I wonder if people here will still think McCain is unbeatable. These polls, as far out as they are, have to be worrying to Republicans.
McCain's idea about dramatically increasing troops in Iraq, when most Americans -- even Republicans -- want to get out, has surely soured a lot of people on him.
And by pandering to the Theocrats, he's offended moderates while failing to realize that the Theocrats will vote EXACTLY as James Dobson tells them too. And he won't tell them to vote for McCain unless McCain humbles himself before the throne...in Colorado Springs.
Still -- if our country is attacked between now and the election, McCain is in for sure. People have the foolish idea that Republicans are better at national defense...despite six years of Beelzebush proving otherwise.
Please. Do you honestly think a President Gore would have declared a global war on terror?
Are you really that naive? The "global war on terror" itself is nothing but a political term coined by the media (this isn't the first time it's been used either; I'm sure it was mentioned during the Hijacking of flight TWA 847 in 1985 and during the aftermath of bombing of East African Embassy Bombings and Operation Infinite Reach), and describe as such, is unwinnable. If the "War on Terror" were true, we would not only be fighting Al Qaeda, but also FARC guerillas in Colombia, Basque Nationalists in Spain, and whatever is left of the various factions of the IRA in Great Britian and Northern Ireland, and so on.
Fighting terrorism is a little bit more than giving a speech and doing photo ops. It's about competence and achieving results. A President Gore would have achieved such results and shown competence. With President Bush, we have seen our military bogged down in a quagmire with no easy solution, America reduced from a great nation to a fixation of intense hatred or laughter, and a nation whose cities still aren't still secure from terrorism. Not all of the aforementioned is the President's fault per se, but like Jimmy Carter, he has not done anything to alleviate the problems.
