The man is clueless.
I vote on two issues: the sanctity of human life and national security.
Abortion is always an issue.
Kerry lost, because the Christians ate the Lions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274205/posts
Second helping of Lion BBQ?
wsj online is free this week.
Could it be because you did not have to be a rocket scientist to see how big a phony he was?
1) Kerry lost because the Democratic Party failed to throw Bill Clinton out of office when it had the opportunity. Good god-fearing Americans showed it the first time in the 2000 election that should have been a victory of Reaganesque proportions for Gore. Instead it laid the foundaton in showing just how morally bankrupt the Left is when it comes to maintaining power.
2) Now comes John Forbes Kerry...a traitorous bastard who should have been court-martialed...instead was given amnesty by Jimmy Carter aka Mr. Malaise. The only reason the election was close in the Electoral College was because of co-conspirators in the MSM and Hollywood celebrities.
Compare their message and hate to that of Ronald Reagan who ran on optimism and American values...and George W. Bush who gets up every morning and says, "Let's kill some terrorists today".
Pardon me but isn't this a value? I'll take the honest man every time. And kerry seemed to have a problem showing up for work or even showing up on time for that matter. Isn't prizing hard work and punctuality considered values any more?
He lost because Americans aren`t into a Communist running the country.
The truth is: Dems nominated the wrong guy in the first place. Only 10% of Dems voted in their primaries. If they get their base out to vote in the primaries maybe they will come up with a more reasonable candidate.
Why did Kerry lose? He was a Liberal elitist snob - flyover country has spoken.
The question is why was it not a landslide. Kerry ran the most incompetent campaign in recent memory, with the major players being people who should be repugnant to the average American - Theresa, et al.
“It would make as much sense to say that liberals are fostering division and intolerance by favoring abortion and gay marriages.”
In my honest opinion... they definitely are.
“ ...the profound liberal bias among many big-city newspapers and most TV stations did not determine the outcome”
It sure as $shit did! Without the socialist, MSM bias, Bush could have added 5-7 points to his victory!
“In fact, abortion was not an issue in the election and Messrs. Bush and Kerry both opposed gay marriage.”
Kerry built his Senate career on only 2 issues... abortion and cutting defense spending... PERIOD. His first speach to the Senate upon his election 20 years ago was his ardent support of abortion!
“ ...there were religious leaders on both sides of that struggle.“
Yeah right... the Pope... vs. Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton!
“ ...but Sen. Kerry won nearly half of all Catholic votes and over three-fourths of all Jewish ones.”
Sure... the ones who are Secularists or seldom, if ever, attend services!
Didn't this election teach us to disregard exit polls as trash?
Frankly, I'm surprised that sKerry got as many votes as he did. It should have been an overwhelming landslide. Apparently, PT Barnum was correct, a sucker (democrat) is born every minute. I can't think of any other reason that would explain why so many people fell for an empty suit. I've seen used car salesmen present a more convincing image than Kerry.
Mr. Wilson's remarks are a little naive.
To say that Mr. Kerry opposed homosexual marriage is to take some of his comments at face value, ignore some other of his comments, and ignore entirely all his actions.
To say that abortion was not an issue is sort of partly true enough to sound good, but false enough to make the statement, as a whole, altogether untrue. Was abortion uppermost in every mind? No. Was abortion a significant issue for a large minority of voters? Absolutely. And what was the net effect of that? Each candidate gained some and lost some for his position on abortion, but the numbers I've seen show that President Bush gained more than he lost for his pro-life position.
This appears to be the case in most elections in most parts of the country.
Indeed, one can fairly say that President Bush's positions on moral issues, contrasted to Mr. Kerry's, were likely the positions that made that crucial 3% difference on Tuesday.
Correction: Bush opposed gay marriage. Kerry, like on every other issue, took both sides depending on which way the wind blew.
Kerry lost because Hate & propaganda doesn't win an election. Because lies and rhetoric doesn't fool the American public (ie. Michael moore). Because American's know proven leadership and proven results, so why change?
Kerry lost because he is the most liberal senator from the most liberal state in the country. Kerry is on the far left of the American political spectrum, which has most Americans trending to the right of center. The big question in my mind is not why Kerry lost, but how did he make it so close?
As a conservative, pro-life, (anti-Specter) born again Christian, I have to say that abortion was not the top issue for me. It was security/war on terror. But I think that the pollsters who seperated the war on terror from the war in Iraq are pulling a fast one. For most conservatives, the two wars are one and the same. It seems to be the liberals who like to differentiate between the war in Afghanistan (aka the war on terror) from the war in Iraq (aka the war for oil).
If one combines the two wars, then the number of votes supporting Bush because of the OVERALL war on terror is much higher than the numbers for the "values voters" --- which is not to denegrate nor downplay their importance.
There are too many reasons to enumerate. Abortion was a reason, gay marriage was a reason.... There is an unspoken reason, Kerry had no vision for America, his only vision was for himsself as president. He didn't know what he was going to do or how he was going to react so he couldn't convey that to the electorate. He was the proverbial "empty suit", there was just nothing there except ambition and self-love.
The very assumption that the red states are comprised of monodimensional stepford bots who get programmed on Sunday then vote on Tuesday is itself a superficial stereotype. Its lone function is to allow the left to feel superior while they lose.
I've never seen such suicidal groupthink on such a scale.