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["clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>]

There are of course scores of post-mortem blurbs I could copy and forward 
expressing the other side of Toni's forward.  But you've probably read 
several of them.  I know I've read through plenty of "Open Letters to the 
Red States" and many, many comentaries such as the one proffered in this 
thread.

Here are a couple of points I'd make.  Most of angst from those who are 
having a hard time handling the results of the election are based on the 
Boogie Man created by Kerry and the media than it is from any real or 
proposed action of the administration.  Not all of it, to be sure, but most 
of it.

Second, the same way the left is wagging it's head in disbelief now, I was 
witness to groups of conservatives before the election wagging their heads 
in a similar manner saying "Aren't these people paying attention to what 
Kerry is saying?  How could someone possible vote for him, I just don't get 
it!"  The notion that Bush was reelected by a lot of mindless fundies 
rushing out on the 2nd saying "Gotta vote for the Lawwwd" doesn't stand up 
to inspection.  Sure, a lot of that was the platform of  Boogie Man just 
like the other side was doing.  But most of the people I knew who voted for 
Bush were intelligent and well informed.

The very same way the liberals are aghast that an administration would want 
to get into their bedrooms and wombs where it doesn't belong, the 
conservatives had exactly the same sentiment about their pockets, their gun 
cabinets, their private property ... where they strongly, strongly feel the 
government doesn't belong.

These are the things the left must endeavor to understand if ever they are 
to get the rest of the country to consider any validity in their political 
stance.

James