EDWARDS MEANS THAT BUSH WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

The series of horrible appointments to various posts will be hit by Edwards leaving Bush with no defense. He cannot defend SEC, Transportation, FBI, CIA, and possibly Rumsfeld. Still another horrible botch is the "new" FBI chief as spelled out by the mostly Right Daniel Pipes today. Bush will be made to pay the price of indecision, policy weakness, and just plain lack of will. The FBI was, and according to Pipes still is, without a clue as they once again give an award to terrorists. Even I can roast Bush day after day over these miserable appointments.

While Kerry is the pussy choice, Edwards can blast away and Bush can't deal with the facts of his incompetent appointments. Put this together with the worst White House communications staff since Millard Fillmore (he used a flag guy on the front lawn who sent messages by semaphore code) and you have President Kerry.

I think this is the end of the Conservative trend. Edwards has preached the "two Americas" theme very well during the primaries. I pointed out in other posts that the glaring weakness of "Conservatism" is its failure to spread opportunity spread accross the board. This means on a local level. To quote my prior post:

You have to have something besides "get the government off my back" and "reacting" to every liberal or they have nothing. The real problem with conservatism is failure to show that their real purpose is to create more opportunity for everyone and that these opportunities will raise incomes for everyone. I think we have a situation now where 2% at the top earn fifty times what the 20% at the lower end can earn. Eventually this won't compute, and since the poor all have guns and will use them if the right guy comes along, we should all wake up. Now.

I had the "chance" to drive down Vermont Avenue in LA the other day past the down at the heels pathetic looking whores, the horridly painted motels and filthy looking housing and I asked myself the question: "Would I fight for this way of life?" The answer was "No fucking way." What we on the so-called "right" have to figure out is how to make freedom of opportunity available to everyone. Ask yourself this: What do you think it takes to open up a hot dog wagon in your city? Just a little wagon with hot water for the dogs and a place for buns. I'll tell you. Bribes, insane environmental requirements, more money than you may be able to make back, and layer after layer of regulations. Here in LA the poorest people get around that stuff by selling barbequed illegal food from their back yards, food that may be contaminated, but it tastes good and it's cheap. The cops are told to close them down. Instead they drive by and talk to people hoping they won't have to come back and cite them, knowing they have no money and won't show up in court. That means a warrant will be issued for their arrest and they will go to jail for selling food out of their backyards. If conservatives can't act on the local level to improve people's lives, conservatism is nothing.

Right now it's nothing.

I think Amerca will turn Left. Hard Left and Edwards will be the most articulate candidate on the stump. No one else is even close.

BTW Blogger is down again. I have been trying to post this piece for more than two hours. No mas. It has been mostly down since Friday. Consider this when contemplating the purchase of Google stock.