A fair election?

Does anyone actually believe this is going to be a fair election? Given the polls at the moment, plus the endless Republican scandals that just keep growing everyday, there is obviously no way Republicans can win if there is a fair election. So don't look for one. Look instead of every Republican dirty trick you can imagine, try to challenge them at every step, and get out such a monumental Democratic vote that they cannot even pretend to have won. Republican arrogance and incompetence have fouled things up so badly I find it incomprehensible that 2000 people would show up to listen to Dick the Slimy carry on about how well things are going in Iraq. Bush, and especially Cheney, obviously subscribe to the Goebbels strategy: tell a huge lie often enough and people will come to accept it. I don't think that this time they are going to accept it. But why do people even listen to Bush Cheney anymore? They should just be laughed off the podium (I gather thaT in some cases Republican candidates are being laughed at when they claim Bush has a plan).

The plan at the moment seems to be "victory," but, of course, victory is never defined. Victory at this point certainly cannot mean we are going to leave a democratic Iraq. But that was never the plan in the first place. Victory for Bush/Cheney means a puppet Iraqi government that will do their bidding, allow us to control their oil and other resources, and in short simply be another American colony. It does not look to me that that can ever happen, certainly not in any near future. So if victory is not possible what is the use of a plan for victory? Actually, I don't believe they even have a plan for victory. The only plan they have is to get past the election next tuesday.

While it might be true that Bush cannot actually "fire" Cheney it is certainly true that as President, if he wanted to, he could certainly get rid of him. But in this case he can't because Cheney is really in charge and he is going to protect Rumsfeld, Bolton, and his other cronies as well. Nothing positive can happen as long as Cheney and the neocons remain in power. So vote democratic and hope for the best. There is no hope otherwise.