In article ,
ks says...

No wonder public opinion polls show Bush can garner only a razor-thin
margin
over any generic Democrat.

Bush hasn't even started to campaign yet.

Tell us all about it in November 2004.

His original point is wretchedly stupid, anyhow. Note his use of
"generic Democrat." Who does the person polled fill in as a "generic
Democrat?"

Andrew Jackson? Harry Truman? FDR?

[****, *I'd* vote for any of these three against Bush - in a heartbeat.]

Trouble is, the Democrats cannot run a hypothetical, perfect candidate
against Bush; they're stuck with Howdy Dean. How does he match up? Ten
points down - a *year* before the election, in the middle of a war, with
a shaky economy only starting to recover, and after about a year of
relentlessly hammering away against the president - before the average
voter has seen a single Bush response.

Ooooouch.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon
the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it
opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped
the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao,
Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has
slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated
against everything and everyone American for a century.
Broadly speaking, it hates [America] first, [Britain] second."
- Frederick Forsyth