Richard Peabody wrote:
> Kerry's doomed. I drove across WV, OH, PA, WI, MI, IN, MD, and VA on
my
> mini reading tour of rust belt. (Bashing Bush and company in poetry
> readings to groups of the liberal choir.) My "Bush is a Punk Ass
Chump"
> bumpersticker notwithstanding I got very few laughs or thumbs up on
the
> highways. Bush is gonna win. (If they don't steal it again with
computer
> voting machines). I haven't felt this sick at heart since Reagan was
> re-elected and I had driven to Seattle and back that year and knew it
was
> coming. I feel the exact same way right now. This country feels just
as
> doomed.
>
> A DC economist who has predicted every election right, says,
according to
> his weird numerical template, that Bush will win with 57%.
>
> That feels about right.
>
> The Dems have lost the majority of white males and believe me, drive
through
> the great middle of the country, and it shows. When a 6-year-old boy
gave me
> the finger in PA I knew it was all over.
>
> I also had a guy who teaches in Montana tell me that college students
were
> apalled by his "Poetry of War" class. They really assumed he'd
written all
> the poems attributed to Wilfred Owen, Sassoon, Cummings, and Rupert
Brooke,
> in order to make their prez look bad. They were literally walking out
of his
> class and enlisting.
>
> We on the coasts live in Liberal bubbles. I mean I'll be honest I was
for
> Howard Dean and look what happened. I don't even like Kerry or
Edwards,
> don't trust them myself and I'm of the Bush must be taken out somehow
> mentality. But I just don't see it. I'd hoped that Kerry would run
with
> Richardson, an Hispanic. Ahh me.
>
> Add to all of this the fact that only 2 Senators have ever been
elected
> Prez--Kennedy and Harding is it? And this bodes really really badly.
>
> I don't want it to happen mind you. But I don't see a way around it.
What
> the majority of this country wants is about to happen. And they
deserve it.
>
> I'll be moving to Chile.
Anyone else in these states feel these kinda toxic vibes?