I am sure many older republicans here have some bad memories. I was 22 when the scumbag clinton beat GHW Bush. The impact didn't seem so bad to me then. Now, with three wonderful kids, I am really worried about the future.
I cannot even find the words to express my sadness and rage. I could deal with the RINO's. At least they were not backed by shadow groups that hate America and God. Unlike this disgusting group we are now forced to deal with.
And I will never believe that we lost by such large numbers due just to the GOP missteps. The media orchestrated this mess. Their unbalanced reporting was the major culprit.
" The media orchestrated this mess. "
Harry Truman said the same thing in '46....
Yup. Even with Rush, Hannity and all the other conservative talk radio hosts and the internet out there, America takes the lazy way out and allows "news" to be spoon-fed to them by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, NY Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweak, etc.
And here we are.
Thus my tagline. This is not to say that the GOP did everything it could. It's criminal the way that Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Scott McClellan, and others let the media manage the aftermath of the war and the ridiculous, drawn-out, meaningless Joe Wilson compost heap. Yeah, Rove survived, as did the VP, who probably never was in danger. Seems like a pretty Pyrrhic victory now, doesn't it?
As much as I would like to smack ABC's Demo-licking smugmeister Terry Moran in the mouth to make his fat lips even fatter, I'd like break my foot off in the posterior of the nincompoop who told Bush it was a good idea to go to a fundraiser after Katrina's landfall. I don't buy Kanye West's blather about him not caring about blacks, but it sure didn't help that as press photos of stranded residents on rooftops were making their way around the globe, there was a picture of the President of the United States strumming a guitar he got as a gift hundreds of miles away.
Worst of all, it was left up to Rick Santorum and others to get the WH to reveal the extent of Saddam's nuke program. Why, after all the ground that was lost when the President was being called a liar, didn't they do something earlier???
I have said Rove isn't now and never was a genius many times on FR and have been pilloried for it. I think he had the good fortune to have run against two unbelievably arrogant blowhards who didn't have any ideas that America would embrace. This time, he was running against Nancy Frigging Pelosi, "my" Congressperson (it makes me feel slimy just saying it). Nancy Pelosi is not just an empty dress, she is a see-thru empty dress. She's a cipher. She's got nothing. She's never done anything but raise millions for the Democrats. And now, if anything happens to Bush & Cheney, God forbid -- NANCY PELOSI IS GOING TO BE PRESIDENT. I can hardly believe I wrote that last sentence, and the worst part is that it's true.
I wanted to believe Rove knew something we didn't. He didn't, he doesn't, and I was right. But I so wanted to be wrong this time.