BUSH WINS!

The Honorable Andrew Card made a statement to supporters gathered at the Bush Victory celebration this morning:

“Thank you very much.

“I want to thank all of you for staying up so late with us and good morning. I'm Andy Card, I’m President Bush's Chief of Staff.

“We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 Electoral College votes.

“And he also had a margin of more than 3.5 million popular votes.

“President Bush's decisive margin of victory makes this the first presidential election since 1988 in which the winner received a majority of the popular vote.

“And in this election President Bush received more votes than any presidential candidate in our country's history.

“Republicans also scored other great victories in this election. We won important victories adding to our majority in the House and adding to our majority in the Senate.

“In Ohio, President Bush has a lead of at least 140,000 votes. The Secretary of State's office has informed us that this margin is statistically insurmountable even after the provisional ballots are considered. So, President Bush has won the state of Ohio.

“President Bush has also been declared the winner in Nevada. The other victories that he has had will be added with the strong showing of margins that we are looking at in Iowa and New Mexico and we’re also going to put those states in the winner's column as well. This all adds up to a convincing Electoral College victory as well as a strong endorsement of President Bush by his fellow Americans in the popular vote.

“President Bush decided to give Senator Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election. The President will be making a statement later today. Again I thank all of you who stayed up these many hours waiting for the opportunity to celebrate this victory. And I also thank all of the volunteers all across this great country that worked so hard. But, most importantly, I thank the many voters who participated in this important election. It was a great celebration of our democracy. Thank you and God bless you.”

How Democrats Treat Black Americans

For four decades now you have routinely given 80-90% of your votes to whomever is the Democratic candidate. As a Republican, I realise full well that we have not done nearly a good enough job getting our message out to you - have not done the things necessary to understand your hopes and desires. We are, however, working on it and we hope that in future years we will earn more and more of your votes - after all, there's not a dimes worth of difference between the views of a white and a black conservative Christian. But I'd like to bring to your attention this little incident:

The New York Post's Robert George tells a story from the Kerry campaign trail that helps show why the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, is having trouble with black voters. Two weeks ago tomorrow, Kerry gave a speech in Xenia, Ohio, a largely black town outside Dayton. On his way was historically black Wilberforce University, where "organizers were led to believe that if there were at least 100 people, Kerry's motorcade would make a quick stop":

Eventually 150 students and supporters . . . gathered for four hours on a cold (rainy and snowy) Ohio day. And the Kerry caravan drove right on by. All the long-suffering got from the candidate was a clenched "victory" fist out the window.

According to Shavon Ray, president of Wilberforce's NAACP, the students were devastated--with comments such as "This is why I don't vote." . . .

After the incident--and Ray's criticism--made the local paper, the Democratic Party sent one Ken Miller to Wilberforce to meet with Ray. He offered 50 tickets--and 8 VIP tickets--to a Kerry event in Dayton. Ray declined what she saw as "hush tickets." . . .

Next, Miller offered to have Rev. Al Sharpton stop by as a speaker. That annoyed Ray even more: "We don't want a black face to speak to black students."

The final straw was when Miller said Sharpton would be sent to speak to Central State University--along with X-rated rapper Foxy Brown.

When Ray reminded Miller that they didn't want anything to do with Sharpton, Miller allegedly responded, "What do you want--Kerry to lose the f---ing race? We got you Al Sharpton. What more do you want?"

"Meanwhile, this past Wednesday, George W. Bush had a huge rally in the Pontiac Silverdome in the battleground state of Michigan," George adds. "On stage with him were two of the most popular black gospel singers--Marvin Winans and Freeport, Long Island's own Donnie McClurkin."

What more do you want? Hopefully its a political Party which respects you as Americans; not a political Party which just considers your vote an unalienable right of whatever jerk the Democrats nominate for an office.

Hat Tip: Best of the Web Today

Why Bush Will Win

For Pete DuPont, the question of conviction goes to the heart of "Why Bush Will Win":

President Bush is not going to win because of Mr. Kerry's style or Boston blue blood, as out of sync with most Americans as they may be. He is going to win because he believes in things, while Mr. Kerry is a candidate of concern, consensus and compromise.

Mr. Bush believes in the "transformational power of liberty"; that "freedom is on the march"; that the spirit of liberty that created America in 1776 has brought freedom and opportunity to Afghanistan and will bring it to Iraq and every other nation that grasps its principles. It is a powerful message that Americans understand. Mr. Kerry believes we are imposing democracy on people, instead of which we must bring everyone together in international forums where America's decisions must pass a "global test." As the New York Times noted, Mr. Kerry "sees himself as an ambassador president," intending his first act in office to be a speech to the United Nations to recast American foreign policy.

Kerry, The UN, The Red Sox, .. & More Lies

Let's to go back to the third debate in St. Louis. John Kerry made a statement during that debate on October 8th. This was it.

This president hasn't listened. I went to meet with members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable. I came away convinced that if we worked at it, if we were ready to work at letting Hans Blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us.

Now this story.

UN ambassadors from several nations are now disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the UN Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

He did not meet with all of them. He did not. Remember the story he told about his mother? Let's relive that story.

Here is Kerry again:

If I could just say a word about a woman that you didn't ask about, but my mom passed away a couple years ago, and just before I was deciding to run, and she was in the hospital, and I went in to talk to her and tell her what I was thinking of doing and she looked at me from her hospital bed and she just looked at me and she said, "Remember: integrity, integrity, integrity." Those are the three words that she left me with.

Sounds like Mr. Kerry is admitting his mother knew him pretty well. She had to remind him three times to use "integrity, integrity, integrity," and he still is having trouble doing so. He out-and-out lied in the debate on October the 8th in St. Louis in which he said that he had gone to New York, he talked to all of the Security Council members prior to his October 2002 vote. He did not. (story)

"U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council... Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in December 2003, Mr. Kerry explained that he understood the 'real readiness' of the United Nations to 'take this seriously' because he met 'with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking about what they saw as the path to a united front in order to be able to deal with Saddam Hussein.' But of the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' U.N. missions had met with Mr. Kerry either. The former ambassadors who said on the record they had never met Mr. Kerry included the representatives of Mexico, Colombia and Bulgaria. The ambassador of a fourth country gave a similar account on the condition that his country not be identified.

"A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council's actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel. An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: 'We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council.' Jean-David Levitte, then France's chief U.N. representative and now his country's ambassador to the United States, said through a spokeswoman that Mr. Kerry did not have a single group meeting as the senator has described, but rather several one-on-one or small-group encounters."

Kerry did not meet with the Security Council. They're out there denying that he did, and this, folks, is something you have to just put this in your pipe and smoke it. He's lying about a number of things throughout this campaign. He's flip-flopping all over the place. If you don't like the word 'lying,' he's misstating. He's forgetting. He's misleading. I don't care what you want to say, but to me this is an out-and-out lie when he said he met with the members of the Security Council and didn't.

He also is famous for saying that he sat 30 yards away at the 1986 World Series in Shea Stadium when Bill Buckner blew a ground ball; let it roll between his legs. Kerry has spoken often of the agony that he personally witnessed. The problem is he wasn't there. He was in Boston. He was at the World Trade Center in Boston for a meeting and fund-raiser with other Massachusetts Democrats. He was not in Shea Stadium in 1986 during Game 6 of the World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets! He did not meet with members of the UN Security Council. He cannot get France and Germany into our alliance; they've already said they're not going to come. The man is not operating with "integrity, integrity, integrity." You can't count on what the man says.

Bush support with Blacks doubles

Here is a story from the LA Times "Kerry Seeks to Connect to Blacks." "After spending much of the spring and summer courting swing voters, Sen. John F. Kerry is now hurriedly trying to rev up enthusiasm among African Americans, turning his attention to a stalwart Democratic constituency that some community leaders complain he neglected for too long. In the last several weeks, Kerry has tapped the Rev. Jesse Jackson as a senior advisor, held a summit of African American clergy in Philadelphia and visited black churches in Cleveland and Miami, joined by Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton..."

Kerry's support now is down from the usual 82 to 83% to 69% in the black community, down to 64% in the Jewish community.

"Surveys taken by the Washington Post and ABC News in September showed that while nearly 80% of African Americans respondents said they planned to vote for Kerry, less than half of those considered themselves 'very enthusiastic' about his candidacy."

More:
(LA Times: Kerry Seeks to Connect to Blacks)
(AP: Poll: Bush doubles support among blacks)
(AP: Kerry courts Jews with Hebrew stickers)

Why is Bush AND Kerry touring BLUE states? 'Cus Kerry is behind

The USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll that came out yesterday that shows Bush up eight in likely voters.

When you get down and look at all these polls over the past six months, throughout the whole race once the primary season ended for the Democrats, Kerry's never led this race. When you get right down to it, Kerry has never been in front in this race, and he's not now, and you could take all the big polls and you could lump them together as RealClearPolitics.com does and average them out and you get a Bush lead of plus 3.5. I tried to tell you, these polls, the horse race polls, don't tell you what you need to know. You need to go to the battleground states and look at the state polls. Look at the Electoral College map and see how things are shaping up there. However, there are also some other polls that are taken out there that we never know about.

We're never told about these polls, and these are the polls that are run by the campaigns. Kerry campaign has its own poll out there and they do their internal polling and focus grouping, and the Bush campaign is doing same thing. Now, we don't know what these polls say, but we can get a pretty good idea what they say by watching some things. We can, A, watch where the candidates go, and, B, we can listen to what they say. Now, I'm not trying to get anybody's false hopes up here, but I'm going to tell you something, folks: The Kerry campaign is not behaving as though they are confident of a win. In fact, they are acting desperate. The Kerry campaign is going places they shouldn't be going. They're going to places like Wisconsin which they ought to have wired. Kerry is going to states he already ought to have in his camp.

Bush, on the other hand, is going to states that are marginally in the Kerry camp but may be still up for grabs like Oregon. Bush last week spent a lot of time in Oregon. You're saying, "What's he doing in Oregon, it's a Kerry state?" It means something. It means that Bush maybe, based on polling, thinks they've got a chance to do something in Oregon. It means that Bush is secure in his base and that Kerry is not. Kerry’s people are not nearly as excited about Kerry as Bush people are as excited about Bush.

Edwards needs to look in the mirror and shut up

Bush was in New Jersey today and here's Edwards making a speech in Fort Myers. Edwards says,

"'George Bush is exploiting a national tragedy for personal gain,' in a blistering speech preceding Bush's own address about terrorism in a state in the shadow of September 11th, 2001. Accusing the president of using scare tactics, Edwards charged George Bush is playing on people's deepest fears. 'He's exploiting a national tragedy for personal gain. It's the lowest kind of politics.'"

What!!? Get a grip man! Considering the comment about all of these quadra/paraplegics out there in wheelchairs last week in Iowa - that if Kerry gets into office they would walk out of their chairs. I ask now, who is doing the exploiting?

Take for instance lets some of Edward's closing arguments for his past jury summations. What's up with the channeling of the thoughts of a fetus in a woman's womb, senator? Are you not exploiting that for your own personal gain? You've got no room to talk about this.

The point is Democrats cannot talk about issues. The Democrats are not out trying to get votes talking about what they're going to do and what their issues are going to mean. They're out there doing the same old dumb stuff from the same dumb playbook.

Canadians to Kerry: No Cheap Drugs

In a new report from the Financial Times says that more and more Canadian online pharmacies are rejecting bulk orders from U.S. states and municipalities. The concern seems to be that the increased orders will result in shortages and thus increase prices for Canadian residents.

"We don't want to give Americans the impression that we have unlimited supply for them to tap into on a commercial basis," said David Mackay, the association's executive director. "We can't be your complete drugstore."

So far, about 30 pharmacies have decided not to accept bulk orders of prescription drugs from U.S. states and municipalities.

Prescription drug prices are significantly lower in Canada than the United States, because of price controls and bulk buying by the 10 provinces.

But I am sure that Kerry has a "plan" for this as well.

Link: Canada reins in Internet drug sales

Kerry's Liberal Big Mouth Screws Haiti

What's up with this guy's "global test"?

The United Nations commander in Haiti blames John Kerry's remarks in support of Jean-Bertrand Aristide for continued violence in the country. Aristide supporters feel that if they can hold out till Kerry is elected they can convince him to re-install Aristide to power.

The Brazilian UN general, Augusto Heleno, said Mr Kerry's comments had offered "hope" to Aristide supporters. Much of the recent unrest has centred on areas loyal to Mr Aristide.

More than 50 people have died over the past fortnight.

NAACP: Office Debate turns Political

My buddy Greg Giddens of Davidson County, NC sent this to me today in an email. It was to help settle a dispute (with other co-workers) on the relative nature of the NAACP in respect to the black community. I totally share his sentiment and he it expressed it much better than I could have.

Let me finish what I was saying about the NAACP and other roundtable issues we were discussing. In my opinion, the NAACP is nothing but an extension of the Democratic Party and negatively labels any blacks that don't share their political view. Julian Bond said blacks that don't share the NAACP's view are "puppets" and members of the Republican Party are the puppet masters. The NAACP during the height of the civil rights movement, was an effective and relevant organization. Today they have a strictly political agenda that I don't agree with. I had an incident happen to me a few years ago that was a clear case of racial profiling (I'll tell you about it another time). I contacted them to see what I could do about it or if there was something they could do to help me. I got no help from them. If I experienced some sort of racial discrimination right now, I might contact them, but I would probably just consult an attorney. I don't feel that the NAACP is helping us as a people like they used to and they aren't as relevant.

When Bill Cosby recently spoke the absolute truth about too many blacks using improper English and being more worried about buying their kids $200 sneakers than their education and black males demeaning their mates and blaming the White man for all of his problems, the NAACP and many other black groups distanced themselves from Cosby and what he said. If these groups truly are for the advancement of blacks, then they should have supported Cosby 100% and really should have been voicing this message years ago. To emphasize my point that the NAACP and other groups that supposedly represent our interests are not focusing on what they should, every black individual I've seen comment on it said that Cosby was absolutely right and his statements were long overdue.

There is a stigma attached to blacks who are Republican that they are somehow "out of touch with their culture and history" or somehow less black. Charles Barkley is a Republican -- he grew up poor in Leeds, Alabama (the heart of the South). Is he less black? Comedian Sheryl Underwood is a Republican. Is she less black? Don King supports George Bush. Is he less black? Colin Powell is the Secretary of State and Condaleeza Rice is the National Security Advisor. Rod Paige is the Secretary of Education. George Bush appointed them. Did you see blacks in such high profile positions in the Clinton Administration? More and more blacks feel like the Democratic Party is taking them for granted and they are. To say the Republicans don't offer opportunities for minorities is dead wrong. These folks I just mentioned wouldn't be Republicans or affiliated with the party if they felt that way. James Meredith worked for Jesse Helms on one of his re-election campaigns. Can you say Mr. Meredith -- the first black to be admitted to the University of Mississippi is less black?

I've said all of that to say this -- we as black people aren't born Democrats. We are born with our own minds and as we grow and develop, we recognize what our values and views are and "hopefully" form our own opinions on the issues. At that point, we should investigate both sides and determine which side is more representative of our views and beliefs. Automatically labeling ourselves Democrats or allowing society to label us as Democrats is detrimental to us as a people. If the Democratic party knows it has 90% of the black vote in the bag, what is their motivation to truly address our needs? Anytime you get anything without working hard or not at all for it, you get complacent and take what you are getting and the source for granted. There are always two sides to every story, I'm just hoping that more blacks will take an educated look at what the Republican Party has to offer and what it stands for before they categorically dismiss it.

Thanks Greg.

I Voted

Today as part of the North Carolina early voting program, I got my chance to vote for the US general elections. Local news was there and I was interviewed twice; one of which made the 5 o'clock time slot. My wife taped it and there was not much really there but it was fun nonetheless. They did not show my 15 second sound bite of my support for Bush. Go figure.

Here is what I said:

I voted for President Bush because I feel that his administration has a clearer
understanding of how to deal with issues as they pertain to the black community.
I feel that Kerry has nothing to offer other than the usual pandering. Culturally and traditionally speaking, African-Americans are compassionate. We are conservative but vote the opposite. I am here to help reverse that trend. George W. Bush is the compassionate conservative that fits our bill.

Can anyone explain to me why this did not make the evening news?

Needless to say I voted for the president. It was the first time in my life that every voted for a republican for president. I am OK with that. I feel I made the right choice for myself and my family.

Kerry is a liar

There now was that hard to say? Are we too politically correct these days to call things as they are? I am sick and tired of Kerry getting away with his blatant distortions and yes... lies.

Last night John Kerry showed how far he's willing to go to deceive the American people about this record when he said "I've actually passed 56 individual bills that I've personally written." The fact is that he has only been the lead sponsor of 5 bills and 4 resolutions that have become law. And that was in 19 years of Senate duty.

Its time folks to take the gloves off. Lets all call a spade a spade and get on with getting the work done.

Read more John Kerry lies

BUSH WINS AGAIN!

Again, never take my word for it:

"I think Bush knocked Kerry out tonight. I think it was just, he just slaughtered him." -- Bill Kristol on Fox News

"I think [Bush] won this debate." - Mort Kondracke on Fox News

"This makes Bush the comeback kid of these debates." - Mort Kondracke

President Bush "was particularly effective tonight." - George Stephanopoulos on ABC

President Bush "did exactly what he needed to do in debate two into debate three." - Joe Scarborough on MSNBC

"Bush scored in 'Global Test' and terrorism as a 'nuisance.'" - Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC

"Bush won it. ... Kerry was generally back on his heels throughout the night. ... Bush really did pull it out." - Jonah Goldberg, National Review

Now the real works begins. Donate money, organize a Bush walk, attend or host a party, volunteer at your local campaign headquarters. It is going to take all of us to come together to prevent these aweful two words being used over and over for the next four years: President Kerry. It almost makes me want to puke.

Nobel Prize Winner Praises Bush Tax Cuts

I wonder how John Kerry will try and spin this.

Nobel Laureate calls for more US tax cuts

Washington - Edward Prescott, who picked up the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday, said President George Bush's tax rate cuts were "pretty small" and should have been bigger.

"What Bush has done has been not very big, it's pretty small," Prescott said.

"Tax rates were not cut enough," said Prescott.

Lower tax rates provided an incentive to work, Prescott said.

Prescott and Norwegian Finn Kydland won the 2004 Nobel Economics Prize for research into the forces behind business cycles.

The American analyst, who is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said a large tax cut in 1986 had lowered rates while collecting the same revenue.

But "in the early nineties the economy was depressed by the tax increase in 1993 by about four percent, and it's right at that level now," Prescott said.

Bush, who is fighting to get re-elected on November 2, has cut taxes by about $1,7-trillion during his term.

The US leader accuses his Democratic rival John Kerry of favoring tax increases, despite Kerry's promise to cut taxes for everyone earning less than 200 000 dollars a year. - Sapa-AFP

What he trying not to say is that if Clinton had CUT taxes we would have had an even BETTER economy in the 90's.