Why would Bush alienate half the electorate,

[Swede]

when he had their 100% backing after 911? I would have to say it was a long range plan and the short term didn't matter to the powers behind Bush.

[Lindacooks]

1. Well, for one thing, he knows the Repukes are

going to try to cheat. I do have to disagree with '100% backing', however - I didn't support him after 9/11, and I'm not the only one.

[Kazak]

6. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but...

I smelled a rat that very morning.

[Tamyrlin79]

9. I did too

I remember thinking "If they didn't do it, they let it happen." The exploitation of the event by Bushco was a given in my mind. I was expecting it, and they didn't disappoint.

[Cha]

16. I didn't have a clue..I didn't know

enough about it back then.

[Cha]

15. I was in that 10% club who didn't

get behind the president(sic)~

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. The power behind Bush is Karl Rove

His belief is one does not win by appealing to the greater good but by pandering to one's core constituency and getting them to turn out to vote in greater numbers.

[Cha]

18. And spreading lies and smearing a

rival so that the middle will vote for your puppet anyway.

[Nite Owl]

3. Yes, and ever wonder

how they could have done all that they have if 9-11 never happened? I mean before he was below 50 in his poll ratings, a real nothing of a President then he became the 'savior', got all kinds of stuff through Congress and won back the Senate. No one dared question him and things just slipped through.

[bvar22]

5. He was questioned and opposed.

Paul Wellstone, Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Robert Byrd come to mind. There were other Dems, but not enough.

The majority of the Dems felt that it would be politically expedient to allow bush* to kill tens of thousands thousands of innocent brown people.

[LisaL]

10. Yes, sad but true.

I believe he bullied everybody else.

[redstateblues]

11. They fell right into Rove's trap. Thought it would be political

suicide to fight it. Like it was for Max Cleland, at least for the time- But max has risen to fight, and we must follow his example

[Webster Green]

4. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

That is all!

[Webster Green]

7. BushCo Inc. made a lot of money in the last two years.....

They are war profiteers. They made a fortune pre-shock and awe. Before the first bomb was dropped on Iraq they were already reeling in the bucks getting ready for the war. The billions stolen since then are all gravy.

BushCo Inc. has used their time in office to funnel our national treasury into their own bank accounts and those of their cronies.

Even if they lose the election, they still win. Think how long it will take to clean up the mess, with BushCo blaming it all on President Kerry.

[HEyHEY]

8. Never underestimate the power of stupidity

[K-W]

12. He isnt interested in being a moderate, hes got an agenda.

That is why he is different than politicians, and why suddenly politicians are our friends. Souless politicians, or however you want to refer to them have thier problems, but at least they are accountable. The people in power now lie to hide thier dangerous agenda. 9/11 was a tool for thier agenda, they dont want to be in power if they cant persue it.

[Swede]

13. What I meant was,he has literally blown a slam dunk 4 more years.

It is a horse race now,and he may lose. So someone has sacraficed GW for the greater bad.

[K-W]

14. Exactly, but they dont just want to win, they want to persue an agenda.

They waited 8 years to get rid of clinton, and you epect them to put everything on hold for another 3 years just so they can hope to get 4 more?

That doesnt make any sense at all, they have an agenda, and as long as they have power they will persue it.

[Nordic]

23. yes, they will keep pursing their agenda until SOMEONE STOPS THEM

Nothing else will work. Not appeals to decency, morality, the constitution, nothing.

They operate from the basis of pure power. Read your Strauss.

As long as they can get away with their crimes, they will continue to do them.

It's pure evil, actually. I mean, trying to avoid the emotional connotations of the word "evil", what Bushco is doing is the rational definition of what we refer to as "evil".

[K-W]

17. Also, 3 years is a long time to try and run off one event.

What was he supposed to do in the mean time?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Because he isn't the President of the United States.

(Not that he was actually elected anyhow). But I believe he thinks of himself as the president of only the real 'Murkins, i.e., Republicans. The rest of us don't even matter, maybe because he doesn't even know about us -- he isn't allowed to see or hear protesters.

[Skittles]

20. he did not have 100% backing

ten percent of us have NEVER been fooled by this pathetic fraud

[Swede]

21. I know Skittles.

I was just trying to make the point that he had huge numbers,but they are in the 40% zone now.

[TahitiNut]

22. Anything over 5% is insanity

We've been playing Presidential Russian Roulette for 35 years and finally let the hammer down on a loaded chamber.