You know, I wasn't planning on joining in on Gloatfest 2004 but...

...screw it.

One of the great things about XM radio... okay aside from being able to drive as much as I do and not have to worry about finding a decent station to listen to and then finding another once I outdistance the first one's coverage area. And aside from being able to listen to all sorts of music, and news, and traffic-and-weather and whatnot...

One of the great things about XM radio, especially following the surprisingly trouble-free... er... trouble-few general election is the ability to listen to the left-wing talk shows. Even if you held a gun to head, I couldn't tell you what AM stations "Air America" is on.

You know. All three of them.

But with XM, I just flick on America Left and listen to the mourning, the bitching, the shock the leftists are finding themselves in this past week. Do they realize that their candidate wasn't a weak one with a poorly run campaign? Nope.

Do they realize that, by and large, they weren't able to fool the American people into believing Senator Kerry was something other than what he was? Nope.

Do they realize Americans, by and large, have rejected their far-left ideology? Nope.

Do they realize they need to move their far-left views into what is actually the mainstream instead of trying to fool us into believing their views are the mainstream? Nope. They think they're not being leftist enough. They're not being vitriolic enough, angry enough.

One of the bits of information that I loved from the 2000 election was the county-by-county map published by USAToday. First off, the USAToday cannot be accused of being a right-wing rag by any stretch of the imagination. But secondly, the state-by-state map the media insisted on waving around didn't give a true picture of how America voted and where. Gore won the cities, for the most part, and then candidate Bush won everywhere else.

This year's USAToday map is even more red than the 2000 map.

2004

2000

Don't let the media or the rest of the leftists tell you that America is closely divided. That's bullshit. Don't let the media or the rest of the leftists tell you that President Bush doesn't have a mandate. That's bullshit too. And when they get up there and make speaches about how it's up the the President to reach across the aisle and work with them, tell them to kindly piss up a rope. And then recall that during his first four years the President was trying to do just that and meeting nothing but petty obstructionism and bitter partisanship, kick them in the shin.