The race is over. John Kerry has made the call to the President.<\/p>\n
Despite what many will say, I personally do not believe the loss of the presidency is the start of the end of the world. I believe that things will progress, more or less, like they have for the last four years, which is to say in a direction I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like. But left-leaning extremist talk of Bush enacting a civilian draft and taking over Iran, North Korea and France are just as dumb as talk from the right-leaning extremists about how a Kerry win would have led to a terrorist attack thereafter.<\/p>\n
What the democrats need to do is what the republicans are doing right now, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sitting down and looking at where they lost and immediately planning for the 2006 and 2008 elections based on that. <\/p>\n
Slate.com<\/a> has a new piece that says<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a Democrat, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my advice. Do what the Republicans did in 1998. Get simple. Find a compelling salesman and get him ready to run for president in 2008. Put aside your quibbles about preparation, stature, expertise, nuance, and all that other hyper-sophisticated garbage that caused you to nominate Kerry. You already have legions of people with preparation, stature, expertise, and nuance ready to staff the executive branch of the federal government. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need one of them to be president. You just need somebody to win the White House and appoint them to his administration. And that will require all the simplicity, salesmanship, and easygoing humanity they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I agree with that. If you look at many of the polling numbers \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u009d beat Bush pretty handily, but Kerry only managed to tie with him. The democrats really suffered when they went with the most \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vanilla\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153most likely to win\u00e2\u20ac\u009d candidate in their primaries, rather than the one who was the strongest on the issues they wanted to advance.<\/p>\n The republicans on the other hand need to be mindful that even though they won the election, they still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a clear mandate from the people. In fact, while the percentages aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that different from 2000, the number of voters increased significantly, implying that we as a country are just as equally divided as before, but the strength behind each side of the division has increased. <\/p>\n So now, in many ways, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to see how Bush would have fared politically had September 11th never happened. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still got many of the problems he walked into four years ago before the attacks, like a a weak economy and rising job losses, to face.<\/p>\n Four more years, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The race is over. John Kerry has made the call to the President. Despite what many will say, I personally do not believe the loss of the presidency is the start of the end of the world. I believe that things will progress, more or less, like they have for the last four years, which … Continue reading “The 2004 Election”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}