Posted on 11/05/2004 9:43:56 AM PST by p. henry
Okay, we've all read enough postmortem articles by now to understand the liberal spin on the election. W won by appealing to a bunch of middle-aged, white, evangelical, bigoted, paranoid, ignorant, ill-educated, under-informed denizens of small town America.
I walked precincts for W. I manned my own personal phone bank for him. I spent huge amounts of time drafting an article for him and started a chain mailing of it by blasting it to my personal email list of over 1200 contacts (some of whom were not amused). My 15-year old daughter's editorial in support of W was published on National Review On Line. I gave W, Thune, the RNC, and the Swifties several thousand dollars.
And yet, except for the middle aged white part, I don't fit the liberal stereotype of the W voter. I live in a blue State. I have a graduate degree. I regularly read articles from liberal as well as conservative publications. My county of residence is home to almost 3,000,000 people. I am not particularly religious, let alone evangelical. Gay marriage is not an important issue for me.
So, why did I work so hard for W? Don't tell the liberals, but it was because of his ideas. Although I differ with him in some areas, I agree with him about multilateralism, preemption, tax policy, the proper role of the judiciary, a national missile defence, Kyoto, welfare reform, health savings accounts and Social Security reform. I feel threatened neither by the Patriot Act nor (unlike many liberals) by my more religious brethren. I also worked hard for W because, starting about June of 2003, I just felt he wasn't getting a fair shake from the main stream media; and I don't mind a fight, but it should be a fair fight.
According to the liberals I don't exist. In fact they can't admit I exist because to do so would threaten their smug, sanctimonious, and insular view of the world and their place in it. But please, don't tell them about me or my millions of like minded friends. If they continue to deny our existence, we'll beat them again next time.
Lets hope that the republicans learn from the democrats mistake. If we don't we could be looking at the last republican president for awhile.
Thank you for your efforts. They are appreciated. And, the rewards are quite nice, don't you agree?
I agree with you, I read a Dem saying that there can't be that many evangelicals who swung it for Bush, as if that made all the difference, e.g. his support was only from this group. I too am uncounted. I live in a liberal state, am almost through a master's degree, am married to a PhD (both of us "idiots" according to the Brits and the Dems), am not a churchgoer, speak a couple of foreign languages, et. al.--and I voted for Bush primarily because I believe Radical Islam is a great threat to our nation, and that going to Iraq sent a message that we mean business against tyranny. I get lots of people saying to me that Iraq makes "them" hate us more--my answer is, how could they hate us more after 9/11? Anyway, the people who voted for Bush are much more nuanced and diverse than the current media spin would have you believe.
Absolutely. We could hardly have hoped for more. Pete Coors in Colorado would have been nice, but that's about it.
I get so tired of the "we can't fight back because they'll just hate us more" argument. Where is the proof that supports that statement. Further, if it is true that "they" (whoever that might be) hate us more, does that necessarily translate into more attacks on us. I DON'T WANT TO BE LOVED. I want those who would attack us or support an attack on us to be very, very concerned about the consequences of such an attack or such support. We tried turning the other cheek for eight years under Clinton and all that we received in return were 3,000 dead Americans on 9-11.
I work in an office of 51 electical engineers, half of whom have advanced degrees, myself included. A large majority voted for Bush. If a study were done on this issue - it won't because the liberals already know the answer - I would bet a year's pay that the average IQ for Bush voters is at least 10 points higher than Kerry voters. If you think about Kerry's true base, the dimwits, the druggies, the unsuccessful, the uneducated and the totally government-dependent parasites most clear thinkers would agree with me.
I am a bit alarmed by the inability or unwillingness of popular leftist opinion to accord even the slightest legitimacy to opposing views.
Even many well-educated leftists seem to have no comprehension of alternative interpretation -- or see that political views are 2 sides of the coin of public opinion.
When it comes to conveniently dehumanizing the 'other' -- the common denominator of oppression, this instinct seem to be the response to this election.
this is the reason the democrats dont win
pure smug elitism
You have company.......
I could have written that myself. But I didn't.
Thank you for saving me the trouble. I am among the obvious millions that you mentioned.
Thank you.
"- I would bet a year's pay that the average IQ for Bush voters is at least 10 points higher than Kerry voters."
I would bet fifty dollars that you are being conservative in your estimate, I am almost certain the gap is greater than ten points.
The Dems consider themselves informed but I know a lot of Dems who don't have a clue what is going on in the world. I've read articles by Dems on the issues and they are completely blind to reality. If only a Democrat can be wise then I am proud to be 'ignorant.'
Exactly the same here.
I doubt that Dan and friends will ever know that their disingenuous blather actually got Dubya elected.
Especially, their November surprise of declaring sKerry 18 points ahead, right at the evening rush hour. It was supposed to send the hard working 9-5ers the message that they really shouldn't bother to vote. It's already over.
The problem was, the hard working Republicans new darn well that they were lying. Instead, all those idealistic 20 somethings that they worked so hard to register also got the message, and just went clubbing.
All you have to look at is the states that voted on banning gay marriage, in almost every state more people voted to ban gay marriages than voted for President Bush.
/re-incarnation-big-bang
Pure smug elitism.
Here is my reply on the Victor Davis Hansen thread
here he is speaking about GW and how he won.
"...so confident was he in the exceptionalism of America..."
VDH has it right here, it's perhaps not so much that we
believed in George W. as much as he believed in US!
As JFK (the real one) once said, ...to do the hard things,
to make the hard choices, to do what's right. (not exact
quote.)
These things make America great, and worthy of a leader
like GWB, who must strive to live up to our expectations
as we must strive to live up to his.
This is something the opposition could not and cannot do,
because they are eliteist in nature and feel that
the nation cannot possibly live up to their standards,
and for that reason governance should be best left
to them, there is no spur to them to live up to the
values and expectations of the nation, it's all beneath
them.
Because of this contempt, they cannot rise above themselves
and expand to deliver greatness, they are not called upon
to give that 110%, the maximum effort that has to be brought
up from some where between the gut and the heart.
Zell knows this and he knows what it's called, Esprit d' Corps.
They don't have it, it's all about them, there's nothing
bigger or more important. Oh they'll tell you it's having
a social conscience etc,etc, but only if THEY are the ones
doing it.
t68.
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