You said: The left is wounded and, like any self-respecting game animal, dangerous.
I think that is exactly right! The Liberals can no longer win a fair fight (so long as we make our best effort), and it is starting to sink in for them. The evidence is found throughout this thread.
Think about it. Since Johnson's big win in 1964, what Democrat was really "won" an election on his own?
Carter, in 1976, won after what was played by the MSM as the greatest scandal in American History (Nixon/Watergate), and even then won by just an eyelash.
Remember, back in those olden days, the MSM, from a practical standpoint, was about all the media there was! Carter also tried to portray himself as a moderate southerner, not as a liberal at all.
Clinton twice needed to split the opposition vote between a Republican and Perot to win, and even then needed to be as smooth-talking a con artist as he could be, in order to win. Clinton also needed to portray himself as a moderate southerner, not as a liberal at all.
Those candidates who portrayed themselves as liberals, or were unsuccessful at hiding it, all lost, some badly: McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry.
I thought, and still think, the 2004 election was of utmost importance to win.
But, having won, 2008 will be even more important, and even more divisive: The enemy wears a pantsuit! (Hillary will dominate any Dems who oppose her -- if any dare!!)
So winning 2008 is crucial: it could, realistically, be: "2008: The Liberals' Last Stand."
As you said earlier, "The left is wounded and, like any self-respecting game animal, dangerous."
Personally, I want the 2008 choice to be as clear as we had in 2004.
I'm backing Rumsfeld against Hillary -- the most Real American against the most Phony!! May the better man win!
So right you are! I worried she'd show up in '04. Trouble is, they couldn't 'quagmire', 'pantys on prisoner's heads', Awol in Texas Rathergate, no WMDs, wrongwar-wrongtime, and make it stick with Bush.
Their hollow, phony, lifelong wannabe candidate means to me that the left is out of ammo. As an American, that makes me proud. F**k 'em and the Marxist camels they rode in on.