Repubs are convinced of the inevitability of a Bush win...

[kentuck]

And it is that sense of inevitability that will fall on them like a brick wall. When they crawl out from under the debris, scarred and broken, they will see that there is another dimension and another reality. Rush and Hannity did not save them. It must have been the fault of the "liberal media"? How else to explain it??

[Zynx]

1. What pisses me off is when they cherrypick polls and state with certainty

that Bush is going to win. I HATE that.

[stranger_with_candy]

17. Kind of like

people on here cherry pick polls that show Kerry winning?

[Scoopie]

2. Actually, that's a good in

If they start blaming the "liberal media," then ask them why their beloved Faux and Rushthedrug were just plain wrong.
Then explain that if they'd get their news from other sources besides those two, they might have understood that there was a more than 50 percent possibility that Kerry would win. They were being lied to and given a sense of smugness. Suggest to them they broaden their choices for news so that doesn't happen to them again and they won't be so scarred and broken.

Hey - it might just work!

[tanyev]

3. And then the civil war within the Republican

party begins. Popcorn, anyone?

[rndmprsn]

6. i agree...repub party will and needs to melt-down

alot of soul searching is going to be happening among our more thoughtful friends across the aisle

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. This is exactly why they are going to be dangerous Nov 3........

I think it will get real ugly because they have already proven that they do not have the capacity for rational thought. In their minds the only explanation will be that the election had to be stolen.
It's going to be an interesting week.

[rustydog]

11. Of course they don't have rational thought

Look at Salem when the religious leaders held the witch trials.
Insert religion into the political arena or the power brokers of your time and you have a recipe for disaster.
Killing in the name of God.

These Republican,right-wing Christian fundies today would fit right in with the stoning of Giles Corey in Salem.

Tell me how rational that thought pattern is.

[gollygee]

5. Good, let them be convinced

Then they don't need to bother voting, do they :)

[KharmaTrain]

7. It's a Mindset...Finally Most Of Us Have It, Too

Michael Moore discussed this as that despite Repugnicans showing poorly in polling just before an election, their legions are such firm believers that they show up and have won races or made them close by large turnouts that caught the complacent Democrats off guard. This was how many seats were won in '94.

For decades many Democrats...our Pink Tutus...didn't have that same fight and didn't have the "win at all costs" mentality the Repugnicans have. It's the nature of many Democrats to be passive by nature and not want confrontations, while the GOOP has always encouraged the obnoxious behavior we see and hear on cable food fights and hate radio.

I don't think that's the case this time. I've watched enough races and have a pretty good gut when it comes to when my candidate is doing well or not. At this point in 2000, I was "positive negative" about Gore's chances. While I felt he would win, but not anywhere near how I feel about Senator Kerry's chances. It was assumed that all Gore had to do was take the popular vote and the rest would follow...then came Florida where the GOOP kicked our asses and stole the Executive.

This time I have never seen so many forces within the Democratic Party come together as solidly behind one candidate as I've seen for Kerry. The combination of the respect the Senator has built in many of us (and I was and still am an ABB'er) and our total disdain and disgust with this regime rivals any hatred of the Repugnican Party I've seen in my life, and this includes the hey days of Nixon and Watergate.

Currently I'm 85% certain of a victory on Tuesday...I expect to raise my ratings on election eve and election day...and it was about 50% going into the debates. This isn't based on blind faith or wishful thinking, just the many things I've seen happening that will lead the largest Democratic turnout ever that surely means victory.

[melody]

8. absolutely true

The uber-Republican today is a borderline or full-blown psychopath. They can do and will do anything to win (just as their fearless leader clearly will). These people are primarily angry at us because we *don't* stand up and fight them back but tend to get up and leave the table.

I don't think they realize, however, that once a donkey gets its dander up (to quote my Democratic grandfather) he doesn't stop until he's kicked some (other) ass.

[KharmaTrain]

13. Your Grandfather Is A Wise Man...Welcome To DU

Our fights always were within our own tent and on topics way beyond the primal interests of most Repugnicans and usually we wore each other out so bad we didn't have the energy to fight the rising wingnut tide.

Over the last year there's been an awakening and rejuvenation of the Democratic party that I find extremely welcome and exciting. Many of us who came up with the ideals of the 60's and 70's are able to find our voice and common cause again.

Cheers and welcome!

[w4rma]

9. Ignore the polls. Ignore the freeps. There is no time to waste, now. (nt)

[democrat in Tallahassee]

10. no,I think they are really scared cause they know what's gonna

happen. That certainty stuff is just bluster. I guarantee you that they are worried.

[Nay]

12. Boy, are they going to be surprised.

There's blood in the water, folks, and it ain't ours for once.

[Triana]

14. Well Rove trotted out bin Laden so now....

....they all have to spin it for bu$h. Them's the marchin orders from HQ folks...Kerry was soaring. They HAD to stop that somehow.

[Snivi Yllom]

15. expect violence

im serious

if you thought the country was divided for the last 4 years, watch what's coming

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

16. repugs are smug

Let em think that way, I say wait till election day

[leftofthedial]

18. his ONLY chance of "winning"

is another coup

Diebold, corrupt state government interference with democratic process, fraud, corrupt judiciary, Fat Tony and the Sepremos

[MsTryska]

19. Good....I hope they keep that sense of inevitability

and stay home on teusday because it's raining/they're busy at work/other's will vote him in for them.

[Pithy Cherub]

20. The sentient republicans

are voting for Kerry. The 'remainders' are the permanent republican't extras for Night of the Living Dead, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes XV, and Friday the Thirteenth ad infinitum!