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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

I don't suppose that I'm as determinedly opposed to all socialism as 
some other folks are; I just see socialized medicine as an opportunity 
for lawyers to have a field day at our expense.  But I don't think the 
Electorate is nearly this wise, having taken to socialism, in general, 
like fish in water.

So my advice to our Liberal friends is to figure out that Kerry did not 
lose because he's a socialist.  Bush is dabbling in it too, insofar as 
it might help to buy a few votes.

Do you realize that you can draw a Great Circle line from my house to 
James's and beyond, without ever passing through a county Kerry?

Most of the non-elderly people in my part of fly-over country don't give 
a rat's ass about religion either, so you can't blame that, although it 
would be far better for the Party if one didn't have to be an 
abortionist to vote Democrat.

Out here gun control means using two hands.  This is why even the most 
apolitical people go out of their way to belittle Kerry and the Dems.  
And yet I've heard so many starry-eyed loons not getting it, over the 
past few days on TV.  I really laughed loudest when I heard Ron Reagan 
saying the Kerry should not have put on the camouflage, but stood by his 
principles.

Think about it.  In the olden days, the three nutworks were the only 
source of information for the average Joe.  A candidate could promise 
gun control to one group of people, unlimited abortion to another, 
animal rights to yet another, and so forth, and thanks to the complicity 
of the media, never have his sophistry revealed.  And on Election Day he 
could count having all these diverse groups vote for him.  But nowadays, 
within hours of the camouflage photo event, Rush will be discussing his 
gun control voting record, and telling everyone the webpage where they 
can find it for themselves.  The result is an intersection, rather than 
a union, of these different sets of voters.  In other words, I only vote 
for Kerry if I'm for gun control AND abortion AND animal rights.  It's 
not hard to see how this leads to fewer voters.

Bill

James wrote:

> Good.  Make no mistake that if there had been no other candidates on 
> the ballot but Bush and Kerry, I'd have voted for Bush.  Kerry is a 
> dismal socialist (while Bush is nothing of the sort, he's a fascist, 
> but the result is the same).