Bush's third term

[lwcon]

With the subject line of its latest mailing, Moveon.org has hit upon the winning phrase for the 2008 election: "Bush's third term."

Dear MoveOn member,

What would a third Bush term look like? Endless war in Iraq, continued torture and spying, more ultra-conservative judges, more and more people without health care, and so on...it'd be awful.

But that's impossible, right? Well, maybe not: Every Republican candidate for president is trying to distinguish himself from Bush, but the major candidates would carry forward Bush's core agenda:

• President Giuliani would support a second escalation of the war in Iraq.
• President Romney would double the size of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
• President McCain would bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
• President Fred Thompson would have offered Scooter Libby a full pardon.

No matter which Democrat faces one of these Bushies, we should be crystal clear that that's the referendum at stake in '08. Not are you better off than you were eight years ago (not that that shouldn't be convincing enough), but can we survive four more years of this?

If an electoral majority of Americans actually wants "Bush's third term," it's probably time to look for a country that God doesn't bless so much.
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[jedicord]

1. "Time to look for a country that God doesn't bless so much."

That's classic!!!:rofl:

[MrModerate]

2. This hits the nail on the head . . .

. . . or perhaps squashes the big with a single swat.

No matter what they do, 'Lican candidates in 2008 are going to have George Bush as a running mate. The above ad from MoveOn is just exactly what we have to do to keep that fact in the front of voters' minds.

RightOn MoveOn!

[madinmaryland]

3. Don't forget Vice President Lieberman...

"We must attack Iran NOW!!"

OMG, He was nearly elected Vice President. :scared:

[saltpoint]

4. The elves inform me that 2008 will be a very blue year, with Democrats

picking up seats both chambers and a Democrat in the White House.

Not to say we don't have to work very hard. I favor a full-court press. Let's knock off several big-name Republicans but also thousands of other not-so-famous ones on all levels of our state ballots.

The fewer the Republicans, the better our democracy. They've long ago abandoned Lincoln; let's demonstrate that there are consequences to such an abandonment of principle.

[krispos42]

5. That subject line made me shudder

Ugh!

[Catchawave]

6. Perfect framing "Bush's Third Term"

Or a perfect bumper sticker:

"Just Say No Third Term for Bush, Vote Democratic."

[lwcon]

9. I do hope this phrase gets that kind of currency

I like our chances if people can think of the election in those (quite rational) terms.

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[Demeter]

7. Bush's Third Term Will Be Life: In Prison

unless he finds Paraguay resistant to extradiction!

[lwcon]

8. I think Bush has pre-empted that risk

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/07/11/notes071107.DTL&nl=fix

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