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I guess that's why it's your rant. The majority got what they wanted.
I am hugely disapointed. I had anticipated a strong Kerry win up untill the poll numbers from Ohio started rolling in late last night. Over the past few weeks I had built up confidence that this country really had taken notice to the actions of President Bush over the past 4 years, and had decided that they were not the direction we wanted to take our country.
I became more and more pessemestic as I hit refresh on the Ohio numbers over and over again. I was like a crack addict who got a new rock everytime he hit F5. Sometimes Kerry would cut the margin down, but then within a few more reloads, Bush has built his lead back up. There was never any real hope of coming back in that state.
Then I grasped onto straws that Bush would avoid getting the needed 270 votes, or perhaps that he would once again fail to achieve the popular vote. Both of these happening would have given a strong push to reforming the electoral college. Neither happend. Bush will walk away with more than 270 electoral votes and has a comfortable lead over the entire country.
It was a complete loss in congress, where democrats got killed. The Texas redistricting led by evil twad Tom Delay handed 5 seats to the GOP. While I am no fan of democrats, and there was no indication that control of the congress would change parties, I held out hope that if Bush was given 4 more year it would at least start off with 2 where he didn't have complete congressional backing. No dice.
Locally, the Via ATD passed and there were no real suprises in the races. In races where there were only libertarian cantidates against republican cantidates, the libertarian's did not do nearly as well as I had hoped. Not suprising, however. Libertarians subscribe to a basic theory that less is more and that's something San Antonioans have difficulty grasping.
Ballot initiatives across the country turned out horribly in my view. There is HUGE support for banning gay marriage everywhere, and only one marijuna prop actually passed. Montana voted to legalize it for medicinal purposes, with Oregon voting against the same proposition. Alaska voted against legalizing it all together. A victory for stem cell research did occour in California, where there will be a large amount of state funding poured into programs.
Overrall, the negatives outweight the positives for me in this election. I don't see Bush reforming many things domesticaly favorably for me, and I certainly don't see forgien policy changing at any point in time within the next 4 years. Perhaps with a republican controlled congress we will see some en lement reform, but I am not holding my breath.
I put a lot of effort into making whatever impact I could have in this election. I could have done more, and should have. I think being surrounded by some incredibly passionate and intelligent people did lead me to see a victory where perhaps there was no victory to be had. Perhaps we did all we could nationwide and made this a closer race in someway. I don't know. I do know that I am in the middle of a disheartend crowd, and I hope that we're able to channel that into yet more passion and more conviction, but at the moment I don't know if that's going to happen.
We rode a wave of anger and frustration and that wave seems to be breaking upon itself.
This sucks.
I guess that's why it's your rant. The majority got what they wanted.
What a waste.
"The majority sure did get what it wanted."
I sure got what I wanted!!!!!!
^^rack 'im!^^
Rudy Rudy Rudy Rudy in '08
^That's a bump right there. I wonder if Manny remembers posting that
Of course I do.
Not even a year later that majority has:
Changed it's mind about Iraq
Changed it's mind about Bush's approval
Had its gay marrage bans struck down
There's been no SS reform, a useless energy bill has been passed, and the state legislature is too busy wasting money to fund our schools.
Great job, America.
At least the ATD tax has been put to great use by VIA.
I proudly voted for Kerry.
Btw....what the does Rant mean?
Last edited by Cant_Be_Faded; 08-09-2005 at 12:38 PM. Reason: he DID mention education
Rant - Violent or extravagant speech or writing.
Rant - One of two things Dennis Miller is known for. (The other is the news bit he's been doing for 20 years now.)
bush is gonna be dissapointed when he realizes that starting a war does not add time to the end of your second term. "but I caught the evil doers, can't I stay...?"
(it was a quote from family guy)
Never going to happen. The great toothless, Deliverance extra wannabee GOP base will never stand for his pro choice, or frankly, any of his social views. They will like the fact that he did marry his cousin the first time around, though, but that's not enough of a redemption.
there will not be a bald prez
i dont know why but a fat black 34 year old woman from nuevo laredo would have a better chance
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