Hey, don't forget our "black-guy behind the pick-up" pulls!
And that vile heterosexual intercourse. The perversion!

Carville wants McCain-omics. Fiscally conservative, socially in orbit. You can ride the hershey high-way as long as you can balance the budget.

Hey, Iblis, you just identified how Ace can pay off JM J. Bullock to finally, um, "get him off his back".

Tolls on the Hershey Highway!!!

There's gotta be a way of making a campaign slogan outta that.

Us'n who done voted for Bush is jist a buncha toofless morons what plays with guns an' hates them fagits.

Isn't that what the entire left wing is claiming, with minor variations?

Get over it, you tards.

Paste taste great. . . uggggggggh. . . he he he.

Duhhhhh,
Dave

"You can't deny reality" rings like "let's be honest," and using them together yields a pitying Condescension: "Let's be honest - you can't deny reality..."

Appending that Dowdian ellipsis avoids the need to say what every uber knows, but noblesse will sometimes oblige the alpha's to alm us delta's by adding the likes of "You red-staters hope that when you die you'll go to Wal-Mart."

You guys are gonna blow it. You need to let the lefties think about us what they do now. Tat way, they will be looking the wrong direction when the steamroller flattens them.

2.7 % of house holds in San Fran are homosexual. . .and that's the highest in the nation.

What the hell is all the fuss about, oh, yea, the whinnig liberals lost and need to rationize.

We's all just a lil slow, dat's all.

"Mat Damun! Mat Damun!"

(sorry, just saw Team America yesterday (finally))

Let's face reality: Dmocrats simply cannot accept that people think they're wrong. We've all come across those people in our life---those who just won't stop trying to say the same shit 8 different ways because they think we "just don't get it. If you understood, you'd know I was right."

the problem is that some of the hard-core Lefties DO understand it, and now they know the rest of Amurka has told the to go to hell, they're getting violent.

Humble request Ace, if you want, start keeping track of the Lefty violence in the next few weeks and months. Should be enlightening

Wish you wouldn't use Matthew Sheppard's name like that.

Alan,

Well, I didn't think it was insensitive, but maybe I was wrong. I've edited in deference to you.

One of the most amusing offerings is that the Democrats lost because they "didn't get their message out". This is exactly 180 degrees out of phase. The reason that the Democrats lost the election is that they DID get their message out and America soundly rejected it. Of course it didn't help their cause that the tone of the message was set by the likes of Michael Moore, trash-mouth Whoopie Goldberg, freaky Al Franken and the candidate himself. The dems won't admit the fact that most of the people in this nation rejected their message and their messengers. Too bad for them. Majority rules. The dems get to sit down for four more years.

I don't think America is obsessing about how to make homo's lives miserable - AIDs and various other non-viral pathologies have made them miserable enough. No - the real problem is elite Democrats using PC and the Courts tried to shove various "progressive" agenda items down America's throat, and we're sick of it!!!

The Democrats I feel sorry for are blacks. Unlike Jews and Hispanics getting various goodies from Dems or Republicans by playing the field - blacks are dumbly staying on the Democratic Plantation, and being taken for granted (by Dems) or largely ignored (by Reps).

Still, Republicans have a lot of work ahead if they want to stay in the majority. They have yet to convince the majority of the people that they are not the Party of Greed, out to reward the richest individuals and corporations - and fail or even care - to be watching the backs of the poor and middleclass. They have yet to find a policy program that will allow them to win in the major cities. Nancy Pelosi in an otherwise blitheringly stupid speech (Nov 3rd) was right in one thing - the Reps took almost all they could, outside the Blue Bastions of the cities (plus some small pockets of Appalachia, heavily black areas along the Mississippi Southern bottomlands, some Midwest New Deal agrarian holdouts remain Democratic). The Reps are indeed up against a hard stop - they have 90% of the land area on the West Coast, NY, Pennsyvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota - Red - but they can't dent the cities there....

To win in the cities, the Reps must either pry away the city Dem elites that lead the masses (Professional blacks, union bosses, liberal Jews, liberal whites of "culture") - or lead the masses (ordinary blue collar union whites, ordinary blacks, Hispanics + immigrants) away from the 4 Democratic elites.

Cedarford, the Republicans have yet to fire all their guns. Republicans have been very, very reluctant to back school choice (a winner with urban blacks) and have a suicidal urge to raise taxes when they get in power at the state level.

If Republicans start acting like conservatives they can take another bound forward in the cities. I remember what one lifelong Democrat said about former New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman: "I've never voted Republican before, but she cut my taxes." I'll be the last person to defend Whitman, but it shows what can happen when Republicans stay on track.

It's a total mystery to me why the dems keep bringing up gays as a reason Bush won.

In Florida, there was a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage that passed with 70% of the vote. To use the dems logic that the reason Bush won was because of all those anti gay marriage ballot measures, why didn't Kerry win Florida?

Openness with regard to sexuality is impolite regardless of your sexual preference. I THINK I SPEAK FOR A SIZABLE MAJORITY OF BUSH VOTERS WHEN I SAY "WHO CARES" WHEN IT COMES TO GAYS OR GAY MARRIAGE.

The dems comfort themselves with this smug, self righteous, superior, holier than thou attitude about gays when all I want is for the dufuses to stay out of my face and leave me alone. They want to marry...fine! Just stay out of my face. They want to adopt? Great! More power to 'em, just stay out of my face.

Anyone who rubs my nose in their sexuality (except maybe an extremely attractive drunk girl) deserves condemnation from me and everyone else in society. "Get a room" should be our rallying cry! The overt sexuality of everyone from 10 year old girls to semi-naked 70 year old hippie chicks is impolite...it doesn't take into account the feelings of others in the matter. And that's my major beef with gays. The 15-20% of the country that DOES care if men sleep with other men feel very strongly on this subject and those feelings are being ignored and invalidated for no other reason than they are politically incorrect.

I don't agree with those people...but I also don't call them names and accuse them of marrying their sisters.

Sorry.

I can't take that little poop seriously.

At least, not since Billy Bob did the dead-on in Primary Colors.

But, they should keep it up.

They should keep listening to Gore, and Dean, and Carville, and Affleck, and Rosie, and all of their faves. And, I'm not even going to try to point out how ridiculous they are for doing so.

From now on, I'm just going to smile and nod.

Thanks, Ace. I wasn't so much offended as I thought it was kind of rude. Wasn't trying to sound like a whiney PCer, though.

Steve L @ 4:53 PM: "You guys are gonna blow it. You need to let the lefties think about us what they do now. Tat way, they will be looking the wrong direction when the steamroller flattens them."

You mean like this: Cox & Forkum

Lastango - The problem with cutting taxes and making the rich richer while spending (in John McCains words) like drunken sailors - is it is untenable. There is no "magic credit card" for unlimited tax cuts that never comes due, never charges interest - while we launch 300 billion dollar wars and 600 billion dollar drug subsidy programs designed to give non-means tested seniors goodies, while propping up US drug prices 50% higher than the rest of the world pays for the same product.

The states are a different story. For the most part, they have to balance budgets, though some states have been as fiscally reckless as the Bushies. But when states cut taxes, they usually have to cut back some services....That is good discipline. I support that. But a President that cuts taxes and spends like crazy, running up 2 trillion in debt mostly to transfer that wealth to the top 10% of the population - is worse than a tax 'n spender.

The tax cut strategy to "win over city people" has already been tried. The idea that the stockbrokers and real estate barons uptown would get huge bucks and it would trickledown on the Democratic masses of ordinary working folk of modest means - who would then see tremendous prosperity and opportunity come their way.... To say the least, that Republican "tax cut" (actually borrowing the money from China and Germany to give to the wealthy) strategy hasn't exactly worked that well or resonated with those folks.

-Cedarford,

A private hope of mine has been that all this spending has been a result of a cynical re-election strategem so he can ensure the continuation of the War on Terror. Now that the election is over I hope that he'll take a machete to entitlements and social spending. Yeah, all that spending did us no favors, but I'd trade an increase in the deficit for breaking the back of Islamic Fascism any day.

However, I have the uncomfortable feeling that I am going to be disappointed.

Alex -

'Fraid you are right.

Bush is looking for a trillion in SS transition money, funding the next phase in missile defense, has floated private tax exempt healthcare accounts (which will not be used by burger flippers with no assets but by trophy wives for elective cosmetic surgery). A new Energy Bill, as loaded with corporate pork as the 1st one, which was so bad even Republicans couldn't stomach it. The trillion dollar Man to Mars Program. Deferred Defense Funds that finally have to start going out for the F-22, the Joint Strike Fighter, 22 new nuclear submarines. Gov't money for health care going up by 10% a year. 100 billion extra for the 2 wars we are fighting. 90 billion to China & Japan just to service the 1.8 trillion in debt run up so far in the 1st Bush Administration. 100 billion a year in Big Pharma subsidies to reward seniors for voting for him, and keeping Drug adverising going so we can finally know if Levitra, or Viagra is what we need!

Oh, and he wants to work to eliminate taxes on dividends and capital gains, make the current tax cuts that target the wealthy permanent in a time of war. My step-nephew is in Iraq now fighting in Ramadi- he comes from a poor family. His lot in life to sacrifice, which he does proudly. My wartime "sacrifice" is a close to 10K kickback from Gov't money borrowed from China, France, etc.

That Treasury check I got makes no sense other than in the hope it buys my vote and campaign contributions..

Let's see, Bush won because of homophobia. Yet I, and approx. 24% of openly gay americans voted to re-elect the President. I guess we fear ourselves.

You want ironic?
I have less of a problem being accepted as gay by conservatives, than I have being accepted as conservative by gays.

Who's REALLY intolerant?

A James Carville political book!!!

Hello Secret Santa!!!

It's incredibly offensive to insist that those of us who reject big government and who don't embrace the New Deal and Great Society programs (all proven failures) are simply a bunch of homophobic rubes.

It's also pretty stupid. For the left-wingers to lash out, and openly display their hatred for mid-americans is just going to alienate that base even more.

But actually, I think they may be more calculated than we're giving them credit for.

The Pro-Choice movement has gained such traction in this country for one reason: they succesfully convinced generations of women that all hip, cool, with it women are pro-abortion. Your typical pro-choicer: Carrie from Sex and the City. Your typical pro-lifer: The Church Lady. Who wouuld you rather be, they ask young college women . . . Carrie or The Church Lady?

And then they fight like hell to keep sonograms out of the clinics (don't want those women to notice that the "clump of cells" they're about to flush out actually has a heart beat), and scream bloody murder when researchers discover that babies in utero can smile, dream and feel pain (wouldn't want the truth to get in the way of being hip and cool and child free).

Aren't they doing the same thing with the gay rights issue? If you boil the election down to homophobes vs. the tolerant -- and never mind about any of those pesky details about spending, taxation, national defense, etc -- you might be able to capture more votes around the next time.