Analysis of the Democrat's Defeat

Why the Democrats Failed
By William James Epler

This past election was a crushing defeat for the Democratic Party. Along with losing the presidential election, the Democrats gave up an even larger majority in the House and Senate to the Republicans. Now instead of trying to understand why they failed, you will see the Dems and their friends in the liberal media place blame on all those “damn right-wing Christian Evangelicals” who flocked to the polls to vote for President Bush and, in 11 states, to ban gay marriage. They refuse to accept the fact that they are not the majority party any longer. They have been pulled so far left out of mainstream America, that even moderate Democrats are wondering where their party has gone. The once proud Democratic Party is now a party of protest with a secular agenda. The Democrat’s allies in the liberal media and in such left-wing organizations as the ACLU have, for at least the last decade, done nothing but bash and belittle religious people-specifically those who believe in Judeo-Christian values. This has alienated most Americans away from the Democratic Party. Almost 86% of Americans believe that there is a God and practice one form of religion or another. The mistake that has become a thorn in the Dem’s side is allowing themselves to be separated from traditional values and appear to be anti-religion. The Democrats have been hijacked by the far-left. It is now the party of Michael Moore, Al Franken, the ACLU, and other liberal bomb-throwers.
When will they learn that no ultra-liberal candidate, especially a Senator from Massachusetts, will ever be president? The last two Democrats to win the presidency were from the South and ran as moderates. If the Dem’s want to salvage their party they need to realize their mistakes. Joe Lieberman was the only Democrat that could have defeated George W. Bush, but he could not even win his party’s nomination through the primaries. There is a reason that Zell Miller and others broke ranks to support President Bush. There is no place for diverse, individual thought in the Democratic Party. Conservative Democrats are being driven away and any politician that does not toe the party line has no chance in the national scene, as they are stricken with attacks by their Democratic comrades that preach tolerance and free speech until they disagree with you.
Lets look at their candidate for president as a case study in why the Democrats are in decline. John Kerry has been a Senator for 20 years, and accomplished nothing. He did not even try to defend his Senate record because he knew he had no significant achievements. You can look at it every which way, he did nothing. He decided to run on his four month tour in Vietnam. Big mistake. The phony war hero was exposed by his brothers-in-arms, the men who served with him. I will give him his military service, questionable though it be, and just say he served with honor and I won’t take it away. Now, that said, lets look at his actions following his tour in ‘Nam. He came home and immediately seized every political opportunity. The war was unpopular and he immediately jumped onto the anti-war bandwagon. After co-founding the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and throwing his hat in with the likes of ‘Hanoi’ Jane Fonda, he gave testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was there he betrayed all Vietnam Veterans by accusing every single one of them of atrocities. He called them murders, rapists, and compared them to Genghis Khan. He made it seem as if dishonorable behavior was the rule of our military during the Vietnam War. Atrocities did happen, as in all war, but it was an exception. The vast majority of servicemen in ‘Nam served honorably. Kerry claimed to have witnessed and committed war crimes. This brings up two questions in my mind. First, why did he not stop or report these atrocities. While in Iraq as a noncommissioned officer, it would be my responsibility to report illegal actions no matter who was committing or authorizing them. Second, if Kerry said he committed atrocities, he is a war criminal and should be prosecuted. If not then he is a liar and committed perjury during his Senate testimony. The likes of Kerry and ’Hanoi’ Jane Fonda are responsible for increasing and prolonging the suffering of American POW’s. Several veterans came forward to recount their tales of torture in which Kerry’s testimony was used against them. The anti-war movement defeated us and extended the war by at least two years. The commander of all North Vietnamese forces, General Giap, admitted in the early’80s in his book that the anti-war protestors emboldened the communists. Giap admits that the Tet Offensive was a massive defeat, and intended to seek conditional cessation of hostilities if not for the protestors in America.
Then, of course, you have Kerry meeting with the enemy in Paris while troops were still fighting in Vietnam. Last time I checked actions such as this amounted to treason. So, the Democrats chose as their candidate for president an ultra-liberal from Massachusetts that portrayed himself as a war hero, but protested the same war and undermined our efforts in that war. You see the problem there don’t you? What did Kerry stand for? Well basically he wanted to surrender American sovereignty to the United Nations, arguably the most corrupt and irrelevant organization in human history. He believed in military action only with UN approval. He said it was okay for soldiers to die for the UN but not for the US. He attacked our troops in Vietnam. He voted against all defense bills as a Senator. He wanted to gut intelligence spending, even after the WTC was bombed in 1993. He continues to this day, perhaps out of instinct, to berate our troops. The phony Al-Qaqaa weapons story was used by his campaign to attack the President. Actually, however, it was an attack on our troops saying they were incompetent and failed to do their job.
How was this election this close? You have this anti-military, anti-American candidate named John Kerry and a party full of protestors and fanatics. Kerry and his thugs wanted to do everything normal Americans hate. They promised to raise taxes, take a weak approach to national defense, and force a liberal value system on America. The reason the comedy of errors called the Kerry Candidacy was able to keep within striking distance was the liberal media. It has been said that if you control a nation’s media, you control the people. That is true to some extent. CNN, CBS, The NY Times, and others were openly rooting for the Democrats. CBS tried to use forged documents to destroy the president (which is an old Soviet tactic to destroy political enemies). Then the Times and CBS tried running the phony missing weapons story to hurt the president right before the election. They all pounded the Abu-Ghraib prison scandal long after there was nothing left to report. These people politicized everything and tried to turn every story against the president, against the military, and against Conservative Americans. Then of course you have a clown named Michael Moore. This vacuous blob made a “documentary” called Fahrenheit 9-11. In this snuff film he makes several outrageous claims and offers no proof, only innuendo. Largely discredited, this film is still a favorite among liberal nut balls and their brain dead followers. All of this together, along with a notoriously ignorant electorate, had me quite pessimistic about this election. Now, I am not a huge fan of the Republicans or George W. Bush, but I know what is right and what is wrong for my family and the future of this country. I did not vote for Bush last election, but both my wife and myself voted for him this election.
My prediction for the election was ominous. I knew it would all hinge on voter turnout. I knew it would be a record turnout, and I knew the left was great at herding large flocks of mindless sheep to the polls. So I thought ‘Hanoi’ John Kerry would win. With the Bush-bashing media, Democratic voter fraud, and terrorists everywhere pulling for Kerry I did not have much faith in the American voter. Election night proved me and most other pundits wrong. While the exit polls looked bad, I knew better than to trust them. There were several factors that the media and myself did not take into account.
1. New Media- the internet bloggers, talk radio, Fox News, and others refused to follow the Democrat allied liberal media and exposed the failures and bias of the elite networks.
2. The Swift Boat Veterans and POW’s for truth. These honorable veterans earned the right to be heard and even though the media tried to ignore them, they would not go away.
3. The youth vote did not materialize. Michael Moore’s “Get out the stoned slacker vote” campaign failed. Why didn’t they go to the polls? Because, they are a bunch of stoned slackers!
4. Moral issues on the ballot did have an effect in Ohio, and never before have so many Conservatives voted.
5.Apparently we are not like the Spanish people who chose to appease terrorists by voting in the Socialists and running like cowards from the War on Terror. Bush’s efforts to defeat terrorism had the greatest impact. I guess some people did remember 9-11.
6. Quite simply, Kerry was a horrible candidate. He was anti-military at a time when we needed strong support for our troops. He alienated moderate Americans, people did not like him and people did like Bush. Liberalism fails at the polls, the people reject it.
7. Theresa Heinz-Kerry. Need I say more?
My faith in the American people has been restored. The defeat of John Fonda Kerry was perhaps the greatest gift the people of this nation could’ve given to the veterans, especially of Vietnam, for Veteran’s Day. There was a good reason the military supported Bush 4 to 1 over Kerry. We dodged a potentially dangerous bullet. Now that we have a strong leader not worried about reelection, maybe the real work can finally begin. As a veteran of Iraqi Freedom, I am anxious for the elections there in January and hopeful for the future of Iraq. Once again, thank you America for rejecting the destructive liberal agenda of the modern Democratic Party. To those Dems out there, reclaim your party. If Michael Moore and liberal fanatics continue to hijack your party, you will be swept into the dust bin of history. We could use FDR, Truman, or Kennedy right now. Too bad for you though, they would probably be Republicans if they were alive today.