HAA HAA!!
Posted on 11/05/2004 8:27:13 PM PST by FairOpinion
The liberal activist group MoveOn.org e-mailed its supporters late Wednesday acknowledging "heartbreak" over President Bush's re-election and billionaire investor George Soros called Bush's win "distressing" before departing to Europe for work on other business.
But the prominent critics of the president said they wouldn't spend too much time mourning Tuesday's election results, vowing instead to look ahead to congressional races in 2006 and the battle for the White House in four years.
"This totally sucks. But we're going to pull through it together," wrote blogger David Allen, administrator of the popular Democratic Underground website.
Unlike past elections, groups like MoveOn, America Coming Together, the Media Fund and the Center for American Progress became major political players, often upstaging the Democratic National Committee in terms of inciting anti-Bush sentiment.
Many of the new groups were funded by Soros, a liberal philanthropist, who devoted $25 million of his fortune to defeat Bush. Soros even took a trip through battleground states in October. Last week he jokingly said he would enter a monastery if Bush was re-elected.
"Obviously, I am distressed at the outcome of the election," Soros wrote in a note on his website Wednesday. "I hope, but don't trust, that the second Bush administration will have learned something from the mistakes of the first. What is at stake is our ability to recognize our own fallibility."
After Kerry conceded Wednesday, reaction was slow to trickle in from other key players in the anti-Bush movement. In an e-mail Thursday, the Center for American Progress vowed to challenge Bush if he perceived his victory as a mandate from voters.
"President Bush ran on fear and divisive cultural issues and turned out more voters than his opponent," according to the center's talking points memo. "Despite the president's sunny calls for coming together, this election was a mandate for political division not unity. Progressives must remain strong and prepare for what is coming our way."
Eli Pariser, executive director of the MoveOn PAC, wrote the "heartbreak" e-mail, which was jointly signed by the 22-member team at MoveOn and distributed late Wednesday. Pariser called it "a dark day" in America.
"That you put so much into this effort makes the loss more painful in some ways," Pariser wrote. "But the fact that so many of us were involved offers true hope for the future of democracy. In the campaign to defeat George Bush, you have proven that real Americans can have a voice in American politics. In the months and years to come, that revelation will change everything."
MoveOn also used the opportunity to thank its supporters and claim credit for Kerry's victories in New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Pariser stated that more than 70,000 people worked on behalf of MoveOn on Election Day.
"Our heartache does not diminish our pride in what you've done," Pariser wrote. "We're proud about Wisconsin, where MoveOn volunteers turned out over 27,000 voters and Kerry won by only 11,813 votes. And New Hampshire, a former Bush state where we turned out 9,820 of the people on our list and Kerry won by 9,171 votes."
For liberals looking for a place to cope, the Democratic Underground blog offers two forums: "General Discussion: Help and Support" and "General Discussion: Fighting and Acrimony." Allen, the blog's administrator, told readers not to be angry.
"If you ever feel so angry that you want to disrupt or pick fights, or deliberately piss people off, I strongly advise that you turn off your computer and turn off the cable news and go do something else that will make you feel better," Allen wrote.
The anti-Bush forces are looking ahead to future races at the federal, state and local level. MoveOn included a note in its e-mail from one supporter named "Chris" who had already asked Pariser for help running a congressional race in 2006.
"Our journey toward a progressive America has always been bigger than George Bush," Pariser wrote. "The current leg is just beginning - we're still learning how to build a citizen-based politics together."
I think we deserve to gloat and enjoy some Schadenfreude.
I suspect Soros will get bored with this, and close his wallet, in which case it is all over.
HAA HAA!!
The most demonized President in American history won re-election by 4 million votes and in the process added 4 senate seats and 3 to 5 house seats....bhahahahahaha...I cant stop gloating...
WE NEED A NEW REFORM OF ELECTORAL FUNDS. STOP FRAUDS LIKE MOVE-ON AND THE OTHER WELL-KNOWN DEMONS' MOVEMENTS WHO HAVE OUTFLANKED THE LAW!
As I said many times before "Who God Bless No Man Curse".
Bush is divinely blessed indeed.
"Our journey toward a progressive America has always been bigger than George Bush," Pariser wrote. "The current leg is just beginning - we're still learning how to build a citizen-based politics together."
Just learning? It was built over 200 years ago! You must not have read the memo.
Heartbroken, distressed, AND a whole lot poorer.........bwahahahahaha!
"...Oh, and by the way, keep those checks coming."
Like Peggy Noonan says.. "savor, savor, savor".
departed for Europe to work on other business???
ahem!
What about gettin' that tonsure, Georgie-boy?
I cannot put into words how ecstatic I am to see the members of MoveOn.org suffering so. They have almost singlehandedly brought down the level of discourse in American politics to a nadir not seen in well over 100 years.
They stand for hate.
They now get to reap the rewards of all the hate they have sown.
And the best part is, they will learn nothing from their defeat. They will come back just as spitefully and mean-spiritedly in 2006, and in the process help ensure the Democrats lose even more seats in Congress, lose even more governorships, and lose even more statehouses.
Hurray for MoveOn.org!
Hell, if nothing else it was well worth the Bush victory to see the left suffer like it is....I JUST LOVE IT lol.
Many electing to vote under names such as "Harry Potter" and "Mary Poppins": virtually all of them in return for crack cocaine. :)
I heard some people today who were calling you some very vile names...I was listening to NPR :{)
Don't count on it. Soros is a thug who hates Bush because the financial transparency Bush is pushing as part of the War on Terror is bad for business. He is involved in Drug Legalization efforts around the world. He wants to destroy the United States the same way the British destroyed China. Soros is not going away. If Bush is smart he will put Soros away.
the problem with the democrats is that they have too may "leaders" who speak for the party. this is a party of disunity. they themselves are divided, both ideologically and organizationally. how does the president united two parties when one of the parties looks like a jigsaw puzzle?
And the best part? They threw MILLIONS down that hopeless rat hole in trying to elect Kerry, and they honestly thought they were doing a good job of getting out their voter base.
Nobody cares who finished second in politics. When you get your butt kicked that soundly, eat crow, accept your defeat and shut up about it. Or don't eat the crow, and sulk about the defeat. Either way, just shut up about it.
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