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John Ashcroft
11-11-2004, 12:44 PM
I guess John Kerry went into the primary without a plan to win the election.

The Democrats threw everything they had at this election. They ran a phony Vietnam War hero and a phony Southerner. They had middle-aged women executives at MTV hawking "Rock the Vote" to entice the most uninformed young people to vote for Kerry. They had Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews and New York Times darling Eminem. They had documentaries, books, the universities, Hollywood (and the French!) on their side.

They had liberal thugs ransacking Bush-Cheney headquarters, stealing Bush-Cheney signs and slashing the tires of Bush-Cheney get-out-the-vote vans on Election Day. In Colorado, they traded voter registrations for crack cocaine. In Ohio, they registered Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy. In South Carolina, Emily's List called Republican households and gave them incorrect information about the location of polling places.

The media campaigned heavily for Kerry with endless Abu Ghraib coverage, phony National Guard documents and, days before the election, false news reports that hundreds of tons of munitions had been looted in Iraq.

The Democrats' cheating never stopped. The big story of this election is the fraudulent exit polls on Election Day. Strange as it seems to me, it is well acknowledged that people are more likely to come out and vote for a winner. Early exit polls showing Kerry the clear winner could be expected to depress the vote for Bush.

Stunningly inaccurate exit polls released around noon on Election Day convinced news anchors, talking heads and even the campaigns that Kerry would win walking away. But at 9 p.m., when the first actual results began to come in, the election flipped to Bush. It was the first Kerry flip-flop that actually served the national interest.

The exit polls were absurd: They showed Kerry winning Pennsylvania by 20 points and Bush tied with Kerry in Mississippi. Only monkey business can explain the wildly pro-Kerry exit polls – admittedly hard to believe with a party that has behaved so honorably throughout this campaign. Michael Barone speculates that the sites of exit polling were leaked to the Democrats, and Democrats sent large numbers of voters to those polls to take exit polls and throw the results.

But for all their chicanery, vote-stealing, Hollywood starlets, fake polls and faux patriotism, the Democrats were wiped out on Election Day.

Bush won the largest popular vote in history with a 3.5 million margin. Indeed, simply by getting a majority of the country to vote for him – the left's most hated politician since Richard Nixon – Bush did something "rock star" Bill Clinton never did. Bush maintained or increased his vote in every state but Vermont. Republicans picked up seats in the House and Senate, and continue to dominate state governorships. Also making history of a sort, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle lost his election, marking the first time in half a century a Senate leader has been defeated.

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.

Link: here (http://www.anncoulter.com/)

aesop
11-11-2004, 12:46 PM
It was a squeaker. Here's a great article from today:

Dodging bullets: 2004
Posted: November 11, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Election 2004 wasn't necessarily a victory for conservatives or Republicans. It was a narrow escape for America.

During his second term, President Bush could fill as many as four vacancies on the Supreme Court. Had he lost the presidency, those appointments would have been in the hands of John Kerry. That would have meant the appointment of activist judges who would guarantee partial-birth abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, more criminals on the streets, and the decline of Judeo-Christian values for decades to come.

Thank God we dodged that bullet.

Election 2004 also laid bare the blatant propaganda of the liberal media for all to see. Dan Rather's overt effort to sabotage George Bush's campaign using forged documents was only the tip of the iceberg.

The get-Bush frenzy reached such a fever pitch that no slur was too low, no rumor too thin, and no charge too outrageous to level against him. A recent analysis showed that media coverage favored John Kerry by a factor of more than 2-to-1 over George Bush. For instance, although he campaigned primarily on his military service, no mainstream media organization conducted a serious inquiry into Sen. Kerry's military background. And this despite the numerous legitimate questions raised about it – even questions posed by his own former commanding officers.

But the mainstream media did devote uncounted pages and airtime minutes to whether or not Bush attended every one of his National Guard meetings. This election, the mainstream media launched an all-out propaganda blitz against red-state America.

Thank God we dodged that bullet.

The Democrats had promised – in advance – that if they couldn't win the election, they would try to steal it. The Democratic National Committee issued a 66-page "mobilization plan" to the party faithful in advance of the election.

In it, they were told to claim voter intimidation, whether they saw any or not. In fact, they were told to invent it. The memo said:

If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet ... launch a "pre-emptive strike" (particularly well-suited to states in which these techniques have been tried in the past).

The DNC also mobilized 10,000 lawyers in the various battleground states to challenge the results of any close election. It was a methodical, pre-planned strategy by Terry McAuliffe and the DNC to deliberately disrupt the results of a U.S. presidential election in advance. They hoped to use the liberal courts to steal the results of a close election.

Thank God we dodged that bullet.

By the grace of God, America was granted a fair and decisive election that left the world in no doubt of its resolve or moral vision. President Bush can now implement his doctrine of pursuing terrorists and their sponsors to the ends of the earth without political and special-interest hindrances.

This time, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida won't be able to dodge that bullet.



Hal Lindsey is the best-selling author of 20 books, including "Late Great Planet Earth." He writes this weekly column exclusively for WorldNetDaily.