"Shhh....stop making that noise! You sound like a crybaby. You're drawing too much attention! Kerry lost, get over it. Move on to 2008."
Every time someone says that, it's like a bitch-slap straight from GOP headquarters. You're doing the work for them. Telling us that we're wasting our time investigating the 2004 election is exactly what they want you to do. Do you know how hard it is to focus on the 2004 election when you have the wingnuts AND your own fellow liberals telling you to give up and move on? And that's exactly what they want. Because the GOP knows that the Dems are at a point where they think they have to watch their image, so they'll do anything not to rock the boat, not to seem "obstructionist," to be more appealing to Joe Blow who lives in Idaho and watches NASCAR all day.
But we have to stop playing their games, and it should end right here and now with this election. Who the fuck cares what the Republicans think of us? Or the SCLM? When the hell did the quest for the truth become a fucking popularity contest?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/3/2220/02787BRAVO! I don't know how much time I'll be spending around DU in the future..but the truth is the point. Not winning.
Bullshit mandate. Bullshit lies. Bullshit election. If you don't get that, then you really think you are winning next time? YOU aren't going to win by appeasing and playing nice, and just "crafting the right message" next time.
"If only Kerry would have attacked the Swiftboat vets sooner."
Bullshit.
If only the people that wanted to vote for Kerry were able to get their vote counted and didn't have to go challenged and discouraged at every instant from casting that vote in those "battleground states."
If only. Who is going to vote for your great nominee in 2008? Who? And those Black folk, those poor folk, those Hispanic folk's votes are going to be counted, right?
If the votes aren't counted, what's the point?
The truth about this election. And you don't know the truth. How dare us ask for it.