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Posted on 11/03/2004 7:17:17 PM PST by Pokey78
WASHINGTON — With the Democratic Party splattered at his feet in little blue puddles, John Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall in Boston about his concession call to President Bush.
"We had a good conversation," the senator said. "And we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing."
Democrat: Heal thyself.
W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.
The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riff-raff who disagree to heel.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."
The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always gracious until they don't get their way. If W. didn't reach out after the last election, which he barely grabbed, why would he reach out now that he has what Dick Cheney calls a "broad, nationwide victory"?
While Mr. Bush was making his little speech about reaching out, Republicans said they had "the green light" to pursue their conservative agenda, like drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting the tax code.
"He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one Bush insider predicts. "He'll raze Falluja if he has to. He feels that the election results endorsed his version of the war." Never mind that the more insurgents American troops kill, the more they create.
Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalized our economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." Well, it has revitalized the Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow. And "confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.
Vice continued, "Now we move forward to serve and to guard the country we love." Only Dick Cheney can make "to serve and to guard" sound like "to rape and to pillage."
He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq.
Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate.
Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
James DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."
John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.
Seeing the exit polls, the Democrats immediately started talking about values and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white Christian soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary's 2008 campaign (nothing but a wooden stake would stop it). Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt Gingrich did in the 90's.
But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.
Invading France?
Dowd: Oh, Mark did you hear the one about...
Oh, and where's the CZJ pictures?
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Yeah. It was Bush that polarized the country by second-guessing all those critical landmark decisions John Kerry made. It was Bush who impugned Kerry's military service, starting by questioning the cushy berth he occupied and whether he had filled his whole tour of duty. It was Bush who jabbered endlessly about how much better he could have done on 9/11, even though it took him hours to even fathom the extent of the outrage.
Yeah, that wacky George Bush. He's not nearly the unifying element John Kerry or Hillary Clinton is.
for you ziti lovers... 
I stopped when she started getting into the Tom Joad/Elmer Gantry parts of the Bush coalition. Deep down in their hearts, libs believe that every new Republican Administration will lead to Khristian Koncentrazionslager where all the liberals, Jews, gays, Buddhists, etc. will be forced to recite "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from memory.
The clueless lush can't believe that they've been bested by the Dumb Guy from Texas.
Of course, what Maureen really wants is someone like Dubya to take her away.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
America is more united now than ever before.
American is a huge united mass of RED Counties.
The Liberal Reservations could be contained in 4 Counties.
Now go back to sleep Democraps until the next election.
Does the NYT ever report any real news? Scary, but I am totally serious in asking this question.
OK, reading THIS was the best moment of the last 48 hours! I'll sleep like a baby tonight thinking of poor, bitter Maureen.
A young Helen Thomas, she is.
Don't you think "ignorant" belongs on that list, somewhere?
Pure, predictable venomous Dowd ... time for a date, Mo.
Well, they ARE harboring a terrorist.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage."Jihad in America?"
We will hear much, much too much, from the Left about religion and the religious. Jihad? That belongs to you, Mo, you ignorant slut.
I love it.
"Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate."
And *this* is supposed to upset & anger us? Accusing us of being conservatives......bwaaahh....I'm crushed.
Mo thinks that just because libs are ashamed to stand up and proudly admit to being libs, we conservatives should somehow have the same shame of our beliefs. Sorry baby, not a chance. We're proud of ours, we don't have to hide them.
Go hit a couple of dives, drink some cheap booze with that other harpy Hillary. Maybe you can find some nice liberal guys, minus cajones, that you can emasculate.
That's how you can always tell what they are up to.
They telegraph their moves.
And .. her article pretty much explains why ..!!
Wow, that little bitch is a mean drunk!
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Oh good: lamentations from one of their women.