I'm not interested in being complacent, and somehwat resent your otherwise excellent piece because it may make others complacent. I intend to campaign very hard here in the greater Los Angeles area to try to help carry this state for the President and help ensure his re-election. I have not forgotten, nor will I ever forget 9/11/01, the nearly simultaneous anthrax attacks, the DC sniper attacks, and the sacrifices of our armed forces in confronting the terrorism threat ever since.
President Bush has been a giant among world leaders, and a steadfast bulwark between me and those who want to kill me just because I'm an American. So this President deserves my utmost support. The ghosts of those who died on those planes, in the WTC, the Pentagon, the fields of Pennsylvania, and the fields of Afghanistan and Iraq DEMAND at least that much of me. I will not dissapoint them.
So, with all due respect, "Congressman," please let's not take this upcoming election for granted.
The money has to be spent wisely. The volunteers have to be well organized and well motivated. But mechanics and facts on the ground do determine whether a given candidate in a given election is almost certainly dead meat. Or whether his/her opponent is almost certainly a winner.
Imagine pitting the Oklahoma football team against Harvard. No rational person would bet on Harvard. But you still do have to play the game. It is still necessary to "execute." And Karl Rove is a past master at "execution" in political campaigns.
John / Billybob
YEAH! I remember how everybody thought Bush was going to win easily in 2000 and that Florida would definitely go for Bush. I voted but I made up that 537 vote margin (after the usual Democrat vote stealing) that gave the presidency to Bush. So don't ANYBODY sit smugly at home on election day. VOTE. BTW, I often vote by absentee ballot but Broward County is so SCREWED UP that they have already lost lots of absentee votes this year so I am going to forgo the absentee vote next year.