[CaraM]

this article is another keeper

[Porterville]

the President has let his many detractors exhaust the political capital of their obsessions.

I've been saying this for months... I should probably learn to write better; then I could seem like a noble journalist when only pointing out the obvious.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Sort of like two guys going out for an old-tyme pistol duel - the first guy gets off his shot quickly and misses completely, then stands there defenseless as the second slowly, carefully, deliberately raises his pistol and......

[My2Cents]

in contrast to Senator Kerry's weird up-the-Mekong-without-a-paddle routine.

This guy's priceless.

[Nam Vet]

Mark Steyn is usually spot on, and I'm hoping he is dead on in this analysis. I too feel like this will be a runaway election and pray that it happens every day. Every logical instinct tells me this but the polls have just now started to move. I know the polls lie a lot, especially this long before the elction.

Seems to me that the polls will start to have Dubya pull away a LITTLE after the convention and call it the normal "bounce", but I'm hoping it's just a misread of a near landslide!

Nam Vet

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Democrats are betting their brains out on a couple of jokers who both share a first name.

[firewalk]

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[don-o]

it's a travesty of a farrago:

Had to look that one up:

"A confused mixture; (a farrago of facts and myth about Abraham Lincoln.)"

[TADSLOS]

He notes that young George "was a very avid and skillful poker player" when he was a Business Administration student and that "one of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand

I knew it! GW is a poker player with well practiced check-raise skills! Strategery indeed!

[diamond6]

And lets hope that his adversaries continue to "misunderestimate" him.

[SuziQ]

any saggy nudists or trust-fund anarchists who succeed in pulling off some camera-worthy stunt in Manhattan this week will only be boosting the President.

The guy DOES have a way with words!

[SuziQ]

So the most likely outcome this November is an increased Republican majority in the House, a couple of extra Senate seats, and a second term for Bush.

From your keyboard to God's ears, Mark!

[bwteim]

Thanks for post.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

"but 15 per cent of Democrats - mainly "conservative Democrats - are planning to vote for Bush."

Must be a typo. Should be 25%.

[truthandlife]

Man, this is right on target!!!

[hershey]

Every time I start reading one of Steyn's masterpieces, I think, he can't top the last one. And I'm wrong every time.

[Bullish]

I'd call Kerrys' hand a pair of dueces. Himself and Edwards.

Bush is down pat with a full house.

[pointsal]

Is this Texas Hold'em.... Beltway style?

[HighWheeler]

I like the poker analogy, but I thought that Bush must have been a chess player. Same type of sandbagging, deception, and "offering up a pawn to get a rook" scheme. The libs have been tied in knots for the last 3 1/2 years, pushing a rook to take a pawn and falling right into a trap.

Bush has taken away a lot of lib platforms, and they are left with a naked king, protected by a set of useless pawns.

[firewalk]

bttt