Why Did They Lose?

I am having so much fun listening to the Dimocrats trying to figger out why they lost. Once of the best excuses I've heard so far is that they didn't package their message correctly. In other words, they didn't do a good job of lying. John Kerry was no Bill Clinton.

Let's look at how Dimocrats have done since Nixon.

Jimmah Carter won because of Watergate and Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon. Even so, Ford closed the gap and almost won. We saw what a success Jimmah Carter was. His mishandling of the Iranian hostage fiasco made the turbans think we could be had. I will also admit that Reagan pulling out of Beirut without a going away present was a mistake and also emboldened the turbans.

Reagan crushed Jimmah.

Mondale ran as a liberal. "I'm gonna raise your taxes." That was a winning strategy. Reagan crushed him.

Michael Dukakis ran as a liberal. The one time he tried to look strong on defense, he looked like Rocky the Flying Squirrel riding around in the tank. Bush crushed him.

That's when the Dimocratic Leadership Council was formed to try to pull the Dimocrat Party to the center. Clinton ran as a "New Dimocrat", and helped by Ross Perot, was able to garner 43% of the vote (hardly a mandate) and win the election.

Clinton immediately became an old Dimocrat by raising taxes, trying to implement a gays in the military policy (which I support by the way. Why should heterosexuals be the only ones dying for their country?), and attempting to nationalize health care. Clinton was the best thing that ever happened to the Republican Party. They captured Congress and should control it for the next twenty years.

Clinton got re-elected by running as a Republican. Imagine a Dimocrat supporting NAFTA and welfare reform. Even so, he only got 49% of the vote.

Algore got 49% of the vote and lost. Without the Clinton scandals he would have won going away. Thanks Monica!

So what have the Dimocrats learned? The smart ones have learned that they can run a liberal as a conservative and almost win. They just have to learn how to lie like a Clinton. Zell Miller has told them what they need to do. Fortunately for the Republicans, they probably won't listen. After all, Moveon.org has already stated that they have bought the Dimocrat Party and they better listen to them.

Fatboy (Michael Moore) has his opinion. From his website: (Italics are my comments -GOC)

Total members of Move On: More than 2,000,000
*Total Attendance at Vote for Change Concerts: An estimated 280,000
(Dude! I'm too fucking stoned to go vote!)
*Total Union Members in U.S.: Around 16,000,000
(And we know how union members are for high taxes, gun control and gay marriage)
*Total Number of People Who Have Seen “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Over 50 million
(The people who believe Farenheit 9/11 are too stupid to find their polling places. Ooops! I'm sounding like a Dimocrat. Calling the opposition stupid, but then anyone who believes Michael Moore's bullshit is stupid.)
*Total number of you reading this: Perhaps 10 million or more
(Total number of people laughing at this, at least one, me.)

He continues:

The days of trying to move the Democratic Party to the right are over. We lost a very close election (a one-state difference) by running the #1 liberal in the Senate. Not bad. The country is shifting in our direction, not to the right. But the country was attacked and people were scared. They were manipulated with fear. And America has never thrown a sitting president out during wartime. That’s the facts. Oh, and our candidate could have run a better campaign (but we’ll have that discussion another day).

But Kerry ran as a conservative not as a liberal. The centerpiece of his campaign was the Viet Nam War, which Mikey opposed. Had he run as the #1 liberal in the Senate he would have gotten clobbered. Ann Coulter says that both Dimocrats and Republicans run as conservatives. Republicans sometimes doublecross the voters, Dimocrats always do.

Mr. Creosote, Babs, and the moonbats at Moveon.org want the Dimocrat Party to move to the left not the center. The nice thing about that, if it happens, is we won't have to watch some liberal out goose hunting anymore.

Before the election I used to get pissed off at the conservatives telling the Dimocrats what they were doing wrong and how they could actually win elections. I was afraid the Dimocrats would listen and would indeed "package their message" better. I see I don't have to worry.

So go ahead Dims. Listen to Michael Moore, Babs, and Moveon.org. Here's what you should run on in 2008: Gun control, higher taxes, affirmative action, gay marriage, attacking the Boy Scouts, eliminating Christmas, unbridled socialism, weak defense, and socialized medicine.

And here's your dream team: Dennis Kucinich and Nancy Pelosi. The order doesn't matter.

Posted by denny at December 16, 2004 10:54 PM