Re: Republican *VICTORY!* +2 Days & Counting . . .

From: Bill McHale (wmchal1_at_umbc.edu)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: 4 Nov 2004 11:18:36 -0800

Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message news:<7ef325714bb3cdbf6d86e51b757a666d@dizum.com>...
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> *THANK GOD* the election is finally over!!
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> LIKE I'VE SAID ALL ALONG, Bush-Cheney WILL trounce Kerry-Edwards
> by double-digits, and the Republicans WILL pick up seats in the
> House and Senate. And while Al-Qaeda did NOT attack America by
> or before election-day with WMDs, they DID indeed attack us with
> Usama Bin Laden's desperate pleas to vote GW Bush out of office,
> a FAILED Madrid-like ploy to negatively-influence our election.
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Umm, Bush did not trounce Kerry by Double digits, he only won by about
51-48. Had it not been for 2000, the pundits would be talking about
how close this election really was. Indeed I am not sure, but I think
that Kerry's total number of votes would have been enough to win most
elections prior to this one.

> Clearly, the across-the-board cooperation of our law-enforcement
> and intelligence services on the local, city, state, federal and
> international levels have been *VERY* effective in circumventing
> any post-9/11/2001 Al-Qaeda/Jihadist attack on the United States.
> And, now that our President is serving his second term in office,
> Al-Qaeda & their fellow Jihadists around the world are trembling
> in FEAR and rightly so. They KNOW that Bush is going to continue
> to do everything humanly possible to hunt every last one of them
> down and send their miserable souls to the darkest pits of Hades!
>

Ok, a couple of minor points here;
1. President Bush is not actually serving his second term yet, his
second term does not begin to January. Technically while extremely
unlikely, it is even possible that the Electoral College will refuse
to elect him.

2. The Jihadists are trembling in fear now that he was elected to a
second term but not before now? that seems awfully strange.

3. How is Bush going to continue to hunt them down when he hasn't done
all that much hunting in the last couple of years anyway?
                      
> Bush-Cheney's resounding victory over the liberal left candidate
> and his trial lawyer friend is reverberating around the world in
> every nation be they friend or foe. The Europeans were surprised
> to learn of Kerry's defeat, and are now beginning to realize how
> Americans feel about their ineffective influence on our election.
> Rather, France, Germany, et al are waking up to the fact that we
> DON'T appreciate their unsolicited interference with our country,
> most especially not during World War Three which we & our allies
> are successfully fighting and winning against the Islamic Jihad.
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LOL. 1. It aint WWIII.
2. If we don't appreciate unsolicited intereference in our country
then maybe we should stop interfering in outerh countries.
3. It has yet to be proven that we are winning or even can win against
the Jihad; even Bush said as much before Rove pulled him back on
message.

> Similarly, here in the United States the left-wing Democrats are
> trying to deal with their punishing loss in the election, trying
> to figure out WHY President Bush won by the largest popular vote
> in American history! Maybe the moderate ergo reasonable Democrats
> can join the REAL world again, and leave their left-wing liberal
> counterparts to wallow in the ashes of their self-imploded Usama
> Bin-Kerry campaign. And states proposing BANS against Homosexual
> marriage passed in flying colors! Soon it'll be banned nationwide.
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Lets see, he won by the largest popular vote in history because
perhaps more people voted than ever before; in part because there are
more Americans than ever before? In contrast Bush did not even come
close to winnning by the largest margin in history in either absolute
terms or relative terms. His father's defeat of Michael Dukakis was
far stronger in terms of number. Of course speaking of egos, few have
egos greater than those of gloating republicans.

> Fortunately for America and our allies, the Patriot Act is going
> to continue to help law-enforcement to track down terrorists and
> other dangerously-violent criminals with little interference from
> the ever-dwindling minority of left-wing extremists in our nation,
> e.g., the ACLU. I'm looking forward to our Republican legislators
> turning up the heat on violent criminals AND those who defend them.
> You can bet that the bad guys and their criminal defense attorneys
> are getting mighty worried in the wake of the Kerry-Edwards defeat,
> since they *KNOW* Bush is the terrorist criminal's WORST NIGHTMARE!

This is the thing I fear most of all. I while I use to differe with
Republicans on social issues, I could at least respect their position
of a strict interpretation of the Constitution and their belief in
smaller government. The so called Patriot Act and any attempts to
extend it are the single greatest threats to American Freedoms in
almost a century. Consider under the Patriot Act the government has
claimed the right to detain individuals indefinitely without charging
them of any crime; have claimed that certain prisoners are not
entitled to a jury trial; have claimed that that they can gain access
to all sorts of records (including the books you check out of the
library) without a subeona or probable cause. Further it is one thing
to turn up the heat on criminals, it is another entirely to put heat
on those who are simply there to ensure that a defendent's right to a
competent and vigorous defense in a court of law.

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> The election's over, and the stock market immediately reflects it.
> The economy is going to improve dramatically and rapidly thanks to
> Bush's RESOUNDING reelection and defeat of the extremist left-wing
> liberals for good. And poor Ted Kennedy--did you see him cringing?
>

The stock market and the economy are often rather at odds with each
other. While it has been on a run for the past few days, in part
because of the election and in part becuase Oil prices are down, it is
possible that with a weak job report expected that it might return to
the weakness it has displayed for most of the year. There is no
reason to think that Bush's election will have any permanant positive
effect on the economy, his last term certainly did not.
            
> While we victorious Republicans do graciously invite the *moderate*
> Democrats back to the bargaining table, I can tell you that we are
> going to rub the fanatical left-wing liberals faces in Kerry's loss
> with great satisfaction and a judicious modicum of jubilation. The
> far-left Democrats are going to hear about the Bush-Cheney victory
> incessantly DAY AND NIGHT! By contrast, we do feel some pity on the
> moderate democrats who got stuck with a guaranteed-to-lose candidate.
> John Kerry was NEVER presidential material. As I've told you again
> and again. You nominated a guy who, once he'd returned from Vietnam,
> had gone out of his way to betray his fellow troops who were still
> serving in Vietnam, many of whom had been captured and detained in
> brutally-torturous POW camps in the North Vietcong. What a *shame*!
>

You don't get it do you? You can't gloat to some and be gracious to
others. Thankfully, at least publicly, Bush has at least been
somewhat more gracious than you are.

As for Kerry speaking out against the Vietnam War (BTW there is no
such thing as the North Vietcong.. its Viet Cong and North Vietnam),
dissent is never a betrayal but a sacred duty of all Americans.
Patriotism is built upon doing what one thinks is best for the
country, not what others think is best for the country.
      
> So, as you Democrats begin to pick up what charred fragments remain
> of your election-day embarasment, just remember to nominate a VIABLE
> candidate for the Oval Office. Pick somebody in the MODERATE column,
> someone with a consistent message and citizen-friendly voting record.
> And be SURE to distance yourselves from left-wing liberal extremists
> if ever you expect to retake the White House. In 2008, your candidate
> will probably be facing California Governor Schwarzenegger, once the
> amendment is passed to allow foreign-born American citizens to enter
> the presidential race. So you Democrats had better prepare for a long
> uphill battle before you'll see another Democrat take the Oval Office.
>

I think you are smoking something if you think that an Amendment will
be passed to allow foreign born Presidents. As much as some
Republicans might like Arnold.. and indeed as moderate as he is, there
is simply no compelling reason to amend the Constitution and get the
necessary number of states to ratify that amendment.

Don't worry, the extreme right of the Republican Party will do its own
work at alienating the majority of Americans. Further the Republicans
have too many different elements within it. Now that the Republican
Party is pretty clearly the majority party they might find those
elements trying to pull the party in different directions... perhaps
to the detriment of Party Unity. Who knows in a few years you might
have fiscal conservative republicans defecting to the Democratic Party
:). 

--
Bill

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