The Democrat Failure (George Will Looks Back At The 2004 Election)

Townhall.com ^ | 11/04/04 | George Will

[goldstategop]

Do the Democrats get people in "flyover country?" Apparently they think we're all rednecks and rubes. Just ask the losers of the 2004 Election.

[soccer_linux_mozilla]

2004 Latest vote, county by county - Colored counties are those where a candidate has won with 100% of precincts counted.

[ladyinred]

Kerry ran a high-risk ``biography candidacy'' based on a four-month period 35 years ago

That ended with him consorting with the enemy. OOPS, I forgot , the media made sure the voters didn't know that.

[Fallstaff]

"George Will, now thats an attractive man. I dont find him all that bright [though]." -- Kramer

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Hence so did this: By Jan. 20, 2009, all the elected presidents for 44 consecutive years will have come from three Southern states -- Texas, Arkansas, Georgia -- and Southern California.

I never thought about that. In fact, if you back to 1952, only JFK was an except to this rule, because Ike was from Texas too.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Missouri and Oklahoma sure cleaned up all those messy blue splotches nicely.

[goldstategop]

Actually JFK won with a southern liberal at his ticket, LBJ. Those were different times. Yesterday's election marks the end of an era in this country.

[Theresawithanh]

Kerry also had the media on his side. Had the media gone after him like they did President Bush, I believe it could have been a 49-state landslide. Also, his totally ineffective and inept campaign strategies should've sunk him.

[goldstategop]

All things being equal, it should have. We can thank God America wasn't saddled with another Jimmy Carter.

[Mike Fieschko]

By Jan. 20, 2009, all the elected presidents for 44 consecutive years will have come from three Southern states -- Texas, Arkansas, Georgia -- and Southern California.

Another meaningless factoid: in the last 52 years, every Republican ticket but one has included a Nixon, Dole or Bush.

[goldstategop]

Yes we do have dynasties. What do the Democrats have apart from the Kennedys?

[madison46]

ping

[ModelBreaker]

1964 and 1976?

[Tall_Texan]

There is no Nixon dynasty. But there's been a Bush or a Dole on the national GOP ticket every year that I've been eligible to vote. And I'll be over 50 years old in 2008.

[Mike Fieschko]

1964 and 1976?

1964 is right.

Who was Ford's VP candidate?

[doug from upland]

I marvel at the writing of both Will and Tyrrell. I hope George someday achieves what he really wants --- Commissioner of Major League Baseball. I know that the shill RAT historian Doris Kerns Goodwin would also like that job.

[Vision Thing]

George Will tried to inject part of this essay into the ABC election coverage last night. It was the part about the Democrat's need to purge the Michael Moores from their party.

Peterless Jennings only gave Will fifteen seconds to make his case. Peterless then replied with the folowing disengenuous utterance: "Interesting."

He then quickly changed the subject by directing attention to another correspondent.

[Vision Thing]

The nation's population center did not cross the Mississippi until the 1980 census. Today it is in Phelps County, Mo., heading southwest, away from the Democratic Party with its apparently metabolic impulse to ignore such realities.

In other words, the population center is headed straight for Texas.

[ModelBreaker]

Who was Ford's VP candidate?

That was the reason for my question mark. Did he run with Bob Dole? Can't say that I remember that.