[Stoat]

"I am depressed, but I am also just really angry at the rest of the country's ignorance," Ms. Sloan said

Standard-issue Leftist elitism and condecension. They still don't get it, and as long as they continue to fail to get it they will lose elections.

[small_l_libertarian]

(SNIP)

He called a friend and headed straight to the Red and Black Cafe, an all-organic, wheat-free, vegetarian coffee and food shop, which is run as a collective and is a popular hangout of the Socialist Party USA's candidate for president, Walt Brown.

(SNIP)

At the next table, Tchula Z, 33, an artist and part-time barista at her sister's coffee shop, who uses only Z as a last name, said she woke up Wednesday, learned that Mr. Bush had won and "smoked a cigarette and freaked out."

(SNIP)

"I am prepared to keep my head down, possibly for the rest of my life, under a totalitarian regime," Mr. Conklin said.

(SNIP)

"It just made me cry," Terry Mitchell, 54, an audiologist in Oakland, said of Mr. Bush's re-election. "I am sad that America is asleep at the wheel."

(SNIP)

Jennifer Sloan, 29, was so incensed about Ohio's support of Mr. Bush that she had considered canceling her mother's visit. Ms. Sloan's mother was arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday from Alliance, Ohio, where she lives and where she voted for Mr. Bush.

(SNIP)

A man named Jerry Peace Activist Rubin sat in his stockings in his dark apartment, flummoxed and disoriented, taking condolence calls from well-wishers and rank-and-file left-wingers.

Mr. Rubin is the real-deal California liberal - part-time vegetarian, cat lover, sensitive to cigarette smoke. He says he has never owned a car, never had a credit card or a driver's license; he lists peace activist as his occupation.

Mr. Rubin had been convinced that after four years of the Bush presidency, the country would come around and see things as he and other far-left coasters see them.

(SNIP)

"Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the culture war," Mr. Rubin said.

I. cannot. stop. laughing. These people are just crazy!

[Junior]

In a nation of 300 million people, you're bound to get a few folks like these.

[hellinahandcart]

Upon entering the cafe, Mr. Schmaltz, who is Jewish, grabbed off the cafe's bookshelf "A Beggar in Jerusalem," by Elie Wiesel, and read it glumly over a bowl of vegetarian chili. "Something Jewish will do me good right now," he said.

Vegetarian chili is Jewish? ;-)

[TexasNative2000]

"Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the culture war," Mr. Rubin said.

What was your first clue?

Mr. Rubin is the real-deal California liberal - part-time vegetarian, cat lover, sensitive to cigarette smoke. He says he has never owned a car, never had a credit card or a driver's license; he lists peace activist as his occupation.

It appears that 'peace activist' doesn't pay very well if he's never owned a car and never had a credit card.

[Renfield]

Bump! I need to bookmark this thread. These people are so cliched, one is tempted to think that this article was "made up" (a la Jayson Blair.....)

[6ppc]

"Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the culture war," Mr. Rubin said.

Ya think?

[madprof98]

There was a time--and a time not very long ago--when the conventional wisdom taught us, "As California goes, so goes the country." Today the way California has been going is the subject of a bitingly satirical piece in the Left Wing's newspaper of record. Quite a shift, thank God!

[John O]

many of the bleary-eyed dissenters looked like dazed zombies

Did someone say Zombies?

[Cronos]

to the libs:

Toughski luckski

[uncitizen]

For Ohioans living in on the West Coast, it was a particularly tough day. Jennifer Sloan, 29, was so incensed about Ohio's support of Mr. Bush that she had considered canceling her mother's visit.

This woman has issues! I'm from Ohio and living in CA. And i'm DAMN PROUD of Ohio for pulling if off for Bush once more! YEAH OHIO!

[ghitma]

Can someone please explain what a 'part-time vegetarian' is?

[VOA]

bump