Thanks Bill.
Posted on 11/05/2004 1:37:00 AM PST by Liz
President Bush won the White House because he understands it's hip to be square.
Bush knows what he stands for and connects with mainstream Americans across a cultural divide that Democrat John Kerry just can't reach.
The president won re-election far from the fancy Manhattan dinner tables where pampered liberals love to ridicule him as a dummy, out in rural and exurban areas where Americans still think it's right to talk about loving God and country.
He won in places where campaigning with Red Sox World Series hero Curt Schilling trumps Bruce Springsteen or Jon Bon Jovi any time, and Whoopi Goldberg was never seen as funny, even before her obscene anti-Bush rant at a Kerry cash bash.
He won in tiny towns where no one dreams of dining with Bush-hating billionaire George Soros, you don't need to borrow a gun to go goose hunting, and opposing gay marriage is seen as standing up for traditional values.
"Most people in America don't windsurf and don't snowboard. Kerry's problem wasn't about his thoughts or issues as much as it was his inability to connect," said Democratic strategist David Doak.
"Democrats get in trouble with candidates from the liberal elite, of noblesse oblige, who talk about, 'Oh gee, I'm going to help the poor people,' " Doak added.
As he sees it, the Democratic Party is a mix of working people and often-wealthy liberals. But recently — with the notable exception of Bill Clinton — the party has chosen nominees who reflect an elite, out-of-touch mentality.
"Bill Clinton could go both ways. He was comfortable in trailer parks as well as Park Avenue. But he was a unique figure," Doak said. "We Democrats have got to find a way to reconnect with rural voters and more conservative voters."
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Kerry lost because he didn't sell himself hard enough.The only way to do that would have been to face hard questions about his past. He was never willing to do that. And he was right to avoid doing that. He would have lost by an even larger margin if he had tried to openly talk about who he really is and what he has really done over the years.
Kerry got the most votes he could possibly get in this country (and I suspect he didn't actually get 1-5% of the votes in his total). He got those votes by obscuring his identity. If he had made things more clear, he would have gotten fewer votes.
Wait til the whiners find out that:
(A) Presdent Bush issued an open invitation to the 59,054,087 Bush voters to attend daily prayer services in the Capitol rotunda.
(B)President Bush is authorizing $2 billion from the NEA to erect a cross on the White House lawn.
(C) President Bush will issue an executive order to place marble replicas of the Ten Commandments in every courtroom in the US.
Thanks Bill.
No kidding? Just WOW if thats true! LMAO!!
It's simply stunning the number of votes he did get. Then again, the Democrat party is just a conspiracy theory of keeping certain people in this country poor and stupid.
All of these things are true, but I think you also have to give red state people credit for understanding the difference in the ideas of the two candidates. I think the latest spin is simply going to be that the red states didn't like Kerry's very unlikeable personality (heck, not even Dems liked the man very much), thereby glossing over the fact that they do indeed think we are doing the right thing in Iraq, they are satisfied with the economic direction of the country, and they like Bush's position on life issues.
Are we going to have a Nativity scene at the Capitol? Grin.
I talked at length to a friend who travels in exclusive circles, a conservative in a sea of liberals. He said a surprising number of those people secretly told him they voted for Bush. He asked why. The most frequent answer:
I don't LIKE Kerry.
And they realllly didn't like Teresa. They told him: 'Hillary wanted to rule the US...Teresa wants to rule the world. Hillary wanted to fix healthcare...Teresa wants us to take vitamins and eat gin soaked raisins'.
People in MA don't like Kerry. His fellow Senators don't like him. According to Newsweek, many of the people working on his campaign didn't like him. After watching him for months, apparently 58 million Americans didn't like him either.
November 3, 2004 had to be a day of liberation for those in the Kerry camp.
"President Bush won the White House because he understands it's hip to be square."
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I bet Barbara Mandrell is so proud. She started it years ago with, "I was country, when country wasn't cool...".
As for me, being a southern gal, I'd much rather have peanuts in my coke, than gin in my raisins!
Don't get confused. Conservative moral issues ruled the day, and moral issues will drive the agenda. Kerry's obeisance to Christian-hating Hollywarped weirdos demonstrated that he would strengthen Follywood's destructive chokehold on American culture.
Kerry idiotically called foul-mouthed Whoppi Goldberg the "soul of America" and stupidly aligned himself with religious-hating Hollywarped's version of the Ten Commandments.
THE HOLLYWOOD CREED
Christians are evil.
Women are to be valued only for their cleavage.
The traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value.
Parents that try to guide their children's choices are restrictive. Kids need to be "free".
Extreme movie violence and explicit sex for the thrill
of it is good because it is profitable.
We firmly believe 24/7 of the sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music we produce are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, we also believe----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
Nativity scene at the White House?
Of course.
And we're gonna sing Christmas carols in the Oval Office
(ACLU take note).
Peanuts in your coke? That was a legend about actress Ava Gardner.....she liked that.
If only we could get that on a tee shirt.
"Bill Clinton could go both ways."
Doubtless. :)
Priceless observation!!
Al Sharpton has been sleeping at a friend's condo. News out today is that he and his wife are divorcing.
Nice pic. Thanks.
You're right. Losing is tough, even when you know you're going to lose. Some of the campaign staff truly believed they would win, because they could 'feel the hate'. Hate is a difficult emotion to sustain for months, particularly when the 'enemy' continues to turn the other cheek.
Hopefully they will find some nice atoll, stare and the ocean and contemplate a new profession.
As goofy as he was, Jimmy Carter ran as "one of us." He was a peanut farmer with Budweiser drinking brother. We can all get on that train. Kerry and "Jenjis Khan" was never going to be "one of us."
Well as long as you're sending out good grape, send me the 82 and 89 Lafite's. I promise I'll appreciate it more than those snobs.
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