Despite their best efforts, the Democrat's GOTV efforts were soundly trounced on Tuesday by the divisive moral values "issues" touted by the opposition. The god/gay/guns battle cry was louder than the overwhelming need for change and progress in this nation. This focus was emphasized in Bush's speech yesterday.
Because we have done the hard work, we are entering a season of hope. We'll continue our economic progress. We'll reform our outdated tax code. We'll strengthen the Social Security for the next generation. We'll make public schools all they can be. And we will uphold our deepest values of family and faith.
Expect new legislation nation-wide regarding homosexuality and abortion. Assume they will gloss over divorce and adultery while doing little to shore up the other factors that directly impact the family unit; jobs, money and education. If the sole "values" trumpeted were true biblical views; love, understanding, honesty, and peace rather than dogmatic interpretations that create a nation wide rift in the populace it might be easier to support some of the rhetoric.
So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.
As indicated by the last four years, this is more than likely a hollow promise and their policy of restricting information, blocking investigations and shutting down opposing views doesn't increase my faith that they'll adjust their primary goals. Odds the number of press conferences increase are slim. Townhall's take, I believe, indicates the true tone we'll be seeing over the next few months as they begin to chant the mandate mantra.
We must serve as a check on the angry liberals who are humiliated by the stinging defeats they suffered yesterday. They’ll be more desperate than ever, and thus more ruthless than ever in their attacks on our conservative policies. The liberals will twist the facts about tax relief, the war against terrorism, Social Security – you name it.
Honesty should never be confused as ruthless. Calling the administration and all elected leaders on their mistakes is not treason or unpatriotic, it's mandatory. They still have much to do and a second term is not a mulligan but a responsibility to fix what's been broken and right some wrongs.
Anticipate much of this type of rhetoric through the early part of the next year as the shrillest voices on the right try and put the opposition 'in their place'.
The Democrats are now talking about how this is a signal that Bush should “bring the country together”. Translated into American, this means “now that you’ve won, you should surrender to us.” The hell with that. We’ve won. Winning means not having to say you’re sorry. Bush already brought a majority of Americans together: they voted for him. He doesn’t need to reach out to them: they need to reach out to him.
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But, whatever, we won: to hell with the rest of them. Those who didn’t support Bush can go and perform a certain anatomically impossible act. They lost, now they can sit in the back of the bus.
Thank God Almighty.
A well placed directional recommendation followed by a GFY and a veiled reference to bigotry followed by a god reference. It's this type of verbiage that makes one question the true commitment to morals and values trumpeted by the right these days. Just once, could we see something more in line with the Sermon on the Mount rather than an Old Testament battle?
Posted by kerry at November 4, 2004 04:02 AM | TrackBack
I guess John Kerry went into the primary without a plan to win the election. The Democrats threw everything they had at this election. They ran a phony Vietnam War hero and a phony Southerner. They had middle-aged women executives at MTV hawking "Rock the Vote" to entice the most uninformed young people to vote for Kerry. They had Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews and New York Times darling Eminem. They had documentaries, books, the universities, Hollywood (and the French!) on their side.
They had liberal thugs ransacking Bush-Cheney headquarters, stealing Bush-Cheney signs and slashing the tires of Bush-Cheney get-out-the-vote vans on Election Day. In Colorado, they traded voter registrations for crack cocaine. In Ohio, they registered Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy. In South Carolina, Emily's List called Republican households and gave them incorrect information about the location of polling places.
The media campaigned heavily for Kerry with endless Abu Ghraib coverage, phony National Guard documents and, days before the election, false news reports that hundreds of tons of munitions had been looted in Iraq.
The Democrats' cheating never stopped. The big story of this election is the fraudulent exit polling on Election Day. Strange as it seems to me, it is well acknowledged that people are more likely to come out and vote for a winner. Early exit polls showing Kerry the clear winner could be expected to depress the vote for Bush.
Stunningly inaccurate exit polls released around noon on Election Day convinced news anchors, talking heads and even the campaigns that Kerry would win walking away. But at 9 p.m., when the first actual results began to come in, the election flipped to Bush . It was the first Kerry flip-flop that actually served the national interest.
The exit polls were absurd: They showed Kerry winning Pennsylvania by 20 points and Bush tied with Kerry in Mississippi. Only monkey business can explain the wildly pro-Kerry exit polls--admittedly hard to believe with a party that has behaved so honorably throughout this campaign. Michael Barone speculates that the sites of exit polling were leaked to the Democrats, and Democrats sent large numbers of voters to those polls to take exit polls and throw the results.
But for all their chicanery, vote-stealing, Hollywood starlets, fake polls and faux patriotism, the Democrats were wiped out on Election Day.
Bush won the largest popular vote in history with a 3.5 million margin. Indeed, simply by getting a majority of the country to vote for him--the left's most hated politician since Richard Nixon--Bush did something "rock star" Bill Clinton never did. Bush maintained or increased his vote in every state but Vermont. Republicans picked up seats in the House and Senate, and continue to dominate state governorships. Also making history of a sort, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle lost his election, marking the first time in half a century a Senate leader has been defeated.
To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio--you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn't have done it without you!
Of course, we could have done it a lot earlier on election night but for "Boy Genius" Karl Rove. It's absurd that the election was as close as it was. The nation is at war, Bush is a magnificent wartime leader, and the night before the election we didn't know if a liberal tax-and-spend, Vietnam War-protesting senator from Massachusetts would beat him. If Rove is "the architect"--as Bush called him in his acceptance speech--then he is the architect of high TV ratings, not a Republican victory. By keeping the race so tight, Rove ensured that a race that should have been a runaway Bush victory would not be over until the wee hours of the morning.
As we now know, the most important issue to voters was not terrorism, but moral values. Marriage amendments won by lopsided majorities in all 11 states where they were on the ballot. Even in Oregon, the state targeted by gay marriage advocates as their best shot of defeating a marriage amendment, the amendment passed with 57%--a figure noticeable for being larger than the percentage of votes cast for Bush in Oregon. In the great state of Mississippi, the marriage amendment passed with 86% of the vote.
Seventy to 80% of Americans oppose gay marriage and partial-birth abortion. Far from appealing exclusively to a narrow Republican base, opposition to gay marriage is strongest among the Democratic base: blacks, Hispanics, blue-collar workers and the elderly. There were marriage amendments on the ballot in Michigan and Ohio. Bush won Ohio narrowly and lost Michigan by only 2 points. How different might that have been if Bush hadn't run from the issue.
But Rove concluded Bush should stay mum on gay marriage and partial-birth abortion--contravening the politicians' rule of thumb: Talk about your positions that are wildly popular with voters. "Boy Genius" Rove decided Bush shouldn't even run radio ads on gay marriage, and, at the last minute, Bush started claiming he was in favor of civil unions, just like John Kerry.
Amazingly, it was the Democrats--the ones who support gay marriage--who used the gay issue for political advantage, most famously when Kerry gay-baited Mary Cheney during the third debate.
The one toss-up Senate seat lost by the Republicans was Pete Coors in Colorado, where the Democrats did not hesitate to run commercials of a bacchanalian gay festival in Canada sponsored by Coors Brewing Co. The most narrow Republican win in a toss-up Senate race was in Alaska, where the Republican candidate was another "progressive" on the social issues.
When contemplating a former New York mayor as their next presidential candidate, Republicans should remember: This election should have been over sometime in August, not 1 a.m. election night.
Posted by: fletchman at November 4, 2004 08:55 AMDid you read the comments earlier? I suggested a coming together and was told by one of your kind "to hell with that, I'm not swallowing the pill or drinking the purple kool-aid." It would seem to me that the far wings of both ideologies are unwilling to reach towards the middle and a common ground.
Oh, not to mention that your side referred to my side as "being out of touch with reality" and "dense" while she posted some of the craziest stuff I've ever seen about the crumbling of society and someone else posted about seceding to "United Nations Land." (Apparently the fact they could simply move to Canada with far less trouble completely missed that intellectually superior mind.
Yep... there's an interest on both sides to come together, compromise, and achieve the common good. Blah.
Posted by: Andy at November 4, 2004 08:59 AMUm, point of interest regarding Ms. Cheney. It's ironic to accuse the Democratic candidate of gay-baiting in one paragraph and then refer to Coors in the next where Ms Cheney held her last job as the GLBT liason before heading up the Cheney '04 campaign. Which, BTW, puts her in the spotlight and makes her more than "just the VP's daughter".
Posted by: kerry at November 4, 2004 09:26 AMFunny how the Republicans are the wons being blamed for not having any class. Where's the "anybody but Bush", and "somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot" now? All of a sudden you want to act like you ran a classy campaign and the Republicans are the mudslingers? I'm not buying it.
Posted by: Matt at November 4, 2004 09:26 AMjesus, terror, jesus, terror........we're, fucked, we're, fucked.......jesus, terror....oh and by the way, preznit airhead remains an idiot.
Posted by: tim at November 4, 2004 11:05 AMmr. feltcher,
before you go cutting and pasting entire articles written by Ms. Coulter, you might want to get her approval first. Come back when you have an original thought.
Posted by: kerry at November 5, 2004 03:08 AMSeriously, thats really bad. I take back everything I ever said about Andy, he has been outdone (by far, I kid with Andy, but plagerizing? pleeze).
Fletchman, man, please don't call yourself a conservative, it embarrasses the rest of us.
Perhaps I should speak in a toungue you can understand: Bahh! Bahh! (sheep sounds)
Posted by: CB at November 5, 2004 05:12 AM