Ooooh... when Mary Beth goes, can I dance on her grave?

I know. I'm a ghoul.

Please, dear God, let him tap Jim Jordan to take over...that would just be pouring gasoline on the flames of the "shadowy 527 connections" meme, making it a liability for the Dems and a BIG story all at one fell swoop.

Semi-serious question: has the political "conventional wisdom" *ever* been right during the past, oh, 10-20 years?

Eight months ago, the conventional wisdom was that today, Bush would be desperately trying to rally his shrunken base in a last-ditch effort to stop the Howard Dean juggernaut!

"It really is pretty amazing how fast the conventional wisdom can change. Three weeks ago, most political insiders in both parties gave Sen. John Kerry a slight edge over President Bush..."

Careful what we wish for. There's more than three weeks to the election. While I'm liking the trending-- and expect Kerry to perform poorly in the debates, if only because he's an arrogant jerk who thinks he's smarter than Bush so DAMMIT, HOW CAN HE LOSE TO THIS BOZO?!?-- a lot can change before the election.

Look at the numbers, take heart in them, then forget about them. . . and put your nose back to the grindstone.

Dave
Arlington, Virginia

There is only one hurdle left to clear before the race is over and Kerry is done. The rest of Abu Ghraib has yet to drop. The press has been holding onto that story for awhile and they are still waiting to use it. Look for Seymor Hersh to release a book about it in October and "startling new revelations" that will really just be a retread of anything you could find out now if you cared enough to do the research on the Army report and the Senate investigations, but nonetheless "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you".

If Kerry is obviously spent by mid-September, and I think he will be, they may just sit on it till January or February and try to use it to handicap the Prez. in his next term. This won't work, but I still think that's the likely calculation.

Given that the entire Kerry campaign are little more than soul-sucking Psychic Vampires, even if there is a shakeup and La Cahill appears dead as a doornail, I'd put a stake through her heart and drag her into the sunlight before I'd turn my back on her.

She'll rise from the dead and sink her fangs into the Bush Twins if she's not watched carefully.

Although after last night's speech, some people think that might not be a bad thing... :)

Since I didn't see it, I have no opinion.

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