No wonder the majority of Americans don't want these pecksniffs running things.
What went wrong? They had the wrong strategery!
Both of these impulses--to surrender to red-state values and to mock them--are diversions from the real work ahead. The path back to Democratic victory does not lie in cultural issues--it never has, and the best that can be hoped for in that arena is a draw. It lies in a more compelling economic agenda and a more convincing national security one. John Kerry spoke a lot about jobs in this election, and he pledged to protect popular government programs like Social Security. But, beyond his admirable health care plan, he offered no bold ideas for reducing the economic insecurity that terrifies so many working-class, middle-class, and even upper-middle-class Americans (see Jacob S. Hacker, "False Positive," August 16 & 23). It is true that Kerry failed to win back many lunch-pail, working-class former Democrats. But, instead of focusing merely on why those voters were alienated by the Democrats' cultural message, party strategists need to pay more attention to why they weren't attracted by its economic message.
Honest conservatives, even those who admire President Bush, know he didn't earn a second term.
Oh, did I get a laugh out of this piece!
"Honest liberals" (!?) know that Kerry did not deserve to be elected. Such an honest person would have to consider Kerry's monumental arrogance and hubris throughout the campaign, and wonder if such a man merits the Oval Office. Kerry's lucky that the MSM gave him a free pass on his background, and we're lucky that 58 million didn't buy what he was selling.
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Spent half a billion to elect Barak Obama?
You could have spent that money on...."the children".
No wonder the majority of Americans don't want these pecksniffs running things.
This is what liberalism has come to: Men smearing each other with excrement is called "morally momentous and morally right."
FU Peter. Your judgement of my honesty seems to be as apt as your judgement of what's morally right.
The real irony of this is that prior to the Iraq war, The New Republic was it's biggest booster. I somehow found myself in possession of half a dozen pre-war issues, and they were the biggest war boosters in sight.
This is an arrogant little piece by a presumptuous ass.
Who is he to say what an honest conservative thinks, he being neither? What is his criterion for earning a second term? Anyway, we a do not give terms as rewards: we pick the best available leader for the country, and given the choice, it was easy.
Kerry is man who betrayed his country, and helped defeat a cause for which some 60,000 Americans died. He did his part to help keep Soviet communism in power for another generation, and was trying again to undercut America. Kerry showed no executive ability whatsoever, and selected a vice-presidential candidate who was a pretty-boy of even less desirable experience, and with no useful trade.
The winning alternative was Bush, a steady, principled fellow, who gives every indication of being able courageously to tackle some of our really big problems. His qualifications far outweigh his defects: smirking, walking in a way which somehow offends liberals, and showing a patriotism which offends the left.
The only time a liberal attempts to argue morality is to buttress a cause which he knows to be impossibly unpopular. There is no logic in liberal ideas of morality: it is just a sanctimonious pose by a loser.
Hey......I learned something....that gin and raisins will cure what ails you.....
C'mon. You can't put up an empty suit like Kerry who has no option but to try to lie himself into the presidency and expect to beat GWB, no matter how much the MSM shills for Senator Gigolo.
Oh dear. I don't have high hopes that the left is going to deal with reality.
What a shame.
Interesting. While I am not particularly thrilled with everything Bush did in his first term, the ignorance of this statement is astounding. Quite obviously he did earn a second term. Since we still live in a democratic republic (for now), all that is required to earn a second term is the approval of a majority of the Electoral College (and hence the voters). This is just more evidence of the entitlement mentality of the left. Somehow they seem to believe they have some basic right to the office and anyone else is simply a usurper.
I went no further.
I shouldn't be, but I'm still stunned to see just how out of touch these people are. They really believe they lost because they didn't "communicate their message" effectively. They're utterly blind to the truth, that they lost because enough people DO understand their frightening message all too well.
I also still shake my head over the fact that they're so myopic as to utterly ignore the evidence of history. That evidence makes clear that nations or empires cannot and will not thrive once moral decay sets in and declares wrong to be right and right to be wrong.
It's as if today's liberals think the normalization of sexual immorality and perversion has never been tried before. They think they thought it up. It's been tried, with inevitably fatal results for the city/state/nation/empire.
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That's what you think. Hahahahaha! I haven't felt this relaxed in at least a decade. Life is good. Praise God.
Your not dead from a terrorist attack, are you Peter?
But gay marriage is different. The fact that it is widely unpopular cannot obscure the fact that it is morally momentous and morally right...
I'll bet you're a homosexual, right Peter? Otherwise, this comment is totally incoherent.
I stopped reading after the second paragraph.
Oh, and Peter, don't mix the Prozac with the Jack. Just look at Morford, and Dowd to see the ugly results of that mixture.
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