Posted on 11/03/2004 4:26:35 PM PST by perfect stranger
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 polls 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 by 57 percent – 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 88 percent of the vote.
Seventy percent to 80 percent 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.
Think of all of the money they spent, and all of the "free time" these so-called stars, gave to the dnc and yet the percentage of 18-24 voters remained identical to the 2000 election.
Do you think they learned anything positive out of their failed attempts to steal the election. It should be obvious by now that honesty is the best policy. Of course it helps if you're not brain dead, I suppose.
Another whiney voice. We WON, you klutz.
Beautiful analysis! One of her best....
I think this one is just right. Bush sounded almost embarrassed to talk about moral issues, and yet they were his strongest selling point. His weakest, ironically, was the war in Iraq. But we kept hearing about that, and not just from its detractors.
I never thought I'd say this, but I disagree with Anne. The election was as close as it was not because of Karl Rove, but because half the country would prefer to be lied to and believe ridiculous fantasies than look after their own survival. Kerry being a lying degenerate never made a difference to this half of the people and moral values didn't either. It was the left's strategy of motivating turnout and the rights disgust with the morally bankrupt left that galvanized the largest vote for a president in history.
While ecstatic about Bush's victory, I'm at once depresed that Kerry could register near so many votes, but at the next moment amazed by the fact that after 4 straight years of hatred and lies from the Dems and the Old Media, and their unprecedented informational and voter fraud, Bush could do so well. I wouldn't blame Rove so much for Bush trying to moderate his positions (although he can't gain nearly the ground a leftist like Kerry can by appealing to the middle with lies, and keeping his base despite them) as much as for not blasting the Dems on their deception of the public at every turn on every issue.
Bump for Ann!!!
Today is a great day. The only sobering thought is that it was so close. I was hoping it would be over by ten PM last night. Regardless, the President garnered a huge popular vote victory. Kerry has been defeated despite a near constant four-year onslaught of the MSM, the Hollywood elite, the academic elite, the world 'intelligentsia', and popular culture figures. It's a great victory and it seems churlish of Ann to denigrate it in any way.
this afternoon there was a democratic strategist, a young guy whose name i did not catch as i was getting in a few winks, and he said that the dems lost because they did not have a valid candidate or a valid vision for america. strong stuff from a paid consultant....ooops, probably no longer paid...
I don't think he's really that weak in the Iraq issue - those who answer "Iraq" as #1 issue are the same who see "Iraq" and "War on Terror" as separate propositions, so of course that is going to trend toward Kerry. Meanwhile, if you include those who see the two as linked, the "Iraq" split becomes a lot closer. That said, it's still an issue he should win if the campaign did a better job rebutting the media's constant spin.
I agree with Ann Bush and the GOP could have had a bigger victory and put the election away if they had run on popular issues like banning gay marriage instead of touting "civil unions." Can you say "DUH?" Hope the President and the party are listening.
Hope the GOP is listening . . .
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Did you see the debate at Amherst? AC was in a whole room full of idiot liberals.
YOUR CHOICE OF
(3D FLIP-FLOP ANIM OF GUMBY AND KERRY)
(3D RED FACE ANIM OF GUMBY AND KERRY)
FLIP-FLOPPER - PAINT BALLED - RED FACED
She was to paint-ball his ass the bright orange that would make him the king of all his Swift Boat followers ... or should it be the "bad'est red-ass" of them all ??
She could not tell, from his flip-flops, the difference from his face and his ... democrapic donky!
What an ass !
You owe me a new keyboard. And I wasn't drinking anything.
This is such brutal truth telling that it makes you realize how false and corrupt are the media with their faux objectivity, with their phony balancing of views and so on. Sorry, but when it comes to the massive organized effort to steal an election by the RATS, there is no balancing the views.
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