PREDICTION: BUSH IS , TO USE A NALDO WORD, 'TOAST'

[mburbank]

Detailwise, Naldo is Jeane Dixon and I'm Nostrodamus.

C'mon, Nalds, take a few more risks. Sketch out your scenario, add a little color. I think you may well be right that W will win reelection. It's the happier ever after part that's debatable. If he declared martial law I bet he'd be as happy as a pecary in merde, but I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

I think right now there's a real sgadow struggle going on in the bowels of the Republican powr structure. Go with W, who's made some serious miscalculations, or sink him and run Jeb after Kerry has to eat four years of what W left on the plate. If they back W, they're putting it all on the line. If he went down in flames he'd drag the whole party with him. If they sacrfafice him, they've got Bush brothers and nephews for generations to come.

I think this could come down to a secret chainsaw fight between Grover Norquist and Karl Rove.