[chimera]

Being the slick, pretty boy won't buy him the presidency -- people want substance.

Not too be too much of a New Year curmudgeon, but you know we said this about Clinton back in '92. Remember that Bush I looked "unbeatable" early on, then the sheeple flocked (42% of them - enough to win a three-way) to the scumbag and we had to deal with eight long, weary years of nothing but lies and deceit and attacks on the Constitution that we still have yet to recover from.

All it will take for Bush II to go down is another year or 18 months of the economy in the tank, and the pressitutues beating the drums (like they did in '92) about how this President Bush, like his father, "doesn't care" about domestic issues, or "the little guy", meanwhile flashing images of the "youthful and charismatic Senator from NC" and his telegenic family, about how he's a "trial lawyer with a heart" who "cares about and fights for the little guy", and is a "moderate Democrat from a Southern state". The Rats are masters of manipulation, and "care" and "caring" have become potent political buzzwords, eliciting a flood of emotions from the sucker moms and various assorted intellectually vapid sheeple, generally sympathetic to the Rats.

I really, truly hope that I am wrong, but my fear is that '04 is shaping up as a '92 replay, deju vu all over again, especially if a wacko third party goofball jumps in and siphons off enough support from the 'Pub candidate to drop him below 45% or so. God help us if we get stuck with President Edwards for eight years. Goodbye doctors, manufacturers, inventors, and anyone who produces or does anything useful, and get ready for Lawyer Nation and its faithful partner, Government Regulator.

[mwl1]

This ain't gonna be a replay of 1992. It's gonna be a replay of 1984. Reagan's recovery did not begin until November 1982, and his recession was much deeper. We have a tax cut in place, with more tax reductions to come in 2003.

As to Edwards, he was boring on the Today show this morning, and someone please slap some makeup on his dull wife. She looked like a stereotype of the beaten-down congressional wife.

[PJ-Comix]

On the positive side, it doesn't sound like Edwards is planning to run for Senate re-election from NC which means the Republicans have an EXCELLENT chance of picking up that seat. (They will also have a great chance to pick it up even if Johhny Boy does run for re-election.)

[mombonn]

but my fear is that '04 is shaping up as a '92 replay,

No way will sinator hillary! let ANY demonrat occupy the WH before she has her shot. No way.

There is no viable third party to siphon votes away from President Bush, either. mclame's health won't allow him to challenge Bush, even though his ego may want to.

[No Dems 2004]

I truly hope that the paranoia espoused by a surprisingly large number of Republicans will help produce President Bush's re-election. Karl Rove, I believe, is always very nervous and concerned about the President's re-election chances. I'm actually appreciative of this. After the historic mid-term election triumph, many Republicans quickly went back to the worrying board when they lost Louisiana. While I don't advocate worrying, I have been reassured to see their overconfidence evaporating.

One point I'd like to make. Last night, I watched a documentary that featured George Bush senior. My family and I were struck at how lame and weak-willed he was compared to his son. What many Republicans are forgetting is that George Bush senior really wasn't worth re-electing (though Bill Clinton wasn't either). But God forbid that I say that of George W. Bush (the incumbent Prez). Our current President Bush is more like Ronald Reagan than he is like his dad.