Quote from LeBoutillier - Dems smell blood?

[American100]

I read Newsmax.com LeBoutillier' column and wanted to paste an excerpt: "Message to G.W. Bush and the GOP: you’re in trouble. Your opponents smell blood and are really beginning to feel they can win; this was unthinkable - even to hard-core Democrats - a year ago, even eight months ago.

And we can no longer say, “Well, there is still a long way to go.” There isn’t; it’s only 100 days and Bush is declining on the economy and the Iraq campaign.

He may really need an ‘October Surprise’ to win."

This is scary to me because I think he may be right. The Democrats want to win no matter what the cost.

How do you think Karl ROve is handling this?

[js1138]

If the dems are smelling blood they should check their backs for knife wounds.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Bush does have some control. He can make events happen, so the race is hardly over.

[gilliam]

The McGovern campaign felt it could win during the convention too. Smelling blood at a convention comes with the funny hats and buttons. The ratings tell a much different story, as do the stories of people being turned off by the vitrial they are hearing.

[The Sons of Liberty]

LeBoutillier

French, right? Well it's not surprising the Frenchies are supporting and talking up their boy John Flip-Flop Kerry.

[upchuck]

I read Newsmax.com LeBoutillier' column and wanted to paste an excerpt

Please post a link.

[LS]

Gee, that must by why in recent polls the percentage of those (DEMS INCLUDED) thinking that Bush will win has started to go back UP!

Some of these writer/"analysts" are as prescient as a blind dog in a kennel.

[KJacob]

The full article was posted before this one.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Dems smell blood?

From what I've seen on the news, their probably smelling body excrement.

[Alberta's Child]

I will never read NewsMax as long as they insist on publishing columns by this moron LeBoutillier. Remember -- this was the guy who claimed that Chandra Levy was murdered by a member of a homosexual motorcycle gang that counted Gary Condit among its members.

[an amused spectator]

LeBoutillier is not the most reliable source on the block:

What's up with John LeBoutillier?

[KevinDavis]

Then why are there articles about Hillary running in 08??

[cripplecreek]

Beger isn't blood, he's a whole body tied to the kerry campaign.

[carton253]

Is the sky falling again? Should I put on my helmet?

[ClearCase_guy]

I have a hard time with this. Granted, Bush has to start really campaigning, but I think that will start soon -- and I do not think it is too late at all.

Last night, a commentator was re-hashing the history of the Clinton Administration and mentioned the fact that when Bill campaigned in 1996, "the economy was booming" and there was a clear subtext in the commentator's pontificating that "things are different now".

In fact, the economy today is better than in 1996 according to every measure I can think of. Clinton DID campaign on a booming economy. And Bush can do the same. And the Dems will look foolish.

Bush and Rove have to do it right, but there is so much to talk about: Booming economy, Two triumphant wars, no real alternative from the other side.

I say Bush gets over 55% of the vote. Seriously.

[NonValueAdded]

Perhaps the blood they smell is from their own wounds. Look at all the missteps taken by the RATs in just the last two days. TheRAYza verbally abuses a reporter, denying she said what she did say and in the process proving that she performed a reading, not a speech since she didn't recall her "own" words (IMHO the first time she saw them was on the TelePrompTer); JFK flubs the first pitch photo op at Fenway Park and then has his Woody Allen moment at KSC. Meanwhile in Boston, the circus is in town at the Fleet center. We hear speeches such as Carter's that repeat the same old hollow - and debunked - lies. The more they lie, the greater the chance that "hey, wait a minute, that isn't true" will register with a voter.

Summary, when your enemy is self-destructing, stay out of the way and don't interfere. That advice is what is being followed this week.

[kaylar]

Gee, that must by why in recent polls the percentage of those (DEMS INCLUDED) thinking that Bush will win has started to go back UP! Some of these writer/"analysts" are as prescient as a blind dog in a kennel

Take a look at this editoral, which stops *just* short of declaring Kerry's bound to win...Yeah, it's the Guardian, but still...

[CWW]

Put down the Clinton Koolaid and step slowly away from the computer.

Seriously, the fact that Bush is up by 2 points in almost every poll just a week after the Dems unvail pretty boy Edwards and on the eve of their convention is a miracle. Would we like to be further up? You betcha.

Here's where Rove wins:

1. By putting our convention at early September, Bush gets to spend his entire war chest in 6 weeks in the battle ground states. Kerry cannot spend a dime beyond his matching funds, and will take the risk of allowing just his surrogates to run TV ads. That is a big mistake, in my opinion.

2. The internal polling questions on issues such as terrorism, the economy and even Iraq, have taken a decided turn towrd Bush in the last 2 weeks. People just don't trust Kerry with such weighty issues.

3. Finally, as a lawyer,things always look bleak while the opponent is putting on their case. But as I tell my clients, if we come out essentially even after the other side has presented their case, then we're in great shape.

[Howlin]

Gee, look who posted that article.

What a surprise.