[cars for sale]

Krystal is another punk who went thru life w/o
gettin' his ass whipped. what a shame.

[KC_Conspirator]

And demographic trends (particularly the growth in Hispanic voters) tend to favor the Democrats going into 2004.

That is not entirely true. Recent polls show a Republican shift and the election results of the past decade prove that.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

how many minorities have been at Dean rallies?

[SunStar]

The Democratic presidential candidate has, alas, won the popular presidential vote three times in a row -- twice, admittedly, under the guidance of the skilled Bill Clinton, but most recently with the hapless Al Gore at the helm.

No, Clinton won 43% of the popular vote in 1992, and 49% in 1996. I'm surprised that Bill Kristol didn't do his homework.

[TSgt]

If elected, Dean will massacre America's military and render us as powerless as Canada.

[areafiftyone]

What kinda scared me yesterday on Larry King was when Bush came out to surprise Larry and then he said he has 11 whole months till the election and he really wasn't concerned. Bush has got to start getting out there and start campaigning soon if he wants to beat Dean. Dean is all over the place and with the help of Move on and other Communist organizations they are working double time to win over independent voters.

[Protagoras]

All this guy is trying to do is make sure the Republicans don't take re-election for granted and become complacent. Attacking him for that is useless.

I don't care for him BTW, but I can see what he's trying to accomplish.

[jerod]

This guy has never been right about anything, ever.

I wish he'd join the DemocRATs and Al Gore, because the guy is always preaching doom and gloom for Bush. (Maybe because he was a McCain butt boy and hitched his wagon to the wrong horse in 2000)

[KellyAdmirer]

Well, buddy boy Kristol, the Republicans won the popular vote three times in a row in the 1980s, twice under the skilled Ronald Reagan and once under the (no comment) first George Bush. Also, party registration trends in the 1980s favored the Republicans. But, whatever happened in 1992?

The kind of false logic in articles like this is laughable. That people actually believe stuff like this, much less write it, is a hoot. Extrapolating out, one could more aptly say that the Democrats have had their three-election vote advantage and now it's time for the tide to turn again, but mechanically extrapolating out vote totals with different candidates and different circumstances is stupid.

[Bommer]

Krystal thinks McCain is the greatest thing since sliced bread. need I say mor---on!

[ex-snook]

Kristol is probably trying to get Gingrich to run against Bush to keep Bush in line with Kristol's ambitions. Gingrich is already trying separation.

Kristol vs Bush and Gore vs Clinton - looks interesting.

[pattycake]

Not true, Rush checked the labor statistics yesterday and he found that there are 2 million more jobs now than when Clinton left office.

[Timmy]

The only way for a "conservative" to be published in the WP is to bash the GOP. What else is new?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

And demographic trends (particularly the growth in Hispanic voters) tend to favor the Democrats going into 2004.

Another ivory tower elitist view.

Hispanics are family-valued, religious and hard-working.

Home ownership is growing rapidly in this community.

What do all home owners have in common?

Concern for high taxes, good schools and safe neighborhoods.

All republican issues.

I believe that the demographics are leaning more conservative.

Even recent polls show strong trends among teenagers and young adults for social and fiscal conservatism.

[Cacique]

bttfl

[Reagan Man]

Bill Kristol is being Bill Kristol.

Is there a chance Bush could lose? Yeah. But theres a better chance, a 90% chance he's gonna win. No reason to overreact. Everyone should know what's going on here. It's the presidential political season. Get used to it.

[pfflier]

I disagree. The question being posed is diametric values. Will mainstream America support Dean's agenda? No way.

The hard core Dean supporters will "get out the vote" . This will only be hard core leftists. The centrists will face a choice: Vote for Bush (probably not) or don't vote at all.

The only way President Bush can be beaten is Republican voter apathy. Dean is perceived to be the loser so Republican and traditional American values supporters stay home in equal numbers to the disenchanted demoncrats. Bush won't lose in that case, the Republicans will have thrown away the opportunity to win.

[Search4Truth]

Kristol conveniently excludes the fact that Bush is also the first President to have had an attack of the scope and scale of 9/11 on US soil. That not so small point invalidates what little argument he offers. When one considers that fact, President Bush has done extraordinarily well. We will see what the people think come Nov 04.

My guess is that the Liberals are going to be very dissappointed, again. No doubt they'll blame it on not getting their message out and the VRWC, when in fact, Americans are getting their message quite clearly - they hate America.

[2Hot4You]

Kristol is correct, in the sense that if we sit back and assume President Bush will be reelected, Howard the Duck could slip in. It looks like I'm going to be a Bush county chair here in Colorado (and proudly so), and I can assure everyone that we're taking nothing for granted. Plus, we have to be sure to capture more Senate seats and, in our case, make sure that the Democrats don't worm their way into one or two of our House seats (Beauprez, running for re-election, and McInnis' seat, which is open).

[Cicero]

That Does IT! Bill Kristol dissing Bush in the Washington Post, of all places!

He's lost all my respect! What? Oh, that's right, he never had my respect in the first place, not since he cheered clinton on while he bombed Belgrade and let the Albanians into Kosovo. Not since he pimped for McCain. Not since . . . oh, well.