[sailaway21]

"It's not that liberals know so much. It's that so much of what they know is wrong." Ronald Reagan

sck5,
You're really out-doing yourself today. You start off talking about polls and GW Bush when the polls all favor the Republican canidate and GW Bush will not be that canidate, nor will his vice president.

Then you bring up Jeanne Kirkpatrick, perhaps one of the smartest women in America from the last century and you have the balls to criticize her looks while Madeline Albright, who's both ugly and ignorant, is living in your closet.

Then you move on to health care which you deduce the problem to be that it's too expensive and nobody, nobody on the entire planet, see's any plan whatsoever that has a bratwurst's chance on CD's grill of actually lowering health care expenditures. It might be news to you but the single largest generation in American history started retiring last year. I'll make it simple for you; they're getting old. Old people need more health care. To quote PJ O'Rourke; "if you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free".

The first paragraph of your post 1905. Please name one thing that a Dem president is, or can, do that will be different than what the Rep will do on any one of those issues. And, btw, I'll clue you in on a little secret-we ain't leavin' Iraq until it's stable, and maybe not even then. You heard it here first.

Approaching the grand finale you offer up Angelina Jolie who you think might be a Democrat? Bo Derek is a superb actress in comparison to Jolie and she doesn't have a butt that looks like a mature dairy product. Have you got a pin-up of Eleanor Roosevelt in your garage? (g)

And the coup de grace; Bill Clinton was more popular than Ronald Reagan. Reagan carried 93 out of 100 states in two presidential elections. Against Jimmy Carter he won 44 states. Four years later Walter Mondale carried only his home state of Minnesota. Bill Clinton never received more than 50% of the popular vote in either election and carried only 32 states in 1992 and 31 states in 1996. I'd say Reagan was pretty popular where it counted-at the polls. You must have been reading one of those polls that Gallup does for Weight-Watchers magazine. I'll grant you, Bill Clinton probably earned the fat girl vote!

Since I've been rather a bit harsh of you tonight, I'll try to make up for it by letting you in on a little known secret; the president doesn't have hardly a damn thing to do with the economy. About the full limit of his "powers' is to appoint the Federal Reserve Chairman and sign either tax increases or tax cuts that originate within the Congress. Even his budget is, constitutionally speaking, is just a suggestion.

You'll probably have a better day tomorow. If you want to make sure of it, don't read that New Republic article. (g)