So What Happened in That Election, Anyhow? (NYT rips Democrats!)

New York Times ^ | 1/2/05 | ADAM NAGOURNEY

[Angry Republican]

Everytime a program came up, sKerry said, "I've got a plan."

Problem was, nobody knew what his plan was.

[MarkL]

Did anyone else notice that the NY Slimes and others were using "exit polls" to analyze why Kerry lost? IIRC, the exit polls were proven to be wildly innacurate. I hope thay continue to use them!

It seems to me that the #1 plank on the "Kerry Platform" was "I'm not Bush!" Hard to elect somebody with that message.

Mark

[Savage Beast]

These dumb klunks don't know what hit them. As the Democrats sink deeper and deeper into the sewer, where they belong, the future of the Republicans looks brighter and brighter!

[Savage Beast]

"I love it when the left starts eating their own!"

Yes. Like trapped rats.

This bunch of sociopaths, loosers, parasites, and predators will throw one another to the sharks as fast as the wind changes.

[Boot Hill]

"That may be the best one I have ever seen!!!"

It's the thought that counts!

--Boot Hill

[Wingy]

Everytime a program came up, sKerry said, "I've got a plan."

Problem was, nobody knew what his plan was.

Least of all, Kerry

[Savage Beast]

"We know who we are. We know what we stand for."

So do the American people. That's why you lost the election.

"We'll make it clearer in the non-presidential election year what the differences are between the Democrats and the Republicans."

Oh, Nancy! You are a scream!

Be sure that Larry Flynt, Michael Moore, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Chevy Chase, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Hillary Clinton, Osama bin Laden, Jacques Chirac, Kim Jon-il (it's hard to know where to stop) are part of this clarifying process!

[Savage Beast]

"Women no longer like the feminists."

Yes, their defense of serial rape and sexual assault was hard to ignore.

[Liz]

"We'll make it clearer in the non-presidential election year what the differences are between the Democrats and the Republicans."

The astounding part is this nincompoop is completely clueless as to the effect of her words on the voting public......not that I'm complaining. Let the Dim witch rant and rave on and on and on. Have at it Nancy, with my compliments.

[Liz]

Joe Manchin, the new governor of West Virginia, a Democrat whose anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-gun-control views lifted him to a double-digit victory even as Mr. Kerry lost his state by 13 points, said last week that he had little doubt about why Democrats lost the presidency and seats in the House and Senate. "It's the values - my goodness, it's the values,"

A new day has dawned and Dumbocrats are about a day late and a dollar short. The magnitude of the political ground-shifting is best illustrated by this map. The rabid Secularist Party still doesn't get it. Their (gag) values (and I use the term loosely) do not comport with the rest of America......by that, I mean Christian America. (MAP UPDATE Bush won Iowa, Ohio and New Mexico later.)

[APFel]

Joe Manchin, the new governor of West Virginia, a Democrat whose anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-gun-control views lifted him to a double-digit victory even as Mr. Kerry lost his state by 13 points, said last week that he had little doubt about why Democrats lost the presidency and seats in the House and Senate. "It's the values - my goodness, it's the values," he said, adding: "But to allow any other party to say that the Democrats aren't for family values, they are not for people who go to church, they are not for people who like to go hunting - that's wrong. For the Democrats to sit back and allow that to happen, is even more wrong."

Does this guy even know what his party's platform is?

Apf

[sphinx]

Women no longer like the feminists. Everybody is up-to-here with gays-in-your-face. The cynical anti-patriotism isn't amusing anymore. What used to be secular government has turned into hostility to religion, and contempt for religious faith.

I agree. I would add that Democrats are now wallowing in identity and resentment based politics largely because they have abandoned the substantive policy debate.

Social Security is headed for the wall. Republicans want to face up to it; Dems want to deny the problem and lie about the pubbies. Health care: dems are trying to market single payer, but won't come clean about the fact that single payer is a codeword for rationing. The disaster in urban public education: dems won't take any action that upsets the unions. Jihadis on the march: dems want to throw Israel over the side and appease the thugs.

On and on it goes. Present a serious problem and the dems will find a way to look the other way. The more I think about it, the more I think John Kerry was the perfect dem candidate, being French at heart.

[larryjohnson]

dems are just weak;ergo they lose.

[steveyp]

"Feel Safer". Democrats want us to "Feel Safer".

Typical. Then the fellow throws out Kennedy and Truman.

Great.

I would rather be safe. See: Reagan, Ronald.

[leprechaun9]

"....among Democrats about why Mr. Kerry was defeated."

He lost because he is clearly showed the voters that he was the very essence of the Hate the United States Democrap Party! Their primary campaign message (starting with the gaggle of pimps of the election industry who ran around the contry seeking the Demcrap nomination and bashing the United States and President Bush) was HATE PRESIDENT BUSH!

The Democrap Party is defined by the POLITICS of FEAR, DIVISION, and HATRED! That is part of the reason that the Jayson Blair Slimes is so sympathetic to their efforts.

[Mr. C]

I believe in the "old days" guys like him were referred to as "Conservative Democrats"... which I don't believe exist anymore ... Until now

[festus]

Post-loss squabbling between the party's left wing and its moderate faction is nothing new.

Moderate faction eh ? Who's that McCain ?

[Kuksool]

{The rabid Secularist Party still doesn't get it.}

True. Liberals still think their message don't get out. They sheer at people who consider abortion and gay marriage to be more vital than univeral healthcare, living wages, and increased spending on education and welfare. They wonder why the Red States are voting against their economic interests.

[white trash redneck]

Joe Manchin is a conservative Democrat who would be a Republican (and not just a RINO like Schwarzenegger or McInsane) in almost any other state, who ran against a singularly inept Republican candidate. My leftie friends were incensed when he won the RAT primary.

[Dilbert56]

"Values obviously are important," said Terry McAuliffe, the national Democratic party chairman, whose term expires in February. "But clearly, the overriding issue in this election was terrorism and national security. You don't get to those other issues until you have checked the box on national security."

Terry, it's not a box to be checked. It takes a long-term commitment to:

• Supporting the military. Listening to them rather than turning them into a playground for social experimentation.
• That requires putting U.S interests above being feted on the UN cocktail circuit.
• That requires believing the United States is good. That the virtues we espouse are good. That our actions have made the world a better place.
• That requires accepting the concept of good and evil. That a "culture" that stones women to death or mutilates their genitalia isn't morally equivalent to one that allows women all the same rights as men.

That's why you're stuck in this hole. If your party is really a coalition of aggrieved special interest groups you stand ,i>against America and for nothing but its destruction. There are times your funny sensibilities are tolerable. Wartime is not among them.