[Elkiejg]

Good advice from Cal. WH and Rove - are you listening???? Time to go on the offensive. Also, the flip-flops of Kerry need to be posted time and time again -- we KNOW the LIEberal media won't do it.

[risk]

Think of it: every day they dig themselves deeper and deeper. They have no idea what the President and his cabinet have up their sleeves.

[Ramcat]

It's not time yet.
Bush knows it.
Edwards can still pull this nomination off and might present a problem with those who are looking for a prettier candidate.

[Broadside Joe]

I think one must first ask where the republicans in the house and senate were during this time. They had plenty of opportunities to counter the BS and spin.

[OpusatFR]

No major offensive at this time. They have provided lots of stuff now that Kerry is the heir preposterous.

Just listen for the drips coming through that leaky roof.

[Poohbah]

Yup, Kerry is up in the polls. So were Mondale, Dukakis, and Dole at this point--and the incumbents didn't waste their time "returning fire."

[DustyMoment]

The problem here is that Cal Thomas is talking to DEAF people. The Bush WH has lost its ability to hear the voices of American voters who are, increasingly, dissatisfied with many of the President's most recent proposals. Bush 43, like his father, has become arrogant and will not take ANY advice if it does not spring from the lips of Karl Rove. If he does not smell the coffee soon, Bush 43, like his father, will also be a one-term president.

America deserves better than these political elitists. Bush got off to a faltering start, but 911 brought out his leadership. Since then, he has taken a hard turn to the left to the dismay of many of his conservative base. Whether he can woo them back before November remains to be seen. There may be a lot of time, but I don't see any effort on his part to do anything but pander to people who won't vote for him anyway.

Like it or not, if Bush doesn't return to his conservative roots soon, by this time next year we may be saying President Kerry.

[Just mythoughts]

This election is a "WAR". When fighting a "WAR" one must gain the "INTEL" on the enemy. What kind offensive act is all this reliving the 60's crap?

Size up your enemy and then go after the leader. The enemy or in this case the liberals are trying to decide which one of their own will be their "leader".

Only a few short months ago looked as though Dr. Dean would be the leader, right?

Why would a sitting President leading a war from outside the border want to get caught up in a donkey braying contest?

The extremes to which the donkeys have to go to wake up the base exposes their weakness.

These donkeys have no moral compass and yet they want others to be held accountable. So the donkeys have set the parameters of what they required to be President and it is time for we the American people hold their ideas and deeds accountable.

What kind of person would "VOTE" for "WAR" and then a few months later after the military is in the midst of that "WAR" refuses to "VOTE" to fund those he sent to WAR. All because it was politically expedient for his presidential campaign.

The President has a job and we the people hold responsiblity in this "WAR" and we should not sit back and wait for one man to respond to "INSANITY". This is about our security and what kind of nation we will be and the last thing that gives us security is to return to the 60's of "hippy" power.

[Tricorn]

Be patient, Cal, old bean. "Meet the Iraqis" in February turns into "Meet the who now?" by November.

Don't worry, Cal. Everything will be ooookay...

[Texas_Dawg]

Good advice from Cal. WH and Rove - are you listening???? Time to go on the offensive. Also, the flip-flops of Kerry need to be posted time and time again -- we KNOW the LIEberal media won't do it.

I think they know what they are doing. Let Kerry attack away at will for now. When the election is closer, blast back with your new info and make the guy look bad. Do that now, and you're shot by November. GWB is going to win this thing easily. I think they are intentionally not trying right now and like seeing the polls drop to 50/50 (makes for a better "Bush surging" headline when it's 55/45 in October).

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this.

There is a poll at the link that every Bush person needs to go vote in -- it is Bush vs. Kerry!

[yoe]

When he announced the beginning of military operations against Iraq last March, the president said it "could be more difficult than some predict. And helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment."

A UNITED, STABLE AND FREE COUNTRY WILL REQUIRE OUR SUSTAINED COMMITMENT.....SUSTAINED COMMITMENT

In trying to re-live the Viet Nam war, the Democrats are mounting a huge campaign with Kerry leading the anti-American pack, to deep six our good works in Iraq and the people in Iraq and divide Americans against further removal of tyrannical rulers in the world, leaving the United Nations safe to endorse those tyrants - at the same time assuring the Mid-East that a Kerry administration will not meddle in their affairs - as long as we can buy their oil.

Kerry and his followers have not grown up or budged one step from wrong ideas – Hanoi John and Jane live!

[lawgirl]

NO way- we are just getting the final solid hint of who the nominee will be yet for sure. Right now we are just giving them enough rope to hang themselves. I am glad we didnt' start bashing Dean- then look- he didn't even make it and not only would we have looked ugly and nasty, we would have shown our cards and whoever actually got the nomination would know how we play the game. (our strategery!)

Let Kerry keep talking and talking and talking and talking about Vietnam and special interests- then we will hang him and "well I only made that comment in passing once- I didnt really mean it" won't suffice. If you have given 30 speeches on hating special interests, all the easier to hang you with the solid proof you're in bed with them once the race heats up. And it takes time to get solid evidence together.

Plus- let's also remember a play out of the Dem handbook- nail them late in the game (like the DUI BS they tried to pin on W like what- 3 days before the election?) so they can't recover from it. Not to mention, W needs to focus on running our country and can really truly focus on the race later this summer. We don't want him to look like all he is focused on is winning reelection- he has already taken heat for apprearing (to the liberal press) at "too many" fundraisers.

I know it gets frustrating watching our man take hit after hit and not respond, but I firmly believe what I have outlined is the strategy. Karl Rove, and our president as well, are very political animals and they know how the game is played. Give them enough rope- get them far enough down the road- and then WHACK! cinch the rope and put up a road block so they can't turn back. Right now we are just biding time, and that's the prudent thing to do.

[HighWheeler]

I understand Cal's concern, but you don't want to waste your ammo on the wrong target, nor waste is shooting from this distance (to September, 2004).

Bush is a supreme master of patience and sandbagging.

The RAT candidate will be minced in due time.