I cant remember another election when the Prez and VP candidates came out afterwards and insulted the majority of the country that voted against them. Way to be uniters guys.
Usual explanation for bitterness toward a failure: they didn't have a clue. Neither had the guts to separate themselves from the anti-feminists, the anti-immigrant stances that become bigotry, and the anti-intellectuals who disparage the formal education that has made many what they are.
I thought that the chance of Al Gore winning Florida was shaky, and I could attribute his loss to a strategy that went awry. I thought that John Kerry was going to win until I saw some fundamentalist televangelist tell people that their vote could be the difference between going to Heaven and going to Hell -- and recognized that America has millions who respond to that appeal. Eternal damnation for something so trivial as voting against one's faith instead of against one's economic interests is a powerful appeal to many.
Republicans need to realize that Barack Obama has achieved much as President, that he has most of the characteristics of a winner, and would have won a landslide much like that of Eisenhower in 1956 had it not been for mass racism. Just look at how white people voted in some states.
If a white conservative had put an end to the worst economic meltdown since 1929-1933, pushed the Lily Ledbetter Act, gotten us out of a bungled war, destroyed a bunch of terrorists including Osama bin Laden, presided over the overthrow of some nasty dictatorships in the Arab world without the rise of anti-American governments in their wake, shored up the diplomatic position of the United States, and had a major reform of the high-cost medical-payments system, would he have been re-elected?
I rest my case.
