I guess the polls have shifted again, and they now reflect a dead heat. This is the first time I am inclined to believe the polls in the past few months- I think anyone who really thought Bush had a 14 pt lead needed their head examined.
At any rate, as I did not watch the first debate (I had intended to read the transcript and then lost interest), I find myself struglling to find things to write about. As far as I am concerned, this election is over. There simply is nothing Kerry can say that will make me vote for him, as much as I dislike many of the things the ‘conservatives’ currently charge have done.
willyb
Buck up John, only 29 more days.
I watched the debate, such as it was. I thought John Kerry made convincing arguments and won the style portion of the debate. On the substance, Bush won hands down. Kerry can’t even keep his lies straight for 90 minutes.
“As far as I am concerned, this election is over. There simply is nothing Kerry can say that will make me vote for him…”
I think this comment says it all. I wouldn’t trust Kerry to take my garbage out, much less protect this nation. And there is nothing he can do or say to change this.
triticale
I don’t need my head examined. I know for a fact that I need new valve guides for the front two cylinders.
S.W. Anderson
Your plight reminds me of the little old lady who croaked at the kitchen table.
When a mouse ran into the room, she panicked. She couldn’t run outside because there was thunder and lightning, of which she was terrified. And she couldn’t climb up on the table because she was afraid of heights. So she just sat there and died of fright.
Roundguy
SW,
Looks like you are not well received anywhere, even on your lefty sites.
Plight? What plight? You mean now that the rigged polls have faded and Bush is up by five? You’re confusing deep concern for our safety (Bush) with a man? (Kerry) who has never been on the winning side of anything.
You remind me of a story:
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.”
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican
Roundguy
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.”
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican
Justin @ RSR
See my XLS spreadsheet on the current electorial status
ape
I was pretty sure that the Right were going to be enthusiastically proclaiming AWOL’s record as incumbent, rather than presenting a portrait of the challenger painted by Rove in the style of his previous masterpiece, “Gore Lies! (by Saying True Stuff & Owing to Stuff We’ve Made Up)”. But apparently not. Wonder why?
Failure on everything, home and abroad (except tax cuts for the wealthy) might be relevant. (Tax cuts for the wealthy are good, yes, but not at the expense of these vast debts).
scott
Roundguy-
Loved your ant and grasshopper story… but I think it’s more like the version Don Ameche told in the movie “Things Change”.
“The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
Then, the grasshopper eats the ant.”