Lately I've been wondering: If the bush's (the other day I saw a sign: Defoliate Bush!) approval rating continues to drop, say to 30 %, what will happen to the election? My guess is that some other Republican would run for President in opposition to him. It isn't common but it has happened fairly frequently that a political party didn't support the incumbent President.

And YES, ard mhacha, there are many Americans who despise the current president and loathe what has happened to this country under him. In Juneau, Alaska, which is considered quite liberal, I know fewer than a handful of people who trust and support this administration. (It's gotten to the place where most of us just don't discuss it with them. But they overhear us talk, and they sit here while the songwriters amongst us sing their biting lyrics. So there is hope!)

Parts of the rest of Alaska is predominately conservative; I think it has to do with some loners and misfits from down south believing in the mystique of "going to Alaska where a MAN can do what he wants." As a result, Alaska has elected some very strange officials.

Judging from the Mudcatters represented on this forum and who are scattered all across this country, there are a lot of sane people down there. I just hope that those Americans who still don't see it will have the blinders torn from their eyes in time.

Here's my political wish: John McCain to change parties and join Kerry. McCain, I believe, is disbelieving and disgusted, even distraught at some Republicans' reactions to the atrocities that are coming to light.