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Bush.
That is an illusion, deliberately spun. There is no evidence for it. Zero. Zilch. It was a Karl Rove post-election "talking point"--and a laughable one at that (--their "invisible" get out the vote campaign). ALL THE EVIDENCE says the opposite: The Democratic grass roots BLEW THE BUSHITES AWAY in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40.
So who DID elect (or I should say, anoint) Bush?
Hint: During the 2002-2004 period, a new election system was put in place--electronic voting, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by corporations with very close ties to the Bush regime and far rightwing causes. And they are...
DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and
ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they are run by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich.
These are people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy.
One third of the country "voted" on paperless electronic machines--no paper trail, no recount even possible. The rest voted on electronic machines or had their votes "counted" by electronic central tabulators--all run on secret code--with virtually no audit/recount controls (--audits non-existent, or very inadequate; recounts extremely rare, expensive and manipulable).
By now, there are voluminous studies pointing OVERWHELMINGLY to a combination of electronic fraud and vote suppression in the 2004 election. There is also evidence of collusion and corruption in how this fraudulent election SYSTEM was put into place, by both Democratic leaders and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. The latter directly colluded on the fraudulent result by DOCTORING their own exit polls--Kerry won--to FORCE the exit polls, late on election day, to confirm the result of Diebold/ES&S's NON-TRANSPARENT "vote tabulation" (Bush won).
And when you look at the result NOW--a Congress frittering away its time on a FLAG-BURNING AMENDMENT, and a President who can't get a coherent word out of his mouth, and whose overwhelming concern is REPEALING THE ESTATE TAX for the super-rich--it's as plain as it can be. They don't care what we think because they are no longer accountable to US.
Bush's base was the same in 2004 as it was in 2000. It never changed. Rightwing 'christian' nuts voted for him both times. So you had Bush '00 voters vs. Gore '00 voters. New voters--who were flocking to the Democratic Party, 60/40--voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. Independent voters voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. Former Nader voters voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. Who else is there?
All pre-election polls showed Kerry surging or moving ahead. Zogby (independent pollster) said that Bush's numbers were so low, he could not win. And the exit polls were showing a Kerry win all day long on election day--until that MYSTERY at the end, that Bush "won," somehow.
Karl Rove's "invisible" get out the vote campaign was A LIE--cocked up AFTER the election to explain their mysterious "win." Bush's approval dropped to 49% on the VERY DAY OF HIS 2ND INAUGURATION (unprecedented for a recently "re-elected" president), and has been sinking like the Titanic ever since. It's been in the mid-30s for over a year.
The extremist fascist faction in this country has always been small, and is STILL small. The difference is that, now, the war profiteering corporate news monopolies give them a BIG TRUMPET with which to create the ILLUSION that the minority is the majority. But if you look at all the opinion polls--independent AND corporate, approval polls and issue polls--over the last several years, you find an OVERWHELMING American progressive MAJORITY.
We may not be able to "prove" definitively that Bush lost in 2004--due to the egregious NON-TRANSPARENCY of the election system that was put in place in 2002-2004 (no recount POSSIBLE in ONE THIRD of country)--but you have to be blind and deaf and a nutcase yourself, not to grasp what has happened. It was fascist coup. Its purpose, mainly, was LOOTING. These master thieves don't even have the skill of the Nazis in building an industrial war machine. All they know how to do is STEAL--steal our money, steal our elections. You don't see any 'sieg heilers' out in the streets. They haven't CONVINCED anybody of anything. Nobody's buying it. The Bushites are hugely despised.
Iraq itself is a GRAND LOOTING EXPEDITION. A looting of OUR treasury, as well as a looting of all the false promises to the Iraqis--electricity, infrastructure, re-building. All a bunch of crap. And an intended heist of their oil. And a heist of their constitution in the interest of global corporate predators. Rumsfeld said, freedom = the freedom to loot. He wasn't kidding.
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Anyway, GREAT ARTICLE. But the 'christian' nuts didn't win it. They stole it.
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