Liberals need to stop sneering at people

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by JohnT
However, the trend is unmistakable. Lefties tend to be pessimistic, Righties tend to be optimistic.

The sample is statistically insignificant.

[Nubclear]

In other news, Bush recently announced OMFG TERRORISTS ARE VERYWHERE TRYING OT KIDNAP YOUR CHIDLREN BLWO UP NUKES HIJACK PLANES MAKE TRAINS EXPLODE SPREAD ANTHRAX OMGG WE HAVE TO SUSPEND THE CONSTITUTION OMG RUN ITS A TERORIRST RUN!!!11

[Ned]

Ann Coulter also believes that Bush bashing did a lot for Bush; but faults Karl Rove for not emphasizing the gay issue and even having Bush come out for civil unions. She reason that had Bush hammered Kerry on this issue, Bush's margin would have been greater:

"To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio – you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn't have done it without you!

Of course, we could have done it a lot earlier on election night but for "Boy Genius" Karl Rove. It's absurd that the election was as close as it was. The nation is at war, Bush is a magnificent wartime leader, and the night before the election we didn't know if a liberal tax-and-spend, Vietnam War-protesting senator from Massachusetts would beat him.

If Rove is "the architect" – as Bush called him in his acceptance speech – then he is the architect of high TV ratings, not a Republican victory. By keeping the race so tight, Rove ensured that a race that should have been a runaway Bush victory would not be over until the wee hours of the morning.

As we now know, the most important issue to voters was not terrorism, but moral values. Marriage amendments won by lopsided majorities in all 11 states where they were on the ballot. Even in Oregon, the state targeted by gay marriage advocates as their best shot of defeating a marriage amendment, the amendment passed by 57 percent – a figure noticeable for being larger than the percentage of votes cast for Bush in Oregon. In the great state of Mississippi, the marriage amendment passed with 88 percent of the vote.

Seventy percent to 80 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage and partial-birth abortion. Far from appealing exclusively to a narrow Republican base, opposition to gay marriage is strongest among the Democratic base: blacks, Hispanics, blue-collar workers and the elderly. There were marriage amendments on the ballot in Michigan and Ohio. Bush won Ohio narrowly and lost Michigan by only 2 points. How different might that have been if Bush hadn't run from the issue.

But Rove concluded Bush should stay mum on gay marriage and partial-birth abortion – contravening the politicians' rule of thumb: Talk about your positions that are wildly popular with voters. "Boy Genius" Rove decided Bush shouldn't even run radio ads on gay marriage, and at the last minute, Bush started claiming he was in favor of civil unions, just like John Kerry.

Amazingly, it was the Democrats – the ones who support gay marriage – who used the gay issue for political advantage, most famously when Kerry gay-baited Mary Cheney during the third debate.

The one toss-up Senate seat lost by the Republicans was Pete Coors in Colorado, where the Democrats did not hesitate to run commercials of a bacchanalian gay festival in Canada sponsored by Coors Brewing Co. The most narrow Republican win in a toss-up Senate race was in Alaska, where the Republican candidate was another "progressive" on the social issues.

When contemplating a former New York mayor as their next presidential candidate, Republicans should remember: This election should have been over sometime in August, not 1 a.m. election night."

http://www.anncoulter.org/

[Dis]

who cares about moral values?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Dissident
who cares about moral values?

21% of the American voters list them as their primary concern.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Dissident
who cares about moral values?

I do, in between trying to nail every pretty young woman I meet and expanding my economic prowess.

[Alexander's Horse]

That's the irony for liberals like me - our side loses so we just concentrate on getting wealthier.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
In other news, Bush recently announced OMFG TERRORISTS ARE VERYWHERE TRYING OT KIDNAP YOUR CHIDLREN BLWO UP NUKES HIJACK PLANES MAKE TRAINS EXPLODE SPREAD ANTHRAX OMGG WE HAVE TO SUSPEND THE CONSTITUTION OMG RUN ITS A TERORIRST RUN!!!11

[Ned]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
That's the irony for liberals like me - our side loses so we just concentrate on getting wealthier.

I thought your side viewed wealth as evil.

[Alexander's Horse]

Er no - another conservative lie.

[pchang]

Lilberals like their own wealth. It's only everyone else's wealth they want to redistribute.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Er no - another conservative lie.

[Ned]

So in the words of Orwell, all animals are not equal?

[Ramo]

Ned is quoting a pinko socialist! Why do you hate America?

[Lincoln]

Has anyone considered that so called "educated people" are really not that smart? Maybe the fault lies with the teachers. What good does it to sit in school half your life listening to the opinions of educated fools? On the other hand there are quite a few left in this nation who have taught themselves to think for themselves and they refuse to be led about by the self appointed elite who for some reason feel themselves qualified to lead people who have more brains than they do. Good first post Horse. But they will never get it. A great man once said that they strain at knats and swallow camels. Meanwhile, eat your hearts out. Bush won.