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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They can't deny it's happening, so they're sending out Howard Dean, etc, pan handling to the lower classes that the jobs that are coming AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH and that we need "UNIVERSAL (HILLARY) HEALTH CARE" (again).
"They aren't $25.00 an hour jobs, they're only $8.50", Dean says.
Well WHO'S fault is THAT??? According to "economists" like Dr. Dean, if the Dummycraps want $10.00 an hour, they think they have to raise the minimum wage some more (and every blessed PRICE with it), to where we'll just be right back where we started from, but on a higher scale!
I recall Clinton the LAST time the minimum wage was raised (when Hillary's health care was tied into the mix) trying to sell it with his "slickness"...
Q: "But Mister President, what with a jump in the minimum wage AND forcing employers to pay all health care, won't that put many employers out of business?"
CLINTON: "I don't think so."
Q: "Won't that push what is now a $12.00 pizza at Pizza Hut up to $25.00 or more?"
CLINTON: "Well, I'd certainly pay $25.00 for the pizza."
Oh Duhhhhhhhh. What with the MILLIONS he's been skimming away on unsuspecting American's (as well as furniture and anything else not nailed down of value in the last legal residence he's lived) it's always SOMEBODY ELSES MONEY to died in the wool DUMMYCRAP'S like him!
I also recall Jim Bohannon on his late night radio show admonishing a caller who said that if McDonalds has to pay more minimum wage AND health care, the price of a Big Mac ALONE will skyrocket to between $4.00 and $6.00. Bohannon's response?
"WELL MAYBE A BIG MAC SHOULD COST BETWEEN $4.00 and $6.00!", then he promply diconnected the call for a commercial break (I'm sure it wasn't MICKEY DEES).
Employers ARE NOT sitting on giant stacks of money! I can tell you that from having managed a business. That kind of crap don't work, but you can't tell that to a DUMMYCRAP! To them, EVERYONE'S a fiscal idiot just waiting on them to "explain it all" in their most simpleton manner.
"And Kerry wouold say HOORAY! THE WAR IS OVER! Now elect me and I will Bring The Boys Home.
We can let him be dead after Iraq is secured and Iran is collapsing."
I don't see it that way. "We the People" don't fire Presidents for being sucessful, we fire them for incompetence (Carter) we fire them for being lackadaisical about "our" concerns (Bush 41).
We don't fire them when the economy is booming, we don't fire them for sucessfully confronting / defeating known threats.
I think Kerry, were he to act as you suggest in this scenario, would lose every single state come November.
I will tell you he won't win Cali & NJ. There is no shift. It's your imagination and wishful thinking.
He may win Oregon, I will grant that. Of the states I listed, he has no shot in most of them. He will not win 4 to 6 of the states on my list.
Praying that this might be so.
You're right, what I meant to say is that only 49% would consider voting for Kerry according to the poll, while 56% would consider voting for Bush. As if Ralph nader doesn't further complicate the issue for Kerry, one must remember that Democrats need a higher tide of support than Republicans in order to overcome the electoral disadvantage from their support being spread over fewer states.
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