Predictions Thread! RNC Conv.-Timed Attack to make * look good?

[Dems Will Win]

Predictions Thread!

Prediction Number One (duh!):

Terrorists will want to help Bush win as Kerry will actually try to track them down in Pakistan and Kashmir, so an attack somewhere in the US or NY the day before Bush's acceptance speech would be ideal for them, as Bush can then declare "we're not going to cut and run, we'll go on with the convention and I will HEROICALLY accept the nomination despite the deep danger!" All Bush had to do was leave the barn door open for the last 3 years as he has done

What are your predictions?

[soothsayer]

1. Nah, any attack now will make them look ineffective at protecting us all

How come I keep thinking the RNC starts this friday the 13th? It's the olympics that does, right?

On edit, I predict we will watch the pukes completely fall apart! A fitting end to their lousy reign.

[nan1488]

2. lol

Here is my Oct surprise prediction.
The Saud's will send troops to Iraq and it we will take some of our troops out. Until after the election

[Nite Owl]

3. Could be

You never know what they will try but it would seem that an attack would only prove that he failed at his job.

[NightOwwl]

4. Nah, no attack.

But they'll keep the alerts going, arrest a couple more "senior" Al Qaeda officials, then after the convention they'll brag about what a great job they did preventing terrorist attacks because of Bush's steadfast leadership in the war against terror. blah blah blah

[uberlibrul]

6. I expect them to plan/allow another attack

to almost happen, then step in at the last moment to "stop" it.

[gp]

11. Welcome to DU, uberlibrul!

That is indeed what I think will happen too.

Something like this:


Fox News Breaking News, August 29th 2004:

"For those of you who've just joined us, you're looking at live pictures from times square in New York city, where apparently two middle eastern men with backpacks have been apprehended. While we usually refrain from speculation, we can pretty much conclude that something truly horrifying has been averted from happening. We've also learned that the President will be making a brief address to the american public in about 1 hour, wich we will carry live..."

* will say that we've just been saved from a major terrorist attack.
Due to a succesful joint FBI/CIA operation and public vigilance the terrorists have been caught red handed. Today America is a little safer.
Not much later we will learn that the two bacpacks each contained a small nuclear device and that one of them was to be used near the RNC convention. Possibly thousands of lives have been saved...

Of course many years later, long after his second term, if ever, we will learn that this was all a setup...

[NightOwwl]

12. Welcome uberlibrul!

Love your name. :hi:

[uberlibrul]

15. Thanks for noticing

I've been lurking for awhile and finally decided to join in. It's great to know there are still a place for some grass-roots dialogue left in Amerika.

[VolcanoJen]

10. I agree. They're just not that competent.

All the comparisons to Nixonian politics make me laugh a bit... the Rovians serve at the whim of current events, and they just won't be able to pull an attack off, even if they really, really thought it would help.

Not worried anymore,
JenJen

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. Haymarket Affair-esque incident designed to make protestors look bad

planned and carried out by rove's agents and provocateurs

the, of course, blamed on kerry by the media whores

they're already trying it in our local rightwing rag:

from "The Big Apple will draw a lot of flies
Political rage will take center stage in N.Y. this month"
by Chris Stirewalt

http://dailymail.com/news/Chris+Stirewalt-20040810/

When the Democrats lost control in Chicago during their 1968 convention, it cemented in the public consciousness that the Hippie/Yippie movement was a real danger and that the Democratic Party couldn't cope with it.

Time-tested and fully vetted by the establishment, Dick Nixon looked awfully attractive in the face of all that disorder.

How successful the angry mobs in New York will be at undoing George W. Bush may depend on their ability to control themselves and the authorities' ability to restore order.

The demonstrators won't be there at John Kerry's behest.

But many will be there on his behalf, and if the mob gets out of hand, Democrats will be punished this fall.

Stability trumps nearly everything else when Election Day rolls around.

Stirewalt can be reached at 348-4824.

Printable Version

[jeff30997]

7. They could also...

Take Bin Laden out of the freezer and "capture" him.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Bush mails in his acceptance speech.

He'll be unable to attend due to security threats or terrists.....so he'll videotape it. Added benefit, the speech can be edited into a coherent monologue, thus avoiding a public embarrassment in a live setting.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. GOP operatives will try

to infiltrate the protestors and try doing something that will turn off Middle America. All you folks in NYC, don't fall for anyone saying you need to do something illegal to make a point. That's exactly what the FBI tried to do to the Viet Nam anti-war protestors-we all knew that guy who wanted to dynamite the auditorium was working for J. Edgar Hoover.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. look for rw plants with offensive signs

like the guy with the 'thank god for 9-11" sign they keep sending to protests

[arbusto_baboso]

14. I used to believe that, too. But it has a HUGE chance to backfire..

Because any patsy they get to stage an "attack" could actually SUCCEED in killing certain members of the Bush cabal. As you know, hired assassins are notoriously untrustworthy, so you keep them on a short leash.

[uberlibrul]

16. It's a win-win

If any of the cabal die - what better way for Bush to dump Cheney - then they rise to the level of martyr. And if anyone else dies, we get to see them in action again. Like them or not, most of the country was behind Bush right after 9/11. When blood spills, the GOP wins.

[arbusto_baboso]

17. Ordinarily, I'd agree, except these folks....

are pants-pissing cowards, who would be far too worried about even being in the same STATE as the carnage, much less the same city or convention hall.

Nope, I'll think they'll just keep harping on terror alerts, and maybe trot out the frozen body of Usama Bin-Forgotten in october.

[uberlibrul]

18. lol