Posted on 11/03/2004 8:50:55 AM PST by Bob J
Kerry Campaign Party Turns to Tears and Bitterness By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer November 03, 2004
Boston (CNSNews.com) - As President George Bush edged closer to the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure re-election, supporters of Democratic nominee John Kerry openly wept and consoled each other at the Election Night celebration in Boston's Copley Square.
Some Kerry supporters called Bush's platform "all lies" and heckled a group of College Republicans who were passing through the crowd.
A distraught woman confronted Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, "Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?" Ford responded, "Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It's been a long day."
Another woman standing near Ford began to openly weep at the prospect of a Kerry loss.
Former California Democratic governor Gray Davis spoke briefly with Ford and then essentially conceded the election to Bush and looked ahead to 2008.
"We owe it to the people that we represent to reassess and try and fix what went wrong and come back with a winning coalition and strategy four years from now and try to figure out a way to win the country back," Davis said.
When CNSNews.com asked why he had confidently predicted a Kerry victory just a few hours earlier, Davis responded, "I, like many people saw the exit polls, which saw Kerry ahead in every battleground state."
"We believed they were a precursor of a great evening," a somber Davis explained.
While Davis said he was "very proud of the campaign Kerry ran," he did criticize the party's efforts in southern states.
"Part of [winning the White House] is certainly not writing off the South. It's too big a part of America just to concede to the other party and expect to win," Davis said.
Davis praised Bush's re-election campaign.
"The president has worked hard for his re-election since the moment he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Davis said. "He is surrounded by very smart people, they are very good practitioners of the art of politics," he added.
'It's all lies'
Meanwhile, outside Kerry's Copley Square rally, a contingent of College Republicans from Northeastern University marched through the sea of Kerry supporters and got heckled.
"You vote for Bush, you get what you deserve," shouted Kerry supporter Bob Bryant to the GOP contingent.
"Bush has put forward a platform that people tend to believe even though it's all lies. Bush is dishonest; he is not being honest with the American people," Bryant said.
Another man shouted to the Republicans "This is why the rest of the world calls us ignorant Americans. You obviously don't read the newspapers or you would not believe as you do."
A woman, unhappy the Republicans were there, screamed, "someone shut up those idiots.'
Brian Henchey, one of the College Republicans marching through the crowd told CNSNews.com that he had "never seen more sad and depressed faces in my life than what I have seen here in Copley Square tonight."
"I think our president is a strong man, he is a strong leader. He is what this country needs," said Megan, one of the GOP marchers.
Kerry supporters from Ireland weighed in on why they believe Bush will likely be re-elected.
"It clarifies the fact that American people aren't so smart. If I could, I would have voted for Kerry," said the woman.
Kerry Supporter Compares Conservatives to Hitler By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer November 03, 2004
Boston (CNSNews.com) - A supporter of Democratic nominee John Kerry compared conservatives to Adolf Hitler in a series of interviews with the media at the Democratic Election Night party in Boston's Copley Square. Joe Pulliam of Bedford Mass., said "Thomas Jefferson - liberal, Abraham Lincoln - liberal, Jesus - liberal, Adolf Hitler - conservative. Hey where do you stand?" Pulliam told CNSNews.com.
"All of these people are making liberal sound like a dirty word. It's not. It's the thing that built this country. All of these conservatives that want to grab freedom and democracy -- it's not theirs, it's ours. It's liberalism that made this country," Pulliam added.
Pulliam, who carried a sign stating, "Al Franken fans for Kerry," went on to decry what he called the "incompetence" of the Bush administration.
"Where has there not been incompetence in this faith-based presidency? It's just all based on faith. Let's hope it all works out. Let's do the dumbest thing you can possibly do -- the worst answer to any question and hope it works out" he said.
"It's the incompetency stupid," he added. Pulliam echoed many of the Kerry faithful gathered in Boston when he described his reaction to a possible Bush victory.
"I will be very disappointed, but shocked as well," he said.
We need to start turning this around on them.
DEMs are the fascists - they are the 1s who don't mind us owning property as long as they get to tell us what to do w/it. Never mind all the pointless safety garbage "for your own good" and the good of insurance premiums. THAT is fascism; it is the definition of it.
Of course we all know they are communists at heart; but they can't quite get that far. So as it is, fascism is just a step below communism (NOT the opposite as these idiots believe), and that's all the DEMs have been able to accomplish as yet. But it's sufficient to say they, the DEMs, have succeeded in creating a fascist state.
The Republicans should not have been there. It's like a death. THey needed to grieve. I'm being serious. I don't believe in pushing your victory into the face of the opposition. Sorry.
Republicans are the liberals in the true sense of the word. They are the ones changing the world. The "liberals" as we used to define the term are actually reactionaries. They want to defend the status quo (secularism, abortion, the "living" constitution, pacifism, reliving the Viet Nam era, appeasement, the UN, global tests). The Republicans/Conservatives say "No More It has to change".
"As President George Bush edged closer to the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure re-election, supporters of "Democratic nominee John Kerry openly wept and consoled each other...."
Boo-f'ing-hoo, Demonrats!
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What is best in life? To crush the liberals, to drive their minions before you, and to hear the lamentations of Dan rather! (courtesy of Sheik yerbouty).
What is best in life? To crush the liberals, to drive their minions before you, and to hear the lamentations of Dan rather! (courtesy of Sheik yerbouty).
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"It clarifies the fact that American people aren't so smart. If I could, I would have voted for Kerry," said the woman.
Given the propensity for DemonRats to commit election fraud, I'm surprised she didn't vote.
what about Juan WIlliams - has he surfaced?
Yes, if the Democrats weren't so incompetent they might have won.
Bury their A$$. This is war sweetie and if you don't realize it you are doomed to make the same mistakes again. The left is not our friends. They are our enemies. Just listen to what they say and do. They are godless cretins and roaches and we must crush their ideas under the boot of truth. Just picture Michael Moore, Babs and they rest of the fools.............
Yeah I head that! What a condescending turd burgler!
Hey Chris, I'd put my IQ, my knowledge and my analytical skills up against yours any day of the week buddy! LOL
Jag
LOL, good rhyme. It ain't poetry (according to my english major children) but it's good!
"Chris Matthews is on NBC DENEGRATED the people who voted for George Bush as "SIMPLE, Believes in Genesis, NOT ANALYTICAL, etc."
He couldn't be more wrong about this. These guys are so out of touch. That's why we have been kicking their rears for a while now.
How must Springsteen and the rest of the entertainment elites.
It's very difficult to have sympathy for Michael Moore, Kos, Rather, DU types who have slandered the President with the most hateful attacks for so long.
Those people can just kiss it. They'd better stay away from us, better yet they should just leave, since their lives are so 'destroyed' by four more years. They've made their bed, now by God let them lie down in it!!!
All 1 needs to know is that "conservative" and "liberal" are relative terms.
A conservative in this country 220 years ago was pushing the monarchist authoritarian status quo. They were "conserving" the present status quo.
After a while, any1 who was a conservative was conserving the "American way" of life (as defined originally). This label has stuck and we can't seem to shake it, despite wholesale changes in the country's climate.
Today, what we call "liberal" actually dominates our politics and cultural discourse. So in truth, the terminology should be changed by now. *We* should be the liberals, and they should be the conservatives, conserving the fascist regulations and bureaucracy they created over the last 50-some years.
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