"Change is in the air" - Democratic Underground

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Tue Oct-12-04 01:17 AM
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"Change is in the air"

Edited on Tue Oct-12-04 01:27 AM by PCIntern

I shall never forget Dan Rather's opening of his broadcast 6:30 PM EST on Election Day in 1992. He obviously wasn't allowed to say anything until the polls closed but he could not help himself but to give a clue to the masses.

I look forward to hearing the equivalent on Election Night 2004.

I believe that Bush and Karen Hughes and Rove know they're trailing badly. This is my reasoning:

1. Bush has that anger which is borne of complete and utter frustration. This is not the more ephemeral anger of oppositional politics but of personal destruction. Recall what happened in the schoolyard when the bully was surrounded by those he tormented or a couple of guys much bigger than he. The rage flowing at the moment of truth, the knowledge that the whole house fo cards was collapsing and there was no avoiding the entropy which would ensue. Shamed and violated before the entire student body, the phrase "Wanna get away?" is apropos of his position right now.

2. Interviews of Karen Hughes demonstrate her frustration with the campaign. It is not going her way - she probably had the best view of how to manage * and has been trumped by Rove. Rove is no genius, despite the media's, including the true liberal media (websites, The Nation, some others) attempts to portray him as such. To quote someone from the old Reagan days: when Teflon scratches, everything sticks to it. Rove studied Machiavelli's writings, Mein Kampf, the work of the Soviets, and other radical methods and applied them here. The fact that we have a complicit media, as we did duriong the McCarthy days, as we did during the early Watergate days (the young folk among us would be surprised at how the story languished until the CIA-connected Bob Woodward gave the story legs - don't think that the NYT was so heroic here - it was a Johnny-come-lately compared with some other papers. Their big coup was the Pentagon Papers and Sy Hersh) contributed to the delay in discovery, but Hughes knows that the genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back. Bush's surrogate mother-protector is well aware that her honey, no matter what happens on 11/2 has lost all credibility with the body politic. Even the Conservatives.

3. Which is extremely important because what may happen to the Repubs may be that which happened to the Conservative Party in Britain - utter dismemberment. The WSJ ran a fascinating op-ed piece some weeks ago written by a British Conservative party member who warned the Repubs that this was about to happen to them. The intellectual and political dishonesty is just a death-watch beetle in the soul of the Republican Party.

4. It increasingly looks, with the revelations in KY, that the Senate may be lost to the Repubs which would greatly invalidate any return to the WH of Bush. If an only if the Dems grow a pair they will be able to render him ineffectual and he will fade into a real obscurity as his impairment continues to increase in scope and his affect degenerates further.

5. For it is not only Jim Bunning, my personal hero as a Philadelphian who watched his perfect game on TV in 1964 that Sunday Afternoon of Father's Day, who is the only one in this election cycle who is not doing well mentally and emotionally. Ther is little doubt that our appointed President is fast decompensating. this is often seen in substance abusers as they approach their 60's. The long-term effect of the EtOH and drugs sets in and true deficiencies ensue. Anyone who saw the debate between Richards and Bush Jr. all those years ago knows exactly how far he's come.

6. Good luck to all of us in the home stretch and never ever give up until the last vote is counted and the last Supreme Court ruling is made.