Monday, October 25, 2004
One More Week
The stakes of this election have never been higher. I am preparing myself for the nastiest final week of a presidential campaign in my lifetime. The news from Baghdad has gone from terrible to catastrophic. The economic picture is no better. Oil futures are at an all time high just as thermometers are starting to go down. Logic would seem to dictate a slam dunk for the challenger given the sorry state of the country. But the incumbent has an ace in the hole. He counts on a base of support from pro-life voters who today read about an 80 year old Chief Justice undergoing cancer treatment and a challenger who has sworn to appoint justices who will uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. No amount of bad economic news, no amount of evidence of corruption in the awarding of contracts, no amount of evidence of incompetence or deceit in the conduct of the Iraq war will sway these voters. Their eyes are on the prize of a packed Supreme Court who they count on to stop babies from being murdered. Their numbers are large and their commitment to their cause so great that they have tunnel vision when it comes to Bush.
The only way they can be beaten is if the silent majority, in the words of the refreshingly moderate by comparison, Richard Nixon, oppose this disastrous administration at the ballot box.
So get out the vote, get out the vote, get out the vote! If we vote, we win. Then the real work to build a country where people have access to decent health care and education, so we don't have so many unwanted pregnancies in the first place, can begin.
I predict a landslide for Kerry.
The stakes of this election have never been higher. I am preparing myself for the nastiest final week of a presidential campaign in my lifetime. The news from Baghdad has gone from terrible to catastrophic. The economic picture is no better. Oil futures are at an all time high just as thermometers are starting to go down. Logic would seem to dictate a slam dunk for the challenger given the sorry state of the country. But the incumbent has an ace in the hole. He counts on a base of support from pro-life voters who today read about an 80 year old Chief Justice undergoing cancer treatment and a challenger who has sworn to appoint justices who will uphold Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. No amount of bad economic news, no amount of evidence of corruption in the awarding of contracts, no amount of evidence of incompetence or deceit in the conduct of the Iraq war will sway these voters. Their eyes are on the prize of a packed Supreme Court who they count on to stop babies from being murdered. Their numbers are large and their commitment to their cause so great that they have tunnel vision when it comes to Bush.
The only way they can be beaten is if the silent majority, in the words of the refreshingly moderate by comparison, Richard Nixon, oppose this disastrous administration at the ballot box.
So get out the vote, get out the vote, get out the vote! If we vote, we win. Then the real work to build a country where people have access to decent health care and education, so we don't have so many unwanted pregnancies in the first place, can begin.
I predict a landslide for Kerry.
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