Increasingly Unhinged
The Left is becoming increasingly unhinged. Well, at least Lefty blogger South Knox Bubba is with some wingnut conspiracy theorizing about the Bush administration and the 2004 election. Among the unsubstantiated charges paranoid claims in the post: The economic recovery (7.2% growth in the third quarter) is not real because the Bush administration cooked the economic books; Cheney is being set up to take the fall for "the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of intelligence data," and the Bush forces are setting up to steal the election via the controversial Diebold electronic voting machines "that don't keep any records of how anybody actually voted."

Hmm. SKB provides no proof of the first charge, that the Bush administration cooked the books to fake an economic "recovery." He doesn't mention the memo revealing extensive pre-war evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda, and he doesn't bother to tell you that the Diebold machines aren't going to be used in most polling places.

In otherwords, a loony hate-filled rant devoid of actual, you know, reality.

The reality is this: Bush has cut taxes, the economy is growing, we are making progress in the war on terror generally while Iraq, still a work in progress, is neither a perfect success nor a disaster, and the election will be decided not by machines but by millions of voters and - as it was in 2000 and indeed every election - the winner of the most electoral votes will be sworn in as the next president of the United States.

And regardless of who that is, we'll muddle through and make it alright because, well, because that's what America does best.