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Why can't these people understand that a majority just disagree with them and think they're wrong? Yet anybody who disagrees with them is immediately attacked as a hater, or a bigot, or ignorant, or you name it. What ugly, petulant, immature people.

tanker, they literally can't wrap their minds around the ideas and things that most of us in Flyover Country think is important or hold dear.

I voted they way I voted in part because I am sick & tired of having most of the things I hold dear spat upon and shat upon by my "betters" in the media and academia. And these selfsame arbiters of what they think is important or not never tire of shoving their "concerns" and opinions in our faces. Like the little tart who wrote this screed of low bigotry.

Some thoughtful analyst like a Michael Barone ought to look at the role of the way the left and their MSM allies conducted this campaign, because I think much of the unity on the right was due to the actions on the left. I am also sick and tired of the vitriol, name-calling and condescension. I'm tired of Hollywood and the MSM thinking they can tell me how to vote.

There have been great divisions among conservatives over the policies of the Bush administration, as illustrated by many threads on FR the past few years. Yet I've not seen conservatives and Republicans this unified since the 1984 election and I'm not sure we were as unified then. I think the reason in large part is the antics of Michael Moore, Dan Rather and the rest of the MSM, the drumbeat of crap like this article. And we can't forget the sheer in-your-face effrontery of the Dims nominating the man who attacked all Vietnam veterans as war criminals in the U.S. Senate.

they literally can't wrap their minds around the ideas and things that most of us in Flyover Country think is important or hold dear.

Exactly.

From the message board:

The truely sad thing of it is, those who put Bush back in office are the same ones being fleeced by his policies. Look at Ohio, which lost huge jobs, yet still gave its 20 to him. The military has large recruiment out of rural areas as well, and no wonder, when their schools are so bad and families so poor there aren't many options for the future..

The rural culture is very isolated and not particularly nomadic. People there believe strongly in their families and they hold tight to religious and moral values. Religion is indeed the opium of the people. It can be (and has been) twisted and manipulated in order to manipulate culture. But at the same time how we can we deny people the right to believe what they want?

I wish I knew what we could do exactly. One thing is for sure though. The USA is the biggest empire the world has ever seen, and the bigger they are, the harder they fall.