies through-out the early primaries, leaving the Boston convention unusually wide-open for a modern convention. Media interest in Boston is FIERCE but the eventual winner -- John Kerry -- has major fence-mending to do before Labor Day.

Nader announces he IS in the 2004 race and attracts a serious number of us Dean supporters. Dean is flummoxed he didn't get the nomination and offers low-keyed, uninspired support of the candidate.

The Party does rally behind Kerry but the GOP's first major attack is against his wife Teresa and the alleged mis-use of her $500 million windfall from John Heinz's death.

Like Nixon before him, Bush cruises into a second term, only to be met by an even more furious Democratic Party that pounces with a vengeance no one ever dreamed it was capable of. Bush and his Veep do not complete a second term -- for one reason or another -- and the country AGAIN endures a rough patch along the lines of the Bush V. Gore struggle while we search for a new leader.

(Just give me a second to put on my fireproof parka before you take aim...Peace from Piece.)

[Melsky]

4. I hope you are wrong about California

Run McClintock Run! I went to LA last weekend, and we drove around a lot of neighborhoods (we are relocating there). I saw a lot of McClintock signs, a few Davis signs, and no Muscleboy signs at all. A very unscientific sampling, but it surprised me a lot.

[Champion Jack]

5. Here's one:

shrubs poll numbers will get so bad that Rove will make the call and have ronny raygun defrosted. This will allow the media to gush over the old bugger for weeks, and for the pukes to make a big, BFD out of the funeral.

[Terwilliger]

6. On President Bush

a. You hope
b. We'll see

This doesn't include a new terrorist attack, or some other Bush manufactured scare.

[wakfs]

7. Here's another...

With the War in Iraq Aftermath continuing to slog through the bloody mud in the desert and in the mainstream media and the economy continuing to hemorrhage jobs, Ronald Reagan will conveniently die shortly before the Presidential Election in '04, leading to two weeks of outrageous gushing in the media and Karl Rove's new strategy of tying Dumbya Bush to Reagan's "legacy", hoping that this will buy Bush some "Reagan worship" votes.

[Jennellist]

11. I agree with every one of them. Now mine

through Dec 31, 2004

The administration and David Kay, will purport to have found indisputable proof of the existence of WMD. This report will be generally accepted by the U.S. populace, decried as a fraud by most Democrats.

Howard Dean will succeed in his bid to become the first truly progressive nominee since 1972, causing Clinton's plan to derail him to fail

The economy will remain stagnant to rising slightly. DOW may ascend to 10,000.

Hillary will not run because the Clintons determine that Bush will win in 2004.

Bush will win reelection, keeping alive the Clintons' plans to run Hillary in 2008. Dean, however will fare much better than McGovern did, taking California in response to the backlash caused by the recalling of Davis.

And beyond....An emboldened Bush will seek a much more conservative agenda that he is pursuing today. More vigorous tax cuts....probably military involvement elsewhere.

Iraq will somewhat stabilize, but our presence will remain for years to come, as will continued terrorist attacks in Iraq.

[hang a left]

13. DISCLAIMER: I get to change my mind.

Whistle-Butt's numbers go to the basement as a result of daily flogging by the press and democratic senators and reps. War profiteering, and lies becomes the lead story everywhere for months.

We have another terrorist attack on US soil and Syria is touted as the aggressor. Boom, War on Syria towards the end of the summer 2004.

[qwertyMike]

14. Arnold will drop out . . .

but Bustamante will still win (takng a lot of Arnold's votes)

2. Hillary/Clark will rout Bush after W is dropped by the Repug establishment (Thanks George - we got what we wanted)

[newyawker99]

19. Hi qwertyMike!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Yupster]

16. What the heck

I'll give it a shot.

1. Davis barely survives the recall in California.
2. If Clark is nominated, he will run a campaign that reminds Americans of another general running against a Republican President - George McClellan. He will be handily trounced.
3. If Clark is not nominated, the presidential race will be very close. I'll predict ---- oooh, yes, no, no, yes, okay -- Bush loses in a close election to Kerry.
4. Republicans gain at least one seat in the senate.
5. North Korea finally ends similarly to Rumania or East Germany where one day it's a dictatorship, and the next day the leader is running for his life and the border is open.
6. Things in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today, but elections will still not have been held.
7. There will be heavy fighting a year from now in Pakistan as the government tries to bring their tribal regions under government authority.
8. Saudi Arabia will be a central point of terrorist assasinations and bombings, as the terrorists react against the government's moves against them with violence.
9. Russia begins to emerge as an economic challenger to Germany as Europes strongest economy.
10 Withe the Loch Ness monster declared a myth in 2003, more scientific resources will go toward the hunt for the elusive Bigfoot, and it will look like he's a myth too.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

17. Here's mine!

Gray Davis narrowly defeats the recall election(theft of democracy)
Bustamante finishes first with 40%
McClintock finished second with a well earned 33%
Arianna Huffington comes in third with 20%
Ahhhnuld finishes dead last behind Gary Coleman with 1%

Wesley Clark or Howard Dean get the nomminee for President

Hillary Clinton will reiterate that she IS NOT running for president

Republicans manage to steal the 04' election even though the Democratic Candidate wins by 51%/47%!!!

The whore media will accept that the "Lord" intended for Bush to be President and we should not question his legitimacy!

Darryl Issa will try to recall Gray Davis once again even though there are no grounds to do so!

The world will see Republicans as the number 1 threat to world stability and peace!

Bush isolates America from the world!

:kick:


edit: Bush appoints Jebby in 08' to succeed him!

[Redneck Socialist]

20. Pretty good

I like all the predictions so far especially ronnie croaking, I hadn't thought of that. I do fully expect that bushco will create another terrorist attack just before the elections. Shortly after that he suspends all civil liberties and we will all be tapping messages to each other on the water pipes in the cells of our collective re education camps.

1) It comes down to clark and dean for the nomination. Kerry fades away after finishing an embarresing third in NH.

Graham will be the first to drop out, Braun, Kucinich (sp?) follow, with Gephardt, leiberman and edwards in the next wave. Kerry will be the last to fold. Sorry forgot sharpton. He might stick around and try to disrupt the convention.

2) edwards will end up the VP candidate.

[Bucky]

23. Not Edwards

Edwards is destined to be a really good lobbyist, or perhaps the first really viable cable news liberal anchor... on CNN, of course. (I haven't forgotten Jesse Jackson or Phil Donohue, but the rest of the viewers sure did).

VP will be Patti Murray, Jay Rockefeller, or Marie Cantwell. If the nominee had balls and brains, he'd pick Mikulski (as Mondale nearly did).