Vanity of Vanities

[jcb8199]

My wife made a great point last night (she being an apolitical person when first we met, who is now pulling 110% for GWB thanks to me...):

It isn't us, the Decideds, who are going to decide this election. Right or Left, we KNOW who we are voting for, and have since September 2001. The depressing fact is that it is the apathetic, the Noncommittals, who are going to determine this election. And, like it or not, they are largely ignorant, else they wouldn't be Undecided.

This is why this election is SO important--it is a battle of the Ideologies. The "Swing" voters must choose which side best represents them. Let's hope (and pray and work for it) that it is the "Right" side...

[Prime Choice]

I don't think the undecideds are ignorant. I honestly think they're willfully stupid. That's why they tend to vote Democrat.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The depressing fact is that it is the apathetic, the Noncommittals, who are going to determine this election. And, like it or not, they are largely ignorant, else they wouldn't be Undecided.

Not to worry.

They good news is the "Don't Knows" are followers and will do whatever they perceive everbody else to be doing.

And everybody else is voting for Bush. ;^P

[Izzy Dunne]

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...

[hiredhand]

I'm not so certain they're "undecideds". I think they're more likely very liberal thinking people, who LIKE the Kerry rhetoric that promises to give them everything, but they're frightened to death knowing that the man lacks the fortitude to deal with extremist Islam.

I don't think they're as much undecided as we think they are. I think they're just scared. That's all. :-)

[RedWingsSuck]

I disagree. I think that the undecideds generally won't vote. The election will be won by the side who can get their base voters out.

[cgk]

[Old Professer]

Nobody is willfully stupid, however, many seem to be maliciously ignorant.

[weegee]

This election will be decided by whichever side can motivate more of their supporters to the polls.

By running "against Bush", the Democrats have not done much to win the support of Nader voters (who already hate Democrats). Same with the communist party, socialist party, socialist workers' party, green party, et al. Some of those organizations have urged their voters to vote Democrat this year so as to remove President Bush from office.

Some would rather go with the villain they know. Also, some find it easier to criticize a Republican President than a Democrat President (they held their tongues regardless of what Bill Clinton did).

The peanut gallery finds safety and comfort in sitting on the sidelines insulting President Bush (who has repeatedly shown a lack of legal action against his critics). They know that President Bush has protected America against further attacks. Look at the cycle of violence we suffered as the Islamofascists built up to 9/11/2001. Madrid, Bali, and Beslan have seen attacks, we have not.

Compare and contrast with John Kerry who has shown a lack of spine when it comes to fighting terrorism (the sooner he can declare the war on terror over the sooner he can divert funds to domestic payoffs). The Democrats have already determined that terrorism will not be eradicated under their strategy (it will remain a "nuisance"). And they saw fit to attack President Bush for saying that the "war on terror may not be winnable in the next four years"?

We won the war on Nazism. We CAN win the war on Islamofascist terrorism. State sponsored terrorism can be eradicated (and that may require regime change). Did the candidates deride FDR in 1944 for not having won the war "already"?

So motivating the base is the answer. The right has grown increasingly outraged at the liberal media's push for Kerry. What better way to rebuke them but to go to the polls and in the words of Peter Jennings "throw a temper tantrum"?

Democrats have tried to scare the party faithful to the polls and to sign up many new young voters. Will their strategy pay off? Who knows. The liberals are afraid that their base could still vote for Bush. They are encouraging early voting like never before; why risk a Democrat dropping his/her support for Kerry? Vote now!

I am an advocate for early voting if you are positive about your candidates. I still need to read up on some of the judges here in Houston before I vote.

[jcb8199]

We won the war on Nazism. We CAN win the war on Islamofascist terrorism. State sponsored terrorism can be eradicated (and that may require regime change). Did the candidates deride FDR in 1944 for not having won the war "already"?

One of the big reasons we defeated the Nazi's is that we had a unified country--people were, by and large, dedicated to America, dedicated to beating the Krauts. People nowadays are 50% of us dedicated to beating the Islamists, and 50% of the country dedicated to beating GWB. "United we stand..."

[weegee]

"Axis Sally" and "Lord Haw Haw" were American born broadcasters who joined up with the Nazis. I find Michael Moore to be just as vile.

[Prime Choice]

Nobody is willfully stupid, however, many seem to be maliciously ignorant.

So accepted as a friendly amendment.