Re: why the long face?

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Our Dark Lord has bipartisan support!

http://www.goats.com/store/zoom_rfv.html

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Oh, and of course you're right about Kerry. Here in Boston, "Kid Irish" is widely loathed. And none of us can believe the nation at large can really be blind to his faults.

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You know, if Kerry blows it, I will be so deeply pissed at him, even though I won't be mad at Bush, because by this point I see him as more or less a primordial force of evil, not an intentional agent. Healthy, that.

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Primordial? You sure you don't mean cthonic? Yog Shoggoth!

Also, I think your unfair to Kerry. He can't 'blow it' -- he's the underdog. You can 'blow it' by losing to Bob Dole, not by losing to a (fairly popular) incumbant. This is a winnable race for the democrats, but it is anything but a sure thing.

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