It would be very sweet indeed to have an '84-style win (except this time I'd like to expand the majorities in the Senate and House), and its a worthy goal to work towards. I'm just saying let's not get overconfident about our chances nor underestimate the danger of someone like Edwards, especially when the media is on his side as it obviously is or likely will be. We were overconfident about Bush I and Clinton blindsided us. Everyone was salivating over the prospects of taking on Clinton and his excess baggage, thinking it would be a cakewalk to blow away a womanizing, no-substance empty suit "pretty boy", then being chagrined that the sheeple would vote to throw out a good and decent man with a genuine record of accomplishment.
People will vote their pocketbooks in '04, like they always do. I know it takes time, but all the rate cuts and tax reductions haven't turned things around yet. I understand the business cycle and how the economy tends to be cyclical, and that no President has or ever will "run the economy", but my fear is that most of the sheeple don't, and will punish whomever is in office at the time when they think things are bad. If the economy is still in the tank in '04, I can envision Edwards laying claim to Clinton's "legacy" of the (false) "boom years of the '90s", and the press mouthing the line "are you better off now under Bush than you were (and will be again with President Edwards) under "President Clinton"? I really hope things will turn around by '04 and events prove my fears groundless.