I share your concern. The election was way too close for my comfort level. Ronald Reagan would have carried 49 states against both Kerry and Algore. The fact that Kerry and Algore came thisclose to the presidency tells me that the Republicans need to really get their act together for the 2008 campaign.
"Mr. Kerry bet that the media's silence would carry him through to the election--and he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling Swift Boat Veterans."
I remember a story on FR dealing with this that I haven't been able to find a link to ... I wonder if anyone else has kept it, remembers it, or is able to locate it.
That story, referred to several times, portrayed sKerry's staff sitting around discussing the SwiftVets' story breaking two months or so before they really went public, and discounting it by something like, "Oh, don't worry, the press isn't going to go after sKerry on this. The SwiftVets will be ignored."
I would dearly appreciate a ping from anyone who recalls this, or who saved it. I would also love a FReepmail about it. I'm quite disturbed I can't find that story now.
It's a dumbed-down electorate we're dealing with... and a MSM that has gone from biased to covert.
The socialist/DNC 'Matrix' that permeates the media is only exposed by the Internet, talk-radio and FOXNews... if you don't follow these... you become part of the problem.
We're dealing with something more than simple bias here... something that won't go away without a fight.
I don't think Reagan could do significantly better than Bush did.
Bush didn't lose many if any votes for not being conservative enough. We bitch and moan about him for not being conservative enough, but in the end we mostly vote - and volunteer, and donate - for him anyway. A more conservative candidate would make us happier, and get a few more conservative voters who would otherwise stay home in disgust - and we'd still be hopelessly outnumbered in the dozen states the Dems can't lose, and no better off in the swing areas.
Our problem isn't in the campaigning, it's in the electorate. You'd almost almost think the people failing to teach your kids history or economics and bringing in the unending flood of third world immigrants had an agenda or something!