Smelling the Coffee

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.” Proverbs, 26:27

Hours before the American presidential election a few days ago was held, there were supporters of President Bush’s reelection bid who said they believed Senator Kerry was going to come out on top in the end. Indeed, I had such partial thoughts as well. But, thankfully, we were wrong and the elections resulted with President Bush being given a mandate by the American people for four more years, though for some hours it would seem it was a Florida all over again, with the Democrats crying wolf, however, this time in Ohio.

In this election, President Bush received almost four million more votes than Senator Kerry did, and he broke a record by attaining the most popular votes in US history. Indeed with 51% of the popular vote, coupled with the necessary electoral votes for winning, President Bush brought smiles to those who supported him, and tears to those who supported Senator Kerry. The Republican Party made inroads as well, increasing their hold in Congress.

I do not intend on going through why President Bush had a better platform than Senator Kerry had. I wouldn’t agree that President Bush had a necessarily great campaign either, but it is hard to deny the horrendous and immature campaign by many Kerry supporters trying to get people to vote for their candidate.

It is no secret that the United States has a much divided country and that most of the time Americans usually know which party’s candidate they are going to vote for, leaving a percentage of the US population who is undecided. In theory, both campaigns seek to attract that undecided vote. George Bush’s campaign did so successfully, Kerry’s failed miserably, even alienating Democrats themselves.

The Democrat Party did a terrible job with their campaign. Their campaign staff and major supporters had a childish nature of the election. The party was led by a mantra which was basically, “We hate Bush - vote for us.” It wasn’t about ideas, or a vision. It wasn’t a campaign looking at the future and about policy. It was a campaign based on attacking a person, and painting the United States as some dictatorship under George Bush. They were just anti-republican and anti-Bush. They forgot that they should have presented a side that was pro-Democrat and pro-Kerry. They hated Bush more than they supported Kerry.

You could hear them before the elections saying this country was under fascism, and now you can hear them saying that there was a fix, Kerry really won, and that it was a whole conspiracy. These people can’t even decide what they believe. On the one hand they say elections are rigged in the US, and on the other hand before elections are held they get involved in trying to get their candidates elected. Why did they involve themselves in activities to get Bush out, if they knew it all along that Bush was going to win, because after all he controls the elections, the electronic voting machines, etc. as they all claim? And if Kerry won, would you say the election was fair? Bush won fair and square. Turning on radio networks like Air America makes me feel like Hitler just gained power. This leftist motto which finds elections valid when they like the results, sounds like the leftist motto which says people should have free speech as long as they like what is coming out of the people’s mouths.

And how much did leftist groups spend to try to get Bush out of the White House you ask? Newsmax.com reported on a fact aired today on Fox News which said $400 million was spent by 527s. And what did they achieve? They barely gave New Hampshire to Kerry and they lost Iowa and New Mexico to Bush.

The Democrat Party and Senator Kerry were being led around by radical leftists, who in reality make up just 10% of the US population. For some weird reason, the campaign integrated their mottos and looked to attracting their support. These were the type of people who said things like “anybody but Bush,” were communists, and followed some fridge political thought - people who could care less about Senator Kerry or the Democrat Party. They just wanted Bush to lose. This was a strategy which was not going to bring a wide range of voters to their side.

These were also the same people who before and after the elections were heard saying things like “We are going to move Canada or Australia,” as if the United States was doomed with a Bush election. Look how far the US has come since 9/11/01 under Bush. Bush’s leadership has not been perfect, but it should come as a marvel to everyone here in America due to the fact his administration has been able to keep America running in the face of militant Islam during dire times. People just didn’t get it, and they still don’t get it after this election. It’s pathetic.

And now there are reports of protests occurring and being planned against the election of Bush. The only protests that should be logical are protests by Democrats like Joe Lieberman against their party which lost not because their message was not liked, but because they had none which sought to attract Americans or a message which understood the realities America was facing. Their message was juvenile and uninformed.

Bush’s campaign was able to attract many voters. Matthew Dowd, the Bush-Cheney chief strategist, noted on CNSNews.com that in this election 42% of Hispanics (up from 35 in 200), 11% of African Americans (up from 9 in 2000), 24% of Jews (up from 19 in 2000) and 47% of women (up from 43%) voted for George Bush. I was distraught to see that the Jewish vote did not increase much in support of Bush this time around, though it did increase by a number of percentage points. This shows how ill-informed the pro-Israel Jews of America are about who they should be voting for if they want a president with a pro-Israel support base, like Bush does with the Evangelical Christians. There was also little change when it came to the youth vote as well.

Now that Bush has been re-elected I expect this Bush hating crowd to wither away. It will be further pointless in the 2008 election because George Bush will not run again (unless some of you think Bush will change the constitution to make it possible for him to run again). The centrists in the Democrat Party would be wise to get rid of them and begin to formulate a message for adoption in 2006 and 2008, aiming to make it in support of their candidate, rather than in hatred to their opponent. It should be a message which understands reality and the world America lives in.

I am glad George Bush has been reelected. The United States can look to continue to maintain its position in the world and remain a stable state actor within the world system. I advise the other party to get back to reality, if they want their existence in the voter’s mind to be as such in the future.

Clinton put all the pressure on Israel to make concessions-which they did.

Bush has put pressure on Israel as well. That have been many examples of the administration criticizing Israel and you can recall Bush explicitly telling Israel to end its operation around Arafat's HQ in 2002.

With Bush it is the opposite, he is waiting for the Palestinians to end their terrorism.

Not necessarily. These Arabs continue their terror and yet the US, by executive order, refuses to place sanctions on the leadership, or move its embassy to Jerusalem.

Isn't it true, from what I read, that most American Jews who were living in Israel voted for Bush?

Yes, that is true.

Some of the issues that you cite, I attribute to the Powell state dept.

I hope that we get our embassy moved to Jerusalem as soon as possible.

Thanks.

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