Many Americans refuse to concede 'stolen election' [“Many of them wept.”]

Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | January 09, 2005 | Leila Atassi

[razorback-bert]

"And also, as a physician, I just really believed in his plan for health-care reform."

A doctor and a physic, no one else knew what his plan was.

Want to give a liberal brain farts, ask him to explain any of John "Fn" Kerry's plans.

[jslade]

'Nuff Said....Pathetic

[hubno]

Ohio shows us the way.Long lines in Democrat precincts.
Better idae is a stone tablet and chisel for ballot in Frisco.
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[shrinkermd]

One of the tragedies of modern life is as we have a deteriorating social network we, then, begin to react and treat politicians and celebrities as real people in our lives. In some instances people know more about their adored celebrity than they do about any family member or friend.

This over identification with remote celebrities is a sufficient explanation for the massive emotional outpouring of sadness that occurred here and with the Wellstone death. It also occurred similarly with the Diana death.

While people can recall up to 2500 people by name and face, they actually interact with no more than 25. This is why substituting real people for politicians and celebrities has such a deleterious effect on our public life. Bowling Alone is more than a catchy book title and has more ramifications than "ain't it awful" type rhetoric.

I don't have a solution, only an observation but this centralization of feeling into politicians may have an ominous outcome. A real crisis-domestic or foreign-could result on the white horse being given over weening power by public acclimation. Mass psychology not only decrees that it is less moral than individual psychology but also less reflective and demanding of immediate action.

[JesseHousman]

Don't they realize how happy their "misery" makes the rest of us?

[Loyal Buckeye]

Looks as though Rush was right. Kerry's supporters were a bunch of people still living in the '60s.

[End Times Sentinel]

A doctor and a physic, no one else knew what his plan was.

Want to give a liberal brain farts, ask him to explain any of John "Fn" Kerry's plans.

All through the campaign I'd ask my liberal freinds what Kerry stood for, or what his policies were.  Of course, the first response was always "He's not Bush" (of course Nader wasn't Bush either).  When pressed they'd say "Check his website."

Shouldn't he have just told people?  Unless he was hiding something...

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[The Raven]

Has anybody figured out what Kerry was going to do if he got elected??

[No Blue States]

Crying wont help them, praying will do them no good.
The levee already broke.
They certainly arent graceful in defeat.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Milwaukee: More long lines at polling places around the University of Wisconsin. There were so many poll watchers that FMF activists left that job and returned to the university to continue to drum up voter turnout." (FMF = Feminist Majority Foundation)

http://www.msmagazine.com/radar/election2004/fieldreports.asp

There is no doubt in my mind that Dems tried their hardest to appeal to all of their looney factions and got out the vote. 48 Million voted for Kerry. That's way too many in my book.

[sgtbono2002]

There you go again (RR) insulting the IQ of a piece of broccoli. Broccoli is much smarter than the idiot thatw rote this.

How come none of these folks are up in Washington State crying, Thats where the real theft was.

[small voice in the wilderness]

LOL!

...and I vaguely remember being somewhat interested in it one time...but it slips my mind...(flipping through the latest Barefoot Contessa cookbook and feigning concern...)

[Tacis]

This is a great opportunity to torment the mentally ill dems. When speaking with one of these morons, simply mention things like "when Carl Rove left Ohio on election night, he was carrying a canvas bag of dirty laundry, not uncounted ballots," "it is probably just a coincidence that the driver of Kerry's campaign limosene is a first cousin of Carl Rove's wife's cousin," or "all the polling places in Ohio where dems should have won but didn't were located in buildings owned by a Halliburton subsidiary."

These idiots love conspiracy theories based on the the most tenuous of connections and will accept them as fact in a minute. It stems from the OJ case where proof that Furman had used the "N" word cleary established that OJ didn't kill his ex.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

400 malcontents is not "many" Americans. These people and this writer are braindead. Wait until they see how they get wiped out in 2006.

[muir_redwoods]

These nitwits use every scare-tactic they can conjure up to get out the vote and then complain about long lines. If the districts had historically low turn-out how should they have prepared for the vote? If in the previous 10 elections, turn-out had averaged 10-15% and this time it was 50-60% wouldn't a reasonable person have expected long lines?

I never had to wait more than 3-4 minutes when I voted at 6:30 AM. This time I waited an hour. I am not complaining.

[FreedomAvatar]

How anyone could belong to the democratic party after the shameful, childish, anti-American behavior of its leaders and majority of its members, is unfathomable to me.

It is truly the party of the ignorant.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

I'll believe there was fraud when i see 400,000 Republicans protesting at the white house! :)

[BigCinBigD]

Someone needs to set up a suicide hot line for these people. Staffed entirely with recordings of "Ha Ha" "You can do it" and "Yes Drano is poison and it tastes like tofu really it does try it."

[cyncooper]

It seems to me that during the early years of the country it was very common for families to name children and pets for the POTUS. I don't think the identification with politicians is peculiar to the modern era.