Hello Rocky,
Just two years now, and counting, until we elect a new President.  Who's it gonna be?
Boyd W. Burnett
Tumwater, WA

Rocky Responds:
In order to answer your question about 2008, I need to first take you back to 1960.  Eisenhower was finishing up his second term as a reasonably popular President.  His VP, Richard Nixon, lost a very close race to Mr. Kennedy.    As you know, Boyd, Nixon came lumbering out of the political graveyard in 1968 and won two successive Presidential elections.  What the hell happened?

What happened was eight years of Kennedy & Johnson left America knee-deep in an unpopular war with no believable exit strategy.  When Johnson announced he would not seek re-election the race was wide open.   The Dems flirted with anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy but ended up nominating political uber-hack Hubert Humphrey.  The GOP trotted out Nixon and gave America the chance to "take a Mulligan" - suggesting that if we had elected Nixon in 1960 we wouldn't be in this mess, so let's right that wrong. 

You see where this is heading.  Al Gore will be our next President.  Bank on it.  The Republicans will trot out their own political hack, a John McCain type -  a high-profile do-nothing who will blather on about "staying the course."  The Democratic Senators who run, the Clintons and Kerrys and Bidens, will be shot down in the primaries because they signed off on all of this shit that Bush has pulled.  About 100 young Americans are now losing their lives each month in Iraq.  Many more are being maimed.  By 2008, Boyd, America will be ready to take its Mulligan.  I'm not saying I like it (though I thought  his lockbox was a cute idea), and I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just telling you how these things work.  Plan accordingly.

Stay focused and keep up the good work.


We'll party like it's 1999!  

Update:  The team at  Independent Sources picked up this article, once again beating Drudge to the punch.