Kerry's Troubled Campaign

I find it disturbing we read about this post election! Could you imagine these issues in the Bush campaign? CBS would have interrupted CSI to run with stories like these! No there is no bias in the media. Some excerpts:

"On the campaign bus," Newsweek reports, "there had been constant talk of marital spats between the candidate and his wife…

Kerry was both "cranky" and more indecisive than he was portrayed by the media. "I couldn't get the man to make decisions," said former campaign manager Jim Jordan.

Kerry "never did learn how to deliver a speech" and was privately counseled by Washington speech coach Michael Sheehan on shifting to "a more conversational style." (Read more)

Dems Just Don't Get It

BostonHerald.com - Opinion: Dems just don't get it

This is a good Op-Ed piece and the democrats should either listen or loose more seats in 2006.

Return to Business as Usual

Well I have not posted anything in a week. I was hoping there would be some good news, news of a “coming together”, but there has not. The MSM continue to attack Bush with regurgitated information or wild accusations. With this, the liberals and MSM continue to say Bush is not attempting to unite the country when their continued hate filled speech divides it.

Well I waited one week for the childish claims to stop and for the opposition to come up with complaints of substance to no avail. I guess it is back to the same pre election rhetoric – and I will start commenting on it again. I do expect the politicians to figure out that they lost and start getting back to government as usual; however, this process seems to be taking longer for the hate-filled media and may never happen for the likes of Maher, Moore, etc.

Brightside is if the democrats don’t figure out their hate filled speech did more to rally the republican vote than Carl Rove ever could they will loose more seats in 2006.

Moore Helps Republicans

Jay Ambrose has and interesting thought on “How Michael Moore go George Bush elected”; read it here.

Here, after all, was not simply a film director whose “Fahrenheit 9/11” emitted a vile propagandistic stink, indicating something contemptible in the mindset of its creator, but someone who went trotting about Europe telling the adulatory press that Americans “are possibly the dumbest people on the planet.”
[…]
It is that literally millions of the hard-working, responsible, decent citizens of this nation just may have had it up to their eyebrows with those Hollywood types and others who disdain their intelligence, mock their religion, dismiss their values, deprecate their lifestyles and disparage their social contributions.
[…]
What I would like to stress is that a certain belittling, Hollywood-fostered stereotype of small-town, rural and suburban Americans — and especially the stereotype of religious Southern and Midwestern Americans of a conservative disposition — is itself an absurdity overlooking the strength they lend this country. (read more)

Job Outlook - 337,000 Jobs Added

The job outlook is not the gloom and doom we heard from the left during their pre-election rhetoric.

Nonfarm payrolls grew by a robust 337,000 last month, more than twice the increase recorded in September, the Labor Department said Friday. The department also revised its estimates of payrolls growth for September and August, saying employers added 156,000 more jobs than previously thought. That brought the total of jobs created over the last 13 months to 2.2 million. (read here)

The Values-Vote Myth

(by David Brooks)
David Brooks had an interesting pieces in the New York Times Satruday.

In past years, the story line has involved Angry White Males, or Willie Horton-bashing racists. This year, the official story is that throngs of homophobic, Red America values-voters surged to the polls to put George Bush over the top.

This theory certainly flatters liberals, and it is certainly wrong.

Here are the facts. As Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center points out, there was no disproportionate surge in the evangelical vote this year. Evangelicals made up the same share of the electorate this year as they did in 2000. There was no increase in the percentage of voters who are pro-life. Sixteen percent of voters said abortions should be illegal in all circumstances. There was no increase in the percentage of voters who say they pray daily. (read here)

Little Spot of Home

Democratic National Committee’s Seal

Kerry Seeing Red

(via EricRagel.com)

Left's Post Election Celebration

The left give us an example of how to unify America and they call me intolerant and full of hate, right!


More pictures

Media Elitism

I have held off on writing this in the hope of finding a transcript. I was unable to find transcript or video so therefore it will not be an exact quote.

Sometime early this morning while watching election coverage and channel surfing I came across CBS. Eager to see how depressed Dan Rather was and how CBS would spin the story I paused. Andrew Card appeared and “declared victory”; Dan Rather asked Leslie Stahl her views. This is my issue! Ms Stahl made a statement worded something like:

Mr. Bush shouldn’t be declaring victory. He is breaking rules he is suppose to wait until we and the networks declare him the victor. This hardball….. Dan interrupts.

Ms Stahl; who are you to tell the President of the United States what he is suppose to do, yes Ms Stahl it is President Bush not Mr. Bush. Your affiliation Ms Stahl, with CBS and the media, does not give you some kind of supreme authority. Who do you and CBS think you are, besides at the bottom of the “mainstream media” dung heap? CBS is not the ruling class no matter how much you want to believe you are all knowing and all powerful! You do not anoint a the king or at least not in the real world; please wake up!

County by County 2004

(via USA Today)

Thank You Mr. Kerry

Mr. Kerry I will admit that you just raised my opinion or your candidacy. Thank you for thinking of American first and you were gracious in concession:

In America, it is vital that every vote count and every vote be counted but the outcome should be decided by voters, not a protracted legal process,

I would not give up this fight if there was a chance we would prevail

Media – Election – Bias?

As a follow-up to Election Coverage, I have another question. How come CNN, ABC, and CBS do not have a problem projecting a victory for John Kerry in Pennsylvania when he only leads by 121,188 (100% reporting) or Michigan where Kerry only leads by 105,602 (87% reporting); HOWEVER, have major issues declaring Bush a winner in Ohio when he has a 136,211 (100% reporting) lead?

This looks very suspicious to me. We know CBS (Rathergate) and ABC (Political Memo) are bias toward Kerry. Having always felt CNN is bias; it appears to me they are doing nothing to hide their bias and in fact are walking the line of flaunting it in our face.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Election Night

I planned to be up all night expecting a decisive winner. Stupid me took both candidates somewhat at their word that both agreed the country was truly divided and needs to be united, which I eluded to in my earlier post…However, the Kerry campaign refused to concede Ohio currently 138,000 votes behind (98% reported). This indicates that the democrats are determined to keep driving a wedge in the middle forcing Americans to decided right or left; they have learned nothing from this.

Moral values ranked higher, for voters polled, then either economy or the Iraqi war….are you hearing America?

The democrat talking heads are depending on the number of provision ballots….let us look at the numbers! We will need to make some assumption here; for example, the votes go 50/50 Kerry/Bush and further assume that every provisional vote will be legitimate; under current conditions, there would need to be 278,000 votes to count. Come on!

America set a negative standard with Florida 2000, but let us say we all agree with fighting the Florida 2000 election. Rounding the number in question we will call it 600 indicating the Ohio count difference is 229 times higher….come on when is it enough.

Does anyone here believe that dragging this vote out is good for the country? If you say yes, search your heart and tell me that you simply are disgruntled (being polite) that your position came out on the short side.

Mr. Kerry I ask you to wake up this morning look at the numbers and realize that disputing this result is not the best for America a country you declare you love!

The current numbers are Ohio (144,000 w/ 99%) and the popular vote is roughly 51,000,000 (Bush) to 48,000,000 (Kerry). Bush is leading in New Mexico, Nevada, and Iowa with 99% reported in all three states. Please Mr. Kerry prove me wrong about you and the democratic party; prove you actually care about this country and not your own lust for the White House.

Congratulations President BUSH – good night and God bless!

Election Coverage

Kudos to NBC for, at least, attempting to give the perception that you are not AS bias.

Don’t you find it interesting that ABC, CBS and CNN refused to declare Ohio for Bush even when 144,000 (99% precincts reporting)? I just think it interesting!

Aren’t these the same questionable networks during the campaign: maybe they knew Kerry would not concede victory? Of course, they aren’t working with campaign that would be bias, or are they.

I just find it suspiciously “par for the course”!

Why Is The Nation Divided

On a local forum the question, "why is the nation so bitterly divided" was put to us. I thought about and came up with a brief response; do you agree?

I believe that the FAR LEFT is bitter about the Florida Vote from 2000; and their "no holds barred" run at the White House caused much of this. I believe these, in many cases unjustified, attacks on our President has rallied Bush supporters.

Attacking Bush because of his faith is unjustified. Interestingly enough people, with nothing else to do apparently, counted the word God in Bush speeches and Clinton speeches. Clinton mentions God 20 times more than Bush; no outrage – this and other like incidents for others and me signaled growing double standards that raised our blood pressure. Clinton, Kerry, Jackson, other can make a campaign speech in any church – if my pastor even mention a candidate it would be on the front page calling for our “tax exempt status” to be revoked.

Then you move on to George Soros; no problem with him spending multi million dollars to unseat Bush, but damn those Swiftees that got a $200,000 donation from a Bush supporter. DNC and Kerry lawyers work for Soros but again damn those Bush lawyers working for Swiftees and forget the fact he voluntarily resigned from the Bush campaign; he was already damned. Again, double standards.

Do not get me wrong. I know democrats that disagree with this and admit these double standards and yes, they are still voting for Kerry; but they are respectable and should demonstrate the majority of the Democratic Party. However, the media that fills my day does a lousy job of hiding their bias or introducing America to individuals like this; individuals that can tell me what they believe in without one cross word against Bush.

Then you have the bitter Al Gore calling our President a traitor. If Democrats can honestly compare traitor to liar (terms used against Clinton) as quid pro quo then we have nothing to discuss. Speaking of lying to the American people; was not a problem during the Clinton years, no Democrat had an issue with that; now we accuse a man (a Republican) of lying about information that was corroborated by the majority of congress/senate and the UN.

The Democrats through a candidate at us that touts his Vietnam record but does not want anyone to dispute it (with full support of the MSM), question it, or heaven forbid we talk about the traitorous comments about his comrades in arms. The NYT can question every single move the President makes and regurgitate stories when they see fit but anyone that questions Kerry is attacked by the MSM (mainstream media); their answer to allegations is to call them liars or zealots.

I believe the stanch liberals of the Democratic Party purposely created the Two Americas, the decisive division. It was easy you already had a growing divide between the For Iraq/Against Iraq population all they needed was a little push!

Vote - Vote - Vote

If you agree with me or not please vote it is your right and I was raised that voting was pretty much a duty. Quite simply, if you fail to vote you loose any right to complain about our elected officials, SO VOTE.

John Kerry - Anti-Terrorist?

(via Michelle Malkin)
I cannot say it any better that Michelle Malkin does right here.

Which terrorists will Kerry "hunt down and destroy?" Only the ones who have already committed acts of terrorism.

Stop at absolutely nothing to capture or kill terrorists? Unless, of course, Amnesty International objects. (Please read more)

October Surprise - Update

The Indystar has a commentary that mentions a quote I feel important.

Anthony Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that the importance of the missing explosives has been exaggerated. "There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rather ordinary explosives, regardless of what actually happened at al Qaqaa," Cordesman told The Washington Post in a story published Friday. "The munitions at al Qaqaa were at most around 0.06 percent of the total."

The Post also quoted retired Army Gen. Wayne Downing, who described the issue as "bogus." Downing once served as a counterterrorism adviser for President Bush but has since been critical of some of the administration's decisions. (Read here)

This is important, in my opinion, because liberals have touted General Wayne Downing (retired) for his comments against the President. Now that General Downing (retired) is not on board with the current “Bush Bash” campaign his comments don’t count! Further, these comments could support my opinion that he latest “Bush Bash” actually reflects on the military’s (that Kerry supposedly supports?) alleged incompetence then on Bush; hence General Downing’s (retired) speaking up supporting the military. What do you think?