Posted on 11/05/2004 11:25:23 AM PST by kiki04
11/5/04
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.
Yours,
Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com
"We should take that guy and reduce him to 5,000 bars of soap."
Irish Spring
Haha, Michael Mooron imploding and attaining singularity, is a though I find infinately humorous!
I would imagine that it would look like the death star at the end of Star Wars
After Moore helped out Republicans so much I find it unbelievable that any Democrat would take him seriously. This country needs more Michael Moore's. Just imagine how many more states we would have flipped if there were two of them.
Not according to the Leftists. They insist that Bush wasn't elected the first time around. Therefore he has another term he can look forward to! : )
"4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)"
He doesn't understand this? Using his implied logic:
"Gee, I have a splitting headache, maybe I should cut my head off!"
MM is a COMPLETE fool.
More mis-understimation from someone who has no business doing political commentary.
Michael might get hosed on this one. The 60 vote cloture rule can be overturned by a simple majority vote, one the Senate didn't have last time (the Rinos wouldn't go for it.) Let's see if the current crop of republicans have the stones to let the majority actually rule.
"10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't. "
Nice to see he's proud that Georgia replaced a sane liberal black woman with a crazy, raving anti-semitic liberal black woman. The Democrats are truly blessed!
Have another doughnut, Mikey
Fade away, Jabba!
THAT pic is a keeper! THANKS P.C.!
Michael Moore (aka the 'Fat F--- From Flint', you can substitute either the swear word for intimate relations, or just settle for the slang term for flatulence, lol) must be as close to a stroke or heart attack as humanly possible, like all of his fellow hate-Bush/hate-America fellow travelers, he was SO sure that his own egotistical efforts would somehow equate into a win for Kerry, now he has to wonder for the rest of his putrid, obese life whether he might have motivated more BUSH voters to go out and re-elect our President than voters to pull the lever for Kerry.
Hope you enjoyed sitting in the big sky box with the American Traitor from the 70's Mikey (aka Jimmy Carter), that is as good as it is ever going to get for you. It's all downhill from here.
LOOK OUT BELOW!
Hmmmmm...you're right....lets get that info to Moore...Bush/Cheney 08
Here are 17 reasons why Michael Moore shouldn't slit his wrists:
Airfare to NY........................................$750.00
Cabfare to Madison Square Garden.............$50.00
Being used as a Prop for McCain Speech.....Priceless
Pray for W and Our Troops
"88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age."
Someone explain to me what he means here. Maybe I'm over thinking it. It sounds very racist to me: In 50 years there will be plenty of african-americans around to take care of us in our old age? Mammy is that you?
...is it in crayon?
Doogle
...and if anyone would be an expert on Pop Tarts...
I believe that the hate Moore inspired actually helped to unmask the liberals to many people. Without him, this election may have been closer. I think we owe him a debt of gratitude and a cheer.
Hail Michael full of.. himself
Bush is not Clinton. He said, "I got some poltical capitol and I intend to spend it." I believe he will.
Wow his bogus movie really changed a lot of minds..... NOT
He's got a point here.
Read between the lines...
It sucks to be MM.
No problem.
Amendment XXII
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President,
According to MM, Bush was 'selected, not elected' in 2000.
or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
According to MM, he did not "act" as President.
It's already starting!
http://www.ourfuture.org/
Hey Mikey,
Here's one reason for you to feel good:
The prez possibly gets to appoint several SC justices and lots of federal judges.
Feeling better?
May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
Ohio State plays Michigan STATE this weekend, not Michigan! Tub-o-Lard cannnot get even the most rudimentary facts straight!
Horse crap...over 55 million Americans voted against Bush...big difference...a portion of these "Anybody but Bush" voters would have voted for Stalin just to defeat Bush.
unfortunately for the MSM they cant spin the county voting paths. The only people who voted for Kerry up here are the people in areas that are full of african americans and are cities. Its onyl a matter of time before the suburbs defeat these cities in the likes of NJ, Michigan, and PA!
young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%)
It's the 44% of young adults who espouse and support family values that will have kids and raise them right to believe and vote along the same lines while the other 55% age in their selfish, single, bitter, "enlightened" self-centered utopias.
So, in 50 years, there should be more people like us, not fewer.
That's even scarier than the fact that Toon got 2 terms.
We must all work diligently in the coming months to convince “progressives” that the Democratic Party has let them down. They must abandon the party. Their only recourse is to join and work for the Green Party moving forward. I may even register as a Green Party member to swell their voter registration rolls. Divide and conquer.
Who? Michael Moore? Never heard of him!
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
= = = = =
Don't count on it lard butt.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority.
He's got a point here.
Meh, not to worry. The white voter base will be replaced by the Hispanic voter base. As more Latinos become midddle-class citizens and establish themselves in the economy, their concerns for lower-class problems such as welfare and minimum-wage laws, which scare them into voting Democrat, will be replaced by their concern for family values and the future of their children and grandchildren. I think that is something to look forward to. Socially, Hispanics are very conservative, very religious, very family-oriented.
Note to democrat leadership. " Please put this guy in charge of your party for the 08 elections."
yours truely
the republican party
Classic Bolshevik double speak.
Moore blithely ignores that fact that Kerry did the best he could to hide his Senate record and his media flacks denied that liberal charge. His voters were probably about evenly split between those cynical liberals who knew the truth but endorsed the false campaign, and those who were fooled into thinking Kerry was really someone who "defended his country as a young man."
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