The Coming October Surprise

If you've followed elections much, you know that candidates just love to spring stuff on their opponent at the last minute. We all remember the DUI charge against Bush in 2000, the groper story against Arnold by the LA Times in 2002, and there have been numerous other examples of last minute hit pieces. The favorite day for these attacks is the Thursday before the election - in other words, tomorrow.

What's going to come out tomorrow? Who knows. The NY Times thought they had a big story with the missing Iraqi explosives, but that has pretty much been dismantled by several other news outlets. CBS was going to run that story on the Oct. 31 60 minutes broadcast, but was preempted by the Times. Does 60 minutes have something else up their sleeve for this Sunday? Maybe they found some more forged documents.

Also, in what has to be the silliest story out there, the AP is trying to resurrect the Bush National Guard story for about the 6th time. That one lost its legs long ago.

The purpose for bringing these last minute attacks is to through the campaign into crisis mode, and push the last remaining undecideds away from the victim candidate. It nearly put Gore in the White House in 2000, and probably was a major cause of the 36 day debacle that we all went through.

I can't believe the media and democrats could possibly have anything left to throw at Bush. They've tried every angle, attacked on every issue, and are still behind in the polls. Even a major terrorist attack at this point would probably work against Kerry, not Bush. It would serve to remind people what it was like in the aftermath of 9/11 and how Bush responded the last time.

Let's hope for the best, but I'm quite confidant that some big story, manufactured or genuine, is going to break against one of the candidates in the next 48 hours.