It's PNAC vs The World (and that "thinking persons" tiny minority Adlai perfectly quipped.) You know: that egghead guy. He's dead, Jim.
(Right over there, next to our er National Honor\ufffd, in the crypt with the stone Eagle)
If you don't see the glassy eyes of religio- idealogue fanaticism at the very top of the hierarchy just now: then you have a pair of glass eyes. And in extremis, sometimes it DOES come down to..
the odds just Have to be better with *any* old OTHER_THAN: a present full cockup.
As in: yes, any One of the 'Demo' half of the Republicrat One Party (or unelectable Nader) only could offer at least a chance.. whereas there is 0 chance of repairing the Shrub damage to all relations with other countries, not to mention PATRIOT and all the fumbled at-home matters needing brains, not divisive slogans and the politico-marketing of Fear/Persimmon-coloured.
Check out that 9/11 ad yet?
So *your* Shrub vote is: a Cheney- Wolfowitz- Ashcroft- Powell- ROVE!- vote for the handlers/scriptors of our folksy tongue-tied one.
You/We get the whole bunch, and no amount of hand-wringing, whiney pop lyrics or recriminations over "how we declined so far and so fast" - can excuse this black/white vote being euphemized into "hey, they're all the same".
"And I won't play unless the rulez are changed - Now." cha cha cha
ie screw your 'grey' - it is (like the album cover) none more blacker. Weasel words, less'n ya likes the idea of directing the planet into Murican-style cubicles For Their Own Good, Father Dan -- and have also conveniently forgotten the nukes on order for future 'Persuasion' + the inevitable Draft to feed that.
(Ah.. maybe kids Are expendable - when you have a planet to
Sorry, No Sale; dark-grey == black, close enough for Government work.
moi