Letters from NYC

GOP Mandate!!!

The people have spoken and so will Kerry today, conceding at 1PM.

I am so glad that American citizens taught lawyers, judges, the media and all other vote challenger or nosey bodies a lesson: that local areas can handle voting and tallying if given good reliable equipment and enough personnel to handle the influx. Instead of looking for problems, they need to make sure there's enough staff to make it easy for citizens to vote!!!!

Looking beyond the presidential race, I see that we picked up 5 seats in the House and 4 seats in the Senate. Three senate seats we picked up were: Tom Daschle’s, John Edwards and Zel Miller’s!

Zel Miller, now if there was anyone who told the democrats the plain old truth, in honest to goodness southern speak, it was Zel. To bad the dems wrote him off so quickly! They could have learned a great deal from him.

Things we can look forward to:

• Full control of Congress, having a large majority in Senate and House
  
• At least 2 sane conservative Justices in the Supreme Court,
  
• Will tip the balace on conservative judges across the country
  
• Europeans shutting their mouths for the next 4 years,
  
• The Dems finally being forced to shut up and work towards unity and understanding across the land, or be forced out of office as Daschle was.

All of this for the price of a vote… That IS Priceless!

Update: Wizbang listed a few more items supporting the GOP mandate which I felt needed to be posted here:

• Bush is the first President to be re-elected while gaining seats in the House and Senate since 1936 and the first Republican President since 1924 to be re-elected while re-electing Republican House and Senate majorities.

• The first President to win a majority of the popular vote since 1988.

• He received 57.4 million votes - more than any other candidate in history. He broke President Reagan's 1984 mark of 54.5 million. (96% reporting)

• He increased the popular vote by seven million votes since 2000 - more than twice Clinton's increase from 1992 to 1996.

• He improved his percentage in every state except four (MD, OR, VT and WY). This includes a four percent increase in John Kerry's home state, Massachusetts.

  I would simply add this.
  

• When he was thrown the hot potato issue of Gay Marriage, he didn't balk. Instead, he stood toe to toe against liberals unapolegetically, and rallied his base and brought to his side those on the left who felt our nation's moral values were at stake.

All I have to say now is "Let freedom ring." And let it start in Philadelphia!

Posted by Michele at November 3, 2004 12:42 PM