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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thursday, November 04, 2004
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He Tried to Tell Them Zell Miller writes at AJC today: .... This election outcome should have been implausible, if not impossible. With a litany of complaints — bad economy, bad deficit, bad foreign war, bad gas prices — amplified by a national media that discarded any pretense of neutrality, a national opposition party should have won this election. But the Democratic Party is no longer a national party. As difficult as the challenges are — both real and fabricated — Democrats offered no solution that was either believable or acceptable to vast regions of America. Tax increases to grow the economy are not a solution that is believable or acceptable. Democratic promises of fiscal responsibility are unbelievable in the face of massive new spending promises. A foreign policy based on the strength of "allies" such as France is unacceptable. A strong national defense policy is just not believable coming from a candidate who built a career as an anti-war veteran, an anti-military candidate and an anti-action senator. Democratic Party policies haven't sold in large sections of America in decades, and the only success of Democrats in presidential elections for 40 years was when they pitched themselves as pro-growth, low-tax, strong-defense, fiscally responsible, values-oriented candidates.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 06:59:35 PM |
Cool Maps! Election 2000 Results and Election 2004 Results. And an animation at Bettnet.com. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 06:39:28 PM |
Re: Yes. Yes! YES. YES! YES!!! (Again) Paul writes again (emphasis in original): Allow me to say those beautiful words just one more time: Ex-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 06:02:28 PM |
"So Much to Savor" A beautiful article by Peggy Noonan at OpinionJournal today: .... Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America. Some day, when America is hit again, and lines go down, and media are hard to get, these bloggers and site runners and independent Internetters of all sorts will find a way to file, and get their word out, and it will be part of the saving of our country.... (Thanks, Cassandra.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 05:50:48 PM |
Re: Yes. Yes! YES. YES! YES!!! Paul writes (emphasis in original): Ex-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Heck, just Ex-Senator Tom Daschle makes me happy. P.S. This is the 3,750th entry at The Blog from the Core. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 05:28:09 PM |
The American Spectator Looks at America First, an article by William Tucker, today: .... Second, it's time to admit you have become the minority party. This isn't so bad. Republicans were a minority party from 1932 until 1994. I know it's hard because for Democrats the political is always personal and the personal is political. But there are other things in life. Look at the trial lawyers. They're essentially the Democratic Congress in Exile, out of office but functioning like the "private attorneys general" they fancy themselves and making a lot of money as well. But it isn't the same, is it? To Democrats, politics means changing things equalizing income, dispensing social justice, curing the sick, creating sustainable ecosystems. Pass a law and watch it happen! It never occurs to you that people can pursue these goals in the private sphere and can accomplish things rather than just telling other people what to do. The Old Democratic Party is going to have a tough, tough time dealing with this. The truth is, John Kerry was about the best candidate the Democrats could have offered. He had a war record, a patrician air, and enough verbal felicity to win people's trust. Yet Kerry was rejected. Somehow his vague "plans" about Iraq and health care never rang true. People have gotten smart. They aren't seduced by Democratic ideals anymore. It isn't going to get better. Since Southerners stopped fighting the Civil War and joined their conservative brethren in the GOP, sectional differences have become meaningless in America. Instead, the country is divided rural vs. urban, cosmopolitans versus the average American. The cosmopolitans are able to project their vision out from New York and Hollywood, but people aren't listening anymore.... usatoday.com Second, an article by George Neumayr, yesterday: .... The elite were so out to lunch that it came as great revelation to them last night [Tue. Nov. 3] that many Americans named as their most important issue not Iraq, not the economy, but "moral issues." This was an election about "God, guns and gays," to use Howard Dean's phrase, and Kerry with his newly-bought Red Sox cap batted 0 for 3. The American people did not want to entrust one nation under God to a Massachusetts liberal who campaigned with Bruce Springsteen and Peter, Paul, and Mary, a Senator who voted with NARAL 100% of the time, and a renegade Catholic who wouldn't recognize a moral teaching of his own church if it hit him coming around the corner. It was quite a dismaying revelation to the media that so many traditional marriage propositions passed across the country. Reporters treated the numbers like a curious anthropological finding. Kerry was of course tone-deaf on this too. His clumsy appropriation of Mary Cheney for polemical purposes didn't help him one bit, and his contrived goose-hunting just confirmed to middle America that he was a patrician phony, posing for the peasants while the help collected the fowl he pretended to shoot. It chafes on reporters that the American people voted for George Bush not in spite of his faith but because of it. They work hard to conjure up a "divided" nation on moral and religious matters, but again this is more a reflection of their feelings than the country's. The American people don't have a problem with Bush's faith; the media do. The aging heads of CBS Dan Rather, Ed Bradley sporting an earring, Lesley Stahl, and Bob Schieffer looked at the results with puzzlement. They had never seen the country so divided from their agenda. michaelmoore.com P.S. The mosaic-image is called "War President" and it's by Joe at American Leftist. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 07:59:55 AM |
"Their Veterans' Day" A poem by Russ Vaughn. Our favorite Screaming Eagle Poet writes to The Blog from the Core again. Their Veterans' Day
Some said let you apologize,
Russ Vaughn See "Veterans' Day". See also these. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 11/04/04 06:51:48 AM |
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