SlowpokeBlog

I've managed to avoid The Horror for the most part, thank goodness. I think it bears repeating that a huge number of Americans voted for Bush not because they agree with him on the issues (the Oct. 21 PIPA study showed that many Republicans were hopelessly ill-informed about his actual platform, especially on environmental issues), but because they felt Bush would keep them safe from terrorists, because they perceived his plain-spokenness as honesty, and because they thought Kerry was a liar. In other words, they were sold a massive bill of goods.

As the powers-that-be crow about their mandates for various pieces of legislation that were hardly mentioned on the campaign trail, let us remember that the election was FAR less rational than that. And then let us stop castigating ourselves once and for all, and make Howard Dean the DNC chair.