I’m not sure you know what a Pyrrhic victory is.
sniff Sing it, brother! It’s been a long time since I heard anybody talk like that. Thank you. I already feel hardened for the struggle ahead. We’re going to have a mess not even ServiceMaster could clean up and since it’s our country, too, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and start mopping.
This is, of course, because we do hold values morally superior to theirs, including forgiveness and the willingness to accept back our prodigal children though we would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS expect the same from them. 
Dio, relax, take a deep breath, and try to see this situation in perspective. On the national level we got our asses handed to us. It happens and is part of the game. Your DUTY, as an American, is to work to prevent more bad from coming out of this and lashing out is NOT how you do it. Channel your anger into positive things. Help people in need–there are be plenty already and there may be more soon. Have fun with your family; I bet they’d like to see you finding happiness wherever you can after having listened to you the past few months. God knows WE will! Smell the roses, find your center, and gird your loins for 2006. Your anger is self-defeating. Become a good, happy, positive person and people will follow you while only crazies follow those whose anger consumes them.
ExTank, I didn’t know you were a Browncoat. Shiny! What’s your name over there?
Brutus, “Sniff the sweaty nad-sack of defeat,” is a brilliant line. All we have to do is turn around your politics… 
Trust me, Liberal, I know what a Pyrrhic victory is. I also know that gobear’s concession had a great deal of bitterness and anger in it as well.
However, given the standards of both the forum and the way other posters are reacting, gobear remains a class act.
gobear, if my wife ever leaves me, I’m yours! Class act all the way.
Beer for everybody!
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I may not totally agree with the mode of expression, but I stand in awe of the eloquence.
News to me if I did. Those optical-scan things are tricky, though, so I suppose I could have …
Yes, 30% of those without a religion want theocracy, and 23% of homosexuals want anti-gay bigotry. That must explain it.
And of course 52% of Americans embrace of torture as a routine interrogation tool. Goes without saying.
I know you think you proved a point, but I stand by my statment. If 23 percent of gay people voted for Bush, then they must agree that they deserve to be discriminated against. It’s what they voted for. Whatever they think they were supporting (war on terror, lower taxes), they have to admit that they voted for the anti-gay business, too.
If only this would fit on a bumper sticker!
Maybe you can help us formulate a plan for line item vetos in the polling booth?
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ExTank, I didn’t know you were a Browncoat. Shiny! What’s your name over there?
Uhm…ExTank.
So I’ll assume you agree with John Kerry in his opposition to gay marriage. Well that’s one issue put to rest.
If you care to tell us who you voted for in various senatorial and congressional races, then we’ll be able to assume you agree with every single decision or position they’ve ever taken. After all, it’s what you voted for.
Nope, I votred for his support of the legitimacy of gay unions, something Bush opposes (one line from a TV interview doesn’t negate 4 years of anti-gay rhetoric).
If four years go by and these things do not happen, will you admit that things did not turn out as bad as you thought. Will you apologize and say, hey maybe he was the better choice afterall? If these things don’t happen?
I know that if Bush passes some kind of Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage and/or barring equal and identical rights for civil unions (or whatever terminology they decide to cook up), then I will apologize for voting for him. Because I don’t want to see that happen. But I don’t think it will. If I knew for a fact that he would do such a thing, I would not have voted for him. I would have voted for Kerry and crossed my fingers hoping that he didn’t screw everything else up. If he does that, or overturns Roe v Wade, or if there is a draft, or if he screws up everything in Iraq or doesn’t go after additional threats (I want him to go after any threat) or any of these other concerns people have… then I will apologize. I will say, Crap I guess I was wrong.
I’m talking about only the big serious concerns. Raising taxes and the whole rich people are getting richer stuff is not as serious as these other things. And as for the environment, I didn’t see where Kerry was going to clean up all the Superfunds or cure global warming or anything like that. I saw him out hunting in the forest for a couple of stratigically placed “I love trees” publicity shots, but that’s it. But as for yours, and others’ serious concerns. . . I dont believe they will happen. And I will apologize if they do. I just don’t think your worries are warranted. I think we’ll all be ok.
Anybody wonder if Diogenes is really a Bush supporter? I’m pretty sure his behavior gave Bush at least a 2% boost in popular vote.
Way to serve your country, man! Right on!
AND you voted for his non-support of gay marriage. Remember, “you voted for all of it.”
No one denies that there are assholes who voted for Bush. Drawing the conclusion that everyone who voted for Bush is an asshole is beneath you, both intellectually and morally.
You voted for a guy you knew to be a bigot. You can’t clean that off of yourselves. You couldn’t vote for a guy in a Klan robe and then say, “well, I disagree with the cross burning and the yellow triangles for Jews amendment but I agree with other stuff.”
You voted for a guy in a Klan robe and you’re going to have to own that.
I just wanted to give props to gobear for this thread – I was all set to write something similar myself (except without the wine for Bricker, natch ).
But I agree completely with the sentiment of the OP: The Bushies have made their bed – and I’m going to make damn sure you sleep in it, even if I have to sit on your chest and smother you with a pillow to do so.
Diogenes: I grok. Believe me, I grok.
This was not an election over varying shades of ambiguity.
This was a clear choice.
We’ve given a mandate to a warmonger and a liar.
A closet theocrat and an enemy of science.
A foe of the enviornment and someone who supports policies which doom our students.
A cowboy whose idiotic foreign policy has and will continue to unite the world against us.
A bigot, a fool, and a swaggering, smurking, disaster-on-wheels.
So while Shrubco is busy giving another blowjob to Prince Bandar with oil dribbling off their chins, while they’re raping the poor to help billionaires buy bigger yachts, while they’re creating yet another generation of radical Muslim youths with no hope and nothing but hatred for our country, think of what you’ve ‘won’.
There is nothing to celebrate in Shrubco’s victory.
This is a very dark day in American politics.
Celebrate your ‘victory’ as long as you can.
May God have mercy on us all.
You have an interesting definition of “similar”:
I wouldn’t give him a “mandate” if I were you—he’s not crazy 'bout them fags, y’know . . .