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Liberals deserve what they get
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Sunday, November 7, 2004 | Bill Steigerwald

Posted on 11/07/2004 10:46:08 AM PST by Willie Green

Someone check if E.J. Dionne is still alive.

The Washington Post columnist was on NPR's "Some Things Considered" Wednesday night already sounding suicidal about the reign of conservative terror he fears is coming in President Bush's second term.

Voicing the concerns of millions of distraught liberals, Dionne worried that President Bush - a partisan ideologue he says deliberately ran a mean and divisive campaign that has cynically polarized the country - is going to claim a policy mandate despite his slim 51 percent victory over John Kerry.

Dionne didn't break down in tears or anything. But he was whining that the president had cynically exploited moral and cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage to win the votes of millions of nutballs on the Christian and NASCAR right.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerrydefeat
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1 posted on 11/07/2004 10:46:08 AM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green

Have you EVER heard any republican WHINE like these disgusting, clueless, evil democrats? STFU, thank you very much.


2 posted on 11/07/2004 10:51:17 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I'd like to know what he said about a mandate when Clinton won with far few percentage points.
3 posted on 11/07/2004 10:55:27 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: Willie Green

4 posted on 11/07/2004 10:56:41 AM PST by andyandval (Quattro anos mas!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Willie Green

Wouldn't Robert Bork make an excellent next Lord Chief Justice? One could always dream...


5 posted on 11/07/2004 10:57:28 AM PST by GSlob
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To: andyandval

Nice comb-over E.J.

6 posted on 11/07/2004 10:59:10 AM PST by Redcoat LI (3.5 Million)
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To: MaryFromMichigan
I'd like to know what he said about a mandate when Clinton won with far few percentage points.

Rush did research on this in his show last week. Sure enough, Clinton has two "mandates" according to the liberal liars, oops I meant commentator/spiners.

7 posted on 11/07/2004 10:59:14 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Why am I not surprised?

God bless Rush Limbaugh.


8 posted on 11/07/2004 11:00:31 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: FormerACLUmember

BTTT


9 posted on 11/07/2004 11:02:20 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: FormerACLUmember

USA Today also had the famous headline "LANDSLIDE!" the day after Clinton won with 43% of the vote in 1992.


10 posted on 11/07/2004 11:05:06 AM PST by puroresu
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To: Willie Green

I'm getting sick and tired of these liberals framing Bush's victory as some sort of religious Jihad. You don't have to be religious...or even Republican, to have moral values. And moral values go beyond what liberals only seem to describe as Gay rights and abortion. Heck, the fact that the liberal mecca of Oregon voted down Gay marriage is an indication that there are more than just "religious" Republicans who have these concerns. These people still don't get it.


11 posted on 11/07/2004 11:07:19 AM PST by cwb (Defeat after defeat, Democrats are still living in denial.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Whining is what liberals do. That is their main characteristic....whining


12 posted on 11/07/2004 11:11:34 AM PST by MaryJaneNC
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To: Willie Green

Almost everyone gets what they deserve, in any case.


13 posted on 11/07/2004 11:12:08 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Willie Green
But he was whining that the president had cynically exploited moral and cultural issues

By clearly stating where he stood on the issues. My God! What a horrible and unfair way to run a campaign!

To EJ, all I can say is:

Bwaa hahahaha!

Jag

15 posted on 11/07/2004 11:23:31 AM PST by JaguarXKE
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To: Willie Green
I studied E.J. Dionne's picture and I am confident that he was, in fact, a highly decorated Navy Seal....lisp and all
16 posted on 11/07/2004 11:24:53 AM PST by squirt-gun
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To: FormerACLUmember
Rush did research on this in his show last week. Sure enough, Clinton has two "mandates" according to the liberal liars, oops I meant commentator/spiners.

The cover of Time magazine the week after Clinton was elected in 1992 with 43% of the vote:


17 posted on 11/07/2004 11:25:01 AM PST by Dont Mention the War (How important a Senator can you be if Dick Cheney's never told you to "go [bleep] yourself"?)
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To: Willie Green

How I enjoyed the McLaughlin Group.

McLaughlin looked like he was ready to cry. Lawrence O'Donnell's neck vein was popping as he proclaimed the blue states should secede.

O'Donnell claims that the blue states pay most of the taxes and the red states consume the most government services. I'm in a blue state (condolences gratefully accepted), and I think most of us around here who actually pay the taxes voted for W.


18 posted on 11/07/2004 11:33:23 AM PST by stevefromcalifornia
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To: Dont Mention the War
This is the kind of thing that needs to be saved, gathered, and distributed to those who are willing to keep exposing the MSM for what they are...

FR is as good a place to start as any..!!

FRegards,

19 posted on 11/07/2004 11:35:28 AM PST by Osage Orange (Dems...those unaccountable looking, gargoyle-like scarecrows looking to party, and raid the pantry.)
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To: Willie Green

This is a great article and a good post. Bill Steigerwald is spot-on; liberals deserve every damn thing we get. I live in NY. I wanted Bush to win, but I voted for Badnarik in protest of big government policies that have been espoused by Democrats and Republicans for years. The NYS GOP is worse than the Dem parties of other states.

I'm glad Bush won and my prayer is that without having to face re-election, he can be free to stack the courts with strict Constitutionalists, get to work on privatizing Social inSecurity, and can actually shrink government instead of growing it faster than Clinton.

The Dems are going to come out of this strong. Look at the Deaniacs, they promised to go home and build a nationwide grassroots liberal organization. If you think the amount of $$$ poured into 507's was huge this year, wait until 2008. We've got a lot of work to do in terms of winning hearts and minds for free markets and small governments.

Let's stay on the move and we'll have our boots on their throats in 2008!!!


20 posted on 11/07/2004 11:36:24 AM PST by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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