Posted on 11/10/2004 2:16:01 PM PST by quidnunc
Democrats of Manhattan, rise and shine! Its been over a week now. The American people have spoken, and what they said was: They dont want you. The vote is in, the map is more red than blue, that smirking jerk you love to hate is back for four more years. So now what?
Clearly, your most frequently stated option is not a realistic possibility. If you were really going to kill yourself in the event that President George W. Bush got re-elected, you would have done so by now. This leaves you, like every other loser, with two things: a bitter taste in your mouth, and a choice. You can sit around and keep telling each other how stupid and scary the winners are. Or you can put down the hemlock and the Häagen-Dazs, splash some cold water on your face, look in the mirror and tell yourself some awful truths.
Read your lips:
Bush is not an idiot. Kofi Annan is not an oracle. Michael Moore is not Everyman. Women are not ovaries with feet. And to be an American is not an embarrassment.
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Now as then, Democratic partisans seem to be more interested in coming off as wronged rather than defeated. We have lost an election and so far, we are acting as if we have lost a contact lens, crawling around the red parts of the map in search of the speck of strategy that would have turned it blue. The party of F.D.R. and J.F.K. has turned itself into the political equivalent of the woman who responds to her husbands leaving her by living in her bathrobe for years: Its O.K. for her to be miserable, so long as enough people around her know that hes the bad guy.
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(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
Actually, I think that's called his "diet."
MICHAEL MOORE HOSPITALIZED AFTER GRUESOME SUICIDE ATTEMPT -- Attempted To Gorge Himself To Death At Burger King
Sweet. Thank you.
That is a great article by a rather solid Democrat.
It is refreshing to hear someone of substance speak on on their behalf.
Great article. Again, a sane dem trying to point the obvious out to the bomb-throwers in her party.
Please, any DU lurkers, do not read this article. Please continue working on the election machine problem. Thank you.
Very nice article and a moment of lucidity not see in the last week.
He forgot to mention - Don't select a nominee that is a liberal NE senator that goes around campaigning with a convicted child molester who is also his daughter's god-father.
Talk about strange bedfellows. Even the most accomplished novelist could not have dreamed up the unlikely cast of characters in Dimocrats Election 2004 the production.
Arrogant Kerry, pretty-boy Edwards, goofball Terayza, 527 Soros, know-nothing Moore and the Hollyweirdos.
Made into a movie, it might be entitled, " Alien Breed."
Bush is not an idiot. Kofi Annan is not an oracle. Michael Moore is not Everyman. Women are not ovaries with feet. And to be an American is not an embarrassment.
Just so. She'd be banned from DU.
And Durkin is herself deluded if she thinks Bush's açtions are failures. Whatever he's done that hasn't turned out real well is still far better than whatever the Dems would have done. To any sane Dems who want to steer their compatriots (or comrades) back to the center I say good luck, and don't hold your breath.
Looks like Tish may have removed her head from her tush.
Not quite Zell Miller, but nevertheless on his end of the Dem party.
The liberal special interests of the far left have hijacked the Democrat Party in a similar fashion as the radical Islamists have hijacked the muslim relgion, both causing destructive results to their respective members.
If the RATs ever give up on gun control we are going to be in trouble. It is an issue which makes many working class Americans who would otherwise vote like their union bosses want them to, view the RATs as if they are poison.
Bump for later enjoyment! Thanks!
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