My First RANT

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Alright.

Everyone who knows me knows that I am pretty far right when it comes to political views. I am not a Nazi or anything like that, but my political beliefs fall right along the right side of the road...less government involvement in the lives of us the people, lower taxes across the board, etc. Generally, take the political beliefs of George W. Bush, and the only one I have found to disagree with is the prohibition on federal money for stem cell research. I also listen to Rush Limbaugh as often as I can...so I get a good dose of Conservativism each week day.

Now that I have driven all of the weaker-hearted people away, let's get to the RANT...

I have noticed that once again, some people on the Left want to delegitimize the results of the election, concluded this last Tuesday. I must say that both John Kerry and George Bush acted like gentlemen in this matter...Kerry's people took a look at the results of the Ohio elections and decided that there was no way for him to get the 135-140K votes he would have needed to win Ohio, and thus the election...so he decided to do the right thing and concede...and thus NOT throw the country into another contested election that I think might have done serious damage to the entire process.

George Bush also acted like a gentleman...he didn't announce his victory on the night of the election, preferring instead to let Kerry "reflect" on the results. He accepted Kerry's concession in gentlemanly form, and did not gloat or anything like that. It was a refreshing scene, after the hard campaign this year, and the problems that arose after the 2000 election.

NOW, here's what we have:

- We have a President who won the popular vote by a 3% margin.
- We have a President who won the Electoral College vote with barely any of the problems that plagued the 2000 election.
- With these first two, we have a President who has a clear and legitimate mandate to lead the country.

However, we still get Liberals complaining. The following letter is an example, and it is in response to another Liberal who is almost in tears over the election results...

"Winning by 2% is no mandate.

I am not a Democrat (I'm an independent); however, thisturn of events is exceedingly frustrating to me becausepartisanship has now destroyed all of the Constitutional checks and balances designed into our government -- saveone, which I'll get to in a minute. We have already seen the effects of this in the first George W. Bush regime; Congress and the courts denied Bush almost nothing, and he in turn issued not one veto. There is only one single check remaining upon the Republican party machine's complete takeover of our government: the supermajority requirement to end a filibuster in the Senate.Note that this is not a Constitutional measure but merelya long-standing rule which could possibly be repealed. If i tgoes, we will have one party rule akin to that of Soviet Russia."

--Brett Glass, Laramie, WY

Now, before I get into why this guy is so wrong, let me remind you all that this country has been through a CIVIL WAR, and we have not managed to end the country. With that in mind, we survived eight years of Bill Clinton, we survived the Watergate scandal years, we survived the turmoil of Vietnam and the 1960's Civil Rights movement...we survived the Great Depression and WWII, and all of these were pretty heavy times, some of which presented real dangers that could conceivably end the country. However, the country survived all of these things.

To help my friends on the Left, I say this: eight years of George W. Bush will not end the country.

But the Left doesn't end there. One of the people who lives in my apartments is a MAJOR Liberal...he watches Bill Maher's HBO show and just drinks it in...which is fine. I sometimes watch the show to see what the Liberals...and the rare Conservative on the show...have to say. However, Bill Maher, and Michael Moore, and other Liberal shills get free reign in the house, but let one Conservative so much as say one thing he disagrees with, and this guy goes through the roof. To him, Rush Limbaugh is not someone to disagree with. Rush Limbaugh apparently doesn't have the same rights HE enjoys...Rush Limbaugh deserves to die a slow and painful death.

All of this was demonstrated when Ann Coulter was on the Maher show. Now, Ann can get offensive, let's not kid ourselves. She is WAY out on the Right, and her views oftentimes get a bad reaction from people. However, she was in an arena that was filled with political enemies. As the conversation went onward, it was clear that Ann was uncomfrotable facing both Bill Maher, and the panelists, all of whom were Liberal, AND the audience, who heckled her every chance they could get.

When the situation got out of control was when Ann responded to a bunch of audience booing by saying that half of them were the kind of people who wanted to see President Bush shot.

Now, while Ann was out of line in lodging that particular accusation, she was RIGHT in saying that there are people out there that want President Bush killed. It was in a book published earlier this year (that was scorned heavily on Limbaugh and Hannity). In a journalism class, a teacher gave the assignment: President Bush has been assassinated...you are the reporter on the scene...you write the story. When a student objected and asked if a different topic could be used, she was refused. Locally, I know of a guy that I get into arguments with over politics, and he has said that President Bush should be killed.

In the house, this caused an explosion from my apartment-mate, who called Ann Coulter a Nazi. When I tried to calm him down so I could continue to listen to what was going on, this man ripped into ME.

This same attitude has prevailed since the election. This same guy (I'll name him Fred), complained when Rush Limbaugh retired the Kerry theme song on election day (The Mighty Mouse theme), saying that it was rude of Limbaugh...saying that it was as though Rush was saying NYAH NYAH to Kerry.

This afternoon, I am sitting here at the cafe and another computer user is complaining about the election. He is saying that Kerry conceded too early...that there was a large number of voting irregularities that Kerry could have used to contest the vote. This despite the fact that Joel Lockhart, the Kerry campaign aide was asked on election day whether he saw any irregularities that would warrant a recount, and he said that while there were small things around the country, the election seemed to be running smoothly.

I'm sorry, but the Left needs to get with the idea that they have lost the 2004 election, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it. There's no one that they can blame but themselves. There was no disenfranchisement. No hanging chads, no uncounted ballots, no Supreme Court decision. Bush won the 2004 election fair and square, and now the Left is faced with the hard realities. They are now faced with one question...

Not: how do we win the election, either now or in 2008, but

How do we stay relevant at all.

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John B.
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