Bart Whiteman: A Democratic Strategy Emerging
by Bart Whiteman
posted June 19, 2005
It’s getting harder and harder to stay ahead of the curve criticizing our current president these days. Even his fellow Republicans are joining the chorus of boos in greater and greater numbers. The defenses of George W. Bush that used to appear with great regularity in our local media are getting sparser and sparser...
... the Democrats, after sitting on their behinds and licking their tiny wounds for years, have what appears to be a cogent strategy emerging to take back at least the White House. Joseph Biden has tossed his shoes, belt, and wristwatch (and maybe a few other accessories), if not his hat, into the ring for a run at the 2008 election. This gives them a viable moderate voice to which a large number of the voting public of both parties might just respond with an “It’s about time.” Howard Dean should keep hurling his grenades at the Republicans. His “white and Christian” claim was mild compared to what could be said. This will draw all the “outraged” fire, along with Hillary Clinton taking all the “Hate Hillary” heat, which is a subset of the “Hate Liberals” crowd. The country needs a second Clinton president just like it needed a second Bush president. With this kind of interference running ahead, any reasonable moderate like Biden could walk into the White House.
John McCain could give the Democrats a serious run, but it’s hard to see the all the right-wing nutcases who portrayed McCain as the anti-Christ during the primary run against Bush in 2000 suddenly turning around and embracing him as their newfound Savior. Savaging the one guy who perhaps has the most indisputable claim to military credentials by the same crowd who preach “shoot first and ask questions later” as a solution to all problems is the kind of hypocritical dilemma that we have found ourselves in with greater frequency than ever before.
This leaves the gonzoidal freaks who are trying to keep Bush in power permanently, since he has so graciously served little but their purposes, by maneuvering to repeal the 22nd Amendment limiting the term of office the president can serve. If somehow America in a fit of pathological desperateness were to agree to such an amendment, then nothing would serve Bush better than for the people to rise up and say: “You are history and one we choose to forget.”
The race has begun.
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