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Edited on Wed Sep-17-03 09:08 PM by realpolitik
While value is always a popular subject, values may be the more telling issue for the campaign.
Certainly the Bush administration has been working hard for *someone's* benefit, but unless you make over 350K a year, it was not you.
Assuming Bush has the millionaire vote locked, why add conservative? The most compelling platforms out there right now are liberal platforms. That is no accident. Perscription Drugs, Medicare, Social Security... these are not conservative ideas, and they have been hangin on by a thread.
Jobs, Single Payer Health for America, and chucking 'free trade' for fair trade will be the real winners in 2004, which is when the election will be held. And unless I am completely wrong, 2004 is going to be a doozy of a year. Conservative candidates cannot support those programs believably any more.
Further, I suspect the will to power in the Middle East will have entirely evaporated from the American psyche by next summer. Hobbes out, Rousseau in.
And don't get me started on Union bashing, Redistricting, Vote Scandals, Enron, Halliburton, NY post 911 air quality, the 'denuded forests act', PATRIOT, Kyoto, Int. Criminal Tribunal, the UN...
The only way Dubya will be President in 2005 is behind the barrel of a gun.
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