View From the Bushes

I admire anyone who voted for Kerry. I could go on till late in the night about stupid and infuriating things Bush has done. As I've said before, I would have preferred it if Kerry had won, but, and excuse my French, man those liberals are whiny bitches!!! (or is it bitchy whiners?) Salon (which I very rarely read because it tilts so far to the left, though that was not always the case) published a story with quotes from academics and artists, and from reading it you would think that America had just turned into Soviet Russia and everyone of them was only hours away from being shipped of to the gulags.

You can read the article for yourself if you would like. However, I will warn you that you need to either be a member or watch an ad so that you can get a "day pass." There were a couple of voices of reason in the midst of the lamantations of the liberal losers (literally). They had a section from Paglia which I found particularly trenchant; at one point she said:

Democrats have got to go cold turkey on their tedious old rhetoric about the suffering masses in their World of Pain. The Democrats' condescending portraits of African-Americans and the poor are manipulative, patronizing and ultimately self-destructive. The humanistic vision of progressive liberal politics (which I subscribe to) needs to be projected in inspiring, poetic language.

And that, my friends, may be the best post-election analysis of the core reason for the Democratic Defeat I've seen yet.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross