Did the Repubs pull their "October Surprise" too early ??

Obviously, this whole trip to Iraq has been planned for some time. Most likely, the demise of Zarqawi was also probably planned to coincide with the US elections. With Bush's polls almost as low as whale shit, they decided to make their move now. The Republicans in the House were panicking. It did not look good. So their plan is to win one more election with the "war on terror" issue. They will say that they are "winning" the war in Iraq - whether they are or not doesn't matter. They have covered all the bases. They have said they expect more violence. There will be no peace. But they will say they are winning.

But, perhaps they have played their October Surprise a little early. After all, many unpredictable things can happen in 5 months and they probably will. The Repubs will do their damnedest to spin whatever happens but they have made their move.

They had, really, just a couple of chips to cash in, and they went ahead and did it in June.

Still a loooooong time before the election.

in Iraq over the summer. And I mean legitimately.

Osama Bin Laden is captured ALIVE!

becomes a subject of Bush's last minute pardons(after the election, of course).

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.... this is not their last surprise. They'll trot out something in Oct, of that you can be sure :)

Most likely he's in a cage at Gitmo waiting to be captured.

they could have "peaked" early. But, then I thought of these oily slimebags and thought what if this wasn't the best thing they had up their sleeves and October brings something worse? The b*stards ar great at this sh*t. My mind thinks this could be a hand over-played, but my heart says, they have something else planned.

I actually hope I'm wrong!

Nice OP, kentuck.

TC

settle into people's heads. The start of the summer is the beginning of the political campaign. Rove knows what he's doing. :grr:

This whole thing clearly illustrates that there is no policy apparatus there is only politics and the dumber the better it sells. If this thing wasn't written by the RW radio dunderheads it clearly was written FOR them.

This country is at an all time low today.