Those on the democrat side of the election need to take a serious look at the political map and realize there are not that many blue states. There are red states with blue in the more populous areas like the northeast with the Boston to Georgetown axis and southeast California.
Thanks entirely to the Red State hicks (who the Liberal ingrates deride) who serve in the U.S. military, defending this nation.
Leftists are such myopic a-holes. Personally, I wish they'd secede. They need to get a real sense of what it takes to run a free nation.
Bears repeating.
Proud citizen of JESUSLAND, not a denizen of SATANLAND.....
United we stand and divided we fall.
Since the current democrat party knows it will never again be able to unite enough people behind it's failed politics to win elections and regain majority power its only other hope is to divide the nation.
Hence this new tactic of red vs. blue
This cannot be allowed to succeed.
He kinda lost me there with the firecracker-and-frog thing, and I think he overlooks another important point:
If your "red-blue" map is broken down by county, not just by state, then the contrasts are even more stark:
Even in states like Kalifornicate, that went overwhelmingly for Kerry, the Kerry counties are a relative minority.
Look at a county-by-county map of New York: does that state look like a liberal bastion, or does it merely seem to contain a liberal bastion - New York City?
Good point. All the areas where real estate is obscenely priced are in blue areas.
I'm not Bowers, but it's rare for me to find someone I agree so completely with, that it's eerie.
"Just let me make one point. You were talking about the map before. If indeed all those blue states all got together and seceded from the union, think what would be left for those red states: nothing. There would be no government run educational system."
Now, that would be good for the red states.
From the article:
Ted Rall, cartoonist: "Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on Nov. 2."
Gee, that's why I left the city of my birth..San Francisco and moved to what I thought was a Red State, Pennsylvania....Come next election maybe it will be though. I live in Adams County and it's almost three to one Republican..Blue States just don't get it!!!!!!
I am sick and tired of the "Red State vs Blue State" thing. I want this broke down by county. I wish someone would do a study using County data.
That's pretty good- but I wouldn't mind seeing a real explanation of the problem with the arrogance and bigotry of the Dems.
That you "eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music, etc, does not qualify you as a better person.
It doesn't entitle you to anything, especially the respect of people who are a heckuvalot smarter when it comes down to what really matters after you wipe away the cosmetic "betterness" of the so-called intelligensia.
When it's you and me in the foxhole against the Islamofascists, I don't give a rats ass how charming you are at a cocktail party.
Jeraldine Ferraro's remarks are amazing! In truth, within the Red or Kerry states (colored blue by the media), the counties with the best education mostly for Bush. At least that is true in NJ.
Educational level correlates roughly with Republican voting. Among the best educated people in the country are Mormons (I am not one), and their states are heavily Republican (check Idaho and Utah!).
Actually, to be very blunt, there is not a very strong correlation between intelligence and anything political. It seems that tradition and a sense of loyalty (for example, to family and country and religion) are more important.
Ferraro is just getting beset by hatred, and is starting to hallucinate. That happens when the blood temperature in the brain gets to high.
Quote: "If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect."
I never, never would think of demanding respect from anyone, particularly someone who does not seem to like me anyway. I value the respect of people I admire, or who mean something to me.
I value the respect of my family, most off all. But in the end, it is not what people think of me that counts.
Maybe it is better not to be a celebrity. I would not enjoy the shallowness of the company of people who go around currying "respect."
"We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music..."
That all depends on what the meaning of "better" is. How arrogant of him!
Quote: "If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect."
I never, never would think of demanding respect from anyone, particularly someone who does not seem to like me anyway. I value the respect of people I admire, or who mean something to me.
I value the respect of my family, most off all. But in the end, it is not what people think of me that counts.
Maybe it is better not to be a celebrity. I would not enjoy the shallowness of the company of people who go around currying "respect."
If you want to really know something about "crushing" those with whom one disagrees, you need look no farther than Communism, that progressive ideology, in the twentieth century. I guess for pampered American leftists "crushing," means not giving them the time of day, or President Bush filling his cabinet with people who actually agree with him. How much brutality can one liberal absorb?