Bush's Electoral Thievery

Like Marvin over at The Ivy Bush I'm feeling good about where Kerry stands today. But now is not the time to get soft and dewy-eyed. None of this, please:

I feel a little sorry for [Bush] today. He's clearly in over his head. He's clearly been outclassed. And his defeat is looking more and more inevitable.

Yes, Bush is in over his head (he has been for four years). Yes, he's been outclassed (we've known that since the mid term elections). And yes, if the election were held today we would be rid of the embarrassing Bush booger on the end of our collective finger.

But the election is 17 days away. The outcome is not a foregone conclusion because no one plays dirtier than the Bush family.

So no -- an emphatic NO! -- I do not feel sorry for George W. Bush.

In fact, I'm somewhat scared at what depths of depravity they're capable of. They have an ace in the hole (literally) in Karl Rove. These next 17 days will be Rove's swan song. He will not go gently into forced retirement. Like a cornered, wounded, rabid animal, Rove will direct the Bush machine to fight and flail furiously for at least the next three weeks. And even when all the votes are cast they will continue to fight. The next three weeks are going to be ugly. And where there is ugliness there is Rove.

And I don't mean to single out Marvin here. The (over) confidence is apparent elsewhere:

For this reason, Kerry enters the final two and a half weeks of the campaign with the race his to lose.

No, no, no! This race is not Kerry's to lose.

It is Bush's to steal.

Remember that when Bush and Rove start trying to snatch media and judiciary victory from the jaws of electoral defeat. There is a record here. We'd be wise to remember it.

It is not to early to begin to talk about Bush's electoral thievery. Because I guarantee that Rove already has a plan to talk about Kerry's attempt to steal the election.

So, your mission for the next three weeks is to talk incessantly about Bush's attempt to steal this election. He got away with it once. But we ought to be damned if we let him get away with it again.