> The Anybody But Bush crowd -- aka the Chicken wing of the Democratic
> Party -- are a fickle bunch. After wasting their time attacking Ralph
> Nader against their own best interests, they have begun to sound a
> note of Anybody But Kerry: e.g., James Ridgeway, "John Kerry Must Go"
> (April 27, 2004); and Marc Cooper, "Not Too Late: Anybody But Kerry"
> (April 27, 2004). Unfortunately for Cooper and Ridgeway, it is too
> late, as John Nichols acknowledges
The way things are going, the whole chess board is likely to be thrown over by the time of the party conventions, it looks to me. The Bush administration itself may be falling apart, Kerry might decide to really show that he is not George's "Mini-Me," or he might continue his "I'm not waiting to become president before my face is carved on the side of that mountain" routine, and the DP convention might open up.
We're on the roller-coaster ride now, and no one knows how many bumps and curves lie ahead. In any case, anyone who tries now to predict Election Day is asking for trouble.
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