A prediction about Friday

The Democrats are going to pull something awful later this week, most likely Friday. Last time, they managed to drag up Bush's ancient DUI. It was true, but really not relevant, and the timing was the devious part.

This time, what could they possibly have? All the dirt that could ever be dug, has been. Bush has been president for four years; we know him about as well as is possible.

So, it'll have to be a big lie. Again, it's hard to imagine what they could have, even with a lie, because Michael Moore and Kitty Kelly have told pretty much told all the untruths imaginable about George W. Bush and his family.

Also, the Dems already played the Social Security scare card, and they've lied about how bad the economy is (because it's actually better than it was at the end of Clinton's second term), so that means they've used what are usually the two biggest issues.

As far as Iraq and the war on terror, Mainstream Media has helped the Dems quite a bit by focusing only on the negative and never reporting the progress being made. Not technically a lie, but certainly not the whole truth, either.

So I can't predict what the lie will be, but I do predict it will happen by Friday at the latest. Perhaps it will be of the "not the whole truth" variety, such as a spate of really bad news from Iraq. Perhaps there will be a dramatic lie about President Bush or someone in his cabinet. Whatever, it will be an attempt to keep Bush voters home, discouraged and disillusioned. I believe that this is the reason the Bush campaign has been consistently urging supporters to vote early via absentee ballots. (It also crossed my mind that they might have a concern about a terrorist attack that would disrupt voting, although no one seems to be talking about that anymore.)

Don't let it keep you home, whatever it is.

Funny: David Broder is on "Meet the Press" and I just now heard him tell people to vote early! His reason is there will be long lines at the polling places. The other talking heads seem to agree. They also all agree that the key to this election is turnout, and that people are far more intense about this election than any other in recent history. I've noticed this, too.