[bc boy]

a canuck says please ignore this asshole...we have more than our fair share of marxist/socialist wingnuts in our press and governments...thats why we invented fabulous rye whiskey and a country full of nubile female happybums...eh...bcboy

[FrogMom]

Yet the airwaves are full of back-room Democratic power-brokers and strategists who are anguishing over the need to rebuild the party in the aftermath of a crushing defeat.

THEY have some idea of how many manufactured votes there were. I suspect it WAS a crushing defeat without the illegal/dead/felon/multiple votes.

[An Old Marine]

Shows how little that colwn understands about America. How does he explain 4 Senate seat losses and 5 in the House for the Dems.

Thank God I'm not Canadian.

[Paleo Conservative]

In 1972, Richard Nixon won 60.8 per cent of the vote. In 1984, Ronald Reagan captured 58.8 per cent of the votes cast and in 1964 Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater with 61.1 per cent of the voters supporting his Great Society. These were major wins, solid confirmations of public support for the winning candidates.

But Nixon did nothing to help Republican candidates for the House and Sentate. Republicans actually lost House and Senate seats in 1972. Reagan also failed to translate a landslide presidential win into congressional gains. Bush is the first President to win reelection while making gains in both the House and Senate since 1936 when FDR did it. Republicans gained a net increase of four seats solidifyng Republican control of the Senate. He is the first Republican President to win reelection on those terms since McKinley in 1900.

[najida]

Calling Mr. Chapman, Mr. Chapman....

Please pick up a clue at the curtesy booth.

[CyberAnt]

Somebody needs to send these people A RED MAP.

And remind them that it's not 51% - I think it's 52-53% since the count went over 60 million - which is 10 million more than he got in 2000.

[Rocky]

My guess is, if the Democrats had won, this guy would be chortling about the complete repudiation of Bush's policies.

[FreedomCalls]

"... in 1964 Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater with 61.1 per cent of the voters supporting his Great Society."

Hogwash. His "Great Society" was in his inauguration speech so how could people have been voting for it? And besides most of that 61% were sympathy votes. Any candidate running as Vice-President who's President is assassinated a year before the election will probably receive more than 50% of the vote just out of sympathy and to maintain continuity.

Once the voters got to know him proper, he was soundly rejected. So much so in fact, that he decided to withdraw from the race lest he suffer a humiliating defeat.

[UltraKonservativen]

Well now, there are a few more items to add to the list to save the democrats
- Repudiate Michael Moore and the Hollyweirdos.
- Stop saying that abortion is the same as cutting your toenails,
- Stop wanting to increase taxes on anybody.
- Support our military
- Stop pushing activist judges and the gay lifestyle
- Stop bad mouthing God and all who believe in God
- Stop being ARROGANT A$$HOLES....Oh Well, Never mind. That last one is impossible.

[FreedomCalls]

"Dubya's 51 per cent was just a whisper above the bare minimum needed to declare victory in the public contest"

And Clinton felt he had enough of a mandate to fire all the federal prosecutors throughout the country as his first act in office because he had what percentage of the country behind him? 49.2% in 1996 and 43.0 % in 1992. What about Carter? 50.1% in 1976. Truman in 1948? 49.6% Why even the sainted FDR in the middle of WWII only got 53.4% of the vote in 1944 to Dewey's 45.9%!

This guy is clueless -- he has no idea what he is talking about.

[willienolan]

I live in the same city as this dufus and he has been a pain in my as* for years whether it's on the radio, on TV, or in print. You turn around and someone else is giving him a job and I've yet to figure out why!! Like I said in another thread the other day, the loud mouths make better press. His coments mean less the more he talks.

[CFC__VRWC]

I suggest what they need next time is a presidential possibility checklist. There must be somebody in their party who:

* Has no skeletons in his closet (hello, swift boat veterans).

* Has a solid, consistent voting record that illustrates a workable philosophy.

* Has enough charisma to satisfy those who think that's important.

* Knows the difference between talking to people and just makming speeches.

* Isn't afraid to offer specific plans and policies that clearly demonstrate their superiority to those of the Republicans.

Put that package together and run it next time and see what happens.

Guess what? They don't have anyone in their party that would meet these criteria. All they have is a bunch of corrupt mountebanks and poltroons that have nothing to sell except decades-old ideas straight out of the writings of Marx, ideas that have been proven time and again to do nothing but spread poverty, misery, despair and ultimately mass murder on the greatest scale ever seen.

And the fact that this guy even puts this in print just shows his utter stupidity about America and our politics and DQ's himself from any knowledgeable conversation on the subject.

[mississippi red-neck]

Their opinion is even a bigger loser over here than their candidate John Kerry.

Somebody send this jerk a quarter and tell him to call somebody who gives a rat's a** what they think.

If these idiots spent more time reading than they did writng the world would be a whole lot better off.

The Queen is dead! Long Live the King!