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James Taranto, in Best of the Web, collected these comments (yeh, yeh: I’m qouting his quotations. So what? [g]):

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"Democrats nationwide are scratching their heads today and trying
to regroup after resounding defeats for the White House and in Congress."
-- Katie Couric  http://www.fednews.com/transcript.htm?id=20041104t0912 ,
"Today," Nov. 4

"Applying the tried-and-true formula for success, Democrats were scratching
their heads yesterday, wondering how Sen. John Kerry lost Ohio to President
Bush by 2 percentage points."--
Columbus Dispatch  http://www.columbusdispatch.com/ , Nov. 4

"Sixty-five percent of the voters in Preble County backed the president this year...
The support for Bush leaves the Democrats scratching their heads."--
Palladium-Item
http://www.pal-item.com/
(Richmond, Ind.), Nov. 4

"The liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which has long dominated its
leadership, seems stunned that a clear majority of Americans chose to
re-elect a president that exudes courage, confidence and a faith that is
so easily identifiable. They are scratching their heads at the polls which
reveal that the issue that mattered most to voters in this election was not
the economy, or security--but moral values."-- Rebecca Hagelin  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/rh20041105.shtml ,
TownHall.com, Nov. 5

"Other Democratic strategists (the same ones who predicted a huge pro-Kerry
youth vote) are scratching their heads over the Bush victory."-- Laura Ingraham  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Ingraham20041105.shtml ,
TownHall.com, Nov. 5

"Bush was reelected because he told Americans in the clearest possible
language who is he and what he stands for. Just enough of them liked what
they heard. Kerry left voters, including many people who voted for him,
scratching their heads."-- Eileen McNamara  http://www.boston.com/news/ ,
Boston Globe, Nov. 7

"When Sausalito resident Marty Krasney was in Ohio this month working on
the Kerry campaign, he met a woman with a life-threatening disease who
acked health care insurance and could have benefited from stem cell research.
Krasney was surprised when the woman told him she planned to vote for
George W. Bush, not John Kerry. 'I can't vote for a baby killer,' she told him.
It is just such conundrum's [sic] that have Marin Democrats--like Democrats
across the country--scratching their heads and pondering just what they need
to do to restore the party's majority status."-- Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal  http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234%7E24407%7E2519930,00.html , Nov. 7

" 'Our analysis of Gwinnett County shows there are many, many more
Democrats than showed up to vote,' said [Mike] Berlon, the chairman
of the county party. 'We're all scratching our heads wondering why they
didn't go to the polls.' "-- Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily Post  http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/
 Nov. 7

"The sound of head-scratching coming from Democratic circles will likely
be as much a part of autumn as the rustle of leaves."-- Jabari Asim
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33885-2004Nov8.html ,
WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 8

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[emphasis added]

When there's that much scalp scratching going on it just has to be a lice or a serious skin condition.  The LLMB needs to have that looked at. 

Jonah Goldberg, writing in National Review, has some good snark (N.B. “good snark” meets two criteria: it’s witty sarcasm that hits marks you want hit [eg]) directed toward LLMB whines about the election that continue to this day and probably will continue for four more year! four more years! to come. An example:

Take the two leading liberal columnists at the New York Times, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman. As we all know, one’s a whining self-parody of a hysterical liberal who lets feminine emotion and fear defeat reason and fact in almost every column. The other used to date Michael Douglas.

But beyond the really good snark are some thought-provoking observations about other whiners in the LLMB such as,

What Maher, Raines, and Smiley fail to grasp is that all morality is based upon transcendence — or it is merely based on utilitarianism of one kind or another, and therefore it is not morality so much as, at best, an enlightened expediency or will-to-power. It is no more rational to vote based on a desire to do “good” than it is to vote based on a desire to do God’s will. Indeed, for millions of people this is a distinction without a difference — as it was for so many of the abolitionists progressives and civil-rights leaders today’s liberals love to invoke but never actually learn about.

Just go read it all.

h.t. to Kerryspot

While I like the headline, “Bush or Bust” (taken from a New Orleans Time-Picayune article, found here), it’s really not reflective of what happened. For accuracy, it ought to have read, “Bust or No Bush” even though that would not have been quite as catchy, If the gal had NOT stripped to her bra, she might not have gotten to vote at all… Ardent supporter, indeed. Just read.

(I just wonder if anyone gave her some beads… )

Reuters (the formerly [?] all-anti-Bush “news” agency) reports:

The chairman of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AATF), and former Youth Congress chief Maninderjeet Singh Bitta holds a banner during a staged rally with school students supporting U.S. President Bush (news – web sites)’s re-election in New Delhi on November 6, 2004.

Hmm… Is it possible that Maninderjeet Singh Bitta is a Sikh? (FYI, Sikh soldiers have reputations among elite fighting forces worldwide as soldiers other elite soldiers very seriously do NOT want to ummm… mess with… Their reputation as the fiercest of combatants is borne out through nearly 400 years of military contact with the West. Good folk to have on your side. Much better than having a Half-caf/Decaf No-fat Latte-with-a-twist Loony Left Moonbat Brigade and their communist partners in crime in the Mass media Podpeoples’ Army…)

“Mean, vicious, devisive” are terms the loony left moonbats throw around when talking about political campaigns or behaviors that they don’t like. Here’s a look at what those terms mean when coming from the Loony Left Moonbat Briagde and their allies in the Mass Media Podpeoples’ Army.

“Mean” and “vicious” are terms applies by the LLMB and MMPA to any political speech that truthfully refers to actual facts of LLMB and MMPA past (or present) behaviors, their candidates’ actual words or actions, actual, verifiable facts that directly and overwhelmingly refute false claims made by LLMB, the MMPA and their candiadtes. In their eyes, facts (past comments on the record, voting record, etc.) that accurately reflect the views of their candidates are “personal attacks” and verifiable facts (actual real numbers about economy, budgets, etc) that contradict their candidates’ talking points are “divisive.”

So, now you know. It’s pretty safe, given the record of actual distortion and outright baldfaced lies about “vicious attacks” and “divisiveness” that any time you hear those terms coming from the LLMB and the MMPA you can prtty much automatically assume the opposite is true.

Mark Steyn’s got his 2004 (and, apparently, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012) post-election column out. A select gem:

“H. L. Mencken said that no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Well, George Soros, Barbra Streisand and a lot of their friends just did: The Kerry campaign and its supporters — MoveOn.org, Rock The Vote, etc. — were awash in bazillions of dollars, and what have they got to show for it? In this election, the plebs were more mature than the elites: They understood that war is never cost-free and that you don’t run away because of a couple of setbacks; they did not accept that one jailhouse scandal should determine America’s national security interest; they rejected the childish caricature of their president and paranoid ravings about Halliburton; they declined to have their vote rocked by Bruce Springsteen or any other pop culture poser.”

Haul yourself on over to thr Sun Times site and check it out.

(Yeh, the post title is a citation of Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You”. And when you think about the core values reflected in this past election, it’s pretty much MOR vs Loony Left, so a fuller citation would work as well:

“Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.”)

Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon!” (maroon: BBs unique pronunciation of moron)

Headline: “Netherlands Braces for ‘jihad'” (Notice that the Washinton Times puts jihad in scare quotes [sigh] )

“We are not going to tolerate this. We are going to ratchet up the fight against this sort of terrorism.” [emphasis added]
–Deputy Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm of the Netherlands, after the murder of Theo van Gogh and attendant death threats by Islamic jihadists on the life of a Netherlander lawmaker. (link here )

[sort, n. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality ]

So, my question to this maroon is this: if “this sort of terrorism” is unacceptable and you plan to “ratchet up the fight against” it, what are the sorts of terrorism you do not feel it’s necessary to fight, what sorts of terrorism are acceptable to you?

What a maroon.

Validation of the “Stupid Party” label long attached to the Republican Party—by Republican Party faithful. The response to the event that spawned this headline and the accompanying report just about defines stupidity.

“Vandals Hit GOP Headquarters in N.Carolina”

And what’s the response from Kevin Howell, communications director for the state Republican Party?

“The people who did this are sick…”

No, dummy, they are not sick, they are criminals. Sick people may be treated, perhaps cured. Criminals require punishment. Punishment severe enough to convince them to modify their behavior. And the proper role of civil government in cases like this is to consistently mete out punishment of sufficient severity that it discourages other criminals from perpetrating similar crimes.

When so-called “communications directors” of the stupid party buy into the lies of the “Evil Party” about human nature, crime and punishment and the role of civil government, then it simply cedes authority to the opponents of civilization.

It is comments like this (and policies reflecting this mindset) that remind me of what R. L. Dabney (19th century Reformed theologian, officer on R.E. Lee’s general staff) said about conservatism in that century:

“Its history is that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at least in the innovation. It is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition”

Emphasis obviously added…

Teresa Heinz-Kerry does her part in the campaign cleanup by carrying a cardboard cutout of the politician formerly known as John Kerry off the stage… (an embellishment on Ann Althouse’s “cardboard cutout” phrase, photo by Stephen Crowley/NYT)