Following up to my last post

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Needless to say, there's a lot of discussion of electoral politics on rec.arts.sf.fandom these days--has been pretty much non-stop since before the Stolen Election. After I made my last entry here, I came across a post that I thought explicitly embodied the defeatism I decried in that entry. It contained the sentence "If the US is still _visibly_ in Iraq in 2008, then there will be a change of administration"--which I read as saying "The Republicans are guaranteed victory this year, but have to clean up Iraq completely to avoid losing in 2008." That's not, actually, what the poster was saying.

However, my response contained a thought that I was trying to articulate in my last entry here, and I quote myself now:

Getting people to act like the 2004 election is a foregone conclusion is the best way for the Republicans to win it.

Remember that, please.