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Here's everything you need to know about the 2004 Election at the presidential level.

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anyone: Since dean uses the fact he is a doctor, is there an organization called "Doctors for Bush"?

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Congressman Billybob,

With all due respect, Sir...I still have your words ringing in my ears before the 2000 election: "Bush is going to win without ANY problem; Gore has no chance", etc. I can't remember if I heard you on Rush, Phil Paleologeous, or ? All I know is you were very, very sure Bush would take almost every state.

I think we'd all better focus on making sure 1. Everyone we know gets registered and votes; 2. Everyone we know understands completely how vital it is that Bush win again AND the Congress gain more Republicans.

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Billybob,

You can certainly talk the talk. But will your prognostications hold up? Let's hope.

However, I am one of those "glass half empty" kind of people. (I would prolly play "Eore", the donkey in Winnie the Pooh.) :o)

I am printing and saving your analysis to pull out of the folder again in September and October to cheer me up when things may be looking bleak for our man. You make it look too easy. These things are rarely a cakewalk.

My guess for Dean's running mate would be a good ol' North Carolina shyster named Edwards. Would that help in the South? Mebbe, mebbe not. It didn't help Gore to be from Tennessee.

How about Sen. Graham? Would that help take Florida this time? Probably would help. Having Jeb and Bob slugging it out and pushing every political button in the state would be fun to watch...if our side was winning.

The Clintons don't love Dean. He said early on that he would remove Terry McAwful from the Democrat National Committee. That doesn't sit well with Bill and Hillary and their desires to control it all.

It wouldn't make any sense for Hillary to be a running mate - except to excite the Democrats. But stranger things have happened.

I think Dean would get great press. He is the John McCain, Jimmy Carter (and early Ross Perot, )kind of guy the press love.

I think Dean will win more states than Congressman Bob predicts. But, my movie - or storybook - kind of chapter in this drama would be for Cheney to say he was not feeling up to anothr campaign, and Dubya asking Condi Rice to be running mate.

The press should love it. It wouldn't bring over the "old" Black caucus. But it would take enough Black votes away from the Democrats to significantly redraw the political map in the US for quite awhile. In this scenario, Dubya and Condi run the table.

...and then there is the war - a double edge sword.

At this point the butterflies are already fluttering in my stomach. It's time to re-read Billybob's treatise and get ready to run thru walls for Dubya. :o)

Why should any Democrat nominee take federal money and its consequent restrictions when their fund-raising is going to blow Bush out of the water? We thought Bush was going to be rich, rich, rich when his campaign goal was announced at $200-million--well, that's nothing compared to the $450-million promised to the Democrats by organized labor ($185-million is already in hand) and the pledge they got yesterday from Crazy George. That doesn't even include contributions from the scads of people using the internet and the usual bevy of rich liberals from the coasts.

Our biggest asset is that Dean is an absolute nut case, and the Democrat primary structure has gotten the nomination out of the smoke-filled rooms and into the hands of the most liberal kooks in the country. Hillary can come in at the last minute and confiscate Dean's committed delegates; but, the consequences upon the party and its image of being for the "little guy", "it's about about the process", etc., would be toast. Individual Democratic voters around the country would have made sincere commitments to Dean via their money and primary votes and a last minute foreclosure of their participation would look like sour grapes (and I don't think the Dean Team would let the Clinton's get away with it without a fight---and Dean's one fiesty little guy!).

The Democratic Party that we know today is made of immoral traitorous syncophants that cater only to the queerest elements of society. I wish Zell Miller would form a new opposition party that really cared about the concerns of working people and middle class.

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From your post to God's ears.