I thought this country was ruled by its people. Joe Conason apparently didn’t get that memo back in high school civics class:
Now the Democratic voters who chose not to show up Tuesday are going to find out what their decision meant, in a country ruled by President Bush, Trent Lott and Tom DeLay.
Maybe your Democratic talking heads talked up the fact that you were going to blow the Republicans out a bit too much. Idiots like your DNC chairman quite possibly made a lot of your voters think it was a shoo-in, so why go to the polls?
In this historic election, Bush overcame his weaknesses as a statesman with his skills as a politician.
Mr. Bush is more of a statesman in his little finger than Bill Clinton and Algore are in their entire bodies combined. Statesmanship doesn’t mean rolling over for anyone who doesn’t necessarily like the fact that the US is the predominant nation in the world today.
The rest of the article is more of the same and isn’t worth Fisking, but he goes on to allude to Republican efforts to intimidate voters, etc. I’ve never been impressed with Conason and there’s nothing in this article to change my mind about him. However, one more of his points is worth highlighting:
Moving forward onto this hostile political terrain, the Democrats would do well to recall the combative stance adopted by the Republicans after losing both houses of Congress and the presidency in 1992.
Joe, Joe, Joe. That’s why you lost this time. People are sick and tired of Democrats making loud noises but not providing any solutions to the problems they claim the Republicans are responsible for. When you work up some real honest solutions to the economy, the drug problem, election fraud (most of it perpatrated by your own party), and terrorism, feel free to write another column about it, but until then…why don’t you just shut the fuck up.