I promised myself I wouldn’t talk about the election because
everyone is posting stuff about it, (here comes the “but”…) but I can’t
help it.
I always love posing theories to people.
My theory on why Kerry lost the election is this: After all the hate-mongering during the campaigning (and that’s what many people were doing) and all the anti-Bush sentiment, the Bush supporters who would not usually bother voting got angry. They came out in droves and supported someone who was being, in their minds, unfairly attacked. In other words, the liberal propaganda machine backfired.
The more I think of it, the less this surprises me. Here are a few things that make this really easy to understand:
- The amount of completely untrue information floating around the Internet about him. For instance, my cousin would send me all sorts of anti-Bush emails spouting off about various things he did. Some of which he did, some which he didn’t. Most
of it was done based on information from other people within the
government (and some foreign governments) and, thus, was out of Bush’s
control. This is hardly a reason to demonize him. If you want to demonize him, feel free to do it over his social ideals and his religious zealotry :)
- People were “anti-Bush”, not “pro-Kerry”. Everyone who was attempting to persuade me to vote for Kerry would always say “We have to get that man out of office!” I would say “OK. Well, with whom are you going to replace him?” John Kerry? I think not! They guy has all the charisma of a piece of white toast. He seems so aloof. I
can picture him at a country club with a tennis racket in his hand,
wearing a white Izod shirt with one of those obnoxious yellow sweaters
draped on his shoulders with the arms crossed in front of him as if
that’s the only thing he can get to hug him. Can you tell I like him? :)
- If the Democrats want to elect a new president, they have to show up with someone with charm and who is likable. Someone like (I hate to say it…) William Jefferson Clinton. I
may have despised what he wound up representing, but if a clone of
Bubba ran against Bush this time, Bush would have been crushed by him. No more Al Gores, no more John Kerrys.
Well, I guess we’ll all have to see how Hillary Clinton does in 2008. I am guessing that she’ll run versus a Rudy Guiliani/John McCain ticket in 2008. Who knows?
Anyway, sorry I had to broach this topic like the rest of the planet,
but I guess there’s a reason everyone’s talking about it.