Elections 2006 and 2008: We Cannot Afford to Assume

As I read the previously posted Paul Krugman column from The Times, and read and hear from numerous other sources that the GOP is in very serious trouble and stands to lose a LOT in Election 2006 and perhaps also with the next presidential bid in 2008, I find myself wanting to scream:

Assume nothing! Many of us never believed Bush could get to office in 2000 and he did not WIN the election. It also looks like he did NOT win in 2004 either, yet he has "led" our country (right into the septic system in hell) for six years.

Please understand that we cannot assume Dems or more sane, moderate minds can take back control just because the tide has turned. We've seen elections stolen, and more systems are in place to steal them than there were in Novembers 2000 and 2004.

We can have 99% of the country vote against the extremist right wing, but with rigged voting, it won't matter. And the media will - once more - decide that no American wants to hear about voter fraud so they won't bother to dig, just as they failed to dig in 2000 and 2004 (there have been rare exceptions: Keith Olbermann kept up voting questions for a time, and the Toledo Blade and other newspapers have noted serious irregularities, but Mr. Bush is in the White House).

Don't dare assume. You and those you know must stop the disastrous, fraudulent, conservative rightwing run electronic voting systems and you must get out and vote in 2006 and 2008 as well as support good candidates before election day.

If you don't, we'lk be doing another Bush in 2008. No one except for Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Mama Babs Bush want that to happen.