bmetzler's Journal: An Unhappy America, More About Bad Choices.

Wow, who would have thought a liberal would be so offended that some might think they made a bad choice. Apparently they haven't noticed what a certain vocal minority has been calling the majority of Americans who felt that President Bush was a better leader then Kerry. Believing that voting for Kerry was merely a sincere bad choice is practically praise comparatively.

Supposedly, this is a sad day for 48% of Americans. I guess it's sad when your candidate has lost an election. I worked on a campaign last fall and the candidate lost, so I can sort of empathise. It is sad to lose. But yet when you have 2 candidates in an election, it is inevitable that one will probably lose.

It's not that Democrats are sad that bothers me though. It's the idea that seems to be promoted that this is an unusual occurance, there's never been a defeated presidential candidate before. Except for Gore, of course.

Shouldn't be that big

[dead sun]

Really, ~60M people isn't near half of America. Figure there's some 290M people here. Maybe 70% can vote due to age or other reasons, so still ~200M. The majority, in that if they all wrote Mickey Mouse just to be heard they'd win, seems to have implicitly stated they don't care one way or another. One minority of people is happy, the other less so, and yet another that we're unsure of since they're not eligible to voice their opinions.

Regardless of size of concern, this really should be a strong reason for

Who won doesn't matter

[Marxist Hacker 42]

$40 million in private donations and $17 million in forced additional taxes on poor people for something that could have been done rather privately in the White House Garden is the issue, not which talking-head-bought-and-paid-for-bribed-jerk won the election (and yes, that means that I believe that Kerry is equally a talking-head-bought-and-paid-for-bribed-jerk; where do you THINK he got all that money that was pored into the PACs like MoveOn.org? It wasn't from grandma!).

just deal with it

[Bill Dog]

Supposedly, this is a sad day for 48% of Americans.

I couldn't believe the reports that some Democrats were so depressed over the election outcome that they needed to go see shrinks about it, and one even committed suicide over it. Sheesh! Relax, people! Although Bush has been unbeatable, he's definitely gone after this term. It's just 4 years. We had Clinton for 8 as well, since he successfully fought off being impeached. We pretty much trade off between Democrat and Republican presidents, and the nation h