[Paul Atreides]

We're only in February, for Pete's sake. Any man, who wouldn't let RoboFop steal the presidency, isn't going to just idly sit by and let Kerry the Talking Ass have it on a silver platter.

[dagnabbit]

1984's USA was 20 years of wide-open immigration and media-driven cultural Marxism ago. It exists no more.

[jocon307]

"[W]hy are Republicans and conservatives despairing over Bush's chances of defeating him? The answer is they've succumbed to panic."

Who is despairing? Who is panicking? Maybe Freddie the Beetle is, but I for one am not. I think the Bushies may be panicking, their ridiculous over-response to the National Guard thing is disturbing. We should have gotten 1/2 that response to our reaction to their 1/2 baked "guest worker (whatever!)" plan.

You cannot be a conservative and in a thrall to the mainstream media. You've got to wake up every morning, with a smile on your face and tell the world, if the Times says I'm wrong, then I'm RIGHT. (apologies to Carol King)

[GalvestonGal.com]

I'm not worried. I'm going to help sign up voters and I'm going to ask the City Secretary to put me back on the list of poll watchers. That's all we have to do. If every Freeper took one postive ACTION, all this Dim rhetoric won't even be remembered in Jan.'05.

[dts32041]

"But if Kerry is a target-rich environment, why are Republicans and conservatives despairing over Bush's chances of defeating him?"

Because it has slowly dawned on them that the current occupant of the white house is not a conservative, and they have to expend effort on solidifying the base.

They really shouldn't have to do that but the conservatives have been assaulted with the drip drip of their issues being sold out to the highest bidder, and they are all of a sudden unsure of whether there is any reason to support this man in war if they are being sold out domestically?

[Rokke]

That's a good article, and fortunately it is not news to the Bush team or the RNC. I don't sense panic coming from either. Bush is at his best when he has been dismissed as defeated. Kerry's support is a mile wide and an inch deep, and when it is time to respond to this current barrage of pin pricks, he won't last long.

[lilylangtree]

Kerry's a weenie and it's February. Don't count W out yet.

[AmericanVictory]

there's a camel with its nose under the tent?

[thoughtomator]

I got it! Kerry is Bob Dole!

[jmstein7]

Leave it to Fred to bring us all back to sanity.

[Salvation]

**I cite the bear in the woods ad as an example of how President Bush's reelection campaign can go after his likely Democratic rival, John Kerry.**

BTTT!

[onyx]

Kerry is on the wrong side of gay marriage/civil unions and POTUS owns the right side.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Thank you Fred for a dose of common sense. History teaches us that campaigns ebb and flow in cycles. Attack and couterattack. You do not judge the ultimate outcome of a battle by the first volley of gunfire. Stay low in the tall grass. Absorb the first volley. Get up close and give 'em hell.

Hand wringing and whining are useless and lead to panic-filled spazz attacks. It results in defeat and shame. Take courage freepers. The ferocity of their ludicrous claims only masks their own emptiness and fear and defeat. They have nothing to offer this country.

Courage. Courage. Courage.

Adios