Posted on 11/06/2004 3:14:54 PM PST by yonif
“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.” Proverbs, 26:27
Hours before the American presidential election a few days ago was held, there were supporters of President Bush’s reelection bid who said they believed Senator Kerry was going to come out on top in the end. Indeed, I had such partial thoughts as well. But, thankfully, we were wrong and the elections resulted with President Bush being given a mandate by the American people for four more years, though for some hours it would seem it was a Florida all over again, with the Democrats crying wolf, however, this time in Ohio.
In this election, President Bush received almost four million more votes than Senator Kerry did, and he broke a record by attaining the most popular votes in US history. Indeed with 51% of the popular vote, coupled with the necessary electoral votes for winning, President Bush brought smiles to those who supported him, and tears to those who supported Senator Kerry. The Republican Party made inroads as well, increasing their hold in Congress.
I do not intend on going through why President Bush had a better platform than Senator Kerry had. I wouldn’t agree that President Bush had a necessarily great campaign either, but it is hard to deny the horrendous and immature campaign by many Kerry supporters trying to get people to vote for their candidate.
It is no secret that the United States has a much divided country and that most of the time Americans usually know which party’s candidate they are going to vote for, leaving a percentage of the US population who is undecided. In theory, both campaigns seek to attract that undecided vote. George Bush’s campaign did so successfully, Kerry’s failed miserably, even alienating Democrats themselves.
The Democrat Party did a terrible job with their campaign. Their campaign staff and major supporters had a childish nature of the election. The party was led by a mantra which was basically, “We hate Bush - vote for us.” It wasn’t about ideas, or a vision. It wasn’t a campaign looking at the future and about policy. It was a campaign based on attacking a person, and painting the United States as some dictatorship under George Bush. They were just anti-republican and anti-Bush. They forgot that they should have presented a side that was pro-Democrat and pro-Kerry. They hated Bush more than they supported Kerry.
You could hear them before the elections saying this country was under fascism, and now you can hear them saying that there was a fix, Kerry really won, and that it was a whole conspiracy. These people can’t even decide what they believe. On the one hand they say elections are rigged in the US, and on the other hand before elections are held they get involved in trying to get their candidates elected. Why did they involve themselves in activities to get Bush out, if they knew it all along that Bush was going to win, because after all he controls the elections, the electronic voting machines, etc. as they all claim? And if Kerry won, would you say the election was fair? Bush won fair and square. Turning on radio networks like Air America makes me feel like Hitler just gained power. This leftist motto which finds elections valid when they like the results, sounds like the leftist motto which says people should have free speech as long as they like what is coming out of the people’s mouths.
And how much did leftist groups spend to try to get Bush out of the White House you ask? Newsmax.com reported on a fact aired today on Fox News which said $400 million was spent by 527s. And what did they achieve? They barely gave New Hampshire to Kerry and they lost Iowa and New Mexico to Bush.
The Democrat Party and Senator Kerry were being led around by radical leftists, who in reality make up just 10% of the US population. For some weird reason, the campaign integrated their mottos and looked to attracting their support. These were the type of people who said things like “anybody but Bush,” were communists, and followed some fridge political thought - people who could care less about Senator Kerry or the Democrat Party. They just wanted Bush to lose. This was a strategy which was not going to bring a wide range of voters to their side.
These were also the same people who before and after the elections were heard saying things like “We are going to move Canada or Australia,” as if the United States was doomed with a Bush election. Look how far the US has come since 9/11/01 under Bush. Bush’s leadership has not been perfect, but it should come as a marvel to everyone here in America due to the fact his administration has been able to keep America running in the face of militant Islam during dire times. People just didn’t get it, and they still don’t get it after this election. It’s pathetic.
And now there are reports of protests occurring and being planned against the election of Bush. The only protests that should be logical are protests by Democrats like Joe Lieberman against their party which lost not because their message was not liked, but because they had none which sought to attract Americans or a message which understood the realities America was facing. Their message was juvenile and uninformed.
Bush’s campaign was able to attract many voters. Matthew Dowd, the Bush-Cheney chief strategist, noted on CNSNews.com that in this election 42% of Hispanics (up from 35 in 200), 11% of African Americans (up from 9 in 2000), 24% of Jews (up from 19 in 2000) and 47% of women (up from 43%) voted for George Bush. I was distraught to see that the Jewish vote did not increase much in support of Bush this time around, though it did increase by a number of percentage points. This shows how ill-informed the pro-Israel Jews of America are about who they should be voting for if they want a president with a pro-Israel support base, like Bush does with the Evangelical Christians. There was also little change when it came to the youth vote as well.
Now that Bush has been re-elected I expect this Bush hating crowd to wither away. It will be further pointless in the 2008 election because George Bush will not run again (unless some of you think Bush will change the constitution to make it possible for him to run again). The centrists in the Democrat Party would be wise to get rid of them and begin to formulate a message for adoption in 2006 and 2008, aiming to make it in support of their candidate, rather than in hatred to their opponent. It should be a message which understands reality and the world America lives in.
I am glad George Bush has been reelected. The United States can look to continue to maintain its position in the world and remain a stable state actor within the world system. I advise the other party to get back to reality, if they want their existence in the voter’s mind to be as such in the future.
Beautifully written. Hopefully it will enlighten some people, but most people will probably not even read it. The Libs will be too worried about finding the part in the paper on "How to Get to Canada".
Good column, yonif. I am glad you hang out here, by the way. It's always a pleasure to read your posts.
Not likely.
Recommend not walking alone at night on campus!
Very well said. You surely have a future as a writer who possesses good clarity.
No, the Jews who vote Democratic are not pro-Israel.
They are pro-Labor party and hate the Likud party more then they do the terrorists.
They are no different then the Democratic Party in that they would rather see our troops defeated then the GOP re-elected.
One Democrat on Crossfire stated that the war in Iraq was a 'red state war' and the Democrat stuffed audience applauded.
As for the election itself, the Democrats have always figured that if they could just get a large turnout that would result in a win.
Under most circumstances it would have, but since 2000 Christians have awakened to the reality of the political enemy they are dealing with, one who wants to destroy every thing in the nation that makes us unique to the world-our faith, our families, and our patriotism and remake us into Europe.
I'm personally interested to see how Bush puts all this to use.
Right. They will get even more crazed. Will be fun (but dangerous).
I know many pro-Israel Jews who vote for Democrats because they believe there will be no difference regarding US policy towards Israel if Democrats or Republicans are in power. I agree that there are Jews who are not pro-Israel, to the extent, which is why I said "pro-Israel Jews," and not just Jews.
After seeing Clinton and Barak almost give away the farm to Arafat?
I bet that they are more pro-labor party then they are pro-Israel.
"Now that Bush has been re-elected I expect this Bush hating crowd to wither away. It will be further pointless in the 2008 election because George Bush will not run again (unless some of you think Bush will change the constitution to make it possible for him to run again)."
LOL! Do you think Jeb will run? I don't think he'll run in '08, maybe in '12?
The pubbies bench is just so deep, we've got lots of great people who could run. Who do the dems have? Hillary! and Evan Byah, and oh yeah, John Edwards. Edwards better subscribe to the Economist RIGHT NOW if he wants to stand a chance.
In reality, both Clinton and Bush are equal in theory to what they feel will "solve" the conflict. A two-state solution, and dealing with the Palestinian Authority (and ceding land to it). Clinton had his Oslo Accords, Bush has his Roadmap. Sure Clinton dealt with Arafat, but Bush is dealing with another head of that very same regime.
So they don't see any difference. The only difference really is the amount of time spent by both presidents to try to achieve this goal.
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I'm weary of hearing how the Dems ran a "bad campaign"...let's call it what it was: John Kerry is no more qualified to be POTUS than I am and the sooner the libs wake up to the fact that they have absolutely no one to offer a viable alternative to conservative values in this country, they will always be losers.
Good comment.
Yes, but an awful lot of them work for the MSM. And if 150K of them move to Ohio in the next 4 years, we're in trouble.
If they do not see any difference, they are not looking.
Clinton put all the pressure on Israel to make concessions-which they did.
With Bush it is the opposite, he is waiting for the Palestinians to end their terrorism.
Isn't it true, from what I read, that most American Jews who were living in Israel voted for Bush?
Great article, Too bad there aren't more people like us walking aroung the Universities.
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