final election thoughts.
While this election still gets sorted out -- although Bush is really about to win -- there are a few emerging thoughts coming out of this election.
Closing the Great Divide.
No matter who wins – and I still believe it’s going to be Bush (much to my chagrin) – it’s time to truly reach across the aisle with an olive branch. Bush did not do that four years ago and the country suffered as a result. While the Republicans were smug in advancing their agenda, they further polarized the nation.
It’s time for Democrats and Republicans to stop paying lip service to their respective bases and throw a bone to the moderates.
The Youth Vote.
You failed. Pure and simple, you failed. No longer can you use the excuse that “they’re all the same.” That’s a cheap cop-out as a means to further abdicate yourselves from any social or civic responsibility.
Your refusal to take part in the process equates to tacit approval of the status quo – the very system you claim to dislike. What would’ve happened if, say, five million of you decided to vote for Ralph Nader? It might actually awaken a movement toward a viable third party.
Instead, you decided your XBox was more important.
Youth vote? You’re fired.
Gerrymandering.
Former Republican Joe Scarborough was right that the gerrymandering is servile to incumbency on both sides of the aisle and the citizens have suffered. The re-election rate in Congress is positively insulting to a Democracy. This does not help the United States.
The Return of Civility.
It’s time to turn off the Ann Coulters, Michael Moores and all the other hyper-polarized talking heads out there. The trend of running to the polar ends of the political spectrum has dumbed down the discussion to a pathetic, embarrassing give-and-take of invective and lies.
It’s time for a return of civility and LISTENING to one another instead of shouting over one another.
FireTerry McAuliffe.com
Not until this political season did I declare myself a Democrat. As such, it’s time for McAuliffe to go. This will be the third consecutive election he’s bungled, by my count.
Time for you to go, Terry.
Final Thoughts.
So there it is, Bush will win this election. I suppose that's not a surprise. But this is no time for Bush or his supporters to gloat. You preside over a very divided nation. And you must now work to regain our confidence. If you rest on a two or three percent margin of victory, you only continue to lower the standards of America.
Closing the Great Divide.
No matter who wins – and I still believe it’s going to be Bush (much to my chagrin) – it’s time to truly reach across the aisle with an olive branch. Bush did not do that four years ago and the country suffered as a result. While the Republicans were smug in advancing their agenda, they further polarized the nation.
It’s time for Democrats and Republicans to stop paying lip service to their respective bases and throw a bone to the moderates.
The Youth Vote.
You failed. Pure and simple, you failed. No longer can you use the excuse that “they’re all the same.” That’s a cheap cop-out as a means to further abdicate yourselves from any social or civic responsibility.
Your refusal to take part in the process equates to tacit approval of the status quo – the very system you claim to dislike. What would’ve happened if, say, five million of you decided to vote for Ralph Nader? It might actually awaken a movement toward a viable third party.
Instead, you decided your XBox was more important.
Youth vote? You’re fired.
Gerrymandering.
Former Republican Joe Scarborough was right that the gerrymandering is servile to incumbency on both sides of the aisle and the citizens have suffered. The re-election rate in Congress is positively insulting to a Democracy. This does not help the United States.
The Return of Civility.
It’s time to turn off the Ann Coulters, Michael Moores and all the other hyper-polarized talking heads out there. The trend of running to the polar ends of the political spectrum has dumbed down the discussion to a pathetic, embarrassing give-and-take of invective and lies.
It’s time for a return of civility and LISTENING to one another instead of shouting over one another.
FireTerry McAuliffe.com
Not until this political season did I declare myself a Democrat. As such, it’s time for McAuliffe to go. This will be the third consecutive election he’s bungled, by my count.
Time for you to go, Terry.
Final Thoughts.
So there it is, Bush will win this election. I suppose that's not a surprise. But this is no time for Bush or his supporters to gloat. You preside over a very divided nation. And you must now work to regain our confidence. If you rest on a two or three percent margin of victory, you only continue to lower the standards of America.
