“Oh you mean we liberals are supposed to be the conciliatory ones? No shit!”
November 4, 2004
How can I not gloat? I waited 24 hours since I fell asleep waiting for Dan Rather to drag his wrinkly ass to bed with the thought that despite all his efforts he didn’t get the result he wanted. How can I not gloat when the partisan media has done its best efforts for naught, sacrificing most if not all its credibility? How can I not gloat, considering a victory that was against all odds? Yes, there is plenty of time to gloat.
Funny how the liberals I have read today still don’t get it. Bush has already offered his hand at conciliation. At this fucking concept called “healing,” which I heard too many times uttered when a popular, nonviolent revolt overthrew an incompetent plunderer excuse for a Philippine president. Not that it would happen here but I’m sure the liberals can take comfort in the fact that some countries can actually kick presidents out with a million people paralyzing the capital metropolis. Not that it would happen here; besides, it is a matter of rule of law in the Philippines now, although when an attempt was leveled at the current president shortly after she took her seat, her cabinet didn’t desert her nor did the military. (Which is the basis of Philippine “people power” anyway.) You know, why go to Canada where it’s bitter cold? I’m sure you and your American dollars would be more than welcome in the Philippines. I know the weather is lovely most of the year. Who knows, maybe you can find true love there. Or maybe you’ll just find the clap.
Jeff Goldstein has a lot of the “conciliatory” reactions from the best of the leftwing reactions. Oh and Dunstan? 51% of America doesn’t see the president the way you do; and that doesn’t mean that we’re all Bushbots who are “self-centered, jingoistic, downright ignorant selfs,” especially since you just desicribed your attitude towards those who don’t see things your way. Way to play Game Theory, man. In other news Kleenex stock just went up by 6500%. Papier mache lawn ornaments on sale outside the Wheaton household tomorrow at eight. Sculpted with real congealed Wheaton Tears(TM).
I have had enough of the foaming mouthed, vitriolic, exasperated, and condescending whining from the left. I was going to write something conciliatory today:
Four more years. If you’re a liberal you have quite a few choices over how you should take that sentence. It can be four years of moving further left, because you think that you have not expressed your crypt-communist, neo-Stalinist beliefs hard enough to make sense to other people. At which point, when you look to your right at the “Democratic” party, please don’t whine at them that they betrayed you. The party of aggregate, patronage politics has found no need for your demographic.
You can also choose to spend the next four years weaving conspiracy theories with your hippie friends in the college coffeehouse. Don’t worry, as long as you don’t threaten to kill anyone, no one will arrest you. Believe it or not, America is not as fascist as you fear it is. You can even lobby your favorite Representative to go ahead and find a way to impeach the President. You’re free to do that too.
Or you can take a long hard look at the mirror, and see an American staring right back at you.
I was going to write something conciliatory today, but I could see that so few have learned their lesson:
We’re not asking you to become Republicans. We can disagree. But I am asking you to reevaluate yourselves, and work the free market of ideas. Find out what you believe in, package it well, and sell it well. Maybe a lot more people will know what to buy when that box wrapped in pretty wrapping paper actually makes a sound when you shake it. And please, don’t insult the customer. A long time ago Shelley Powers wrote about “being friends” once this is over. I said that we would, but only if Bush wins. We have extended our hands towards y’all, and many have done nothing but spit on our palms. We don’t have four years to be “conciliatory.” Bush, his voters, Middle America, and Americans on an individual level have plenty of work to do. There are plenty of seats, and you have been invited. But the train does run on time.
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Feel better now big guy?
I love you… This is exactly how I have felt for the whole election and will probably continue to until things really start to subside.
What really makes me angry is all of those stupid “Vote or Die” and “Rock the Vote” commercials that were so geared to convincing kids to vote for Kerry that it made me sick. It is obvious that people did not let their true wants/desires for a president be swayed by some actor telling them that they are better off voting for who that actor was voting for.
Oh, man, you absolutely read my mind. Nice work Jay.
It’s not our job to meet the GOP halfway given the outcome of the election. It’s the GOP’s job to prove that it’s worth our time to meet ythem halfway and that you’re being an honest broker in the debate of ideas, which to date has not occured. See Limbaugh. See Hannity. See Carlson. See O’Reilly. See Novak. See Coulter. (This is a free country, and we can be just as stubborn in our views just as so many on the right seem to be in theirs and that’s just tough shit.) The past four years have proven we have the right to be skeptical that Bush and the right want to work with us. That they honestly want our input and points of view in the political discourse.
Last time I checked, I was called “treasonous” by the likes of Coulter just for believing that waging a war that has had a net effect of killing tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens was not the most effective way to beat back the terrorist threat. That’s the free market of ideas. Give me a fucking break. That’s just bullshit..
Until we (liberals, moderates and libertarians, of which I am the latter) feel like we’ll get some honesty from the GOP side of the aisle, what they’ll get in return is anger at the direction this country is moving. Especially considering most of us feel the GOP has given its conservative a good bait-and-switch marketing snow job to retain power.
And you know what, that just means tough shit for all us. You guys won. Fine. You need to evaluate the way in which you won and ask yourself if it was worth it. I personally think it was a phyrric victory for the GOP, and net loss for the rest of the country.
Way to go guys… you made everyone more angry instead of collectively feeling more proud to be American. Not a small feat I might add.
Sweetie pie Andrei, we know you and your ilk. No effort at sincerity will ever be enough for you until what we present fits your world view. You’re not the demographic I’m asking to help conciliate and meet halfway.
Your post made me very angry. Is that what you wanted?
It is a lot to ask right now to set aside all the emotion of the election and get right back to discussing issues. But I am all for it.
It’s too bad that there is nothing of substance in your endless post to which I can respond. You are happy to attack that which can’t defend itself, ridiculous sterotypes of liberals.
If only you had offered one idea, one thought provoking principle, in your vacant post to which I might have responded.
All I am left with is a critique of your wandering, inflammatory prose. A critique that isn’t worth my time.
I was going to just leave this site without leaving a comment. And even though I know that attempts to exchange ideas with you would be fruitless, I am too wound up now to just leave.
I want you to know that if you did nothing else today, you made someone’s day worse. I wonder if you are truly happy about that.
Go on tough guy. Play it tough. Play it like I’m just another crying liberal. Any way you cut it, you are just an asshole with nothing of substance to offer.
Pile on the condescension! Pile on the sanctimony! If you see no substance in my closing paragraph you’re much more far gone than you pretend to be, Mark.
UPDATE: By the way I dropped by your blog. No you’re not quite the liberal stereotype. So why should this post of mine anger you? That you get lumped in with everyone else? Sir, we all have gone through this. If you took the time to click through a couple of the folks I linked, especially the one by Jeff Goldstein, you’ll see the kind of reactions that I do not like. They’re the ones getting the most coverage. They’re the ones who “represent” you, just like Ann Coulter by association “represents” me. It’s tough, but hey. Go through my last graf. I just shared with the Democrats what the Repubs did during the Clinton years. Maybe they can pick something up from it.
I would believe Bush’s offer of conciliation if he had a presidential history of working with — or even acknowledging — those who disagreed with him. The reality is that Bush plots a course and sticks with it, no matter who says what. Kerry supporters are upset because we realise that we’re going to get railroaded for the next four years on very important issues, issues that require a bipartisan commitment to be solved correctly.
Oh, you really do need a good laugh! Go to Dean’s World and read…Super Master Plan!
It’s hysterical and people are hoping those nuts you’re talking about will take it seriously.
I had not seen you for a while and came looking for you. You do know after two years of blogging we revealed who I am…yes, his Ma. Go laugh…
Interesting post.
I was very pleased that both Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry came out and called for the people of America to join together.
However, I did feel that Mr. Kerry betrayed his demographic because he and Mr. Edwards had promised to count every vote. Mr. Kerry conceded the race on November 3rd, 8 days before the unknown number of challenged (iniatiated by Ohio Republicans) voters would be tallied. This number is thought to be anywhere from 150K-250K votes in the state of Ohio alone. That, in conjuction with the evidence that has been surfacing since November 4th regarding massive irregularities in the vote count that consistently favor the Republican party, this election is not over.
This is why members of congress have petitioned the GOA to an immediate inquiry into this matter (on November 5th they wrote the letter) so that we can have some official examination of this controversial matter.
See my article here.