1. Here I disagree: The best thing for the Dems to do right now is accept reality, concede Ohio, and get going on 2006. Acknowledging reality graciously can only make them look good -- and hey, if by some miracle of biblical proportions the final Ohio results were to favor Kerry, it's not like his concession would carry legal weight or anything. No matter what he does, if he were to win in the electoral college his loss in the popular vote would make his presidency look illegitimate to those of an anti-Kerry inclination. And anyway, no point in worrying about the down side of miracles.
2. Yeah. It's not as if bipartisanship is an option anyway. If there's one thing I loathe and revile about Bush more than anything else, it's that he took his minority in the popular vote and his razor-thin win of the electoral college as a mandate for an extreme shift of American policies toward the right wing. An honorable and humble man would've seen that the public endorsed neither one side nor the other, and would've reached out to the Democrats to build a bipartisan middle ground. He did the opposite. He sowed the division, let him reap it.
3. Is this what they really want right now? I haven't discussed things with Bush supporters much (I hardly know any) but I get the feeling it was more a support-the-president-and-hope-he-does-better kind of thing than any real admiration and endorsement on the part of many Bush voters.
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Date: 2004-11-03 03:57 pm (UTC)2. Yeah. It's not as if bipartisanship is an option anyway. If there's one thing I loathe and revile about Bush more than anything else, it's that he took his minority in the popular vote and his razor-thin win of the electoral college as a mandate for an extreme shift of American policies toward the right wing. An honorable and humble man would've seen that the public endorsed neither one side nor the other, and would've reached out to the Democrats to build a bipartisan middle ground. He did the opposite. He sowed the division, let him reap it.
3. Is this what they really want right now? I haven't discussed things with Bush supporters much (I hardly know any) but I get the feeling it was more a support-the-president-and-hope-he-does-better kind of thing than any real admiration and endorsement on the part of many Bush voters.
4. Nor me. For now.