From Kevin Drum’s comments section the post-loss analysis is beginning…
But, when all is said and done, Bush’s very convincing popular vote has one unmistakable cause: Kerry lost because more Americans indisputably like, trust, and feel more comfortable and safer with Bush than with Kerry.
Why? The unavoidably obvious explanation is that Americans are by-and-large morons. Simpleminded, uninformed and undereducated, intellectually lazy and proud in their ignorance to boot, self-important and self- righteous, arrogant and benighted idiots. They are a reflection of George W. Bush, and in him they saw themselves. That’s why they love him and trust him so. Their reality is the faith-based myth that America is blessed and always right and great and perfect and freedom is handed down by God and not manmade constitutional governments and cultures of tolerance and inquiry. The are certain that the “real” America is in the unpleasant, xenophobic, homophobic, red states in the middle, where everybody has a white picket fence in the brain and they don’t seem aware of their own squalor and the fact that they make ends meet only because the far more prosperous blue states continue to subsidize their light beer guzzling.
More people voted for this idiot than for Kerry. This is what we have to come to grips with. The majority of the American electorate voted for Bush; voting for an idiot is idiocy, which is something usually practiced by idiots; ergo… What other conclusion can there be?
Americans chose Bush. They deserve him.
The left, in a nutshell. I don’t know that anyone can improve on this, but if I find more, I’ll update.
update – listening to John Edwards preamble to Kerry’s concession speech, I went to the TV and turned on the CBC. What are they running? A Bush bashing re-run of their faux comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes
leaving aside the intellectual vacuum that requires you to defame your opponent rather then praise your candidate..
you get more flies with honey than vinegar..
The left has become the party of self-congratulation, as the quote shows. I completely agree with Kate, “The left in a nutshell” and I can not think of a better illustration of most of the left-wing thinking to which I have been exposed. This sort of self-congratulation is the modern version of the sin of pride, which Dante places at the bottom of the mountain in “Purgatorio”, meaning that he considers it the worst of the sins.
But wait … I voted for Bush. Aren’t I too stupid and uncultured to read Dante? Something must be wrong …
Many idiots voted for Bush. I bet just as many, if not more, voted for Kerry. Most semiliterate Americans who cannot locate France on a map voted for Kerry. They vote overwhelmingly for the Dems in every election. The openminded swing voters put Bush over the top.