Yes, but the pertinent question is, how do he get himself to that point of potential anthromorphization?

The amazing thing is that everything that was wrong with Kerry was wrong with Bush. He, too is an Ivy league educated, spoiled, elitist with no regard for the middle class.
I am constantly amazed with the Republican party's ability to get white, middle class America to vote against it's best interests.
But what's even more amazing is that the Dems, Who portray themselves a populist party, would run, back to back, Al Gore and John Kerry. Who's next? Nelson Rockefeller?

Do you know what has caused this to come about?

I am one of these people described. I still consider myself a Democrat, despite having been disowned; my choice is to remain a Democrat In Name Only or become a Republican In Name Only.

We are the people who were the Democrat base, until the loud liberal left not only managed to hijack the leadership, but by sheer volume to convince the party that they were actually the base.

Reagan began making us believe we could go ahead and vote for Republicans. Many followed his lead and even changed parties. In ten yars I have voted for exactly one Democrat for federal office (Ron Kirk ran against John Cornyn for the Senate and frankly I don't and didn't care that Cornyn won--it was one of those rare races that We the People could not lose.)

I've been wondering for a while now how to resolve my political identity crisis. I don't beleive that we are actually the Republican base, at least not yet. There a lot of us and there is the possibility it could work out that way in another 5 to 10 years especailly if more fence-sitters like me decide to switch.

RTO Trainer, I'm somewhat like you being in the middle but being force to vote Republican because the alternate was unthinkable especially after 8 Clinton years and remembering how awful the populist Carter was. For many years I was a Libertarian but quit that party because they were never serious about building a grassroots base and when they started sounding more Liberal than Libertarian. I would dearly like to see the Federal government reduce to the size envisioned by the founders but the chances of that are somewhere between nil and none. Unless the Islamic threat greatly lessens by 2008, I expect that I will vote for the candidate that I think will be the strongest in defending our country.

I have only one criteria for determining for whom I will vote in a Presidential contest: my estimation of thier ability to lead.

I really don't beleive that a President's stand on most issues matters.

I want a President that can and will do the following:

1) admit that a crisis (real ones) exists
2) recognize the point of "crunch time"--that moment when you have as much information about the crisis as you can get without it being too late to act
3) make a decision at crunch time
4) make it stick

Clinton failed at step 2 repeatedly. Carter failed at step 3 which may or may not indicate a failure at 2. I beleive that Gore would have failed at 2. I belive that kerry would have failed at 1.

Even the who's smarter question I couldn't care less about. I wan't the Presidnet to have the smart people around him, but I don't want them making the decisions. At that level judgment counts for more than smarts.