Posted on 06/10/2004 12:19:49 AM PDT by kattracks
June 10, 2004 -- NOW is a good time to look back at the landslide win that sent Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, because lots of analysts think 2004 could turn out the same way — close for a long time and then suddenly breaking wide open. In 1980, the break came just days before the vote, when Democrat Jimmy Carter finally agreed to debate. Reagan came off as sunny instead of scary and when he admonished Carter with a smile, "There you go again," it was all over.Like President Bush, Carter faced voters nervous over both the economy and foreign policy and wondering whether it's time for a change — in Carter's case, skyrocketing inflation at home plus the endless Iran hostage crisis.
But there's a big difference, since Carter kept getting bad news on both fronts, while Bush is starting to get good news on both the economy, with a surge in new jobs, and Iraq, with international support for the June 30 transfer of power.
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Takin' bets , the window is open !
Even money at this point 1:1
Odds may change in your favor after a debate if Skerry even shows up.
Works for me. In any case, Bush taking big democrat states like Cali, NY, NJ, CT, Ill and some others just isn't going to happen.
"Rasmussen finds that only 39% will not vote for Bush under any circumstances, while 49% won't vote for Kerry under any circumstances."
Great thoughts on the centrality of Christianity to current world civilization. Christianity is really the only one of all the religions that offers a sense of redemption for sins - not even Judaism does that. Somehow I think that frees Christians to trust others in economic transactions, though I am at a loss to further explain this hunch.
"The Chinese, for all their great flowering of enterprise are still pretty much stuck with the ruler's businesses and family businesses. The great Chinese businesses outside of China proper hit ceilings where they need to take on foreign CEOs or Financial officers and it doesn't work. The Family cannot learn to trust the foreigner and the foreigner cannot work well in such a milieu."
I worked for billionaire Cyrus Tang, richest asian American. Cheap bastard. I was writing software to manage his $30 million petty cash stock market position, but his white CFO couldn't handle paying the last $500 of the first installment. As you state, "the Family cannot learn to trust the foreigner"
"The only thing that discourages people from doing harm to others is the rule of law"
That is demonstrably false, religious morality has ruled many places where the law of the state does not reach.
"So you mean to tell me that Germany was not Christian, but in fact occultists? "
You better believe it. What do you think all that Wagnerian opera was about? Ride of the Valkyrie etc. weren't Christian hymns.
"And you accuse me of ignorance? "
Well, you leave yourself open.
"And I am aware that they didn't kill just non-christians. Aside from gypsies and jews they also killed homosexuals.
...But no Christian fundamentalist would ever advocate that, right?"
Plenty of Christian fundamentalists on this site, why don't you point out the hive of posts calling for the execution of homosexuals. Condemnation, yes, opposition, yes, execution - not that I've seen.
I like the Dole analogy - pompously arrogant and not showing much inner fire about what your base really cares about.
"Of course the nihilist simply snickers at your preoccupation with being morally superior to begin with."
Say I become an atheist. Say I decide I don't like you, I track you down and kill you. As an atheist, you are gone, poof. As an atheist, I could care less.
As a thinking atheist, this course of events must hold no moral advantage or disadvantage over any other state of affairs.
Conseqently, if you argue FOR your continued existence, I would argue that you are subconsciously also arguing FOR a higher state of morality, and the existence of God if you will. Morality consequently is a theistic argument, no matter how you might twist in the wind trying to be a nihilist.
Maybe then we can get some conservative judges put on the bench .
But maybe I'm daydreaming there too? Even with a landslide the nadless wonders that are our repub leadership in the senate will still roll over for the Dems buly tactics!
They forget Carter was not only getting bad news, he was also blaming the bad news on the United States as a nation and the people as a nation. He was basically telling us he was smarter than us because he figured out the people were the problem holding the government back.
Reagan came in and with the revolutionary (old) notion that the government was the problem holding the people back.
keeping him low key is not a strategy to win. The only nation that believes greatness is achieved by running away and hiding is the French. Ironic that Kerry has French ancestry.
The ivory tower elites are lining up to vote for kerry. They are pushing the premise that to be ANY religion is to be intellecutally inferior. Thus they seek to define all that is not socialist as "religious opposition" and not to be taken serious. IOW they want to treat all non-democrat voters as mentally disabled.
I really believe fraud will be enginieered into Democrats election strategy. They will use manually entered "provisional" ballots thus bypassing the restictions of computer systems and registered voter lists.
It is why poll watchers and Poll workes are so important.
BTW to ALL South Florida has a poll worker shortage they are begging for people to help in primaries and during the election.
Torah details how people are to treat one another' that a man's word should be his bond, which Jesus repeats and amplifies, and that one is to treat the foreigner the same way. Contrast that with Quran wherein it says that it is legitimate to lie to the infidel to gain something from him.
Chesterton. I should have known. Thanks
Chesterton. I should have known. Thanks
The headline on my MSN homepage
right now:
"Poll: Kerry leads Bush by 7 pts."
Despicable headline/story, based
exclusively on the LAT "survey.
"survey"
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