Thanks for the links, Walt.

Walt wrote:
Anyway, for the more, shall we say, empirically minded, here's some
handy summaries of the state of the presidential horse race:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_hth.html
http://online.wsj.com/public/resourc...-frameset.html
http://www.electionprojection.com/elections2004.html
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm

Carefuly, there... the Wall Street Journal is a notorious purveyor of
liberal socialist spin!

Anyway I am pleased to see that Kerry at least has a chance, barring of
course the cancelling of elections due to elevated terrorist threat warning.


And, Bart, you really should read this from PJ Orourke before you
continue to embarrass yourself in public:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200407/orourke

O'Rourke is a genuine conservative, and is also quite funny. I don't
think he was ever a hippy or a liberal though, even if he did write
National Lampoon articles with titles like "How To Drive Fast On Drugs
While Getting Your Wing-wang Squeezed, and Not Spill Your Drink."

It's not surprising that P.J. O'Rourke doesn't listen to Rush Limbaugh
(although IMHO Rush can be funny once in a while) and equally surprising
to hear him desribe Rush as "shouting.' Rush is usually whining in a
high-pitched, fat-guy-with-no-balls voice.



(NOTE: all the articles above are from the right side of the political
spectrum (except for Polling Report which is non-partisan as far as I
can tell) . This cheerfully provided as a public service to the ASA
community; one could easily get the impression from reading this group
that all conservatives are idiots. Just doing my part ot dispel that
notion.)

I don't think that anybody who knew what "conservative" means would
mistake very many of the Bush-Cheney cheerleaders for conservatives. But
I can see why they've tried to abscond with that label, "caveman fascist
whacko" doesn't have that certain ring to it.

DSK