BUSH and the REPUBLICANS can now TAKE CREDIT

[Martin Eden]

for the economic time bombs of budget & trade deficits

for declining living standards among the poor & middle classes

for the rising costs and reduced access to quality health care

for the illness & death caused by increased toxins in our air & water

for the decline of the United States as a respected leader among nations

for these and many other consequences of the policies of the last four and next four years,

BUT ESPECIALLY for the continuing DISASTER in IRAQ.

IRAQ was to be the albatross hung around Kerry's neck by an exiting Bush administration. The same right-wing assassination squad that tried to destroy the Clinton presidency would have blamed Kerry for every horrendus incident resulting from the situation Bush created. Even with improved management by a reality-based Kerry administration, there may be no realistic solution to bringing peace and stability to that quagmire. If Iraq continued its degeneration into a cauldron of terrorist violence perpetually draining our blood and treasure (as would be likely), they would have John F. Kerry to hold up as an example of how the weak-kneed liberals simply cannot be trusted with national security.

IF THERE IS ANY SAVING GRACE associated with Kerry's defeat, it is that the REPUBLICANS WILL REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN. Maybe things have to get much worse before the disastrous policies of the Bush-Neocon cabal can be thoroughly repudiated. Admittedly, this is small consolation to those who will suffer from four more years of Bushista government.

Scott McConnel, and editor for The American Conservative Magazine wrote in his endorsement of John Kerry:

"To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. Because he is the leader of America’s conservative party, he has become the Left’s perfect foil—its dream candidate. The libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has mischievously noted parallels between Bush and Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II: both gained office as a result of family connections, both initiated an unnecessary war that shattered their countries’ budgets. Lenin needed the calamitous reign of Nicholas II to create an opening for the Bolsheviks.

Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."

Read More:
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover1.html

[Dems Will Win]

1. THE solution is in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x16099

[Ducks In A Row]

2. they'll still blame clinton and the dems

remember rethugs are cowards and morons

[aquart]

3. Bush is not a conservative. Bush is a fascist. Fascists are radicals.

[cheezus]

4. "let the pig root in his own shit"