Reply #32: Sorry if I don't hand you a kleenex

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Yeah it hurts to be on the losing end. Yeah it sucks that chimpy's administration is corrupt, incompetent, greedy, intolerant, and on and on. Yeah there isn't go to be a "revolution".

And if this was the day after election day last November I could understand being in "mourning".

But its a year later (nearly), and I don't know if you're too young to remember or you've forgotten, but here are some numbers to reflect on:

1972: Nixon (a real saint) defeats McGovern, capturing all but one state and DC, and 18 million more votes

1980: Reagan (mr. sensitive liberal) defeats Carter, capturing all but six states and DC, and 7 million more votes

1984: Reagan (four more years) defeats Mondale, capturing all but one state and DC, and 18 million more votes

1988: BUsh I (gulf war guy) defeats Dukakis, capturing all but 10 states and DC, and 7 million more votes

2000: Bush II (incompetent boob) defeats* Gore, who captures 20* states plus DC and actually wins the popular vote by around 1/2 million.

2004: Bush II (wartime leader of war on terra) defeats Kerry, who captures 19 states plus DC and less than a million fewer popular votes.

I could see mourning for a long time after 1972, after 80 and 84, and after 88. But after the last two elections, my reaction has been to mourn for a day or two and then start fighting to win back control of Congress and the White House. And I don't think we are as effective fighting if we are spending any of our time mourning.

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