There's so much to be said about the dynamic that gets set up before the actual Presidential elections. Ad campaigns, debates, more rumors than you can count, all in hopes of creating enough negativity, enough doubt...to hopefully pull votes away. It's been this way, for as long as politics has existed in this country.
Hell, I can remember the absolutely CRAZY rumor/*bullshit fact* making the rounds during Clinton's bid for a second term. He was going to manipulate and create a false nation wide emergency, that *forced* him to institute sustained martial law AND THEN...set things in place so he, Bill Clinton, would be the last U.S President, no more elections...and he'd become our King. I shit you not. I called a MOUNTAIN of bullshit, but talking to the people who were fed this crap, they believed it as surely as the sun coming up. They pointed to policy, legislation that had passed during the first term, all the SIGNS were there and undeniable, THIS SHIT WAS GOING DOWN MAN! MONARCHY WAS MAKING A COME BACK! Fast forward to 2000 you'd think those people would own up and be like, "Jesus, I can't believe I ever bought that shit. I feel so stupid." But noooooooo. Instead it was a, "Well things, luckily for us, didn't go down the way Bill wanted...it COULD of happened!" Just the *prospect*, is as good as *fact* to many people.
Oh shit Chuck! Now he's going to ignore your excellent point and come back and say that's what we said about Bush and cite some nonexistent thread on the Muche to prove his point!
