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Nov. 8, 2004 The left is scrambling all over itself trying to understand its third straight shellacking at the hands of the Republicans. There've been all sorts of theories floated--the "religious right" was energized by the gay marriage referenda, the GOP was just better at getting their people to vote, Kerry and Edwards were simply "weak" candidates who couldn't stay on message--even voter fraud is being alleged in some quarters. Oh, there was voter fraud, alright. Almost exclusively perpetrated by the Democrats-- registering "Mary Poppins" and "Jeffrey Dahmer" in Ohio, for instance. No, the REAL reason Democrats got kicked by that proverbial mule for the third straight election is hate. Not hate on the part of the GOP, mind you, but unbridled hatred of a mostly personal nature directed BY the left at the President. Having virtually no real vision for America's future, we've seen the left engage in all sorts of lies and distortions about who this President is, what he stands for and how he's directing the country in this, one of the most perilous times in recent history. Charged up by the false belief that President Bush "stole" the 2002 election from Al Gore--aided and abetted in this belief by the left's sycophantic aides in the national press and in Hollywood, they have engaged in an unrelenting campaign of hatred towards the man they see as both responsible for their humiliating defeat AND as a "mental midget." Nevermind that the two opinions are mutually incompatable. The point has always been that this "moron" surrounded himself with crooked, but very wiley experts who sandbagged the Gore campaign through fraud and the use of the courts instead of at the ballot box. Forgetting that the Florida tally showed Bush the winner of those 27 electoral votes early in the morning following the election and it was GORE who turned to the courts to try and overturn those results, they've believed ever since that President Bush was "appointed" by a "mostly conservative" court. Most of these harboring those beliefs conveniently forget that the vote declaring the Florida SC's decision to extend recounts indefinitely and by varying standards was 7 to 2, with even Clinton-appointee Ruth Bader Ginsberg--hardly a raving conservative-- joining in the majority opinion that the FSSC's decision was unconstitutional. These folks ALSO fail to ackowledge that every subsequent recount-- official AND unofficial--showed Bush to have won in Florida--albiet by a very narrow margin. Goaded constantly from the left, much of the Democrat Party began screaming "fakery" and many refused to even acknowledge Bush as the winner for the entire four years of his first term. President Bush was never given the simple courtesy of a "honeymoon" period--with Congress OR with the press corps--during which such sniping is put aside in the spirity of comity. The left had also gotten used to the Clinton philosophy of responding to terror attacks by making vague, diplomatic "protests" or lobbing a few multi-million-dollar missiles at a bunch of desert tents or an aspirin factory and calling it "proportional response." When 9/11 happened, they saw that attitude fall by the wayside and watched in horror as a strong-willed and determined President Bush declared war on terrorism and terrorists wherever they may choose to hide and against the States that support and hide them. The "honeymoon," if there ever was one, was for a few weeks following 9/11 as the country reacted with shock before the left decided to begin the blame game and accuse the President of being less than concerned with national security. Kerry supported the President's position initially and for some time thereafter--actually agreeing that Saddam Hussein posed a danger to the country AND the world and needed to be "taken out." When the run for the Presidency began, Howard Dean campaigned on the premise that the war in Iraq was, in actuality, a "war crime," unnecessary and promoted to gain control of Iraqi oil and to enrich VP Cheney's friends at Haliburton. The rabid left latched onto his rhetoric like a drowing man to a life raft and Kerry was forced to change his position on the war in order to appeal more to the leftist "base" of the Democrat Party if he wanted to be their nominee. Dean was soon seen for the rabid ideologue that he was (and is) and Kerry succeeded in supplanting him as the annointed candidate of the left. It wasn't too much of a stretch since Kerry had the reputation of being more liberal even than the Senior Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, in his voting record. At one point in the 80's, Kerry had even proposed an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have literally gutted America's intelligence agencies--a move that even Kennedy rejected as "dangerous." Instead of abating, the virulent hatred of Bush actually INcreased as Kerry forces, aided by a compliant national press corps, painted the President as a liar, a killer of children, an "imperialist" of the worst sort, while, at the same time, continuing the drumbeat that he was a "moron." No accusation was too vile. No allegation too outrageous for these left-wing sycophants as they traveled the country insisting that Bush needed "replacement"--not because Kerry was such a great man, but because Bush was so crooked and hateful. Those 50+ million people voted on November 2nd, not so much FOR Senator Kerry as AGAINST President Bush. Fortunately, there were 3.5 million MORE people who respect and trust him than hate him. It just could be that those several million "new" voters who cast their votes for President Bush did so because they disliked the hate-filled rhetoric echoing over and over from Democrats--especially their allies in the "entertainment industry" and in the so-called "mainstream media." Many people voted for President Bush because they'd rather have a man of good character, even if he's slightly flawed, than a man of NO character who's sole recommendation for President was that he's "Not Bush." ------------ About the author: David A. Jared is a news junkie, semi-retired and an avid golfer who's been writing his first book, "4000 years of chopsticks" for the last 20 years. Email: Pappadave@sbcglobal.net ------------- All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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