A President Aday Keeps the Meatloaf Away?

Word is that Marvin Lee Aday will accept a write-in vote for President. Wonder if that's possible on the electronic voting machines during Early Voting?

Google du juor: Bush "most corrupt" points to John Dean's Worse than Watergate book. Dean was Richard Nixon's legal counsel, so he presumably knows about corruption! Now age 65, Dean claims that the Bush administration is more secretive, deceptive and politically cynical than even Richard Nixon. Hmm .. strong words.

I might blow him off, if it weren't for numerous similar books by people like journalist Bob Woodward (Plan of Attack); journalist (and Pulitzer Prize winner) Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty; former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips' American Dynasty; investigative journalist Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and the list goes on and on and on. Sure, they're all trying to sell books, but these are not people who are out of the loop, and all are putting their credibility on the line. Well, I'm not planning on purchasing any of them. Perhaps I should join a book discussion group and just listen to what others got out of these missives?

The New York Times 2004 Election Guide paints a very different picture than ElectoralVote.com and ElectionProjection.com. I wrote off Texas as a rational state a long time ago; people here confuse loyalty with morality, and the Yellow Dog Republican voters can't be reasoned with; they'd vote for Bush even if he was caught with an intern in the Oval Office.

The states I'm watching more carefully include Ohio, West Virginia and Michigan (where the Swift Boat Liars - VietNam Veterans who can't understand why we hated their war - funneled their money). The Radical Right must think the voters in Ohio, West Virginia and Michigan are complete morons, in the "repeat a lie often enough, and enough people will believe it to sway an election" rationale (which does work, sadly .. but it doesn't make these slimy tactics morally right). Having watched the CFRP smear campaigns for the past dozen years or so, none of this surprises me; they have turned into a "win at any cost" party and may have lost my vote for years to come.

1:30pm news flash: GWB says the Swift Boat Liars For Bush should stop their ads. This is a Catch-22: if they do stop, they will show that GWB was indeed pulling the strings. If they don't, they'll upset their Führer. My, oh my .. what will happen next?