Yo Dems, don't lose hope!

[Dave_Schuldt]

Dear Friends,

 

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come

there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK?

Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and

stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is

embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them

cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!"

 

Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded.

They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks

that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.

 

They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they

just

simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself

"Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both

houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the

governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off

considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and

every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day

wreaking havoc on the planet.

 

Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his

convention and you would have thought the Germans had run through

Poland

again. The Bushies are coming, the Bushies are coming! Yes, they caught

Kerry asleep on the Swift Boat thing. Yes, they found the frequency in

Dan Rather and ran with it. Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE

SKY IS FALLING!"

 

No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate

Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy

candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so

pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you

expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a

helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or

I. People like Kerry run.

 

Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass

campaign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those

phony swifty boaty bastards down. But WE are not running for president

-- Kerry is. So quit complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just

gave 300 women a... Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and

moaning and screaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not,

they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas

pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help you. I had a Pontiac

once and it lasted a good year. And it was a VERY good year.

 

My friends, it is time for a reality check.

 

1. The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On

Friday, one poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them

both tied. There are three reasons why the polls are b.s.: One, they

are

polling "likely voters." "Likely" means those who have consistently

voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are

voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely

going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are not polling people who

use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that means they are

not talking to young people

<http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres163973220sep16,0,5025667.column>.

 

Finally, most of the polls are weighted with too many Republicans, as

pollster John Zogby revealed last week

<http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=859>. You are being

snookered

if you believe any of these polls.

 

2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team. Instead of shunning Clinton

(as Gore did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake.

 

3. Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya,

there is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being

captured by the mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real.

Do

not let those well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare

you. Turn off the TV! (Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything

else is just a sugar-coated lie).

 

4. Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on "9/11" (the

fear of terrorism), Bush wins. But if it is decided on the job we are

doing in Iraq, then Bush loses. And folks, that "job," you might have

noticed, has descended into the third level of a hell we used to call

Vietnam. There is no way out. It is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and

the body bags will sadly only mount higher. Regardless of what Kerry

meant by his original war vote, he ain't the one who sent those kids to

their deaths -- and Mr. and Mrs. Middle America knows it. Had Bush

bothered to show up when he was in the "service" he might have somewhat

of a clue as to how to recognize an immoral war that cannot be "won."

All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last

Thanksgiving. It is this failure of monumental proportions that is

going

to cook his goose come this November.

 

So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need

you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your

easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate

another four years of George W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a

candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when

WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. It's like

Karl Rove is hypnotizing you -- "Kerry voted for the war...Kerry voted

for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee warrrrrrrrrr..."

 

Yes...Yes...Yesssss....He did! HE DID! No sense in fighting now...what

I

need is sleep...sleeep...sleeeeeeppppp...

 

WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are

pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault

weapons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO

GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL

YOU DO THAT?

 

Just for me, please? Buck up. The country is almost back in our hands.

Not another negative word until Nov. 3rd! Then you can bitch all you

want about how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once

had the courage to stand up for something. Personally, I think that kid

is still inside him. Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth,

why not hold out a hand to him and help the inner soldier/protester

come

out and defeat the forces of evil we now so desperately face. Do we

have

any other choice?

 

Yours,

 

Michael Moore

 

 

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[Skeezix]

I'm voting for Kerry.

[cracked]

Thanks, Dave, I needed a laugh.

[wally]

Nice pep talk! I feel encouraged

[willstrickland]

Normally, I would never suggest that anyone watch Faux News...HOWEVER, it has come to my attention that Bill O'Reilly has the Chimperor on his show airing sometime soon.

 

Now it has also come to my attention that Bush, when asked by O'Reilly whether he would go back and repeat the "mission accomplished" stunt said "absolutely". At that time around 150 soliders had died. Over 900 US soldiers have been killed since that little PR stunt.

 

Normally O'Reilly is a douchebag supreme, and I haven't seen this interview, but it sounds like worthwhile viewing. Oh the irony if a Faux News interview is the straw that broke the chimps back. WTF was the Shrub thinking? Oh yeah, he doesn't think. Remember, he couldn't think of a single mistake he'd made as president. Unbelievable. Mission accomplished eh? Tell that to my friend Lance who was back door drafted into this quagmire while his wife and 2 yr old wait for him to come home. FUCK YOU GEORGE, WE ARE NOT SAFER NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU REPEAT THE TALKING POINT.

 

We're goin' to MARS BITCH wheeeeeee!!!!

 

And btw Shuldt, Michael Moore is a douchebag on par with O'Reilly.

[rbw1966]

Did you see the O'Reilly and Franken imbroglio? Priceless! It was featured on 60 minutes last night.

[iain]

That Mike Wallace interview with O'Reilly was great! O'Reilly hinted he might vote for Kerry...probably not though. I hear he gives the prez some tough talk in that interview. GWB is hopeless w/o the string pullers within 100 feet of him!