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Mark Steyn : Believe It Or Not, It Wasn't Just Rednecks Who Voted for Bush
The Telegraph ^ | November 7, 2004 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/06/2004 3:38:52 PM PST by quidnunc

The big question after Tuesday was: will it just be more of the same in George W Bush's second term, or will there be a change of tone? And apparently it's the latter. The great European thinkers have decided that instead of doing another four years of lame Bush-is-a-moron cracks they're going to do four years of lame Americans-are-morons cracks. Inaugurating the new second-term outreach was Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror, who attributed the President's victory to: "The self-righteous, gun-totin', military-lovin', sister-marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport-ownin' rednecks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land 'free and strong'."

Well, that's certainly why I supported Bush, but I'm not sure it entirely accounts for the other 59,459,765. Forty five per cent of Hispanics voted for the President, as did 25 per cent of Jews, and 23 per cent of gays. And this coalition of common-or-garden rednecks, Hispanic rednecks, sinister Zionist rednecks, and lesbian rednecks who enjoy hitting on their gay-loathin' sisters expanded its share of the vote across the entire country — not just in the Bush states but in the Kerry states, too.

In all but six states, the Republican vote went up: the urinating rednecks have increased their number not just in Texas and Mississippi but in Massachusetts and California, both of which have Republican governors. You can drive from coast to coast across the middle of the country and never pass through a single county that voted for John Kerry: it's one continuous cascade of self-righteous urine from sea to shining sea. States that were swing states in 2000…

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bushvictory; marksteyn; simonschama; steyn
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To: quidnunc
"The self-righteous, gun-totin', military-lovin', sister-marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport-ownin' rednecks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land 'free and strong'."

Well, he sure has us down doesn't he?

A Brit put up a thread asking why we are bashing Brits. Hope he sees this one.

41 posted on 11/06/2004 4:01:41 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
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To: Dog

"How much of the African-American vote did Bush get this time?"

- About 11%, which is about 1% more than in 2000. Absolutely hopeless group, who seem quite content to stay on the Dem plantation and do whatever massa tells them to do.


42 posted on 11/06/2004 4:02:30 PM PST by finnigan2
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To: Fintan

Heck, I never MARRIED her either. j/k


43 posted on 11/06/2004 4:02:32 PM PST by AggieCPA (Howdy, Ags!)
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To: quidnunc

Steyn takes no prisoners. Old Europe sadly, shows why it's about to be swallowed whole by Muslims.


44 posted on 11/06/2004 4:03:09 PM PST by hershey
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To: Slings and Arrows

I had a feeling he wasn't british.He speaks normal,eh! Plus he used to be a columnist in one of our newspapers.


45 posted on 11/06/2004 4:04:05 PM PST by nothernlights
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To: Fintan

I'm not upset about the biggest dick line either


46 posted on 11/06/2004 4:04:29 PM PST by wildcatf4f3 (out of the sun)
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To: nothernlights; Dog
Was Steyn canadian in a previous life?

Steyn is Canadian by birth -- a Quebecois, no less.

But he resides in northern New Hampshire.

47 posted on 11/06/2004 4:04:33 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: AggieCPA

My nephew better not look like you...


48 posted on 11/06/2004 4:05:01 PM PST by Fintan (I wanted more Bush...I GOT MORE BUSH!!!!!)
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To: quidnunc

BTTT


49 posted on 11/06/2004 4:05:15 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: quidnunc

ping for rotflmao


50 posted on 11/06/2004 4:05:29 PM PST by Chuck54 ("I' voted for 4 more years of tax cuts and killing terrorists.")
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To: quidnunc

Another great read from Steyn.


51 posted on 11/06/2004 4:05:38 PM PST by Ciexyz (Bush still rules. The sun shines over America.)
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To: quidnunc
Why would anyone want to be one of those European things, can't even speak American.
52 posted on 11/06/2004 4:05:55 PM PST by Little Bill (A 37%er, a Red Spot on a Blue State)
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To: nothernlights; Dog; ARridgerunner

Steyn was born in Canada
raised and educated in England
and now lives in the USA.

Since his column was dropped from the National Post
I do not know of any Canadian newspaper that carries it.


53 posted on 11/06/2004 4:06:47 PM PST by Allan
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To: nothernlights

He's actually a columnist in several American, British, and Canadian newspapers and magazines. His nickname is The One-Man Global Content Provider.


54 posted on 11/06/2004 4:06:58 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I heff good news and bad news. Good news is I saw Allah. Bad news is he was wearing a yarmulke.")
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To: ladyinred

Mark Steyn is being ironic.


55 posted on 11/06/2004 4:08:38 PM PST by edwin hubble
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To: Slings and Arrows
...freeborn citizens asserting their right to dissent from today's established church - the stifling coercive theology of political correctness enforced by a secular episcopate.

This is a very important line from Steyn. Liberals want to insist on an established "church." Every time they include one more expression of free speech to be part of the official list of Hate Speech, they are forcing their dogma on us. We need to face them with this concept and not keep acquiescing to each new definition or boundary imposed by them.

56 posted on 11/06/2004 4:08:46 PM PST by maica ( November 2nd is Vietnam Veterans' Day)
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To: Allan
Actually, he writes for the Western Standard in Canada.

Full list.

57 posted on 11/06/2004 4:10:11 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I heff good news and bad news. Good news is I saw Allah. Bad news is he was wearing a yarmulke.")
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To: xtinct

MSM, RATS, and elitists, the train's already left the station without you. Repackage the same old tired cliche's and see how many more congressional seats and governorships you lose next time.


58 posted on 11/06/2004 4:11:43 PM PST by hershey
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To: nwrep

We can thank Hollywood for the "redneck" sterotyping of the South. We can also thank Hollywood for now extending that stereotype to anyone that votes for Bush.


59 posted on 11/06/2004 4:11:48 PM PST by JRPerry
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To: quidnunc

Thank you Mark Steyn at least some one in Europe gets it...


60 posted on 11/06/2004 4:12:24 PM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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