PittsburghAfterDark
CAGiversary!
Well, well, well. Here we sit. Here I gloat. Here I get to say see I told you so. Without being redundant that will now be shortened to SITYS. I'm sure some of the few board conservatives that I know here like Scrubking, Defender, BigNick, CTLesq and others are happy but damn, I know my role. I am the bomb throwing conservative that is the target of everyone on this board. I told you Monday I'd tell you why you lost and was mocked, oh well SITYS.
As of this writing Bush has 274 EV's with Iowa and New Mexico still out there but leaning Bush. Should that trend continue Bush ends up with 286 EV's. My most optimistic projection was 301. That's how narrow I thought the margin of vicotory was going to be. I never expected a landslide but a solid victory.
Real quick on the Congressional races, I expected a net loss of 2 House seats, the Republicans gained one. I expected a gain of 2 Senate seats, I got 4. I didn't expect Louisiana to elect a Republican Senator since they hadn't since reconstruction. I also thought Tom Daschle would be re-elected which I am thrilled to report he wasn't. Ex-Senator Daschle now has the distinction of being the first party leader in Congress to be unelected in 52 years. Congrats Tom, you earned it!
Before you try and discredit this election here are the facts. George W. Bush becomes the first President elected with a firm majority of the popular vote since 1988. George W. Bush received the largest amount of the popular vote for any President in American history even beating my political idol Ronaldus Magnus. This is the first time a President/party gained seats in both houses of Congress and the White House since 1900 when William McKinley pulled the trick. 11 states decided that they would not acknowledge, recognize or endorse gay unions or marriages. 1 state decided not to violate the Constitution and change how their state awarded electoral votes.
This was a watershed election. America is a Conservative nation. We are not the nation of Michael Moore, entitlement spending and free health care. We are not beholden to world opinion for the simple fact that we are a superpower! We don't care that the UK's Guardian doesn't like us, or the French and Germans wish we were more sensitive. We tire of being told that our leader is stupid, incompetent and dangerous when we've freed 50 million people and asked for nothing in return, put the most dangerous terrorist group in the world in a cave and reduced it to sending tapes as opposed to sending bombs, death and disease.
This nation fully resents a Vietnam veteran who came back to his country to protest those he served with. It doesn't take to people who negotiate with Communists authorities in Paris while directly undermining State Department efforts to bring peace with honor to a horrible conflict. America recognizes a liberal Senator from Massachusetts and paid attention to years of votes that decreased defense and intelligence funding, votes repeatedly to increase taxes and votes repeatedly for partial birth abortion. America heard Senator Kerry proclaim he needed a "global test" for involving American troops in armed conflict but when his track record included him voting against the first Gulf War despite overwhelming UN approval and international support what conflict would ever meet that goal if that one didn't? America realizes that a Senator that repeatedly states "I have a plan." and then follows up with "Go to my website." doesn't have a plan that the American public can get behind.
The candidate aside America knows you can't trust Democrats with national security in a time of war anymore. You can't get behind a Senator who has been too wrong on too many issues for too many wars. You can't wage a "more thoughtful, sensitive war on terror". You cannot send troops into harms way and then claim "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." and think mainstream America will buy your explination that "You don't understand how Washington works, that was a nuanced issue.". You cannot win an election in America in 2004 by telling people as President your goal is to reduce terrorism to a "nusiance , like drugs or prostitution."
Candidate faults aside the biggest reason the Democrats got completely defeated was their own supporters. Michael Moore; enough said. Air America; irrelevant and will be bankrupt and off the air by February. Hollywood; your venom, preachiness, and intellectual dishonesty was disgusting. Musicians; never before have so many, with so little real world knowledge, spouted off so ignorantly about things which they knew nothing about. However that wasn't the killer for the left, it was about 50% of the distain America felt for the ABB crowd.
The bastard step children of a ill well intentioned McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform that was designed to limit "soft money" which favored Republicans was a disaster for the left. How can you say that PAD? How can campaign finance be a disaster? Look at the real world consequences of this law. Media outlets, due to eliminated special interest money allowed to be in play 30 days out, were to enjoy unparalleled influence. What did they do with this? Forged documents on CBS to prove a point after 5 years of searching futility for a story that didn't exist. It resulted in the nations leading newspaper and the same network attempting to launch an October surprise over missing explosives in a warzone; then it came out the U.S. Army was the reason they were missing. It resulted in more lies, half truths and absolutely un-American ads from more 527's than you can count.
In the end of it all what was the exit issue that mattered most to Americans? Character. No flip flops, no trial lawyers claiming that their candidate can make the lame walk out of wheelchairs, no "nuanced" stances on terrorism, no seeking international support to protect our country, no sensitive wars, no commander in chief wannabe that states "wrong time, wrong place, wrong war" is fit to lead our men in combat, no late term infanticide, no courts will define marriage as they see fit, no man that forsakes his faith and potential core beliefs can be a leader if his public life doesn't reflect his personal beliefs.
There are a litany of details I left out due to space but understand one thing. The left was as soundly defeated on November 2nd 2004 as Bush was elected. Your side is done, cooked and American 60's liberalism has been thrown on the ash heap of history like Communism, Nazism and totalitarian rule. The Democrats are a party out of step with America. When the Supreme Court is reshaped and Congress gets to work to steal a phrase from the Democrats "America will be America again."
As of this writing Bush has 274 EV's with Iowa and New Mexico still out there but leaning Bush. Should that trend continue Bush ends up with 286 EV's. My most optimistic projection was 301. That's how narrow I thought the margin of vicotory was going to be. I never expected a landslide but a solid victory.
Real quick on the Congressional races, I expected a net loss of 2 House seats, the Republicans gained one. I expected a gain of 2 Senate seats, I got 4. I didn't expect Louisiana to elect a Republican Senator since they hadn't since reconstruction. I also thought Tom Daschle would be re-elected which I am thrilled to report he wasn't. Ex-Senator Daschle now has the distinction of being the first party leader in Congress to be unelected in 52 years. Congrats Tom, you earned it!
Before you try and discredit this election here are the facts. George W. Bush becomes the first President elected with a firm majority of the popular vote since 1988. George W. Bush received the largest amount of the popular vote for any President in American history even beating my political idol Ronaldus Magnus. This is the first time a President/party gained seats in both houses of Congress and the White House since 1900 when William McKinley pulled the trick. 11 states decided that they would not acknowledge, recognize or endorse gay unions or marriages. 1 state decided not to violate the Constitution and change how their state awarded electoral votes.
This was a watershed election. America is a Conservative nation. We are not the nation of Michael Moore, entitlement spending and free health care. We are not beholden to world opinion for the simple fact that we are a superpower! We don't care that the UK's Guardian doesn't like us, or the French and Germans wish we were more sensitive. We tire of being told that our leader is stupid, incompetent and dangerous when we've freed 50 million people and asked for nothing in return, put the most dangerous terrorist group in the world in a cave and reduced it to sending tapes as opposed to sending bombs, death and disease.
This nation fully resents a Vietnam veteran who came back to his country to protest those he served with. It doesn't take to people who negotiate with Communists authorities in Paris while directly undermining State Department efforts to bring peace with honor to a horrible conflict. America recognizes a liberal Senator from Massachusetts and paid attention to years of votes that decreased defense and intelligence funding, votes repeatedly to increase taxes and votes repeatedly for partial birth abortion. America heard Senator Kerry proclaim he needed a "global test" for involving American troops in armed conflict but when his track record included him voting against the first Gulf War despite overwhelming UN approval and international support what conflict would ever meet that goal if that one didn't? America realizes that a Senator that repeatedly states "I have a plan." and then follows up with "Go to my website." doesn't have a plan that the American public can get behind.
The candidate aside America knows you can't trust Democrats with national security in a time of war anymore. You can't get behind a Senator who has been too wrong on too many issues for too many wars. You can't wage a "more thoughtful, sensitive war on terror". You cannot send troops into harms way and then claim "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." and think mainstream America will buy your explination that "You don't understand how Washington works, that was a nuanced issue.". You cannot win an election in America in 2004 by telling people as President your goal is to reduce terrorism to a "nusiance , like drugs or prostitution."
Candidate faults aside the biggest reason the Democrats got completely defeated was their own supporters. Michael Moore; enough said. Air America; irrelevant and will be bankrupt and off the air by February. Hollywood; your venom, preachiness, and intellectual dishonesty was disgusting. Musicians; never before have so many, with so little real world knowledge, spouted off so ignorantly about things which they knew nothing about. However that wasn't the killer for the left, it was about 50% of the distain America felt for the ABB crowd.
The bastard step children of a ill well intentioned McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform that was designed to limit "soft money" which favored Republicans was a disaster for the left. How can you say that PAD? How can campaign finance be a disaster? Look at the real world consequences of this law. Media outlets, due to eliminated special interest money allowed to be in play 30 days out, were to enjoy unparalleled influence. What did they do with this? Forged documents on CBS to prove a point after 5 years of searching futility for a story that didn't exist. It resulted in the nations leading newspaper and the same network attempting to launch an October surprise over missing explosives in a warzone; then it came out the U.S. Army was the reason they were missing. It resulted in more lies, half truths and absolutely un-American ads from more 527's than you can count.
In the end of it all what was the exit issue that mattered most to Americans? Character. No flip flops, no trial lawyers claiming that their candidate can make the lame walk out of wheelchairs, no "nuanced" stances on terrorism, no seeking international support to protect our country, no sensitive wars, no commander in chief wannabe that states "wrong time, wrong place, wrong war" is fit to lead our men in combat, no late term infanticide, no courts will define marriage as they see fit, no man that forsakes his faith and potential core beliefs can be a leader if his public life doesn't reflect his personal beliefs.
There are a litany of details I left out due to space but understand one thing. The left was as soundly defeated on November 2nd 2004 as Bush was elected. Your side is done, cooked and American 60's liberalism has been thrown on the ash heap of history like Communism, Nazism and totalitarian rule. The Democrats are a party out of step with America. When the Supreme Court is reshaped and Congress gets to work to steal a phrase from the Democrats "America will be America again."
