The United States in now officially a Coconut Republic

[JM]

A Coconut Republic is similar to a Banana Republic, except the Coconut represents the hard-headedness of our failure to learn from the mistakes of the LAST election.

JM

[Memekiller]

1. Honestly, I don't think we could have won this election...

Kerry did better than any other candidate in the primary. A Democratic party, as it is today, could not win this election. We are losing the non-college educated White guy who believes in our incompent - but macho - foreign policy of bluster and failure, and there was no way any Dem could have out blundered Bush.

[JM]

2. Sorry, but I disagree.

I think Kerry won. I can not fathom how 47% of our coutry disapprove of Bush's performance, yet somehow 52% still voted for him. How more than 50% of people feel they are worse off in this country, than they were four years ago, yet Bush still got more than 50%.

I also find it unreal that for over 200 years, our country has basically voted on its wallet, but suddenly the majority feels a prayer circle will bring us more jobs and an end to terrorism.

This is folly. Ed Gillespie was on the major networks saying they had a 5% discrepancy on the exits in Florida versus the real numbers. Funny, that state had electronic voting with no audit trail.

It stinks. I am not whining sour grapes here. It stinks. If we lost fair and square, so be it. We didn't.

JM

[Old and In the Way]

3. "If we lost fair and square, so be it. We didn't."

Exactly. Perhaps all the Bush apologists on the board should think grok on that statement. I've been on the losing side plenty of times. Losing bothers me not in the least. I've never particularly cared whether I "won" or not.....because I've accepted the foundational concept of this country's system of governance, that those with the most votes wins. But we will never know the will of the people because we cannot recount electrons.

We are indeed a modern Coconut Republic.