Levin is right about this.. I have watched over the last few cycles where no one in talk radio was taking any position on any of the candidates...wait and see...wait for it...and then suddenly....it was over and we got Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney....all establishment 1st picks. Then Rush would try to talk them up, but it was failing over and over. I don’t really even know how Bush won, except for the awfulness of Al Gore and that JF Kerry being such a brahmin. We really need to do better, but I am sure the fix is in and Jeb Bush will slink thru and win the nomination and lose the general by 8 million votes to Hillary Clinton.
In all honesty Bush’s first win was just dumb luck. It really did come down to a few HUNDRED votes, out of how many millions that were cast.
And some newspapers did go and “finish” the recount, but it only proved that Bush did win, fair and square but by the smallest of margins.
It should be a lesson to all that your vote may indeed count very greatly and you won’t know what circumstances will occasion that. However, it sure as heck can’t be counted as any kind of a mandate, it really could have been Gore.
As for Kerry, well he’s awful and thanks to that guy O’Neal (I think) and the Swift Boat veterans for putting Kerry’s past nearly treasonous behavior back in the public’s mind. But it is very hard to unseat an incumbent as the second terms of Bush fils and Obama shows.
I personally really wish Mitt Romney was the president now. I think he is just a much, much better person that Obama and I’m pretty sure the middle east wouldn’t have become the complete shambles that it is today had Romney been at the helm these last couple of years.
And yeah, that’s on Romney, but it’s on us too, by which I mean the people of the US, not us on the right.