BUT.... Gore could claim eight years of unprecedented peace and prosperity (nothing to do with the Dems, of course, it was the conservative revolution that was completely responsible for it; the only good Clinton did was co-opting GOP ideas. But in politics, the presidency can claim credit).
The Dems never had such perfect historical timing to anoint a successor. And they still lost. It's indicative of the GOP's new strength that we could beat a candidate who could run on eight years of peace and prosperity.
The Dems have no such advantage this time, nor do they have a 19% Perot-spoiler either. They're running a gloomy Massachusetts liberal with serious flaws in a time when national security is in the forefront. And they are seemingly unable to quiet the obnoxious radical left, who will be prevalent throughout this campaign, and who threaten to disrupt both conventions.
I would not want to be Kerry's campaign manager.
My stance is that if President Bush wins, then things will continue to improve. If Kerry wins, then this country deserves whatever it gets, and I'll kick back and laugh about it all. What else could we do?
Sorry FlyVet but this is a lie. Once you subtract out vote fraud and add in the absentee and military ballots that weren't counted you'll find that President Bush won in a landslide. A landslide so big that the democrats underestimated how many fraudulent votes they really needed and therefore didn't manufacture enough to win. That's why there was the frantic recount after recount in Florida. They were trying to manufacture some more votes somehow to save their failed attempt to steal the election
If we guard against vote fraud this election we'll see a landslide win for President Bush so huge it will make dukakis look like he was a good candidate