Moving To Canada? I Already Live There

Some Democrats now say they need to change themselves and reflect the values of the voters who called "moral issues" their number one voting issue.

Look, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (and yes, I looked it up) there are more than 210 million eligible voters in the United States. Even with record registration numbers, Bush received 59,117,523 votes on Tuesday. Of these confused souls, one in three of the Bush supporters voted for him because of “God, Gays, and Guns,” or a combination of the three.

Ladies and Gentlemen, do not let the media confuse you—the 20 million Americans who make up this Passion-of-the-Christ-voting-block—actually represent less than 10% of those who could be voting.

I understand your concern. Bush got elected by disingenuously calling for a constitutional ban against gay marriage (something he said was NOT a federal issue and refused to make it one when a reporter asked him if he supported it four years ago). By doing so, he managed to pry all of these so-called moral voters out of their homes on election day (never mind the fact that a good moral man might have second thoughts about killing thousands of Iraqis on a knowingly false presumption that they held a threat to our security).

I believe Bush’s siren call to the Christian crowd was simply the triumph of cynicism and Karl Rove's evil genius.

Kerry should have said he was for a huge federal public works program for lost jobs in Ohio and he might have been our President. Maybe then he could have gotten all of those hundreds of thousands of out-of-work blue-collar heroes to vote for him.

As for the map above, those of us in the Blue States do resemble the values of Canada more that those who live in Red States. We see many problems with the country and the President.

Yet, the sharpest complaint I have now is not how Bush won, and, I disagree with those who say John Kerry was too liberal, too Eastern, too unattractive, too tall, too whatever. John Kerry was the better candidate.

I think the folks in the red states needed to hear about just one thing to get them to vote—just one thing that they could have hung their hat on—and that one thing probably should have been their lost jobs.

As for "God, Guns, and Gays," John Kerry should have been our President, and nearly was. He just needed one issue as strongly articulated as Bush’s three G’s. By splitting his attack on Bush into terrorism and the economy, health care and the environment, etc. and etc. -- he assumed voters would be like him, able to understand that Bush is one of the worst Presidents the country has ever had -- on not just one, but ALL of the issues.

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