Posted on 11/04/2004 7:49:12 AM PST by SmithL
Wednesday was a day of soul-searching, wound-licking and head- scratching in the spiritual home of the nation's progressives, as many Bay Area supporters of John Kerry pondered whether the liberal island they live on is shrinking.
"It's so frustrating that there's going to be no voice for progressive issues right now," Stanford University sophomore Becca Miller, 18, said as she participated in one of two demonstrations Wednesday in San Francisco. "But it's important not to give up hope."
Miller spent the last two months working swing-state phone banks and campaigning for Kerry, and Tuesday she cast her first vote for president. Wednesday, she wondered if it mattered in a country that was a lot more conservative than she thought.
Soon after Kerry's midmorning concession speech, progressives swapped e- mails musing about moving to Canada, and the blogosphere swelled with woulda- coulda-shoulda second-guessing of the campaign.
Tuesday's results were humbling, said David Talbot, editor-in-chief of Salon, the San Francisco-based liberal online magazine.
So humbling that some -- including the popular progressive blog Daily Kos -- reached into a dark moment of Republican history for inspiration: Sen. Barry Goldwater's 1964 drubbing at the hands of wartime Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.
Instead of sulking, Republicans emerged from that debacle and coalesced, formed think tanks, started winning local elections and sowed the seeds of their supportive network of talk radio and television outlets.
And, pointed out blogger Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, a.k.a. Kos, they got Richard Nixon elected four years later.
"If you oppose Bush, now isn't the time to feel sorry for yourself," Kos wrote. "Now is the time to get to work."
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Isn't "progressive" another word for "socialist"
We ain't seen nuthin' yet. Wait until their hero Yasser Arafat dies any day now. They will be wailing in the streets. I can here it now. Bush poisoned him!
'Progressive' is a euphemism for Marxist.
"It's so frustrating that there's going to be no voice for progressive issues right now," Stanford University sophomore Becca Miller, 18, said as she participated in one of two demonstrations Wednesday in San Francisco. "But it's important not to give up hope."
Hey Becca, when you start paying progressive taxes give us a call & let us know what you "think" - not how you "feel".
The left has not yet had it's Goldwater moment.And even after they have had it they won't recognize what they need to do to win.
I wish these "progressives" all the success in the world. May they divide the dems into a million different factions.
More like "communist." America will never knowingly accept a doctrine completely antithetical to the Constitution. It has to be wrapped in code words like "Progressive."
Yeah, they'll sit around and "soul-search" and "head [!] scratch" for a few weeks. Then they'll jump up and spew out some idiotic gibberish that has nothing to do with the reality of the situation, then gallop off wildly in all directions. Anything to avoid confronting the harsh truth: America does not want what they're selling.
Brothers and sisters, this is a wake-call. If we think that these people are going to sit still and nurse their wounds for four years we are sadly mistaken. We will have to be better organized, more vocal, more visible and more aggressive if we are going to overcome the likes of Soros and his pigletts. We can't rest on our laurels, the major battles still lie ahead.
Yes, "progressive" = socialist. And, the progressives are so smug in their feel good ignorance.
All things being equal, the current democratic leadership has to die off literally for anything acceptable to develop. I give it fifteen years.
I say it's another word for Communist.
"Now is the time to get to work."
You mean, like, as in "Get a job"?
Hey, "Becca,"
You're 18 years old. You're naive. Maybe when you grow up and see where your left-wing attitude takes you, you might change your mind.
Get a real job working for the college kids who voted for Bush, pay some taxes, have a couple of kids and learn something. If you're still a lib then, then you don't have any excuses. You're an idiot.
I would be happy if liberals would go back to being liberal.
They probably wrapped themselves up in blanket last night and cried. Life is tough, ain't it?
They have'nt seen nothing yet..."Their Goldwater moment" will come when the Hillster runs in four years....
The irony is that these bay area buffoons are as responsible as anyone for getting the President re-elected. They were all cheering when Gavin Newsome violated the law and by fiat "legalized" gay marriage in S.F., but all that did, in concert with the MA supreme court decision, was put the gay marriage issue on the ballot in 11 states and one could certainly argue that that issue was a real motivator for getting out the base in alot of states that went for Bush. Idiots. They're great at winning short term victories, but just don't understand how to win wars, figuratively and literally.
SSSHHHHH. Not so loud! They don't want the "moderates" to know that.
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