Brain Fertilizer

Looks like the tin-foil hate is on somebody else's head today.

Of course, if any race-related issues come up between now and then, neocon conspiracy theorists can sound a triumphant "AHH-HAH! We knew it!"

I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's quote (not verbatim) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Politics on the whole are in the gutter today...though somebody point out just *who* is looking at the stars....it ain't pundits.

You don't think the Democrats use race as an issue...ever? You don't think they sometimes take the minority vote for granted? The President of the NAACP even said that a few months ago...

Yes, I think they take the minority vote for granted..look how Muslims and Hispanics turned out in full force to vote for Bush....it killed Gore.

But this is raving looney conspiracy theory crap. Please tell me y'all got somethin' better than that.

We have it all: Good stuff and crap. The Republican Party is a big tent.

Another point: "tinfoil hat brigade" is meant to imply accusations that have no basis in reality, not cynicism. For instance, it is a "tinfoil hat" to say that Bush had Saddam the whole time and only produced him to get a jump in the polls, and would do the same thing with Osama bin Laden.
Why? Because Bush wasn't doing especially bad when they announced we caught Saddam, and if he was going produce bin Laden at a time to help his support, that would be now. Furthermore, you don't announce something as big as catching Saddam on a weekend (Saturday night, wasn't it?) if you want a PR boost.
Now, if Osama bin Laden is produced two weeks before the election without any major operation underway to catch him, I would have to re-evaluate those tin-foil hats.
However, I've seen firsthand how a statement by a Republican is interpreted as racism because it was uttered by a Republican, but when similar statements are made by leading Democrats, it's totally okay. Do you think Bill Frist would still have his job if he'd made the comment Hillary Clinton had made about Ghandi and gas stations?
Thus, if two weeks before the election, a relatively minor statement by some Republican as being proof that Republicans are racist and the black race must get out and vote to get Bush out of the White House at any cost...well, then, this prediction takes on a little credibility.
Proof? Hardly. But predictions that come true are cynicism, not the stuff of "tinfoil hat brigades".