Posted on 11/04/2004 5:33:28 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
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It's really been an amazing 48 hrs, hasn't it?
It certainly has been. An Emotional Rollercoaster.
1992 = 44,908,254
1996 = 47,402,357
92,310,611 = Total votes for WJ Clinton
2000 = 50,456,002
2004 = 59,100,000*
109,556,002 = Total votes counted so far for GW Bush
So who is the most popular President in history?!
It is such a relief to know that the majority of the American voters agree that George W. Bush is the best man for the job. The mainstream news tried their to put a lesser man into the office, and America said "NO!"
Thanks for those photos, they just make me warm all over. I'm still pinching myself.
Actually, my greatest satisfaction comes from being so wrong about something. I had too little faith in my fellow Americans. I had come to believe Americans were too ill informed after years of indoctrination by the mainstream media. I thought they had lost their sense of morality...black and white...right and wrong...good and evil.
Turns out they weren't fooled...they just needed something to prod them to action. They "get it". They are silent no more.
The MSM wants to pin it on gay marriage. But gay marriage was simply the straw that broke the camel's back. First they took away prayer in school. Then the creche in the public square. Then they demeaned the "Religious Right" at the 1988 convention and talked of taxing white churches because they were too "political". Tolerance of immorality became a "moral value". Then the Ten Commandments became "offensive". Gay marriage simply made the cumulative weight of all those insults too great for Americans to ignore.
I've never been happier to be so wrong.
I couldn't have said it better.
Thank you.
I should have added one more thing, however: 9/11.
We had a brief glimpse of the electoral outcome for several months in late 2001. While Red America went to church and prayed fervently for the president, Blue America caucused to try and figure out how to undermine him and "his" war on terror. But they knew they couldn't appear to be 1960's radical anti-warriors. They emerged with a strategy that said "it is PATRIOTIC to challenge the war and the president".
On Tuesday Red America made it clear they saw "patriotic anti-war/anti-Americans" as nothing more than "lipstick on a pig". Kudos to Vice President Dick "BigTime" Cheney for hitting the nail on the head.
At the same time, they snapped at anyone who contradicted them, "Are you questioning my patriotism?"
When it comes to Kerry and his drones, why yes, I am.
JOHN Kerry campaign insiders are blaming some of the high-profile people surrounding the candidate for helping President Bush win re-election. A prime target of the finger-pointers is Kerry's filmmaker daughter Alexandra, who made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last spring when she appeared on the red carpet in a see-through dress. She then hired a pricey publicist at powerhouse agency PMK — on her dad's dime, sources say — and went on the campaign trail.
But insiders snipe that all she did was rack up major expenses. "She had an entourage of five people with her everywhere she went," one Kerry confidant sniffed to PAGE SIX's Jared Paul Stern. "A hairdresser, makeup artist, publicist and two assistants. [with no visible results!] It ended up costing something like $8,000 a month. And she didn't exactly do anything."
"These accusations are categorically false," Alexandra's rep retorts. "The campaign is accountable to taxpayers and would never pay for anything inappropriate. And the candidates' children would never be sent on the campaign trail by themselves."
Hip-hop hero Sean Combs and his much-ballyhooed "Vote or Die" campaign has also come under fire after young voters stayed away in droves. "He was just a nuisance," sneers our Kerry snitch. "The whole thing was a joke. No one outside of New York or L.A. gives a hoot about this guy. All he did was get himself press." [gee, ya think?]
Meanwhile, TV pundit George Stephanopoulos says Kerry's main problem was a failure to connect with the common man. Speaking at Women's Wear Daily's CEO summit at the Ritz Carlton in Battery Park City yesterday, Stephanopoulos cracked, "He has seven houses, is married to a billionaire and has French relatives."
Of course, a fair amount of bile is being directed at Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz, while others blame the fact that Kerry did not get rid of Bill Clinton loyalist Terry McAuliffe as Democratic National Committee chairman despite his top advisers' wishes.
McAuliffe was seen as too loyal to Clinton, [to put it mildly] who is also being fingered as a detrimental influence. As The Post's Vince Morris reported yesterday, some analysts say Clinton actually "energized" the Republicans. Of course, the same experts said Al Gore would have won four years ago if he had only used Clinton more on the hustings. (PageSix)
SEN. JOHN Kerry and the Democrats? Their loss to George W. Bush can be chalked up to a number of things: Not selecting Dick Gephardt for his vice-presidential nominee. I don't think John Edwards did much for the ticket . . .
Ralph Nader, who didn't do Kerry much harm, but didn't do him any good, either . . . [What is she talking about? The Dems succeeded in removing from enough state ballots that his barely 1 percent wasn't a factor]
the Massachusetts gay marriage OK that caused 10 other states to effect laws against it, making it "an issue" . . . [And Kerry's flipflopping on the issue while clearly embracing this perversion wasn't a factor?]
failure, perhaps, to follow up on the anti-war stance of Howard Dean . . . [Kerry tried this approach before he rejected it]
Karl Rove's brilliantly dedicated and organized evangelical "born again" Christian crusade . . .
the absurd misimpression that Bush has made us safe from terrorism, which is a snare and a delusion; at this point, nobody could make us "safe" . . .
the touching myth embraced by middle America and the disadvantaged that somehow Bush tax cuts to the rich benefit the rest of us . . . [Well, she IS a gossip columnist, not an economist, but she's still stupid. I guess she's never heard of John F. Kennedy]
the duck-hunting outfit . . . [LOL]
Teresa Heinz Kerry's quirky independence . . . [Um, that's one word for it]
the backlash against liberal show business exemplified by the amazing embrace of Mel Gibson's well-timed release of "The Passion of the Christ" . . . [Well-timed? Does she really think Mel was trying to influence the election?]
Bill Clinton's illness, which sidelined him as a Democratic campaigner (but who knows if red America would have paid him any mind even if he had been able to work for Kerry) . . .
the worst division in ideology since the Civil War. [Blah blah blah - if the division were so great, the vote would have been equal]
I can't believe I looked at your post and didn't realize it was the same one I just posted. More coffee please. I'll ask the Mod to remove mine.
It's almost worth the aggravation of the campaign to watch the Dem fingerpointing and blame begin.
Maybe her "Dubya checks" got lost in the mail?
Let's start a list of most-cheerily-anticipated interviews...in a schadenfreude sense, of course:
McAuliff!!
Maddie Albright, Holbrook, Weasly Clark, Richard Clarke (LOL!)
"The Boss", Babs, Whoppie, et al
Al Gore
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