{"id":206,"date":"2006-06-21T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-06-21T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:41:00","slug":"my-prediction-for-the-2008-presidencial-race-cds-not-going-to-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"My Prediction For The 2008 Presidencial Race (CD&#039;s not going to like this)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"My%20Prediction%20For%20The%202008%20Presidencial%20Race%20%28CD%26%23039%3Bs%20not%20going%20to%20like%20this%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>NOTE: I changed the title. I wrote &#8220;Pick&#8221;, instead of &#8220;Prediction&#8221;, implying that this is the guy that I endorse and want to win. This is not so. It is simply my evaluation of the race as it stands now. And remember, I could be totaly wrong. After all, I am just an average joe on the side lines of politics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post about this conclusion for a while. Being a conservative minded independent makes it hard to deal with, plus the fact that I have real issues with the guy and his penchant for sky-is-falling rehtoric, but I have come to the conclusion that Gore has a real shot at the Presidency in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>His position on the war has been much more consistent than most other Dems, even if it&#8217;s only because he was not in office and didn&#8217;t have to vote on the resolution. Many in the nation have become war weary so the Republicans will have a hard time keeping the independent vote on their side. Plus, by 2008 we will almost certainly be in the process of troop withdrawal from Iraq. Throw in Gore&#8217;s long term concern \/ obsession with the environment he scores Mega Points with the Kossacks and Hard Progressives and can translate into a win in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>He was VP during the 90&#8217;s and presided over a tremendous economic boom. Never mind that it was built on an illusionary business model, the Dot Com&#8217;s, and that the Clinton administration put the pin to the tech bubble when the DOJ sued Micro$oft in &#8217;98. And I mean really, when government officials start talking about how they may have beaten the economic cycle &#8211; buy bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, presidential administrations generally get too much credit \/ blame for good \/ bad economic times, but Gore was VP and can be associated with the good economy of the &#8217;90s. Plus, they, both Dem president AND Republican congress, managed to accidentally run the government with a surplus, though the actual size of it was grossly exaggerated by combining the ten year projection with principles of <em>ceteris paribus<\/em> (all things stay the same) which, as a budgetary practice, should be against the law for the government to do that (and for me to use the term <em>ceteris paribus<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a simpler time!&#8221; (I&#8217;m quoting this from someone, and even though I don&#8217;t know who, I don&#8217;t want to be accused of plagiarism, so I give that person credit for the line, who ever it is). Times were good, for the most part, during Gore&#8217;s tenure, and compared to the current terrorist threat the nation now faces, the &#8217;90s do seem like a simpler time, though the threat was there and the administration just chose to pass the hard decisions to the next guys. Regardless, if Gore plays his cards right, (left-of-center actually), he could foster a &#8217;90s nostalgia of sorts to appeal to the centrist vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;90s nostalgia = Popular AND Electoral win for presidency, IF he can manage to maybe, oh, win his home state of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Of coarse, it all depends on who the Republicans pick as their guy. Guliani trumps Hillary (God forbid she or Jeb run), but I don&#8217;t think he trumps Gore. Is Newt the Republican ace-in-the-hole against the Big G.???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"My%20Prediction%20For%20The%202008%20Presidencial%20Race%20%28CD%26%23039%3Bs%20not%20going%20to%20like%20this%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>NOTE: I changed the title. I wrote &#8220;Pick&#8221;, instead of &#8220;Prediction&#8221;, implying that this is the guy that I endorse and want to win. This is not so. It is simply my evaluation of the race as it stands now. And remember, I could be totaly wrong. After all, I am just an average joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}