I taped the whole Rush show from yesterday and listened to it today. First, I feel like I need a shower, even though I have had one today. Second, he spent the entire show trying to debunk the 380 ton story. If it as irrelevant as he wants you to believe, why spend the entire show? He spent very little time debunking the facts, and most of the time attacking everyone involved with the story. Classic shot the messenger stuff.
His debunking was not very effective. He said positively that the explosives were gone when we got there, which has been positively proven by on site reports. And the administration undercut him today saying that they don't know if they were there or not, and that investigations are ongoing. That's bad news for the administration either way, since, obviously, they should know. That's their job.
Rush was spitting and burbling at points. He was audibly extremely agitated. He compared this story to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Stating that my daughter's birthday (which is coincidentally the date that the New York Times broke the story) would be a day that would live in infamy. Hardly. Bush has made so many mistakes, and been so completely incompetent, that history will record no single event that was the coup de grace. His administration will simply be recorded as the worst presidency in the full history of the united states, surpassing Nixon by a long shot. Kids will wear halloween masks of Bush, and his name will be synonymous with arrogance, ignorance and incompetence.
It's obvious Rush and Hannity are scrambling to try and keep the base in line and get them out there on election day. The Republicans can't block every Democratic voter, they are going to need some real votes, and that means moving the base. And that means keeping people energized about this failing presidency which is taking daily poundings by lying to them continuously.
At this point I have two things I am wondering about when it comes to this campaign:
My take on Rove is that he is too static. He had the Swift Boat stuff planned well in advance but he deployed it too early on. He wanted to take Kerry out before the debate but anti-Bush sentiment kept Kerry in the race despite the Swifties and then Kerry just destroyed Bush in the debates. If he has something planned for now, my guess is that it will be too out of touch at this point. This campaign is too aggressive, too fluid for any single bomb shell attack. But, hey, we will see, according to the Atlantic Rove is 34-7 in political races (but he has only run one nationally.)
If Bush recovers from all of this stuff, pulls this thing out and actually wins this will be his will be his present to his supporters.
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