Posted on 11/04/2004 6:01:14 AM PST by sampai
It's the Party, stupid!
Pundits are twisting themselves into knots trying to explain this election. Apparently, Karl Rove's Darth Vaderness convinced millions of evangelical Christians to vote against the gays.
Humbug! Balderdash! Tommyrot! Poppycock!
This election was the year of the Yellow Dog Republican.
I'm a Yellow Dog Republican. If the Republicans put up a mangy yellow dog for president, I'd vote for it. In fact, I'd prefer a dog to a human being because Congressional Republicans would have more control over the dog.
There are now tens of millions of voters like me. Don't believe it? Consider the beating President Bush has taken at the hands of the lying liberal media. Since the Mission Accomplished photo op a year and a half ago, every news cycle has brought bad news for the White House. Yet the president's job approval and head-to-head numbers never dipped below the high 40s.
But Bush has an "emotional bond" with the American people, you say. Surely, 9/11 made it inevitable that a wartime president would win?
Well, then how do you explain the Senate races? In 7 out of 8 open-seat Senate races in red states, Republicans won, often despite themselves.
Some Republican candidates were spectacularly inept. In Oklahoma, Tom Coburn decried the "craphheads" of Oklahoma City, advocated execution for abortionists, warned of growing lesbianism in Oklahoma schools, got embroiled in a media-created scandal involving involuntary sterilization, and generally did his damnedest to lose the race. His opponent, Brad Carson, a "moderate" Democrat who made the right noises on Guns, God, and Gays, should have won in a walk. He lost by 12 points! Other Republican Senate candidates made history, dethroning a caucus leader for the first time since 1952, and helping Louisiana elect a Republican senator for the first time ever.
Meanwhile, the president racked up gargantuan victory margins in states that he'd won by single digits, like Louisiana (15 points), Tennessee (14 points), and West Virginia (13 points.) It's highly unlikely that any Democrat presidential candidate will win these states for a generation.
Democrats figured they'd win the election by getting 10 million more Democrats to the polls. They didn't count on 10 million Yellow Dog Republicans showing up as well. Democrats who wonder how they keep losing to a verbally-challenged, scowling president, who presides over a so-so economy and a not-so-so war, should hear this: It's the Party, stupid!
No, the correct phrase is broken-glass Republicans. We don't come out for yellow dogs.
Put up another Bob Dole and see what happens. Tens of millions of us will stay home. People came out for Bush because they trusted him. Now we will see if he was worthy of that trust.
But he's right about one thing. It didn't have anything to do with Karl Rove and his proclivity for imposing RINOs on us. We came out in spite of Karl Rove.
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. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270075/posts
Hopefully, 08 wont be another "Bob Dole Candidate" year. It's just plain lame when we put up non-competitive candidates.
After all, on it's face defeating a radical leftist like Kerry should have been easy, but the press promoted him non stop, and bashed the president. No lame candidate from us will get anywhere near the job.
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