Run-up to the convention
The Big "V" Factor
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In my enthusiastic fervor running up to the Republican Convention, I had the irresitible urge to begin observing the convention floor every waking moment from Friday midnight on. After having a long difficult conversation with myself on the concept of my obsessive tendencies, I decided to resist the urge and opt for at least the perception of mental health.
So last night, I retired the remote control device after the Beltway Boys and chose instead an evening with Law and Order - SVU re-runs - settling for an evening of perversion rather than politics (some might be unsure of the difference). As a a result, this morning I found that the world according to Geo. W. Bush spun on without my watchful eye after all, and even this morning's polls seem to reflect a "bounce" because or rather in spite of it - the watched pot analogy comes to mind.
The Beltway Boys I found to be kind of encouraging despite their annoying effort to maintain suspense by keeping 2 states in the Kerry column even though Bush was up by 1 in both. It is a subtle effort, I think, to cause a blood pressure explosion for me (a seeming impossibility as I don't seem to register on these devices) or taken less personally, to "keep us guessing " for another week.
Dare I feel even the sightest bit encouraged by the latest bubble up in the polls or the seeming momentum of the impending GOP onslaught, I take the liberty of posing the following query: "Do I smell the Big V?" or rather is it something burning on the stove?
Realizing that there are still debates to follow (Please, God - not every week as some have suggested - a sure-fire way to totally turn off the American viewing public) and 2 more months of silly nonsense, I now stick my neck out and declare it is Bush's election to lose. I do indeed smell the BIG "V" - for the first time in a year - I see VICTORY within our grasp and I am unabashedly euphoric!
Strap yourself in folks - I'm off my MEDS!
So last night, I retired the remote control device after the Beltway Boys and chose instead an evening with Law and Order - SVU re-runs - settling for an evening of perversion rather than politics (some might be unsure of the difference). As a a result, this morning I found that the world according to Geo. W. Bush spun on without my watchful eye after all, and even this morning's polls seem to reflect a "bounce" because or rather in spite of it - the watched pot analogy comes to mind.
The Beltway Boys I found to be kind of encouraging despite their annoying effort to maintain suspense by keeping 2 states in the Kerry column even though Bush was up by 1 in both. It is a subtle effort, I think, to cause a blood pressure explosion for me (a seeming impossibility as I don't seem to register on these devices) or taken less personally, to "keep us guessing " for another week.
Dare I feel even the sightest bit encouraged by the latest bubble up in the polls or the seeming momentum of the impending GOP onslaught, I take the liberty of posing the following query: "Do I smell the Big V?" or rather is it something burning on the stove?
Realizing that there are still debates to follow (Please, God - not every week as some have suggested - a sure-fire way to totally turn off the American viewing public) and 2 more months of silly nonsense, I now stick my neck out and declare it is Bush's election to lose. I do indeed smell the BIG "V" - for the first time in a year - I see VICTORY within our grasp and I am unabashedly euphoric!
Strap yourself in folks - I'm off my MEDS!