I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop

[mrgorth]

KKKarl has to have something else. I just hope it's not Osama. I'll take another fake carrier landing or something. Am I wrong? Do you think Rove is really going to run with this?

[seabeyond]

1. everyone kept talking oct surprise in 2000

there wasnt any, but the threft.

[Lilli]

2. I used to think so but

now they seem to be doing so much damage control from the debates that I'm just not sure.

Maybe all they EVER really had, going all the way back to the attacks on Ann Richards, was to lie and smear...and there are just too many of us for it to work this time.

Maybe Rove really isnt the boogey man.
Or maybe I'm reallly wrong. :)

[sisenor]

3. Maybe it will be more like a November surprise

But I keep daydreaming that it will come down to the Supreme Court, and Sandra Day O'Connor will switch sides and go democrat!

[Paradise]

4. Whatever it is, it will be devious, dirty and dangerous! ON GUARD! n/t

[Kolesar]

5. Rove...run with this... What is the "this"?

I am confused.

[mrgorth]

10. "this"

what he appears to have. IE. nothing.

[Kolesar]

13. So Karl gets an "incomplete" on his report card

Got sick, missed the final, and did not turn in his term paper.

[Florida_Geek]

6. With Absentee ballots and early voting

it is getting to late for an Oct. Surprise.

IMHO

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. That is the October surprise

How fucked up the Republicans and their Voting Machine Companies have made things in four short years.

As long as Rove can contest the election, Bush stays in the WH. Now go to court and try to get him out?

[montana500]

8. The October surprise is already in your head

it's psyhcological plant to distract and worry you from the task of helping elect John Kerry. It's too instill fear, doubt, and apprehension, and to distract from the real issues.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. So the idea that our electoral system in fucked

is all in my head?

[belle]

11. No; but the idea that Rove is the Gweat and Tewwible is a mass illusion

[archineas]

12. republican hubris

they never expected to need an october surprise...they never thought they'd lose their lead, let alone have a contest. i don't think their egos even allowed them to entertain the possibility of losing, so i don't think they had adequate time to even plan an "october surprise" contingency.

i think the cold hard slap in the face after the first debate had them hedge their bets on the rest of the debates, and i think the cheney flap over the "lesbian" comment in the 3rd debate was pure politics, because they knew they lost all three. it's been barely over a week, and outside of sinclair and it's "news" thingy thing, what have they done?

i bet they still believe they have it locked up, regardless of anything related bbv, or voter fraud, anything. at this point, they need maximum impact with an october surprise, and i think at this stage it will be transparent.

j

[molly]

14. I make sure that I have my TV on starting with Crossfire

lately I've kept it on thru Wolfie - then Dobbs - then Hardball - then anything else pertaining - last nite it was the Ohio debate with Wes Clark. Politicians train themselves to spin - most of the time, however, they have a difficult time controlling their body language and facial expressions. They are scared shitless.
WATCH it's like Mommy Nature - they cannot control what is happening and they know it.

STAY ON POSITIVE FOCUS - THEY HAVE LOST!

[DemocracyInaction]

15. I think they have most of their eggs in the Sinclair basket because

it's exactly this kind of shit that the Bushes always engage in. This time they shoved it up a notch and went beyond ads and leaking news stories (bimbo erruptions, etc.)to a corporate criminal scum who will take over the airways in key areas. By the way, someone within a thread last night mentioned that these bastards are going to show this crap more than once!!! Is that true??? Anyway, this was their October surprise and they are banking on it knocking off enough people who are afraid Kerry won't go out and kill, kill, kill for America and thus win the election for Bush. The whores will be instructed to talk about every aspect of this night and day for the next 10 days to help bring down the numbers voting for Kerry and stop the undecided from swinging to Kerry. I'd love to dismiss this thing but I think it's the spinning whores who will try to sell it to anyone who didn't see it.