posted November 11, 2004 03:24 PM            

Misunderestimated…Again

"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," said presidential candidate John Kerry when he learned he was losing in the polls.

This statement shows why Kerry got wiped out during the latest election.

Most Americans do not find the president stupid. The "West Wing's" Martin Sheen, after the 2000 election, pronounced the president "a moron." Teresa Heinz Kerry called anyone who disagreed with her husband's health care plan "idiots." "The Boondocks" cartoonist Aaron McGruder called the president "functionally illiterate."

About the president's intelligence, The New York Times wrote an article suggesting that Bush scored higher on his military intelligence tests than did John Kerry. When Tom Brokaw asked Kerry about this, Kerry replied that "he must have been drinking the night before" he took the test. See, the only way Bush outscores Kerry is if Kerry is drunk. Note that for Kerry, he'd rather admit drinking the night before an important military aptitude test than to rethink his position about the president's intelligence.

Actor Danny Glover, on a promotional tour in Brazil, called the president "racist." Said Glover, "Yes, he's racist. . . . We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now." Yet this "racist" president increased his percentage of the black vote from approximately 8 percent to about 11 percent -- still small, but this represents a 37 percent increase.

The punditry's conventional wisdom now calls the election a referendum on "moral values." Dan Rather, on "60 Minutes Wednesday," attributed Bush's election victory to moral values. CBS.com said, "Although Mr. Bush's victory was close, our exit polls told a different story -- a country profoundly split on the issues voters considered most important." Most? Most means more than half. Voters mainly focused on four issues: moral values (22 percent), economy/jobs (20 percent), terrorism (19 percent), Iraq (15 percent). White House senior adviser Karl Rove said, "Sixteen percent traditionally consider moral issues or values to be the No. 1 issue in a campaign, this year it was 22 percent. That's a pretty significant jump." But while many voters listed moral values as the top concern, 78 percent of voters listed something other than moral values.

No, despite the talk of "moral values" as voters' primary concern, examination of the numbers shows voters believed Bush more capable at keeping us safe. Most voters do not hold the president accountable for "outsourcing." Most did not believe he has presided over the "worst economy since the Great Depression." The latest jobs report shows that, in October, the nation created 337,000 jobs, or nearly twice what analysts expected. Rate of inflation for the third quarter of 2004 is .021 percent (that's one-fifth of 1 percent). Interest rates remain low. Since August 2004, the economy generated 2.4 million jobs. In the last two years, our annual growth in GDP averaged 3.4 percent, or nearly two times faster than the European Union at 1.75 percent.

What about the "debacle" in Iraq? Well, Iraqis feel optimistic about their future. In fact, Iraqis show more confidence in their future than we Americans do in ours. Political consultant Steven Moore advised Ambassador Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority on Iraqi public opinion. Moore helped develop Iraqi capacity for public opinion research, and is a leading expert on Iraqi public opinion. "Iraqis are more optimistic than any of us might be led to believe by watching the evening news," said Moore. "Over the course of the summer, for instance, [over] 50 percent of Iraqis think that their country is on the right track."

According to Moore's Web site, www.thetruthaboutiraq.org, "Polls show 75 percent of Iraqis want a democracy….Iraqis want to vote, and they want to vote on everything: 78 percent of Iraqis want to vote for city council members; 71 percent want to vote for their national legislators; 66 percent want to vote for governor; other options like ‘appointed by religious clerics' or ‘appointed by the central government,' barely break double digits."

During one of those all-too-predictable pre-election Hollywood anti-Bush events, Whoopi Goldberg made vulgar references to her genitalia while using the President's last name. John Kerry, when asked about it, said that every performer "conveyed the heart and soul of America." One Hollywood leftist told me that Democrats need to improve their tactics.

They still don't get it. Americans support strong national defense, lower taxes, less government, believe in faith and family as traditionally defined, and support restrictions on abortion.

posted November 11, 2004 04:17 PM              

Both sides need to stop looking at our citizens as a possible vote, and start looking at us as HUMANS with needs.

posted November 15, 2004 03:46 PM            

Despite the overwhelming facts and abundant evidence that mainstream America (the REAL statistically documented ‘mainstream’) do not embrace the gospel according to the middle aged sixties counter culture, the river ‘Denial’ runs fast and deep.

Over 60-million people (60,480,957) voted for President Bush’s reelection ... 51% of those voting.
For the first time in 16 years America has demonstrated a for-real consensus.

However, the strident, sycophant left (with the counter intuitive religiosity of Islamist terrorists) refuses to accept the empirical reality that their message/dogma does not resonate with America. For liberal democrats the righteousness of their failed messages is a matter of religious/political faith.

Arguably, the numbers would have been even more demonstrative had the alleged mainstream media not proved to be malfeasant, prejudiced and biased in their reportage.

Former President Bill Clinton and a gaggle of practical (if not reasonable) Democrats recognize a paradigm shift is necessary. If the Democratic Party is to survive and go the way of the Whigs, they need to do ‘something’ to drag the party closer to what most Americans want and need.

Politics is basically sales: Someone has a want/need. You offer something to fulfill that want or need. After you have overcome any objections to buying, you ask for the order and close.

Democrats have consistently failed to overcome objections (overt and hidden) and their ‘assumptive close’ assumes facts not in evidence.

Rather than accept the realities of the post election situation report, defenders of the indefensible are crafting a gaggle of excuses.

Over 60 million people are just STUPID?
A Clinton cabal orchestrated by Carville, Lockhart, Begala et al sabotaged Kerry?
Karl Rove conspired with Osama bin Laden?
Karl Rove conspired to set up Dan Rather?
Karl Rove conspired with aliens from the planet Sirus in the Andromeda quadrant?
The reality is John Kerry was the wrong candidate, with the wrong messages, at the wrong time ... and he did a horrific job running a campaign.

Meanwhile, according to ‘Variety’, the left’s Poobah of Propaganda and manipulated bovine scatology, Michael Moore, intends a ‘do over’ of his failed cinematic coup.

Moore ‘failed’ if his objective was to oust a sitting President in wartime. From a business perspective, despite the warts and blemishes, the Moore crockumentary was a huge success. But the “cha-ching” of the box office was not enough.

“Fahrenheit 9/11 and ½” will attempt to massage facts into a Mooreish revisionist ‘new reality’. Regardless of any stated political objectives, the corpulent one gets another bite at the box office apple.

He of the massive ego and girth claims, “51% of the American people lacked information…they weren’t told the truth.” Go figure, like a broken clock he’s kinda sorta right a couple of times a day.

100% of the American people lacked all necessary information in the last election.

Will Moore get John Kerry to sign the Standard Form 180?
Will he answer the questions about the ‘revised’ DD 214?
Will he answer the questions about the multiple Silver Star citations?
Will he address the status of Kerry’s multiple discharges?
Was Kerry even legally eligible to be elected to ANY office prior to the 2001 Clinton granted ‘Honorable Discharge’?
"Enquiring" minds want to know ...

Moore obviously doesn’t give a rat’s derriere about ‘truth’ but no doubt he and his Miramax buds see potential for another lucrative trip to the well.

Mainstream media is NOT mainstream.

The bias, prejudices and mean spirited manipulation of information exceeded even the routine accepted standards of the nattering nabobs.

It was not accident, or oversight that ALL wire service coverage, and subsequent network focus on former President Bill Clinton’s Hamilton College speech in Utica, New York, omitted a significant fact that contradicts the preconceived opinions and prejudices of the gilded media elite.

Clinton said, “Gay marriage was an overwhelming factor in the defeat of John Kerry.”

Only the ‘Observer Dispatch’ in Utica quoted Clinton dissing the Massachusetts Supreme Court for pouring gasoline on a smoldering ember.

“With one decision of one Supreme Court, all of a sudden we have a constitutional amendment designed, I think, to whip people up, to inflame them, make them stop thinking about other issues.”

Underscoring the myopia of Kerry campaign (he was in Vietnam you know), reportedly, Clinton had urged Kerry to come out in support for at least ‘some’ of the eleven state proposals reaffirming traditional marriage laws. However, despite Kerry’s claim he opposes gay marriage, he flat out rejected the good advise Clinton offered.

posted November 15, 2004 07:13 PM            

Man..we are just supposed to OPINE and pretend they are facts....why must you go against the grain and get all factual on this board....hee hee

posted November 15, 2004 08:06 PM            

Perhaps something to do with improper potty training