I'm not so blithe, actually. There have been several object lessons created for the education of the electable - consider one no further away than Rhode Island and Lincoln Chaffee. (You did notice what they've been doing to Chaffee, right? If you had, you'd realize that your list of impossibles above is much shorter than you say it is.)
Look at the publicly released "short list", a couple of extremist and insane stalking horses, and Gonzalez. "Look, honey, he's the lesser of the evils".
Yes, the polls are what they are - and Bush doesn't have to be re-elected. There is a whole year between now and the 06 elections. I think the only levering point is that O'Connor wasn't Chief Justice - we might get a softball now to get a hardball later.
I cherish ambiguity - and I'd love to be convinced there was more ambiguity here. But when you support your argument by positing things are impossible, when they have happened recently(Lahey, VT? Chaffee, RI? plenty of other states....), you haven't convinced me much.
And if the balance of your argument is to convince me of the kindliness of the strategists like Rove (did you see the Nova special on him?), your firecracker just fizzles.
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Look at the publicly released "short list", a couple of extremist and insane stalking horses, and Gonzalez. "Look, honey, he's the lesser of the evils".
Yes, the polls are what they are - and Bush doesn't have to be re-elected. There is a whole year between now and the 06 elections. I think the only levering point is that O'Connor wasn't Chief Justice - we might get a softball now to get a hardball later.
I cherish ambiguity - and I'd love to be convinced there was more ambiguity here. But when you support your argument by positing things are impossible, when they have happened recently(Lahey, VT? Chaffee, RI? plenty of other states....), you haven't convinced me much.
And if the balance of your argument is to convince me of the kindliness of the strategists like Rove (did you see the Nova special on him?), your firecracker just fizzles.