I am also in an environment surrounded by Republicans ... it is so surprising that how much contempt there is for this adminstration among the rich and republicans.  

I think George Soros so well epitomizes the super rich who are intelligent enough to see the light ...

I just have such hard time believing this election is going to be close!

He spends 1/5 of the money is projected to raise overall, just in the 1st month of campaigning and still can't pull from Kerry beyond the margin of error in the major polls.  Plus, this Dick Clarke fiasco, which is compounded by previous criticism from O'Neill pretty much saying the same thing just blew 40 million dollars.  Ouch!!

Now, IRAQ is literally turning to "hell."  Probably it isn't so but that's what the media is portraying right now.  It's bad enough that I perceive it to be this way for Bush and I don't even watch television.  I get this from Yahoo, MSN, ABCNEWS.com, and NPR -- that's it.  Imagine all those people that watch 5 hours of T.V. everyday.  I think Saddam put a curse on both Bushes.  

Rico

Your mistake was in expecting to find Conservatives at the country club.

There's a reason they're called "country club Republicans."

The last four years have been pretty amazing. Bankrupting the Treasury and handing it over to Big Oil & the military/industrial complex. The 9/11 deal (and sportsfans, if you think it's bad now, just wait until summertime). Soemhow, if you call the Administration on this you get called unpatriotic. Excuse me fellas, but dissent is VERY patriotic. Anyone remember the 1st Amendment? The 4th is history, and they're working ont his one.

Like I said a couple of weeks ago, when Bill O'Reilly, Rupert's lapdog, starts busting on Witless, you know his time is limited, one way or another. Kerry is really one of them, but a kindler, gentler, more intelligent version of the same. The fact the Kerry could even be bankable as a presidential candidate tells you a lot about how horrible a job W has done.

I was in the Deep South last week, when I bumped into the prototypical W voter in a gas station. Chain smoking, working class, high school educated-maybe, white, Confederate flag on his leathers and the back of his 4x4. I'm guessing as long as his neiborhood remains lily white, W's ok with him, even if his kid comes home from Iraq in a body bag. Which is the essence of the GOP's "Southern Strategy". That, and disenfranchising the black vote whenever possible. Hmm, and I thought the South lost the Civil War. Could've fooled me.

Best GOP president in my lifetime? Tossup between Clinton & Nixon.