Reply #7: The country is still pretty evenly divided [View All]

That is the thing to remember going forward. The problem that the liberal blogs make is underestimating the appeal of Bush to 'his' voters. It was not a cakewalk election last year at any point for Kerry. I am oh so tired of morons across the board claiming that any Dem should have been able to defeat Bush last year and that only JK screwed up. This is idiotic and blind in the worst possible way.

Dkos does this all the time. He thinks that '04 should have been an easy win. He rails and rails against the RW spin machine, the money and institutional advantage that the Rs have and then completely discounts all this when it comes to the election. I greatly fear that we are going to do this again in '06 and overestimate the amount of anger in the country against the Rs. I really do. Then we will have to go through all the moronic bullshit about this being an 'easy win' and that a few bad apples just screwed it up for the incredibly noble and wonderful rest of us. (What horseshit.)

'06 will NOT be a cakewalk, but I think we can make some important gains. It will take a lot of time, money, effort and hard work to change the government. Anyone who tells you differently is lying to you. And there are quite a few people who are lying when they say that '04 should have been easy. (Either that or they are smoking funny substances again.) Change is, and always has been, hard. Failure to recognize that is just another way of being self-blinded.