For all practical purposes the eradication of the Bush presidency in November is a foregone conclusion.  It is now no longer a question of whether the Bush regime will loose but merely a matter of how bad the defeat will be, barring any unforeseen events such as physical removals or incredible mistakes by Kerry.  Bush’s November defeat could be one of the worst in the history of American presidential elections because he has done virtually nothing that would cause any of those who voted against him last time [the majority] to vote for him in November and many of those who did vote for him in 2000 are definitely reconsidering in light of his track record.  The real question for the leadership of the Republican party and its financial backers is whether or not they are willing to go over the cliff with him because over the cliff he is going to go.
         The major worry for Leftists and progressives at this stage of the game is that the leaders of the Republican party and its financial supporters will decide to have a meeting in which they will vote to oust Bush.  He could be told by them to go on national television, as Lyndon Johnson did in late March 1968 after the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and say he will not campaign to be the party’s nominee and will not accept the nomination if chosen.  Hopefully the Republican leadership will reject this policy because it will not only forestall their near certain defeat but allow them to nominate a Republican with far more substantive credentials, someone possessing a more composed, confident, knowledgeable presidential aura while lacking many of Bush’s personal negatives and inadequacies.  Hopefully the Republican leadership and Bush’s fat cat supporters will let sentiment and yearnings prevail over their normal attachment to cold realism and hard facts.
         One can also state with near certainty that if the Bush regime is still in power this time next year, the American people will have experienced the first coup d’ etat in the history of American presidential elections and the limited democracy of the United States will be no more.  The United States will be under the rule of a minority and dictatorship will reign supreme.  No matter what polls will show to justify a “Bush victory” in November, should it be proclaimed, and no matter how the media will attempt to rationalize the vote count, the fact will remain that bourgeois democracy will have been overthrown with the assistance and camoflage provided by pollsters, vote counters, and media mouthpieces who are owned, financed, and dominated by the fattest of the fat cats, Bush’s strongest allies.

for the cause,

Klo