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Do any of them really contend we as a country were better off with 8 years of the Clintons rather than a second Bush term?

Some of the unappeasables truly do want the Dims to win, so we can be "punished" for our sin of not being perfect. They did they same thing to Ronald Reagan and won't admit it. There are some folks who are disappointed in the President and , good God, he is not omnipotent. Several who have vented won't abandon reality, Some will, the most vociferous ,the brigadiers and the perotistas ,who fail to see that their messiahs of the true way are far more flawed in their taste for totalitarianism hidden in a populist sheath.

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Some of the unappeasables truly do want the Dims to win, so we can be "punished" for our sin of not being perfect. They did they same thing to Ronald Reagan and won't admit it. There are some folks who are disappointed in the President and , good God, he is not omnipotent. Several who have vented won't abandon reality, Some will, the most vociferous ,the brigadiers and the perotistas ,who fail to see that their messiahs of the true way are far more flawed in their taste for totalitarianism hidden in a populist sheath.

I don't understand the point of this type of thinking.

It reminds me of old newsreels of "The Great Leap Forward," where Maoist subjects would whip themselves into alternating, orgiastic frenzies of vitriol and delusion, to top their neighbors' frenzies.

What good does it do to presume, incorrectly, that all is well and Panglossian with President Bush and the Republican Party?

Folks are telling you now, in January, that they aren't happy with this President. Will you ignore this for ten months, until November?

If the votes you're expecting don't materialize as you believe they should, will you wonder if you made the right decision to ignore the discontent in January?

I think you have to wear some very cinched up tinfoil to believe that the rumblings you've been reading and hearing are all, or even mostly as you've described above. It is no service to this President to ignore legitimate concerns that his constituents legitimately have with him. I've seen so much of the "don't let the door hit you in the ass" type of coalition-building on this site, and I wonder if the "all-contents" realize how very much they are like the worst of the "malcontents" about which they rail.