Saturday, May 29, 2004
According to Salon.com, Kerry is gaining some momentum in his presidential campaign. Which is a good thing, certainly.
Seeing that today, however, I was struck by the realization that if Kerry really does start to get momentum, the other guys are going to HAVE to pull something. Something major. They're not going to let themselves be defeated just because they're losing the election. They've never let a little thing like that stop them before. And now, after all that they've done while they were in power, they have ten times the motivation not to lose than they had before. Now they have many mistakes and possibly even indictable crimes on their heads. If there is no longer a Republican majority in Congress and/or the Senate, especially, their heads might be on the line if investigations are started. Or they at least might fear so. After all, why shouldn't they think the Democrats are just as vengeful as they themselves are?
No, they're not going to simply lose the election and walk obediently away. The question is, what will they try to pull before the election? And how much will the Congress and Senate go along with it? The media, of course, almost certainly will.
I don't want even to begin to speculate about what these characters would be willing to commit. I don't like conspiracy theories although I must say some of the 9-11 ones circulating right now are propelled by a lot of very weird facts about how the government behaved at the time. Which I don't want to get into here, but why weren't fighter planes scrambled when those airliners went off course - especially when they knew that two hijacked planes had already hit buildings in New York, and another was headed for WASHINGTON of all places - why did Bush go into a children's classroom for a photo-op AFTER he already knew a building had been hit by a plane, how come the hole in the Pentagon is apparently too small for a plane to have crashed through, etc., etc. Just too much weirdness associated with the whole episode.
I do think, though, that these guys have no compunctions at all about anything. They haven't shown any so far.
Seeing that today, however, I was struck by the realization that if Kerry really does start to get momentum, the other guys are going to HAVE to pull something. Something major. They're not going to let themselves be defeated just because they're losing the election. They've never let a little thing like that stop them before. And now, after all that they've done while they were in power, they have ten times the motivation not to lose than they had before. Now they have many mistakes and possibly even indictable crimes on their heads. If there is no longer a Republican majority in Congress and/or the Senate, especially, their heads might be on the line if investigations are started. Or they at least might fear so. After all, why shouldn't they think the Democrats are just as vengeful as they themselves are?
No, they're not going to simply lose the election and walk obediently away. The question is, what will they try to pull before the election? And how much will the Congress and Senate go along with it? The media, of course, almost certainly will.
I don't want even to begin to speculate about what these characters would be willing to commit. I don't like conspiracy theories although I must say some of the 9-11 ones circulating right now are propelled by a lot of very weird facts about how the government behaved at the time. Which I don't want to get into here, but why weren't fighter planes scrambled when those airliners went off course - especially when they knew that two hijacked planes had already hit buildings in New York, and another was headed for WASHINGTON of all places - why did Bush go into a children's classroom for a photo-op AFTER he already knew a building had been hit by a plane, how come the hole in the Pentagon is apparently too small for a plane to have crashed through, etc., etc. Just too much weirdness associated with the whole episode.
I do think, though, that these guys have no compunctions at all about anything. They haven't shown any so far.
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