Here is my prediction, within the next two months Bush's polls will be back up near 50% and the Repbulicans will retain control of both the House and Senate. Here is why. Rove is the best rope-a-dope player ever. And Bush has been taking hits for almost a year now. The Democrats are tired, their talking points sound old. American's, being a naturally optimistic bunch, want to believe we can win. We can't really, but we can say we are winning, then declare effectively a defeat with honor and spin it as a victory. Which is actually fine by me, as long as we end up getting out of Iraq.
But I have to admire how well this Republican spin machine can come back. It's so well oiled. The DOD was distributing talking points to the Republicans during the debate. The right wing media was spinning it. And you had the Zarkhawi killing right on time. It couldn't have been planned any better. And now they have a great tailwind going into the fall.
So what if this means two more years of quagmire, American deaths, Iraqi deaths. It certainly doesn't matter to Bush. What matters to him is he legacy and if he can dump this mess off onto a Democrat in 2008 then he can go down like Kennedy did with Vietnam.
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