Or more precisely, just how much stomach do you Bushies have for an administration crippled by scandal and investigations? This is not an idile threat -- like Cheney's warning that a Kerry Victory Will Bring Devastating Terrorist Attack (as if terrorism is under control under the current regime).

No, this is merely an educated prediction that if you are a true scandal junkie, Bush is your guy! Think about it, especially if the delicate balance in Congress is shifted ever so slightly to the Democrats. Partisan rancor rivaling Whitewater/Lewinski for its divisiveness, more serious allegations of abuse of power than ever contemplated during Watergate, with many of the same players as Iran/Contra.

The list of unanswered questions about who knew what, when, is enormous. Missing WMD's and 9/11 are tje easy ones. Lies about the real cost of medicare, the war and the tax cuts will not be what consumes us under a second Bush term. No, it will be intrigue with shocking details and players whose status as household names is not even suspected -- yet.

• We've got CIA agents outed, (Plame-Gate)
  
• classified pentagon secrets ending up in Israel, (AIPAC-Gate)
  
• a trusted source/ally/special guest of Laura Bush at the SOTUA in spite of being a convicted felon turns out to be an indicted forger and letting the Iranians know we broke their codes, (Chalabi-Gate)
  
• illegal campaign collusion between POTUS and a 527, (Swiftboat-Gate)
  
• two words, abu-Ghraib Prison, (Hate-Gate)
  
• memos from administration lawyers justifying tourture, (Gitmo-Gate)
  
• one word, Haliburton, (Cheney-Gate)
  
• the oh-so convenient announcements from Ridge and Ashcroft over terror threat (Level Orange-Gate)
  
• litigation continues on Cheney's Energy Task Force, (Cheney-Gate part-deux)
  
• Ken Lay's trial will start, be televised, and the connections between Lay and Bush as well as his pay-offs to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to build a pipe-line will become common knowledge, (Enron-Gate)
  

My guess is that you have little stomach for this kind of thing at all, because you have no guts. I say that because I believe that those of you who agree with the thrust of the Vice President's scare tactics, and believe (quite erroneously) that you are safer with Bush in office, then the terrorists of 9/11 have already won. You are already too terrorized, too paralyzed with fear to change course, even when you acknowledgte that Bush lacks the basic skills for his job. You will vote for him even though it is obvious that he is not only incapablle of living up to his '04 campaign promises, he had no intention of doing anything about his '00 promises other than cutting taxes.

You are already terrorized into voting for Bush despite knowing he is the most divisive public figure in living memory. You don't care that when his unit was called to active duty he couldn't have been bothered or that most of his National Security Team will not be around for the next term. You simply don't care that Bush has bankrupted this country, reallocated wealth to the most wealthy from the middle class

You are so scared that you have no problem with the errosion of privacy represented by the continuation of the Patriot Act -- as long as they only snoop though the credit card records and library logs of people with names that sound like Faisal or Hakim and Fatima but leave you and yours alone.. You eagerly await the expiraiton of the Assault Weapons Ban because that means that you too can buy an Uzi for those occasions when you want to feel safe from suicide bombers when going to Wallmart .


The terrorists terrified you and you deserve the gutless wonder of a president you want. He's everything you aspire to be.