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).
It took a lot of hard work, dedicated people, and maybe some devine intervention to re-elect Dubya.
He was running against Kerry, the Democratic crime machine, the union thugs, the media talking heads, the Soros money, the hollyweird glitter-nazis, the rock-star braindead heads, the network spin anchors, the myriad of Grima Wormtongues, the counterfeit document manufacturers, superman's ghost, the French, orcs, trolls, and the terrorists.
Here's to your "narrow victory".
Ann is so right. With a 15 point advantage given to sKerry by the list of supporting orgs & people Ann sites, you could say Bush actually won by 18% of the votes.
Ann misses the point...the election was never close, nor doubted, except by the medium that she works for.
She needs to stop believing anything she hears on the MSM.
BTTT
I totally agree with your point. The gall of skerry to "lecture" our President about bringing the country together after *years* of incredible vitriol. The MSM must be taken to task for becoming a tool of the 'Rats. The coverage during this election season was so slanted - on ALL MSM outlets (yes - including FOX), that it was nearly impossible to find one reasonable source of objective information. Thank G-d for Free Republic. It served to help me stay sane during the deluge of garbage thrown each day by the MSM...
I don't watch TV, but this morning the DJ on a local country radio station said he tuned into 60 Minutes II last night by default. He said Dan Rather opened with the comment that Moral Values were the most important issue of the election, and that Dan acted like he wasn't quite sure what a Moral Value was and hoped to be able to interview someone who held one on 60 Minutes sometime so he could explain it to the country.
Sometime in the 60s the elites started selling the idea that faith had nothing to do with reality. On the contrary, one's faith is based on one's perception of reality. Believers don't believe because they think it's interesting, but because they think it's true. That's why John Kerry's statement that "I believe life begins at conception but I can't legislate an article of faith," fell flat. If you think it's a baby, you can legislate against its murder.
Atheists may disagree that there truly is a god. They should, however, understand that I believe there is, and I act on that belief in the same way that I act on the belief that there really is gravity.
Shalom.
Anybody just looking at Kerry's actual record - instead of merely his suspect and inflated 4 months in Vietnam - can see many facets including a lying, pandering, opportunistic, vain, slothful, anti-American, Communist-loving, backstabbing, wretched man of terrible character and goals and the best the Rove team could put together was accusing him of being the most liberal Senator from Massachusetts!!??
There was nothing about this man that wasn't an easy target. Why didn't the Bush Campaign even demand he release his military records or explain his actions in Paris with Madame Binh? All they cared to do was discuss policy wonk issues and ignore the real man, a man who would have taken this country down a ghastly path of compromise, surrender, socialism and chaos.
We all know the MSM wouldn't ask the tough questions, but is too much to ask from the Bush Campaign that they demand some answers? Didn't the American people deserve to know the danger this man is?
Kerry's campaign was a mirror of Hillary's in NY - no questions from the Media, all boozy script and chummy photo-ops. In the end, the real John Kerry remained successfully hidden from view - right where he wanted to be.
As it was, this race was almost too close to call when it should have been a complete rout. Rove shouldn't get accolades, he should get taken to the woodshed. Sure he ran a "marvelous" ground game. Unfortunately, he made the race a lot closer than it ever should have been by overlooking the biggest, fattest target ever presented since Bill Clinton. He nearly blew it.
If it weren't for the Swifties, Kerry would now be our President-in-waiting. They are the ones who made the real difference, not Karl Rove!
Two reasons:
1] Bush failed to hit Kerry hard on his lies. The Republican ads sucked. As usual for Republicans, too much Mr. Nice guy in the debates and commercials and speeches.
2] What Ann Coulter is saying. Bush backed away from the gay marriage issue. Had Bush hit Kerry hard on that, then Bush would have had a landslide.
With all due respect to Ms. Coulter, George Bush ran against not only John Kerry and the Democratic Party, but also against a more powerful opponent. The Main Stream Media. The MSM hoped and prayed and worked their butts off to ensure a Bush defeat and they were also responsible for cooking up the exit poll numbers. If they had the real "true" numbers, the election would have been called well before midnight.
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, if they re-ran the Reagan/Mondale election covered by today's media, we would have been sitting there all night with Reagan showing a slight lead but there are still 46 states that are "too close to call".
If I'd known this I probably wouldn't have given that $50 to the Coors campaign.
Ann is right, Rove and Bush are wrong.
We won, but we should have won bigger and earlier, but that damn "compassion" thing made it harder and harder for us to win.
Playing "Mr. Nice Guy" almost cost us the election.
It is absolutely incredible that a major national party would nominate for President and CIC a self-admitted war criminal and someone who gave aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. In addtion, Kerry is the most liberal senator from the most liberal state in the country. I agree with Ann that Kerry should have been toast by August.
"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."
I think this is more the point she was making instead of about exit polling. Those who voted for the President on values won't do so for Rudy in 2008. He is a liberal leaning fellow.
Spot on target! As usual!
I agree with you. Ann sure nailed it.
Anne just doesn't hold back anything. I love the smell of buring Liberals in the morning.
How do/did the Democrats know exactly where to send legions of lawyers to contest the election?
Is it because that is where they knew their ballot-stuffing would be most effective?
Is their ballot-stuffing what convinced the Gore Campaign to ONLY count a couple of counties in Florida?
Perhaps some research is in order this weekend, poring over the results in those states to see how many people voted for President as opposed to how many voted for Senator.
Hmmm? Now that is curious.
I just did a quick check of Pennsylvania and noticed that over 500,000 more people voted for President than voted for Senator. Didn't someone mention busloads of people leaving Manhattan bound for Pennsylvania on election day?
Curious numbers. Understandably more people vote for President than any other office. I will definitely have to compare 2000 results to see if this is standard for the states in question.
If it weren't for the Swifties, Kerry would now be our President-in-waiting. They are the ones who made the real difference, not Karl Rove!
You nailed it much better than I did. Despite having far less resources than the other 527's, the SBVFT had more influence on the electorate than any other group. As a poll watcher in Virginia, I saw many voters wearing clothing/hats showing that they were veterans. As a Vietnam veteran myself, this election was personal more than political. I have never been more energized for an election in my life.
Speaking of Terry Where is he Lately?
Did anyone check Fort Macey Park?
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