Posted on 11/03/2004 1:17:42 AM PST by kattracks
Boston (CNSNews.com) - As President George Bush edged closer to the 270 electoral votes necessary to secure re-election, supporters of Democratic nominee John Kerry openly wept and consoled each other at the Election Night celebration in Boston's Copley Square.
Some Kerry supporters called Bush's platform "all lies" and heckled a group of College Republicans who were passing through the crowd.
A distraught woman confronted Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, "Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?" Ford responded, "Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It's been a long day."
Another woman standing near Ford began to openly weep at the prospect of a Kerry loss.
Former California Democratic governor Gray Davis spoke briefly with Ford and then essentially conceded the election to Bush and looked ahead to 2008.
"We owe it to the people that we represent to reassess and try and fix what went wrong and come back with a winning coalition and strategy four years from now and try to figure out a way to win the country back," Davis said.
When CNSNews.com asked why he had confidently predicteda Kerry victory just a few hours earlier, Davis responded, "I, like many people saw the exit polls, which saw Kerry ahead in every battleground state."
"We believed they were a precursor of a great evening," a somber Davis explained.
While Davis said he was "very proud of the campaign Kerry ran," he did criticize the party's efforts in southern states.
"Part of [winning the White House] is certainly not writing off the South. It's too big a part of America just to concede to the other party and expect to win," Davis said.
Davis praised Bush's re-election campaign.
"The president has worked hard for his re-election since the moment he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Davis said. "He is surrounded by very smart people, they are very good practitioners of the art of politics," he added.
'It's all lies'
Meanwhile, outside Kerry's Copley Square rally, a contingent of College Republicans from Northeastern University marched through the sea of Kerry supporters and got heckled.
"You vote for Bush, you get what you deserve," shouted Kerry supporter Bob Bryant to the GOP contingent.
"Bush has put forward a platform that people tend to believe even though it's all lies. Bush is dishonest; he is not being honest with the American people," Bryant said.
Another man shouted to the Republicans "This is why the rest of the world calls us ignorant Americans. You obviously don't read the newspapers or you would not believe as you do."
A woman, unhappy the Republicans were there, screamed, "someone shut up those idiots.'
Brian Henchey, one of the College Republicans marching through the crowd told CNSNews.com that he had "never seen more sad and depressed faces in my life than what I have seen here in Copley Square tonight."
"I think our president is a strong man, he is a strong leader. He is what this country needs," said Megan, one of the GOP marchers.
Kerry supporters from Ireland weighed in on why they believe Bush will likely be re-elected.
"It clarifies the fact that American people aren't so smart. If I could, I would have voted for Kerry," said the woman.
Please post more pictures if you have them. The tears and fears of Kerry supporters bring a smile to my lips and a twinkle to my eye. Reminds me of the great Senator Jesse Helm's remark during the 1990 election that he would have claimed victory sooner had he not been glued to the TV "enjoying the sorrowing face of Dan Rather" over the North Carolina results!
I'm not asking for forgiveness.
I've put up with them calling me a neanderthal and a redneck and gloating over their continually restricting my rights, to the point that I will unhesitatingly enjoy every second of all the misery that life can dump on them, without a single moment of hesitation or reflection.
They shouldn't have come for my guns.
Maybe they can accompany that woman on her trip back to Ireland. These people were too stupid to realize Kerry didn't HAVE a platform. They just wanted all the freebies he was promising and we're not willing to foot the tab.
How sad is it when Gray Davis shows more class than John Kerry?
What's shameful about either one? :-)
What's shameful about either one? :-)
Oh, but we'll have to go through a charade of holding our breath while the RATs run around and find bogus ballots in warehouses. Ohio recount and -- other issues...spoken in dark tones. A quarter of a million absentee ballots still need counting according to devious, lying RATs. All with same parking lot addresses, all same handwriting, all signed George Washington.
Yeah, you just do that, you slimy, corrupt, socialist dirtbag.
Your leftist minions did pretty well up here in Oregon, so I'll be starting right in tomorrow working on how to keep them from further plundering my rights in the upcoming legislative session, and doing a post-mortem on yesterday's election to figure out how to better stomp you `Rats into the dirt next time.
You dirtbag Demonrats haven't given me a day's rest in the last 25 years and I'll be right here working to make sure you FAIL at "Winning The Country Back", Davis, you useless piece of Commufornia dirt.
Please post more pictures if you have them. The tears and fears of Kerry supporters...
Here it is boss!
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One of their ilk scraped up the Bush sticker on my car (they're %$#!*&$ lucky the car wasn't scratched) on campus tonight.
Luckily I have a replacement sticker, which I will put on, but I am thinking about 24 hours for some cooling off on their part. I will have my Bush hat on though!
Point taken...
Pretty darn sad.
Hey lady,
did you ever consider that you made the mistake!?
Thank you for posting this picture.
I just woke up this morning and can see it is going to be a great day behind enemy lines!
I will try to keep a straight face and be nice to the defeated liberal whiners--honest.
NOT this time.
Their charade won't fly.
BUSH broke the record for the popular vote!
"thinking about" should read "thinking about waiting"
OMG I am up at 4 am to rejoice in their misery! That is downright shameful. Looks like the American people, for the most part, know the right path to take.
Oh, yeah. We don't read MSM leftist rags - if we did, we would be so smart and would know that the French hate us. And we'd well, fix it."
I don't want to gloat, but when I read deluded comments like this, I am happy to have reality slap these people in the face. I cannot imagine Republicans treating the opposition to shouts of the nature revealed in this column, even if they crashed our party. I have been to a number of rallys/protests and am amazed both at the crassness of their behavior and our restraint in dealing with them.
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