That isn’t wisdom, it’s just a simple numerical score needed to win. As in baseball, by the time you know the final score, it’s too late. One more state, and Kerry might have won. I won’t say he would have won, just that he might have.
I’ll buy that, but I thought we were talking about some innate wisdom possessed by people living in red states. Still, what you say is true - “we” did write them off didn’t we. It looks like each man was concentrating on his base and preaching to his own choir instead of trying to capture the whole thing, and GWB beat us there. Guilty as charged.
Tours of duty just extended again. Oh, and look out for that flat tax. If it’s going to keep the tax base the same, as Bush promises, that means people on military salaries will see their taxes go up.
It may have looked that way to you, but that’s not really what was happening. The Republican Party has gone a long way toward expanding its base.
Minnesota, for instance, now has a Republican governor and one Republican senator. The state party organization is considered to be one of the most vibrant in the country.
California has now elected a Republican governor, where the last few Republican candidates were less than inspiring. The last two mayors of New York City are Republicans, however nominally. A previous one, Ed Koch, was a prominent Bush supporter.
The Democrats aren’t going nearly as far to expand their party. It shows.
No. The score is 270. The wisdom is comprehending that that indeed is the score that is required, and therefore not alienating voters who might give it to you. In any competition, precisely because the outcome is unknown, it is very important to give the whole of your effort and to score every possible point. Rove was careful not to demonize Democrats as voters. The left camp, on the other hand, was positively incessant with its ridicule and condescension toward voters from the right. (And in fact, it still is.)
What a silly, apples-and-baseballs argument; if Rove was circumspect in his comments, the right wing in general was not, labelling Democratic voters with all sorts of scurrilous characterizations. An honest comparison would be Rove and DNC Chairman Terry McAulliffe or Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill, who likewise never had any imprudent comments about Republican voters.
But no, instead we are subjected to another disingenuous Liberal broadside at the left, crafted by stitching together ragged bits of mismatched cloth. I know you think you have created a dreamcoat Lib, but in truth it is just a shabby cloak, threadbare with holes that reveal your emaciated logic.
We did? Aw come on. You’re just being wrongheaded and evil now <wink wink>. But seriously, human nature being what it is, it is very hard to not ridicule things we think are ridiculous. For instance, now there is a whole thread about Jesus horses. It cost us votes, but on the other hand, it can be great fun and we never lacked for material. Besides, on the one hand there was ridicule and condescension (mostly from the constituents, not from the candidates themselves) and on the other hand we had vitriol and righteousness (again, mostly from constituents and not necessarily from the candidates).
I earned it by being born and raised in the Mon Valley, just south of Pittsburgh. Just in my immediate family, my great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and brother all worked directly for the steel industry.
I have lots of uncles and cousins who also worked in the mills.
The only one still doing it is my brother, and he indeed voted for Kerry.
I’m sure Mr. Moto believes the scattering of rose petals at the feet of American forces and the showering of same with loving Iraqi kisses will commence any day now, too.