Still Not Getting It

It's been a week now and the left has told us that John Fonda Kerry lost for the following reasons:

1. 51% of the people are racists.
2. 51% of the people are homophobes.
3. 51% of the people are Jesus freaks. (At least the Germans think so and also a Canadian commenter who is afraid of the southern part of the United States. Y'know, I live in the South and real Southerners are the most tolerant and most polite people in the world.)
4. 51% of the people are country bumpkins. (At least Jimmy does. He also thinks it's OK for one group of people to take money from another group of people.)
5. 51% of the people are stupid.

Let's not talk about how Kerry was a flawed candidate. If he hadn't had the support of the old media, like CBS with its Fake But Accurate memo story, he would have lost in a landslide. CBS still hasn't fired Dan Rather or Mary Mapes and it may as well give up any hope as ever being regarded as a credible news source again.

Kerry had a plan for everything. The problem is most of them wouldn't have worked. Let's examine his plan for Iraq. Get the French and the Germans to take over so we could leave. How was he gonna do that? Wave a dead chicken at it. Poof! PFM! Ironbear had a post on this. BTW, this is where I got Poof! PFM!

Demographics:

Bush 2000/Bush 2004

African-Americans: 8%/11%
Whites: 54%/58%
Hispanic: 41%/44%
Married: 53%/56%
Not Married: 38%/40%
Union Members: 37%/40%
Gays: 25%/23%
Gun Owners: 61%/67%
Protestants: 63%/59%
Jewish: 19%/25%
Catholics: 45%/52%
Republicans: 91%/93%
Democrats: 10%/11%
Men: 51%/55%
Women: 43%/48%
18-29 year olds: 46%/45%
30-44 year olds: 49%/53%
45-59 year olds: 49%/51%
60+ 47%/54%

Bush went up with everyone except Protestants and 18-29 year olds. I guess they don't hate gays as much.

Now Robin wondered how the rural poor could vote against their pocket books and the urban elite could vote against their pocket books. Because this wasn't an election about the economy. This was an election about the war and values. The rural poor do not think it is the gummint's job to support them. Also, rural voters are Second Amendment types. As much as Flipper tried to convince everyone he was not a gun grabber, his record in the Senate showed otherwise. That's why he didn't run on it and staged those ridiculous photo ops showing him with guns.

People vote against their interests all the time. Look at black voters. 60% of blacks are for school vouchers. Dimocrats oppose school vouchers. Kerry got 89% of the black vote. Blacks are conservative on issues like abortion and gay marriage but as long as the Dimocrats campaign on fear and racism and blacks believe it, they'll vote for Dimocrats. One of the most disgusting ads this year was a picture from 40 years ago (!) showing blacks having a firehose turned on them saying that this could happen if they didn't vote. And the Dimocrats accuse Republicans of fear tactics?

Rural Americans are more patriotic than urban elites. Rural Americans are also more self reliant than the urban poor. Rural Americans have sent their sons off to war everytime we have had one. I remember driving through south Georgia during Gulf War I and seeing Amerrican flags on the all the overpasses. These are the country bumpkins that Jimmy sneers at. These country bumpkins are part of what makes this country great. Given a choice I would prefer having a beer with a country bumpkin than having a latte with one of the elites in a blue state.

So during this last election the rural poor were not saying what can my country do for me (which seems to be the mantra of Dimocrats nowadays) but what can I do for my country. Funny, I remember a Dimocrat saying sumpin' like that 44 years ago. How times have changed.

No wonder the Dimocrat Party is becoming a minority party.

Posted by denny at November 8, 2004 06:34 PM