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?
THIS ALIEN IS THE REAL HOT BITCH
THAT PUTS KERRY IN HIS PLACE AND GIVES HIM A RED TREAT
FROM THIS RED TART !
YOUR CHOICE OF
(3D FLIP-FLOP ANIM OF GUMBY AND KERRY)
(3D RED FACE ANIM OF GUMBY AND KERRY)
FLIP-FLOPPER - PAINT BALLED - RED FACED
She was to paint-ball his ass the bright orange that would make him the king of all his Swift Boat followers ... or should it be the "bad'est red-ass" of them all ??
She could not tell, from his flip-flops, the difference from his face and his ... democrapic donky!
What an ass !
Lousy piece of writing.
I like her wooden stake idea though.
On second though, maybe just a lot of garlic.
Nice work Mo. Way to appeal to the masses.
I see Maureen's already well into her first six-pack of breakfast, this morning. :)
This hateful screed is rampant among leftists and leaves me to believe that they will take nothing away from the election and correct it.
Last I checked it was majority rule.
Umm, I think the way it works in the real world is: the more terrorists American troops kill, the more are dead.
Shouldn't that have been Funeral Hall?
Well, here is a news flash for Dowd and people like her. President Bush tried this when he first took office. He invited the Dem leadership - Daschle, et al - to prayer breakfasts and meetings. What was the first thing they did? They ran out to the press and bad-mouthed him, told lies, and basically spilled every security information he told them to the press. Well, that ended that. He invites Teddy the K to watch movies, lets him rewrite the No Child Left Behind Act, names the Justice Department building after his philandering and corrupt brother and what does he get for his trouble. Called a liar!
The left and their supporters have called him a idiot, stupid, a dummy, Hilter, a cheap thug, a gang leader, a liar and yet now they want him to reach across? I heard Mark Levine on Sean Hannity yesterday and I agree with him that the Republicans need to reach across the aisle and SMACK a couple of the Dems right across the head!
On the way home yesterday, I wondered why I have never heard a news person or pundit ask any of the liberals "Has it ever occurred to you, considering the way the election went, that you are wrong about certain parts of your beliefs if not your whole beliefs?"
Dowd makes fun and mocks our religious beliefs. Yet, lets look at the past two weeks. Castro stumbles, causing severe injuries to himself if not almost killing himself. Arafat is severely strickened, flown to France, and the news is now he may not make it. The guy in Afghanistan is confirmed as the President from results derived from free elections in a nation recently freed by the United States of America. And George Bush wins re-election against all odds in what I consider the greatest political victory in the history of our nation. NEARLY EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WAS AGAINST HIM! If this does not show that there is a God and he will not be mocked, then nothing will. And yet, they continue to mock God and us! Reach across the aisle? NO!
BUMP!
Be afraid, Maureen. Be very afraid.
Snide insults, and her usual bitchy, foot stomping verbal temper tantrum when wannabee sex kitten Maureen doesn't get her way.
Don't you just love it?
So we win the election and we have to reach out? We did that before and got bit...
No. Not this time, please! The Democrats must lay down, show us your bellies, and endure our foot upon their necks.
NO "reaching out." Its time for the stick, not the carrot.
Bigger missions like North Korea...
MoDud= Ann Coulter without talent
Morford weighed in yesterday.
But what can be done??? Booze? Her BAL is already way over the limit! A new boyfriend??? Kerry might be available soon...........! No, nothing will bring her back from the edge of despair until she can somehow get Catherine out of the way and climb back into Mike's flaccid arms!! Oh the humanity!!!!
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