Bush v. Gore- W, Bush v. Kerry- W, Bush v. Utopia- ?

My, how we ignore reality.
In utopia, there are no terrorists, gas costs what it did when you were a kid no matter when you were a kid, and our nation’s borders expand like stretch pants at the Ryan’s buffet.

But the reality just won’t go away.

Kerry voted for the war on terrorism. Kerry voted for the war on terrorism.
Gore? He didn’t even win his home state. And he said this, to a mostly Muslim audience in a Muslim land (from AP):
Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.
Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

Gas prices follow the economic laws of supply and demand. Same supply, much more demand from places like India and China.
Would Kerry take over the oil industry?
No, he wouldn’t.
Could Al break the laws of supply and demand?
No, he couldn’t.
Remember, he didn’t even win his home state. How’s he gonna make gas cheaper? Wouldn’t that conflict with his man-made global warming crisis?

Illegal Mexican immigration? From their debate:

Kerry- We need a guest-worker program.
Bush- There ought to be a temporary worker card.
Kerry- We need to crack down on illegal hiring.
Bush- I don't think we ought to reward illegal behavior.

Not much difference. Neither would, or could, deport 11 million people.

Gore? Remember “Citizenship USA?” Gore pressured immigration to relax standards so that over one million immigrants could be processed before the 2000 elections. How many “illegals” did each of those “legals” bring?

Still, he didn’t win his home state.

As President Roosevelt said, in France, in 1910:
“ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

With errors and shortcomings, admittedly, but we are indeed winning in Iraq.
We are spending billions on research for alternatives to oil.
The guard has been called to the border.

Bush is in the arena.
What a person does is what counts. All other is just utopian rhetoric.