Okay you two .. that's enough whining! If you are so concerned, then get off your blessed assurance and start organizing voter registration. RNC will supply tables, chairs, signs - in most areas - a few hours every day could net a whole bunch of new voters for GWB.
Besides, you can promote FReeRepublic.com which gives more people access to a point of view other than the partisan media.
By UCMJ, I cannot man a protest line, attend a FReep, or any of the other fun and exciting thigns you and other FReepers get to do.
However, that Lieutenant who gave the Democrat rebuttal amybe set a good precedent for insubordinate soldiers, wouldn't you say?
I depend so much on my fellow FReepers, to do what I'm not permitted to do. Hell, in the 200 Election, I couldn't even get my vote counted.
It isn't whining, nor defeatism, to express a sense of concern about the wisdom of the American electorate. I hope with all my heart that the electorate makes the only sane decision open to it this November. But that hope doesn't blind me to the fact that several tens of millions of my fellow Americans will mark their ballots for Kerry and the Dems. In addition, some percentage of eligible voters who consider themselves Republican or conservative will either stay home or vote for a minority party.
Let me put it to you another way: When I went home for lunch a little while ago, I quickly checked the TV cable news channels. On one of them (MSNBC, I think), there was a report on the new Medicare prescription drug card/benefit that takes effect today. Sure enough, the report took a negative spin. To make the negative point, the reporter interviewed some woman-in-the-street who complained that the 20% to 25% savings seniors would realize on their drug costs simply wasn't enough. Dontcha know that when you pay $800 a year for prescription drugs (according to the woman), that 20% to 25% is "nothing"?!
With selfish thinking like that rampant in the land, tell me again how being cynical about the American electorate is "whining."