Can you imagine him being the nominee and handling the macaca situation the way he did? I think the Dems having congress is a blessing for the Republican candidate in 08', so I'm not terribly upset by his loss.
I never can imagine any of these things before they happen. For example, it would never have occurred to me to say, in a thick arkansas hillbilly inflection, "Mister Speaker, You may infer from my previous statement that I did not have sex with that woman as I understood the term to be defined." I would, however, have probably said something like, "Screw you. I don't have to answer that question." And that's basically what I admire about George Bush. And it's what I don't admire about people like Clinton, Lott, and Allen when the mainstream press pushes for explanations. Oh, Don't get me wrong, I did vote for Clinton twice for president, and--although I'm too lazy to vote this year--if I had voted I'd have voted for Lott, and although I don't live in Virginia, I respect Allen's decision to bow out gracefully and consider him a magnanimous sort of fellow who was just in the wrong party at the wrong time--a time when every journalist this side of FOX news was writing daily articles aimed at convincing the voting public, rightly or wrongly, that their simple little brains needed to heed the advice of the mainstream press and vote for Democrats whenever possible. So given that on some level people like Bill Clinton, Trent Lott, and George Allen still make me quite erect, I have to say that I suppose there's something to be said for those sorts of people. Still, on a gut level, I admire most the man who has the balls to say, "Screw you I don't have to explain myself to you or anyone else." Ah, well, half a dozen of one, six of the other. Change isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More importantly, I have to say I disagree with your statement that it's necessarily good for the GOP presidential candidate that the democrats control congress starting January 2007. I'm not saying it's bad for them either. I just don't think it's relevant one way or the other. I think you may be too steeped in the politics of your own country and forgetting that we have a separate executive and legislative branch. I know most Americans are bad in History, Math, and the like. Most yankees can't point to Kazakhstan on a map but would nod their heads and answer, "oh, yeah, the Kazaks are like that" if you tell them that developmentally disabled people in Kazakhstan are kept in cages. That's just the sort of sensationalistic, arrogant folks we yanks are. Still, for all our faults, I think we have the critical thinking capacity to understand that our decision for executive leader in 2008 will not hinge on who's running congress and who's not.
"If you don't leave now I'll bite you myself. Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, don't let her take Toto away."
I never did like that bitch either. You tell her what's what, Dorothy.
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