Will the protests backfire?

I can't say I'm not worried about this happening next week. Don't know what to say about it really, since if I was in New York still, there's no way I'd hold back from participating. Will the protests backfire and scare the fretful inhabitants of that mythic land of Family Values, Middle America, into tipping the scales in favor of George W. Bush? I guess we'll find out soon.

Wish I would have more time to blog right now - esp. with all of this Swift Boat Vets for "Truth" crap happening right now. Nothing was more satisfying than when on e of Bush's top campaign lawyers, Ben Ginsberg, had to quit after it was revealed that he had been advising the SBVT's, esp. when he argued his case by saying 'it was entirely legal', as if legality were the point and not the fact that the Bush Campaign had been insisting that they had nothing to do, no absolutely no affiliation with the SBVT's... Oh my no .

Well, possibly more satisfying is the brilliant piece of footage from the 2000 Republican primaries that the Kerry campaign found for their Old Tricks ad (click on the video, and it brings up the library), of John McCain excoriating Bush for funding the slurs by fellow Vietnam vets on his (McCain's) service at the time, and telling Bush that he should be ashamed, really ashamed. The pained look on Bush's no-longer What Me Worry face is as priceless as it is painful. How any sane person could look at that man ever, but especially in this footage, and let him run a company, much less the entire country...