Posted on 11/04/2004 5:21:31 AM PST by OESY
...The huge voter turnout of some 120 million -- the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968 -- adds to the mandate because it means the country was fully engaged in this national debate. No one can say he didn't know what was at stake. The President's opposition went all-in, as they say in poker, with the most relentlessly partisan performance by elite cultural institutions that we've ever witnessed. Hollywood, CBS, and the New York Times threw everything they had at Mr. Bush, and the country rejected their values and agenda, not his.
We trust that the President will not now let those same opponents interpret his mandate for him. The effort is already under way to diminish the victory by insisting that Mr. Bush "move to the center," which is code for giving up the agenda that voters just endorsed. The country remains "deeply divided," we are told, so Mr. Bush is obliged to make concessions to Nancy Pelosi and George Soros.
Yet it wasn't Mr. Bush but Senate Democrats whose obstructionism was repudiated on Tuesday. South Dakota voters rejected Tom Daschle expressly on the grounds that he had made the Senate a "dead zone," as we once put it, for the Bush agenda. Mr. Daschle responded by saying he could bring more pork back home, but by blocking so much legislation he undercut his own credibility as a politician who could deliver. The men who really defeated Tom Daschle were Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and the Filibuster Democrats, who also have other issues....
Mr. Bush could send an early message here if Chief Justice William Rehnquist decides to retire soon due to illness. He could do worse than elevate Antonin Scalia to Chief Justice and nominate Miguel Estrada as an Associate Justice....
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I have not heard a figure yet of voter turnout (% of eligable)
Miguel Estrada is an excellent choice.
Sweet.
All this time, I thought it was The Hartford Courant's backing of the President that put Bush over the top.
Bush has already moved too much to the center (RX program, federal school funding, etc.). He needs to stay where he is. If he moves much more to the center, somebody is going to come in and ambush the GOP from the right, like Perot did to his Dad.
He has no "center" to move to. He's already there.
Let me suggest that they are Leninist Left, and that they need to move to the center....not to mention moving back to reality.
Exactly! No more "We can't be effective because Republicans ate my ballot" stories.
There are huge issues facing this country in addition to the war on terror. Education, social security reform, etc. The American people have clearly given the reins to Bush.
The WSJ often writes what I'm thinking, in a much more articulate manner. ;-)
"Hollywood, CBS, and the New York Times threw everything they had at Mr. Bush, and the country rejected their values and agenda, not his."
So true.
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Exactly. Remember when they lost last time, McAwfull's mantra was, "we didn't get our message out". Well, no mistaking what your message was this time. And it was TOTALLY REJECTED.
http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html
Link to contact emails for the WEEPING mainstream media to blow them a raspberry for failing to deceive 51% of the population...I'm sending the pic of the Casket of Kerry's campaign with Rather as head pallbearer. Beats Doin laundry!!!
So true. The MSM and especially the leftist broadcast pundits, ranted and raved and lamented over a lack of debate and challenge over the war on terror--meaning our intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, we certainly had it with Kerry.
It was TOTAL MOBILIZATION of Conservative, Freeper, and Republican Ground Forces.
W is not the sort of guy, I don't think, who will let George Soros or Nancy Pelosi set his agenda for him. That's why they despise him to begin with. They're b*tches, he's a man.
Sweet...Loved the slam to cbs and nyt!!!
There were 129 million elegible voters I heard. So if 120 million turned out, That's a good turn out.
MSM as usual, is trying to downplay it. Bush has a landslide victory, but you just don't hear it in MSM. He's got a solid mandate.
It's time MSM starts redeeming itself and start telling people the truth. We will continue to do it.
and of course who was the first one to open up her big mouth..
We don't accept his health plan..
Pelosi.. witch
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