jamie:

Today I heard that medicare payments will go up in January. Well obviously it is not free and someone has to pay for the expanded benefits everyone wanted. I know I work in health care myself and people have no idea what administrative costs are. Right now my social security and medicare tax are almost as much as my income tax. I have no doubt Kerry will condemn this and women will respond favorably to his condemnation. But I also have no idea what his alternative is.

I think the problem Bush will have with women is the same one he will have with older people. They tend to want government to take care of people.

Bush has a good record on education. But he pissed off the Dems by stealing their issue on help with drugs for the elderly and they paid him back by making sure the elderly hate the program.

They tend to blame the Republicans for not doing more socially and pitch a fit when they do.

But none of that matters if one of our schools is taken by these people and our children slaughtered.