Unpaid political announcement
Nov. 3rd, 2004 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingGood to see that Kerry showed some class.
I hope that Bush is serious about reaching out to Kerry voters. On the other hand, he had that chance after the last election, and he blew it. Hopefully now that Bush doesn't have to worry about being reelected, he won't pander to the far right so much. (The tendency to legislate moral issues is my big conflict with the Republican party. And for those who say "Well, those are the views of the far right, not the centrist views of the Republican party," the fact is that every Republican candidate has played to the far right, so those are the views of the Republican party.)
For what it's worth, I called these results three weeks ago (that is, Bush will win, but it'll be close), so I've had a lot of time to get used to the idea. I don't understand why people seem to think that it's the end of the world; we have a history of surviving our presidents no matter what their ideology is.
I hope that Bush is serious about reaching out to Kerry voters. On the other hand, he had that chance after the last election, and he blew it. Hopefully now that Bush doesn't have to worry about being reelected, he won't pander to the far right so much. (The tendency to legislate moral issues is my big conflict with the Republican party. And for those who say "Well, those are the views of the far right, not the centrist views of the Republican party," the fact is that every Republican candidate has played to the far right, so those are the views of the Republican party.)
For what it's worth, I called these results three weeks ago (that is, Bush will win, but it'll be close), so I've had a lot of time to get used to the idea. I don't understand why people seem to think that it's the end of the world; we have a history of surviving our presidents no matter what their ideology is.
