Reply #88: Half the country didn't agree with you. I have a Republican friend

[LittleClarkie]

who thinks he might be the best Prez ever. I know another who cried three times during his RNC speech when he mentioned 9/11. The things that make us puke make them sigh.

Those who voted for him live on a different planet. We can't even fathom their mindset. It is foreign to us.

Luckily, since the election, many people have started to leave Planet "Beer-with-Bush" and rejoin us in the real world.

Gore lost to this guy too.

And do you know why? Go look in the Daily Howler archives. They are enlightening.

I don't care who the next Dem candidate is, we need to combat the RW spin against that person like it was our life at stake. Gore and Kerry were both made into cartoons. We need to do better on the next guy.

Gore never said he invented the internet. Kerry beat the tits off Bush in the debates. We would have been in infinitely better shape with EITHER one of these men.

And I still wonder where the hell that LIBERAL press is that I keep hearing about. Anyone here seen them? They must have gone on vacation.

On edit: And another thing, campaigning against Bush and not for Kerry wasn't going to work. Didn't work for Dole against Clinton. Wasn't going to work for us. You can't make people see your side sometimes. You have to wait for them to learn the hard way. Here we are, a year later, and I think they are.

I'm wondering if it didn't boomerang on us. Did we make people get protective of the little twerp? I'd talk to people on our side who were threatening to stay home if the negative rhetoric didn't stop. There I was at HQ, on the phone with someone who thought I had a direct line to John Kerry, and could tell him to get positive. Riiight.

But anyway. If people aren't paying enough attention, they don't know what you know. Then it's a battle for the spin. And if the press isn't on your side, then you lose the spin.

For my part, I say to hell with 2008 or 2004. Now is what we have to concentrate on. Now and in 2006.