Thanks for the memories....

[iconoclasticity]

To: Michael Moore, George Soros, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Bruce Springsteen, MoveOn PAC, ACT, and the Media Fund
From: The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

Thanks for everything, guys. We couldn't have done it without you.

--john

Comments

[amandadamage]

John,

I want you to make a list of the reasons why you voted the way you did. Tuck it away. In 20 yrs or so, pull it out and explain to your children or nieces and nephews why you voted the way you did.

i'm sure they'll want an explanation.

thanks ~
amanda

why bush?

[amandadamage]

You have the same ones today that you had 4 years ago. The same ones you will have in 4 years. Really, the scare tactics are scraping the bottle of the barrel. Against the Patriot Act? do you know all that it does? Even your candidate kerry voted for it. Did he represent you? Economy is improving (as evidenced by over 300,000 new jobs last month) and the recession that began under clinton has abated. Deficit? Check the books, you are supposed to run one during a recession (less taxes coming in and need to add more benefits when tax payers are unemployed). What else? War? You think that we'd have been better off with a Jewish VP after 9/11? One who was the most vocal senator favoring war in iraq? You don't think the war in afghanistan when a veep is democrat would not have started a major anti-US movement that equates or exceeds what we have seen in iraq? but wait, with lieberman, we'd still be there. but gore would have been defending why the clinton/GORE administration did not go after bin laden for 8 years. then

[iconoclasticity]

I don't need to make a list. I know exactly what I believe and why. There's no lack of backbone here.

Please make that comment to everyone you can find who voted for Bush. I'd like to keep winning elections.

Thanks for proving my point for me.

--john

[amandadamage]

thanks for not making any sense.

[iconoclasticity]

Geez, do I have to draw a map for you?

Please continue to piss off the conservative voting base in this country. With any luck, they'll be even more motivated to come out and vote next time.

See you at mid-terms.

--john

[frogonmytoe]

you know what? Sorry to call you out, but please, come off it.

If you're going to gloat, at least say something meaningful. Right now, to be totally honest, this entry just seems petulant and rude.

and yeah, cool, see you at midterms. I'll be right there at the polls... maybe with a lot less civil liberties, but with a LOT more pissed-off friends.

[iconoclasticity]

That may all be true...but I meant what I said. The considerable task of turning out our voters was made much, much easier by those folks. I may gloat a little in the safe harbor of my *own* LJ (lest you forget that), but at least I have the good sense to hold my attitude in check publically.

Afraid of Hillary in 2008? I hope she does run. Because if she's the nominee, if you think the conservative right turned out in droves this time...you're not even going to believe how motivated they'll be then.

[frogonmytoe]

Cool, go ahead and gloat, but like I said, you're not really saying anything meaningful. Sure, it's your own LJ (and no, I haven't forgotten, so you needn't point it out to me for the 30000000th time.). And sometimes I say things that are petulant in rude in my own journal. If people want to call me out on it, good. I hope they do. Maybe I'll be a better person for it.

Am I afraid of Hillary in 2008? Hell no. I hope she runs too. She's a brilliant woman, and a top-notch politician. I think people will either a) not want her to run or b) turn out in droves to vote against her for one big, fat, glaring reason. She's a (gasp) woman!! She might threaten the good-old-boys club that US government has always been!! Afraid of Hillary in 2008? Hardly, my dear. I welcome ANY opportunity to chip away at the patriarchy.

Civil liberties?

[frogonmytoe]

You have the same ones today that you had 4 years ago. The same ones you will have in 4 years. Really, the scare tactics are scraping the bottle of the barrel. Against the Patriot Act? do you know all that it does? Even your candidate kerry voted for it. Did he represent you? Economy is improving (as evidenced by over 300,000 new jobs last month) and the recession that began under clinton has abated. Deficit? Check the books, you are supposed to run one during a recession (less taxes coming in and need to add more benefits when tax payers are unemployed). What else? War? You think that we'd have been better off with a Jewish VP after 9/11? One who was the most vocal senator favoring war in iraq? You don't think the war in afghanistan when a veep is democrat would not have started a major anti-US movement that equates or exceeds what we have seen in iraq? but wait, with lieberman, we'd still be there. but gore would have been defending why the clinton/GORE administration did not go after bin laden for 8 years. then