I’m watching all the primary stuff, and hard as I try, I can’t seem to get into Dean. There’s just something…off…about him that keeps me from enthusiastically supporting him.

It’s great that he’s so passionate about being against our current foreign policy, but since foreign policy is going to be the main issue in this election (probably), I wish he’d say exactly what he plans to do. (Although that is probably too much to hope for from any candidate).

In addition, when (although maybe if, since the primaries have become closer than most people originally thought they were going to be) he wins the primaries, he’s going to have to shift his campaign away from the leftist Democrats and try to attract the centrists. I don’t think it will make him lose the supporters he already has, but its going to make his campaign look bi-polar, and will be an easy target for attacks. I don’t know. I want to be able to like Dean, since it seems like people are really enthusiastic about him, but I’m just not feeling it. Of course I’ll vote for him if it comes down to him vs Bush, but there’s no way he could beat him.

After Saddam was captured, someone told me, that before that, Bush had no chance to win, and with it, maybe he had a small chance. I have no idea what world they’d been living on…Bush’s poll numbers have been consistently good, and the economy is cycling so it should be pretty balanced come election time.

That’s not saying Bush will be responsible for ‘improvement’ or that the improvement in any area will even be permanent, but from the outside, to the average American voter, things are going to look pretty good. Growth is up now – unemployment is still a big issue, but that’s a lagging factors, so there’s time for it to improve by November. I just don’t think the Dems, who are saying they’ll repeal some of the tax cuts (like the ones that only helped the wealthiest 2%) are going to win any voters, because no one stops to think about what that actually means.

If anyone would have a chance against Bush it’d probably be Clark. Clark has foreign policy smarts, which I’m almost sure will be ‘the’ issue in November, plus he has military experience. (Although, no one seemed to care that Bush LIED about his military experience, etc). Clark isn’t the cowboy Bush is, but he’ll be good for calming fears about terrorism etc. But he won’t beat Dean. And Dean can’t beat Bush.

Ug, four more years…