A letter from Michael Moore...

Michael Moore ^ | 11/5/04 | Michael Moore

[Ditto]

I figured this would have been written in crayon --- sharp instruments and all...

[cardinal4]

bttt

[The Right Stuff]

I don't think that Woodrow Wilson quote is even close to being true - can someone check?

[webstersII]

"Let's see if the current crop of republicans have the stones to let the majority actually rule."

Yeah, and then what happens when there is a demoncrat majority sometime in the future? Then it will be bad news for the US.

[Chode]

i'm don't think the one with Barny has been shopped, the other one i'm don't know, but i'm sick of the RATS and will be in their face for the next four years... if that makes me crass, so be it.

[Holicheese]

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. ?

3.5 million votes is a close election?

[Prime Choice]

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...

*BANG* Right on the money! Well said. : )

[Prime Choice]

3.5 million votes is a close election?

Only if it's a Republican who wins. If it'd been Kerry with that number, the Leftist media would be using huge fonts on the front page squealing about the "Kerry Mandate".

Grrr...if I hear one more moronic Leftist saying that Bush has to "heal" this nation even as they bash our President, butts are going to get KICKED.

[Prime Choice]

Phone call for Mr. Moore! Phone call for Mr. Moore!

[Dr.Deth]

hah! Between that and the new Republican Party logo....

[tjg]

"Yeah, and then what happens when there is a demoncrat majority sometime in the future? Then it will be bad news for the US."

Do you think the democrats wouldn't change the rules to get thier judges in if the situation was reversed? They are not timid when it comes to doing what they need to do to implement thier agends.

[AaronInCarolina]

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.

As usual, Michael Moore is completely wrong. It is fallacious to assume that because the vote total for John Kerry was 55 million, that those people were voting FOR John Kerry. Exit poll data said that only about 57% of those who pulled the Kerry lever were actually FOR Kerry. About 90% of people who pulled the lever for Bush voted FOR Bush. So Moore should only use a vote total FOR Kerry of 0.57*55 million, which is 31.4 million, NOT 55 million. 31.4 million is a pathetically low number, and is more in line with what one would expect for a Massachussetts liberal. Take, however, Bush's 90% FOR rating: 0.9*59 million: still a very high 53.1 million.

People actually voting FOR the candidate:

BUSH:  53.1 million
KERRY: 31.4 million

This is the real story. It was an absolute blow-out of historical proportions when you look at people voting FOR the candidate!

[AaronInCarolina]

I should point out that the voting FOR meant they actually liked the candidate, and that those who pulled the lever for one candidate, but weren't FOR the candidate voted more against the other candidate.

[Free ThinkerNY]

"Mr. Moore. Now that your candidate John Kerry has lost, will you be moving to a new sty in France?"

[deltabean]

Even as soap he would be filthy.

[MattGarrett]

Dick Morris disagrees.

[weegee]

I posted my responses under the first thread posted with the name of Michael Moore's article. I stayed online to voice off and that seem to be the overlooked thread.

17 reasons not to slit your wrists- Micheal Moore

Mike's FIRST response after LOSING the election (it was as much his at it was Kerry's) was to post the "names" of the war dead as compiled by leftists (not all are combat injuries nor were all illnesses/injuries even sustained in Iraq).

Here is an approriate response to Michael Moore's trafficking in death:

[hattend]

Dang, I agree with Micheal Moore on something

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

[zencycler]

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

1. When did a Democrat ever care about complying with the law?

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

2. Let's compare to some recent Dem presidents after their first term: Clinton, below 50%; Carter, lost; Johnson knew he would lose, so didn't try. Same goes for Truman.

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.

3. Good one Mike. Now THAT'S the way to win the red states next time.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think ...

4. Actually, it's because most Americans THINK that Bush got elected. It's the touchy-feely girly-men that voted for Kerry.

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate...

5. Keep showing your face, Mike, and we'll get there.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy...

6. The first representative assembly in the New World was held in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, making that state the "birthplace of our Democracy". Also, since when do Democrats care about births.

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.

7. Are you listening, Ohio? Please remember this in 2008.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority....

8. No problem, Mike. Say Hola to President George P. Bush.

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.

9. I know, Mike, I know. Once again the Supreme Court has handed Bush the presidency. Last time it was the US Supreme Court. This time it was the MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Court. Boo Hoo.

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.

10. Ah yes, McKinney. There's someone who'd be even better than you as a spokesperson for the Dems.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

11. Better make it Coors Light, Mike.

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

12. And you're probably used to seeing double after all that drinking.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up...

13. Don't forget the school boards. And dog-catchers. Just what is Dukakis doing these days?

14. Bush is now a lame duck president...

14. You better stop drinking now, Mike. You're getting delusional. Wait, what am I thinking? GETTING???

15. ...it is...likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) ...spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him ... 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.

15. Well, it would have to be Bush's OWN PARTY to do anything, because you and your party are LOSERS (lift your hand up now, Mike, and make the "L" sign please).

16. ...We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there.

16. I am in shock, Mike. Are you admitting that you lost? What, no conspiracy theories about voting-machine tampering? No black-helicopter, the exit polls were right, hyperbole? Are you feeling okay, Mike?

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate."....

17. Mike, maybe you weren't paying attention. The exit polls showed that a vast majority of people voting for Kerry stated that there vote was more of a vote against Bush. (The converse was not true of most Bush voters). But don't pay any attention to this. Please nominate another liberal, and believe with all your heart that 55 million or more will come out to vote of a liberal.

[osboy]

Disagrees with who? With me? What he said sounds exactly like what I said hehe :-) Disagrees with MM maybe?