Is Florida a Toss-Up?

I want to pose a question about the Florida "toss-up."

In 2000, Bush carried his Brother's state by an official tally of only 537 votes. Of course, various recount and probable misvotes for Buchanan indicate a much larger margin of victory for Gore.

But here's the rub... As the post-election furor died down, the disenfranchisement of thousands of Black voters was revealed. A similar scenario would likely have happened this time around, but the spotlight shone too brightly on Jeb and consequently, these folks will be able to cast ballots this year. What's more, they will be trucked to the polls by the bus and vanloads thanks to the efforts of rightly-disgusted Black voter corps and Democratic poll watchers.

Since we KNOW the pollsters are under-representing Black voters, doesn't it seem reasonable to presume that Florida is actually MUCH more likely as a Kerry win by thousands of votes? Just something to ponder. Thanks for reading.

Quick question...

Mary Cheyney is a grown woman. She is an employee of her father's campaign. She is also a lesbian. Sort of a professional lesbian inasmuch as her pre-campaign job was improving Coors Gay market share. Thanks to the homophobic pandering of the (not-much-longer-God-willing) President, she can't be married. However, she DOES wear a "wedding" ring. As an out, professional, "married" lesbian, one imagines that she is not ashamed to be who she is. But somebody IS ashamed. The Cheney's are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore.

Dick, Lynne and Big Sis (BS) Liz have all made scathing remarks about Kerry's brief and, frankly innocuous, comment in response to a debate question about homosexuality. Dick is an angry Dad. Lynne says he's a bad man. Mary says... well, NOTHING. Hmm, how come we haven't heard from the "injured" party. At Paula Zahn's town hall meeting, BS Liz labeled the remark being offensive. When Zahn asked if MARY was offended, BS Liz deflected. She left people to "draw their own conclusions."

But what conclusions are we to draw? That being a lesbian is offensive? That mentioning the biological certainty of homosexuality is offensive? BS Liz went do far as to refer to her sister as the "Vice President's CHILD." A child??? John McCain's adopted daughter was a CHILD when Rove's minion's spun her racial heritage into a wedge that cost him his considerable momentum. A grown professional woman who travels with her lesbian partner on the campaign trail is not a child.

Given the Cheyney's Gay-when-we-wanna-be strategy, their "outrage" is outrageous. They want to have it both ways. Shame about the lesbianism (to pander to the fundamentalist Righties) and open arm acceptance (to minimize the hemorrhaging of Gay voters with common sense). On November 3rd, do you think they'll let Mary out of the closet to say how she feels about the scandal?

FINALLY! Kerry kicks some ass...

Kerry reinvigorated my belief in his candidacy last night. And Bush reawakened my fears that he is even a bigger idiot than I ever could have believed. Did no one remind him that a split screen means that folks can see him grimacing like a petulant child? Doesn't he remember how Gore was excoriated for his exasperated posturing in the 2000 debates? Kerry obviously had it figured out. Calmly taking notes while Bush rambled. Preparing to skewer Bush on his half-offered "broken-record" platitudes. Actually KEEPING UP with the dialog and thinking on his feet to craft credible, measured responses... It was a breath of freshness from Kerry that had me on the phone for hours after the debates with folks (and not al Qaeda folks either).

When will someone call Bush on the fact that the authorization vote was about Saddam's imminent threat as outlined by the President's intel about the purchase of nuclear fuel? Disputing the yellowcake claim is all the reasonable doubt a responsible legislator would have needed to back off the rush to war. But the CIA report discrediting the Niger claim wasn't put out there until after war had been declared. NOW his administration admits that the yellowcake LIE shouldn't have been foisted on the American people. Ahem... is that not the BIGGEST FLIP FLOP OF ALL?

Bush made much of an assertion that he would never let France veto America's ability to make a pre-emptive strike in the war on terror; however, he DID let Britain's now-universally discredited yellowcake memo trump America's prerogative to AVOID war. Now he's trying to gut-punch Kerry for avoiding a horribly demoralizing sound bite regarding soldiers dying for Bush's mistake. He won't admit his mistake (or miscalculations), but he's got the balls to jab at Kerry for not disparaging soldiers and their families?

America needs a new President in the White House and that President is John Kerry.