GUEST, you're post is a bit enigmatic, but if by "dead horse" you are referring to the Democratic Party, my answer to that is that there is nothing Bush and his Merry Men would like better than to have any opposition automatically assume that that it's hopeless, thereby making only a half-hearted effort. Despite what the polls you read might say (and just who conducts these polls, anyway?), there are plenty of people in this country who are pretty steamed, and they're not about to roll over an play dead.

It ain't gonna work, my friend, it ain't gonna work!

Don Firth