To Respond

The best way to describe it is simple - the Liberals got lazy and the Conservatives got organized. They had more coherent and logical messages, they did a better job with reiterating their messages in their echo chambers, and they gave the finger to the Center of the spectrum. This strategy can't work again, but as a last grasp at the Presidency, Rove's gamble paid off.

The liberals just assumed that outrage over the 2000 election would somehow magically transfer over 4 years of constant right-wing propaganda and elusive press conferences. How do you keep the fires stoked for 4 years? And falling behind Kerry was a terrible idea, but then again, falling behind any of those candidates, save Lyndon LaRouche, was a terrible idea. Not that W. is a stellar opponent, but shit, combining all 9 candidates still probably wouldn't do much against the machine that is W.

Its the cycle of government, my friends. We're doomed to a Republican majority for probably the next 25 or so years because the infrastructure is so finely tuned. And yes Mikey, Sun Belt and Mountain West states are indeed dumb, but they can afford to be fat, lazy and dumb because they're the ones who benefit from the largesse of the Blue State taxes. There is your end of a Republican majority - when Bush Inc. comes to the realization that their constituencies aren't benefiting, while the fat cats on Wall Street toast champagne and sail yachts to Bermuda with all the new-found cash that Bush Inc. provided to them through the tax cuts. Oh, and when the Christian Right finally realizes that W. and friends have taken off their chastity belt and Dick Cheney has planted his devil-seed in their collective womb...