[Sabertooth]

They're for the malcontents to rally around to high-five each other like high-school sophomores.

"Malcontent" is the epithet by which those who wield it avoid "content."

You've got your own high-fives and barnyard cheers at the rival school.

There's no War on Terror in their small-minded worlds.

There's a War on Terror, so we are stuck with President Bush.

Does that mean, however, we're stuck with every wrong-headed, profligate bit of domestic stategery he offers?

Is it our job, as citizens, to simply shut up and vote?

[Defender2]

I will be voting, unfortunately this time by absentee ballot. As once again I am overseas fighting terrorists. I will vote for President George W. Bush!!!!

[sinkspur]

Does that mean, however, we're stuck with every wrong-headed, profligate bit of domestic stategery he offers?

Reagan ran up the deficit more severely, as a percentage of GDP, than Bush is doing. He also awarded amnesty to illegals and bugged out of Lebananon at the first disaster.

He raised taxes, too, which Bush has not done.

Nobody's perfect, including presidents. It seems that there's a devoted cadre on FR who do nothing but carp on the negative, and wave the old "I'll never vote for him again" canard.

I suspect half of the "my-way-or-the-highway" types didn't vote for him the first time, and are trying to get some kind of bandwagon going for Howie Phillips, or Harry Browne, or some other no-name.

It ain't workin', and it never does.