What will the "October Surprise" be?

[goodboy]

"grave and gathering" threat abroad?

"Imminent" terror attack here at home?

"War with..."
-Iran
-Pakistan
-North Korea

or Election Fraud...

Just askin...

[SoxFan]

1. "Todd Palin is pregnant"

[goodboy]

4. Hey, Oprah had a pregnant man on her show, it may sway some

of her viewers...

I wonder which dirt track that kid will be named after.

[curious one]

Too bad, no abortion for Todd and he has to go thru childbirth!

[Life Long Dem]

2. Bush is going to start a $ 700 billion dollar war in Iran.

[goodboy]

5. I did see a MSNBC crawler that said something about

the former "weapons-hunter" in Iraq stating that Iran is 2-5 years away from a bomb.

Bullshit.

[Bullet1987]

3. The war fear-mongering won't work with our current economic climate

Any Rethug pushing that would be smacked down HARD!!

[goodboy]

6. Americans love them some FEAR though...and we have

really short memories unfortunately.


I agree with you, FWIW

[rurallib]

7. Credit meltdown is it. Georgia was another attempt

Seems to me that the Pugs attempted to set up two opportunities for McBush to look like a real hero. But they fucked up the situation and McBush was too pig headed to play along and do what he was told, so he totally fucks up tailor made situations.
I think they have more than shot their wad and only got themselves wet.

[goodboy]

11. Yeah he said, "we're all Georgians today" after the bailout, will he

say, "we're all millionaire wall street fat cats today"

Corporate Wealth-Fare disgusts me.

[rurallib]

16. sadly they maneuvered it so the ones who will suffer most will be the

middle class that has nothing to fall back on in times of crisis. Middle class and poor will also be the first to feel the real pain.

[goodboy]

19. You're forgetting that's people who make less than 5M a year (nt)

[27inCali]

8. new Ossama tape

hell, it worked for them last time.

[goodboy]

10. Well, it didn't work in 2006...(nt)

[ronnykmarshall]

9. The surprise will be

there will be no surprise.

[goodboy]

15. Don't misunderestimate desperate repukes...they're gonna do something.

Whether it works or not is the real question I think.

[krawhitham]

12. Track Palin goes MIA

[goodboy]

14. "Palin kidnapped by Putin, as he's flying over Alaskan Airspace"

Air Force One in Pursuit.

McCain back in the USSR.

[melody]

13. In December n/t

[msallied]

17. Nah. Too late. 36 states early voting. It just doesn't carry the same weight.

[FatDave]

18. War with Iran.

Nobody buys "imminent" attack warnings anymore. The margins will likely be too wide for plain old election fraud.

That leaves war...

McCain has ruled out Pakistan. N Korea has nukes and is too far away from our present fronts. Russia is just plain insane. That leaves Iran.

Now what I wonder is, what do we do if it happens?

[goodboy]

21. McCain may have ruled out Pakistan, but Bush hasn't...didn't we

just fire some missiles in there and kill an al-qaida leader?

Isn't that what Obama suggested we do, and Palin agreed to?

Hmm...

I think that'll be the region that explodes, our entire army's in the neighborhood already.

We won't do anything with Iran...they'll obliterate Israel.

[FatDave]

37. What you say is true, but would Bush risk making McCain look bad?

Presumably the desired result is to help McCain's chances. It may be tricky to do that by doing the thing that McCain said we shouldn't do.

Besides, to go into Pakistan after Al Qaeda and possibly even Bin Laden.... I dunno, it just doesn't seem like Bush to go after the right people. I'm no 9/11 conspiracy theorist, but the connections between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family are very real, and I'm not sure if capturing Osama was ever really on the table.

Edit to add: And what you say about Iran and Israel is a very good point. Is it possible that they don't have any good October surprise options?

[goodboy]

42. I think McCain makes McCain look bad. I think he could

totally fuck up a free boxed lunch and a one-car parade.

That being said. They've used the right wing media to their advantage before, couldn't they wag the pakistani dog and bring McCain along for the ride? Couldn't they have some low level attack on our troops be the catalyst for a McCain policy reversal with him saying, "We're gonna go in there and kill them" as he is a staunch defender of our veterans (except wounded ones) and then VOILA! Osama Bin Hidin' is killed or captured.

I guess that'd be the best case scenario, but of course, Obama has already said he'd go in there and kill terrorists with or without pakistan's help...

It may be hard to pull off, but I think they'll try something. Desperate repukes are dangerous animals.

[FatDave]

43. I guess the end result is that any war helps McCain.

That's the conventional wisdom anyway. I'd like to think it would backfire, but I doubt it would.

But I'm laughing my ass off at "fuck up a free boxed lunch and a one-car parade".

[wuushew]

20. I believe a North Korean crisis may be in the making

The DPRK has declared their intention to resume reprocessing plutonium in the coming weeks. No output from this procedure will result for several months so I wonder if BushCo is contemplating entombing the fissile material before any weapon grade material comes back out of the enriching facility.


Is the North's professed nuclear arsenal potent or credible given the failure of their nuclear tests?

[goodboy]

23. I think...

N.K. would benefit more from selling the material to terrorists, as they need money more than a bomb...

I think they have had a successful underground test, so they're certainly a threat. But the victory hailed by the Bushies when NK shut down the reactor was short-lived, as Bush (as always) didn't keep his end of the bargain with promises of economic aid...

[BadGimp]

22. Bush will envoke PSD 51 and HSD 20

He will use the economic crisis as justification.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

[MadrasT]

25. Yup. They've just begin to fuck with us.

[goodboy]

26. Good one! (nt)

[Bubbha Jo]

24. Wonder how "W" the movie could affect the vote?

It's coming out mid-October, isn't it?

[goodboy]

27. I remember thinking F911 would...(and technically it did)

it was close enough to steal though..

[Shine]

28. Wasn't there a rumor of Bristol and Levi getting married very soon??

:shrug:

[goodboy]

39. Will the kid be named, "Racetrack Winchester Denim?"

[phleshdef]

29. Pictures of Barack and Michelle engaging in BDSM with a midget , a transexual ballerina and a cup.

Cmon now, we would be pretty surprised by that right?

[demosincebirth]

30. The killing or capture of Osama bin Laden

[goodboy]

31. THERE IT IS!!! (and it'll be McCain's victory somehow) (nt)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. probably some bird flu or something like that

just to disrupt the elections now that McCain is losing.

[LiberalHeart]

33. Sarah grows a brain.

[Buck Rabbit]

34. Well if they don't defrost Osama soon he is going to get freezer burn.

[Ishoutandscream2]

35. Oil drops below 65 bucks a barrel

Price at the pump drops dramatically.

[goodboy]

38. They ALWAYS drop gas prices right before...and then

Promptly raise them afterward.

[sandyj999]

36. All of the Above. n/t

[terrya]

40. Don't forget Bristol's wedding.

They were "praying" for it.

[codjh9]

41. Just more exposure of Pop Goes the Weasel & Pop Tart... n/t