My Prediction for the 2008 Presidential Election

My Prediction for the 2008 Presidential Election
Fasten your seatbelts; George W. Bush does not intend to leave office. Many mainstream Americans will immediately reject this idea a completely preposterous. However, since this is my prediction, sit back and read and I’ll give you my take on his plans. First of all let’s bring George W into clearer focus. Contrary to the caricatures portrayed on the late night variety shows, cartoonists, and people in the left blogesphere; George W is not a buffoon or a misguided fool. People let’s get one thing straight, George W is a highly intelligent schemer, who has been playing the Washington power brokers like a well oiled fiddle since his election to the presidency in 2000.

My military training taught me this very important axiom; “never under estimate your enemy”. America has demonstrated a longstanding affinity for under estimating the enemy. We have done this with amazing consistency in war after war, going back to the Civil War. However, in order to make a credible prediction, one must consider that all parties involved can and will play their most powerful strongest hand into the circumstances of any critical situation. George W is a man on a holy mission to save the world from “subversive radical Islamic extremists”. In my opinion he is an obsessive fanatic. From his perspective no other person Republican or Democrat, can be trusted to complete the mission. He alone has been ordained by God to save America from this exploding pernicious scourge. The fact that he believes this is true deep within his soul is what makes George W so dangerous.

All of the prestigious study groups, military and civilian, that he has personally commissioned have submitted reports to the President, only to have them rejected. George W rejected each and every study because the findings were contrary to his personal beliefs as how the battle, not especially for Iraq, but against all of radical Islamic extremists should proceed. Finally in desperation he reached out to a document similar to the one written by Frederick Kagan of The American Enterprise Institute. Kagan a resident scholar at AEI has NO Middle East education or experience. He has a BA in Soviet and East European studies and a PhD in Russian and Soviet Military History from Yale. (Wonder if he’s in the Skull and Bones along with Bush and Kerry? Hmmm?) George’s plan is to follow the Kagan model and escalate the number of troops in around the perimeter of Baghdad to more than 20,000.

This plan, like all of the previous operations in Iraq is doomed to a bloody horrific failure. However, George W knows that the Democratic Congress will attempt to oppose his troop escalation, so he and the right wing media will spend all of 2007 saturating the country with ridicule, placing the blame for these new Iraq failures on “Democratic obstructionists” and traitors. However, this right wing publicity campaign will be somewhat muted as the national interest shifts to focus on the Democratic and Republican primaries, and anticipation builds toward the nomination conventions for the two presidential candidates.
At some point prior to the actual presidential election, George W will issue an electrifying public announcement effectively stating that “Since America is still locked in a deadly war with militant Islam around the globe, He cannot and will not step down and relinquish the Presidency at this critical time.” America will be horrified, and this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis that America has ever seen. The forces coalescing around the pro and anti Bush camps will drag America closer and closer into a violent civil war. The issue will hinge on whether the country is actually at war in accordance with the Constitution. A narrow Supreme Court decision in Bush’s favor will fail to pacify the situation.
A truly bipartisan Congress will finally assume control of the military, and the military will remove George W under a military provision which allows a military officer to be removed from command if it is determined that person is no longer fit to command. Bush’s removal will not be pretty. The election will then go forward for an abbreviated presidential term. Mitt Romney will be elected President. Congress will immediately undertake the huge complex problem of how to deal with a Commander-in-chief who may have mental problems and/or obsessions prior to taking the oath of office; or those instances where after assuming the responsibilities of the office, the President developed mental problems preventing proper command of the military of the United States government.