Posted on 11/13/2004 12:05:30 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker
Apparently, Sydney Schanberg gets it.
Someone has to divide the wheat from the chaff.
These folks can think of more ways to spin their loss...amazing!
He should be watched closely because he has the makings of another Savonarola.
Seems he divided the nuts from the sane people.
Seems that the voters have spoken.
BTTT
We didn't mention Billy as a great divider when he only managed 47%.
Blue staters are culturally inbred and socially incestuous bigots living in a closed society totally out of touch with reality. Any group that thinks that they can live without the food, water, material goods supplied by Red states is a few bricks shy of a load (going to that big ole' leaky tunnel).
So Bush just divides them from the real folks who have a clue.
This person ignores the fact that the vote margins in several states were razor thin. These tight states could have been either red OR blue. It's hardly like the red/blue divide represents a 100% red or blue state.
Hello! What was 2000 but a divided electorate....I'd say in four years Bush has united us by two more states, with many more creeping in our direction.
I just heard author David Brooks say on a C-Spam program that originally aired on Nov. 7 that President Bush increased his vote total in 45 states (including Massachusetts) over his 2000 numbers.
If that's not an example of moving towards unifying the country I don't know what is.
Look at the map of Jesusland (the red and blue map not Michelle Moore's goofy caricature) and tell me this country is not unified.
The lunatic left just doesn't get it ~ we won ~ they lost ~ Bump!
Damn straight.
Actually, I don't think they should be ignored, defeated, or converted. I don't think many people think that.
I do think it is incumbent on them to compromise. They have farther to go in any compromise than conservatives do, given that we have the political advantage.
The subtext of this kind of talk, and I see it with libs all the time, is their exagerated sense of self importance. Their self reflexiveness is really remarkable - they lose, and they wonder aloud what the winners should do to reach out to them.
After 80 years of lopsided redistricting favoring democrats in Texas, for example, when the same system is used to their disadvantage, they lament the lack of fairness, stomp their feet, complain, claim victimhood, and otherwise 'find religion' in seeking a more 'equitable' solution. 'Equity' in this case is always self serving - they exhibited no such sentiments when they had the advantage.
Frankly, they tend to be like petulant children - assured of their sense of importance, things tend to revolve around them. It's no wonder that they alienate more people than win over. This track tends to lead them to insular communities where they can flatter themseleves and their intelligence, and berate others outside of their cliques.
That's exactly what is happening and their preferredreaction is to behave more petulant - it only alienates others and marginalizes them more and more. They say the definition of insanity is keep on doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The dem leadership certainly resembles that remark.
I find it so interesting when we just had an election to decide which way the country should go, a vote was made, a direction was chosen, and the losing party wants the winning party to do what the losing party wants! It is ludicrous to me how they think the way to unify us is to move away from the majority and towards the minority. Well, then the majority might be a bit upset, wouldn't you think?
Before the great GOP election victory of 1994 and takeover of Congress, I don't remember the libRats being willing to reach out to Republicans, let alone conservatives. For forty years it was Democrats running the show and Republicans left out in the cold.
Blue people = Smurfs. It does fit.
This 'Division' debate is ridiculous. Who plays the politics of division? It's always the democrats accusing the republicans of what they themselves take part in.
It's hilarious.
No offense, but all their screeds have one core issue - the homosexuals and their Enablers are in an infantile rage over losing.
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