SHHHHHHHHHHH!!! No, Ann! Don't let them know why they just got pimp-slapped into an electoral coma, this time out! WE WANNA BE ABLE TO USE THEIR SAME "WEAPONS" AGAINST THEM NEXT TIME OUT, FOR PETE'S SAKE -- ! :)
Posted on 11/04/2004 2:33:35 AM PST by kattracks
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.
Ann Coulter is a bestselling author and syndicated columnist. Her most recent book is How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).
SHHHHHHHHHHH!!! No, Ann! Don't let them know why they just got pimp-slapped into an electoral coma, this time out! WE WANNA BE ABLE TO USE THEIR SAME "WEAPONS" AGAINST THEM NEXT TIME OUT, FOR PETE'S SAKE -- ! :)
That was a dumbass move. There was no reason for the President to water down his position. The President won and I am very, very glad but I hope these Republicans grow some and start telling the Dems about how things are gonna be. Are you listening Repubs??--We got the power, let's use it.
Keep up the 'healing', Ann !!
BUMP
I'd vote for Rudy but I think many Repubs wouldn't come out to support him--too liberal in the social arena.
Without question I think most of that 6 or 6 1/2% can be attributed to the old media, which did not feel it mattered in the least what Kerry has done since his Vietnam war service days. In that span of years were stories that reporters should have been climbing all over themselves like wild dogs after dead meat. But not a single one of them pursued any of those stories. That in itself was the biggest crime of this whole campaign.
How he managed to conspire to get that deal, that he was hands off to all questions and even reporters that would have asked even semi tough questions shows collusion at the highest levels of the old media. The wool they tried to pull over the American public was worth at LEAST 6 or 6 and 1/2 points and probably much more.
If we want out figure out how a person with complete crap credentials for the job got as far as he did, I think we have to look no further than that. ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN and all the crap newspapers are to blame. Even ones that endorsed President Bush were to blame.
My local rag, the Cincinnati Enquirer endorsed President Bush because they HAD to, not because they wanted to. In Cincinnati, their customer base is hugely Republican/Conservative. But I canceled my newspaper subscription because like most other newspapers, the articles were at least 60-70% pro-Kerry and negative for Bush. If they thought by endorsing President Bush they would get my business back they were mistaken. They can keep their liberal rag and I'll keep my money.
As usual, she doesn't mince words. And, of course, this isn't a time to mince words. V's wife
Terry McCauliff is a double agent. V's wife
Hmmmm ... I'm going to have to read and learn a bit more about this.
Methinks Ann is on to something here.
Watson ... The game is afoot!
The fact is - and this is crucial for anyone interested in the future of your town or city or state - it's not just exit polls that are dishonest. One can make the case, sort of, that honest polling data presented objectively is useful as an adjunct to sane policy making. Unfortunately, polling of all sorts has been twisted into radical social engineering used to manipulate public perception, isolate or freeze honest and heartfelt dissent for controversial subjects. Radicals take advantage of most people's good nature and willingness to compromise. Polling is bought and paid for by special interest groups in order to gain a predetermined outcome by giving the illusion of public input.
This one is a keeper. It may be the most intelligent assessment of the recent campaign that we will read anywhere.
GOP ticket for 2008.......
ANN COULTER...President
RUDY GUILIANNI.....Vice President
UNBEATABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Exit polls and crime profiling, just plain wrong.
PING
He did? I must have missed that. I've just lost a lot of respect for him.
Had Ann ran the campaign, JFK would be President-Elect this morning, As usual she has many good points but then she goes off on a tangent.
No need for this piece this morning. Tom close to a success.
VOTER FRAUD... simple... that and 40% of American's are "lost souls".
LLS
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