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Enough Already!

Attention Democrats

Mr. Kerry lost the election. Get Over It.

Today, in the vast majority of the blogs I read on a regular basis for entertainment purposes, I read nothing but whining and bitching about President Bush’s inauguration, and several stories were simply nothing but a rant about the cost of the election… Obviously, they didn’t read this from the Reuter’s newswire:

Inaugural price tag in line with history

Reuters news agency this week headlined a story, “Critics Say Bush Inaugural Too Lavish for Wartime,” then quoted one “critic,” Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, who complained that the estimated $40 million for the Bush-Cheney inauguration is extravagant. …

But a review of the cost for past inaugurations shows Mr. Bush’s will cost less than President Clinton’s second inauguration in 1997, which cost about $42 million. When the cost is adjusted for inflation, Mr. Clinton’s second-term celebration exceeds Mr. Bush’s by about 25 percent.

According to the Consumer Price Index, $42 million in 1997 is the equivalent of $49.5 in 2004.

The significant majority of funding for this year’s festivities, including nine officials balls, are from private donations and tickets for events held by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, a similar setup to fund raising Mr. Clinton used to underwrite his inauguration. Mr. Clinton had a record 12 balls in 1997.

It may surprise some of you to hear this from a Republican supporter, but I contend that George W. Bush did not win the election in 2004. John Kerry lost it. Think about that for a minute… and consider the following taken from a November 4, 2004 article from the New York Post.

On Tuesday, 9 million more votes were cast than in 2000.

On Tuesday, Bush received 8.3 million votes more than he did in 2000.

It’s highly unlikely that every new Bush voter came from the overall new-voter pool. It’s safer to assume that new voters split the way the overall electorate split, 51-48 in favor of the president.

Under this scenario, John Kerry deserves congratulations for receiving about 4.3 million votes that didn’t exist when Al Gore ran for president four years ago.

But before Democrats start sending Kerry congratulatory telegrams, they should consider this: Bush only got 4.7 million from the new-voter pool, then his historic total means he got another 3.6 million votes from people who voted Democratic in 2000

So if you figure that the new voters broke 51-48 in favor of the president, you also have to figure that George W. Bush took a whopping 7 percent of Gore’s 2000 vote total away from the Democrats.

So, boys and girls… DEMOCRATS elected George W. Bush president. It certainly wasn’t the GOP turnout alone that cost Kerry the election. When your candidate loses seven percent of the voters the party had in the previous election, you have a problem. And what’s your problem? The New York Post goes on….

…Democrats have to accept reality. And the reality is this: Democrats voted for Bush because they like him. They admire him. They want him to be president.

They don’t think he’s an idiot, a fascist, a warmonger, a religious fanatic, a kook, a liar, a cheat, a monster, a bad guy. They think he’s done a good job.

The Democratic party has spent four years demonizing George W. Bush, and in part because of their stupid, useless, senseless negativism, Terry McAuliffe & Co. lost 4 million voters.

And here you go again… “demonizing” President Bush. You’re continuing and perpetuating the “stupid, useless, senseless negativism”…

Wait a minute. You know what… on second thought…. keep doing it. Keep saying how bad Bush is and what a warmonger he us… I’d love to vote Dick Cheney in for president in 2008. The more you bad-mouth President Bush, the more likely that scenario will take place.

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