Sweeps, Landsides, and War cries....


There is a rather naive and breathless front page story in today's Boston Globe to the effect that there is serious conservative disaffection with President Bush.
"Bush upsets part of conservative base" is the title of Wayne Washington's article.
Apparently, white rights types are mad about GWb's proposed immigration "reform, libertarians hate the Patriot Act, and supply-siders loath his profligate spending.
Otherwise it's full of the usual dreckola, raising the possibility that said groups will "stay home on election day."
And in truth these conservative cohorts are angry with the President, that much I concede.
However the notion that they will cut Bush dead next November either by commission or omission is laughable.
They will vote, and vote happily for this guy, when Bush yammers about being a uniter not a divider he is talking about his salutary effect on GOP factions exclusively.
No, for all his bluster about a close election in 2004, Karl Rove is in fact hoping for a giant historic 50 state sweep.
If he spins this as a close election only to have it turn into a route, it'll be all the easier to recast this victory as a "revolution" in the U.S.A.
NOBODY wants to be on the wrong side of a landside, especially in the GOP.
And with that gruesome revolutionary rhetoric in the air, Rove and his alleged master can then get down to business, i.e. carving the nation up into helpless bits, slashing taxes, and cutting the budget down to zero.
And when it comes time for that great tax and spending cut jubilee those above mentioned groups are gonna want a place at the table.
Therefore their current restiveness is naught but veiled demands to given a piece of the action when the time comes.
Bush understands this, and thus the White House reacts in a subdued fashion to all the war-cries and ominous yelps coming across the river from Georgetown's many rightical chic PACs.
There is actually very little we as citizens can do to dissuade the President and his followers from their revolutionary intentions-other than voting of course.
No, they have nothing to declare but their bad intentions (to paraphrase William S. Burroughs)....and the sniping at Bush is all part of a larger plan to ensure all he usual suspects get their rake-off when the time comes next January.
Sick
Demented