They were approximately 11.5 million of Bush's 59 million votes. He won by 3.6 million. Do you think he could have won without their overwhelming support? Do you believe that candidates from either party don't pay back those who put them in power? You can pick lots of bogeymen out of the voting statisti
I side with msladydeath. Makes perfect sense to this conservative. Cheers, Daiwa
Evan Thomas of Newsweek today quoted Kerry as saying to his staff late Tuesday evening, "I can't believe I'm losing to that idiot." That's from the "healer," folks. Cheers, Daiwa
John Kerry lost not because he ran a negative campaign as Draginol seems to imply, but because of the unexpected and totally unwarranted display of desert theatre by Osama Bin Laden. This man thought that he could pull a Spain on the USA. Had he not made his presence felt just 3 days before the election, the result could have bee
The clear difference was the evangelical vote coming out to vote in the gay marriage ammendments across the country. Despite the fact that both candidates oppose gay marriage, the issue clearly belonged to Bush. It was no accident that the issue came up in nearly a dozen states. Despite the passing of the ammendment, no clear alt
Personally, the notion of gay marriage doesn't frighten me in the least. I appear to be in the minority on this issue, however. Given that many Democrats are citing the sentiment against gay marriage as a decisive factor in their election post-mortems (and huffing about how shamelessly the Republicans played on homophobia for political gain), I find it quite interesting that even in the strongly blue states where they were on the ballot, the
"Their parents told them to". They do not agree with it, but due to fearmongering and ignorance, they vote for it. That sounds a little too glib and too much like what the left is saying about us. It doesn't cast us in a good light to impute irrationality or stupidity to our opponents, either. Mainly
Your math just doesn't hold up. You must be one of those "children left behind." If you counted every one of those 247k ballots you want counted and Kerry got 55% of them, Bush would have gotten 45% of them, meaning his margin of victory would have been reduced by about 25k (10% of the outstanding ballots), under you best-case scenario. What would be the point? Cheers, Daiwa
Cursing America because your candidate lost shows that you never cared about America, so don't feign humanitarian concern. Insightful, Messy. But I might rephrase that and say that cursing America because your candidate lost shows you never cared about the nearly 60 million people who disagreed with yo
You know, lately I've wondered. Some of the more recent posts (mostly not from names I recognize, though I've only been around a few weeks) seem like someone, at the local elementary or middle school, let loose the social studies class in the computer lab and directed them to JU for a cruel experiement.
For a little while there, this struck me as a thoughtful article with a reasonable premise and some good ideas and I thought that maybe you had achieved some insight. Then I got to paragraph 5, saw that you had learned absolutely nothing from this election and promptly stopped reading. Cheers, Daiwa
The Democrats are having post-election anxiety attacks over the moral issues vote to the extent that strategist are planning to somehow put God back in their act, despite 55 million minority voters content with God as a silent partner. This is tantamount to suggesting that because of southern and rural dominance slavery should be
There's absolutely no doubt that another ice age will come, only a question of when, though we know it will be awhile. Same with the oceans swallowing up LA, San Francisco and all of New York City thanks to global warming, which all the libs are convinced will occur first. Whoa... have I accidently just stumbled on the Rovian strategy to deal once and for all with the "Blue Problem"? Cheers, Daiwa
If this argument were actually serious, then why don't conservatives focus their energy on passing constitutional amendments banning polygamy and bestiality and man-boy love and every other evil waiting at the bottom of that slippery slope? Those amendments would pass in an instant, and then we could have the actual discussion ab
The Moores, Madonnas, Baldwins, and various others swore up and down that they'd on the first plane out of the US the day Bush that was re-elected. They might still, but they'd have to leave a forwarding address for the royalty checks. I love it when people, enriched beyond your wildest dreams and mine
iamheather - iaminlove. Great post. You rock. Cheers, Daiwa
You'd make a great Democrat, mignuna. I'd be expecting a recruiting call from Terry McAuliffe any day now. He just knows, knows , that if we'd only had more smart people here, Kerry would have won. Cheers, Daiwa
Welcome to JU. Stick around. Insightful from me. Not that I agree with every word, but your take on the Democratic Party's current state jives with mine. The calcified party leadership has embraced the wrong crowd. I wonder how things would have been different if Kerry had had the balls to shut Whoopi Goldberg up and give her a much-needed civics (and civility) lesson. Also big mistake to so openly embrace Michael Moore & give him Special
Cute & well-done. Screed, but well-done screed. And so encapsulates the reasons Kerry lost. Perfect. Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm sure you feel better now. You arrogant asshole. Cheers, Daiwa
Isn't it interesting that they just assume anyone who didn't vote would have voted for Kerry? Typical also that blame for defeat is placed on anyone and everyone but themselves. Call me crazy, but that just may be the problem. Until capable of self-examination and recognition that the party has been co-opted by the hard left hatemongers, the Democratic Party will remain doomed to progressive atrophy. Their only hope of a return to relevance is to p
Dynamaso - It's a difficult task for any of us, with our limited perspective and inevitable bias, to give you a definitive answer. And I would be suspicious of anyone who claims to have it. Since all any of us can do is offer our opinion, informed or otherwise, here goes. I believe Michael Moore's Hatefest played great to the liberal elite choir, which happened to include the majority of the old media, gaining it a lot of e
Evangelicals believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, totally infallible and this belief give to them a strong sense of rightness to what they do. I honestly don't dislike Evangelicals, my uncle is one. I am not a church-going person, but I do consider myself moral and I am frightened that a religious group is getting v
I can understand your disappointment, stevendedalus. After all, we were once faced with the unpleasantness of Bill Clinton's election & re-election. Perhaps, with time for reflection, you'll come back with a more thoughtful analysis that's a little less prejudicial. You've made some rather sweeping assumptions which may be less than justified. Republicans are not the unthinking religious horde you make us out to be. There a many of us just
That's a fascinating map, Drag. Being from Indiana, that state makes perfect sense - the entire state is red except for Indianapolis, the major metropolitan center, Bloomington, the home of the largest university in the state, and Gary, the home of a large union population. Cheers, Daiwa
Bungy - You are right about the vitriol directed at Clinton from the right and I didn't like it, either, but I think in tone and intensity it was several notches below what we've experienced from senior Democrats since the 2000 election. And I meant to convey that people like you would do well to "fire the calcified hate-mongers" like Kennedy, Gore & McAuliffe. I did not mean to characterize the entire party as The Party of Hate. Fa
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