Going into this Election Day I had expected a credible, if not decisive, Kerry win. However, as I turn off the TV at 10pm Pacific, NBC and Faux have called Ohio for Bush and it's looking meaner and meaner. So as I head for bed after a day of walking a precinct in San Jose, I'm going with the thought that we may not know the outcome until Ohio counts its provisional ballots in 10 days. Here we go again.
With George W. Bush getting as many votes as he has (and possibly really winning), I'm left wondering if 1) Bush/Rove are really that ingenious and ruthless in covering up their misdeeds, misfeasance and mistakes; 2) the Democratic Party and the Left are really that incompetent in spelling out and defining their positions and selling them to the American public; or 3) the American public is really that gullible, lazy, self-absorbed and incompetent at seeing its own self-interest. My feeling is that all of the above apply.
If it turns out that John Kerry must concede this election, I hope that he congratulates Bush, offers nominal cooperation and sternly warns that our principles remain and we will continue to fight for them. I also hope that he clearly draws the line in the sand: There is no free ride for George W. Bush. He will have to fight for every inch of his extreme Right Wing agenda.
The past four years the Democrats have been milquetoasts in allowing the Bushies to get by with as much as they have. It's time to take a chapter out of Karl Rove's playbook and swallow our restraint and stop trying to play well on the Sunday talk shows. It's past time to do what we have to do without expecting approval from the talking heads and emphatically without fearing condemnation from either the Right or the media.
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