"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Bright and sophisticated on the east and west
coats and the upper midwest, and

Look at the bright side, Harry. If we can liberate a few minds in just a
couple
of little states across the northern Rockies, the moderate to liberal blue
states will have the more conservative red states "surrounded." :-)


When the war between the red and blue states erupts, the reds will have
the
geographic advantage of being contiguous. The blues will have the
advantage of
controlling most of the economy, (between the NE and California).

You have no manufacturing. You have no oil supply. And the military backs
our guy 3 to 1. Bring it on!


Or we can just suck it up and go on. The increased Republican majority in
congress and Bush's 3% "landslide mandate" will move America even more to
the
right than we have gone in the last four years. Unless
the population follows along, (as it appears
to have done, somewhat, in the last four), our conservative friends and
brothers will appear pretty far out of the mainstream next time the big
prize
is up for grabs. The pendulum will swing back toward the middle in '08,

Yes, but 2008's "middle" will be far to the right of where the middle is
right now.

Frist may be our "liberal left wing" of our party.

it
always does.Take heart. Kerry made a much better showing than Dukakis or
Mondale in similar situations. Remember when Fritz Mondale won Minnesota,
period?


Dukakis and Mondale didn't have hundreds of millions of dollars helping them
in the form of 527's. They didn't have foreign countries and enemies
operating a propaganda war to have them defeated. They didn't have hundreds
of celebrities campaigning, or hosting free concerts for them. They didn't
have the mainstream news media aiding them with dirty tricks like forged
documents and false missing weapons reports. They didn't have the
bitterness of a hotly-contested election going against their party 4 years
earlier. And they weren't running against an incumbent while World oil
prices were at an all-time high.

Considering all the advantages that Kerry had going for him, I can't believe
he did so poorly.