I Think The Bush Team Has It Locked Up

[Gabu]

Bush will be in FL, OH, PA, WI thru saturday, and Mrs Bush Is In FL -- They are where the need to, unlike 4 years ago, this is my opinion

Bush's being in those states means that he has it locked up?  If he had it locked up, it would seem to me that he wouldn't need to campaign anymore.

[Gabu]

Obviously, Nader will arrive in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and carry the state by a sound margin.

Kerry needs to make a stop in Texas.  Then he'd take that state.

[Gabu]

I still don't quite understand the explosives story thing and its proclaimed impact.  What I've gathered so far is that it's maybe the case that some Russians moved some explosives out of Iraq and that they maybe took them to Syria.  What I haven't gathered is why this apparently means that Bush will win in a walk.

[Gabu]

Kerry kept on and on and on and on and on and on about how Iraq was harmless and we shouldnt of went to war.  Iraq was just proven to have been dangerous.  Of course, according to Michael Moore Iraq was a peaceful place where children flew kites all day, no weapons there.  Nope. 
IRAQ HAD WEAPONS.  They snuck them out right before the troops came.  If we didnt go to Iraq, then we would be less safe.

Um, yeah, Iraq had conventional weapons.  I don't think any sizeable country in the world doesn't.  Nobody has ever doubted that.

If these were nuclear or biological or whatever weapons being moved out of Iraq, then yeah, you'd have a point.  As far as I can tell, however, they weren't anything of the sort.

[Gabu]

All that I have heard from liberals is that Iraq was a waste, how they posed no threat.   This is a homerun for the GOP. 

You evidently have absolutely no idea what anybody's argument against the war in Iraq was.  Nobody has argued that Iraq didn't have conventional weapons.

[Gabu]

These missing weapons aren't WMDs.  My impression was that there are millions of tons of these sort of explosives in the counrty, and that is no revelation.

This isn't about WMD's.  It's about Kerry's intellectual dishonesty[b/] is running ads saying how terrible Bush was for not securing weapons that weren't there.  It looks like they migh have pulled the stop already.

This is what was giving Kerry the momentum, such as it was.  It's gone and he looks dishonest and possibly unpatriotic.

So maybe it might have been a dumb idea to be so quick to jump on it.  I honestly cannot see too many people caring.  We'll have to wait a day or two, but I don't see this story having such an enormous impact on the campaign.

[Gabu]

So maybe it might have been a dumb idea to be so quick to jump on it.  I honestly cannot see too many people caring.  We'll have to wait a day or two, but I don't see this story having such an enormous impact on the campaign.

This is a close race, Kerry made an issue of Bush's "incompetence" in not securing it, and ran TV spots on it.  Now it turns out that what Kerry's saying is likely false; he made the charge without proof.  That speaks volumes to his honesty and judgment.

It depends.  On one hand, the public may see this vindication and may turn against Kerry for attacking Bush.  On the other hand, the public may now simply be unsure about it and the damage may have already been done, even if the claim did turn out to be wrong.  I really have no idea.