Almost half the people of this country want change, so

[AnnInLa]

we need to keep working to Take Back America. Almost half the country does not want a theocracy, so we need to keep working to Take Back America. Almost half the country does not want America to employ a pre-emptive military strategy, so we need to keep working to Take Back America. Don't you think we have built an awesome Progressive Movement to Take Back America? If so, then we take a rest, take a deep breath and keep working. As Kos has noted, this is just one battle in a WAR. We regroup and keep working to change minds, one mind at a time. I think we've done a superb job with our Progressive Movement. The repugs know that we are a growing force with which to contend. Let's just keep growing, and we will win the war.

[Sirveri]

1. You forgot something.

Almost half this country didn't VOTE.

[jezebel]

2. that's the truth. So actually about 26% rabid right-wingers of the country

are going to run the 24% of us who voted and the 50%complacent asses who couldn't get off their asses.

[shamrock]

3. remember

Unless they voted and their votes were thrown away or changed. Remember the huge lines?

[incapsulated]

4. That's right

Everyone forgets this. 20-25% of the people decide the future of this nation in any given election.

[geek tragedy]

5. We have no "awesome progressive movement."

We got our asses royally kicked by the fundies. Our grand progressive coalition couldn't even beat the worst president in US history.

This is their country, not ours.

[Eye and Monkey]

7. don't drink the kool-aide

It's bad for ya.

The republiCON machine tells you that they won, and you BELIEVE it?

[AnnInLa]

8. Greek Tragedy: That is not true, we just

must get those complacent, uninvolved citizens involved. One person at a time, each can be engaged.

Our glass is NOT empty, it is 3/8 full, and we have a base with which to work and on which to build. Even Nixon was re-elected, but look what happened to him. I saw in the 60s and 70s a turning of the tide here in America and it can happen again. We must not give up our effort to guide the tide.

[Eye and Monkey]

6. I'm convinced it's more than "almost half".

Why would we believe these numbers? Has BushCo EVER given accurate numbers about anything? This is just another version of Enron accounting.

[BJ]

9. The USA has battered wife-syndrome

Like my lawyer buddy tells me, in many a divorce case he's been involved in, the battered wife stays with an abusive husband because she a) thinks he'll change for her; b) he only hits her when she needs it; c) she just does know what to do because he's a good provider and good to the kids.

On the CBC the other night was a story about suburban Las Vegans who were with John Kerry and the Democrats on all the positions except...pResidnet Bush will keep us safe from terrorists and these little countrie won't push us around anymore. And I heard other reports similar to this. The Americans who took this postion hoped that in a second Bush term he would change. George W. Bush would change from a reactionary ideologue into something more moderate, like, say, a Joe Liberman or a Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Gee, George, you'll change...for me?

How utterly, utterly stupid!