Posted on 11/03/2004 4:41:04 AM PST by Liz
Clearly, the Kerry campaign machine paled next to the brilliant assault commanded by Bush and Karl Rove.
I would say the number one miscalculation was that the Kerry people severly underestimated the burning desire in the American electorate for the restoration of moral values.
It was significant---and redounded in Bush's favor---that ballot questions in 10-12 states to outlaw same sex marriages brought out committed Christians in droves.
These Christians came out to vote for traditional marriage and overwhelmingly drove the vote home for Bush.
Also significant was the Bush effect in Black churches ---normally Dim strongholds.
GWB's strong moral commitment resonated in those churches by strongly religious Black believers who wanted no truck with gay marriages. Our Black co-religionists had also been betrayed by Rev Jesse Jackson and his extra-marital fatherhood.
Two mistakes:
1.) Vietnam. Basing a major part of his campaign on four months as a "decorated war hero" was a disaster of the first magnitude. It opened the door for the Swifties' devastating attacks. It made his virulent anti-war activities fair game. And it allowed the GOP to highlight the dichotomy between his alleged "bravery" in Vietnam and his total appeasement and defense-cutting in Congress.
2.) Flip-flopping against the war. If he'd just stuck to his guns and said, "Yeah, I voted for Iraq, at the time I thought it was a good idea, but I now think we did some things wrong and here's what I'd do different," he'd have done better. Instead he veered all over the place, simultaneously crowing that he'd go get OBL "by any means" and pandering to the anti-war moonbats by his incessant rants that we couldn't do a damn thing right in Afghanistan or Iraq. A more moderate stand on the WoT might've alienated the moonbats, but what were they going to do, vote for Nader?
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"22% of those polled rated moral values over the economy (19%) and terrorism (18%) as key voting issues. And that moral-centric vote rated 79% for Bush's moral values compared with 21% for Kerry."
Yes moral values, somehow those who thought they could 'hide' the Ten Commandments got a eye opener, if they will listen.
Liz..have you seen any early reports on how blacks and Jews voted?
Kerry running.
You don't have to be a Religious Person to know that abortion is wrong. You don't have to be a Veteran to know that "YOU FUND THE SOLDIERS" when they're at the front!!
He didn't define himself. When I asked Kerry supporters WHY I should vote Kerry, they could only say, "Because he's not Bush."
He always had a long face.
We won the Super Bowl, the World Series and the presidential election.
The downside is we have to take Kerry back.
The evil Clintons calculatedly plotted to fool religious voters and disguised themselves as church-going Christians carrying Bibles.
This question is like asking us to pick our favorite grain of sand, or the smelliest person in France.
Just too many choices!
Running as a twofaced jerk. On one side of his face he ran as a so-called 'war hero'. On the other side of his face he ran as a 'war protestor' (and traitor).
Hey, 'Twoface Kerry' has a nice ring to it. ;D
The decision to run against W.
Thinking that we're all as gullible and morally brain-dead as Bostonians.
There were many, but the one that got the most attention from the non-attention paying public was "Dick Cheney's daughter....who is a Lesbian". That was a very low blow and the average person knew it.
Counting on Crazy Dan Rather to successfully carry his water.
I think Clinton chose him, thereby doing him in, Dean was too strong.....
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