A Rout By President Bush Is On The Horizon
By Randall Nunn (10/01/04)
Much of the mainstream media is still predicting a close election on November 2, mainly because its members fervently and desperately want a Kerry victory and because they believe that they can possibly deliver a Kerry victory if they keep up a steady flow of anti-Bush propaganda.
However, I am predicting a Bush rout of Kerry and that President Bush will win with somewhere around 378 electoral votes. This could change if there is some cataclysmic development that causes a major shift in voter sentiment away from President Bush. But most of the cataclysmic events that could possibly occur are likely to benefit President Bush and not torpedo his re-election chances. Of course, one cannot totally discount the possibility of another Dan Rather “manufactured news” expose, but something has changed in this country—much of the voting public distrusts the mainstream media and, because of that distrust, discounts much of what it says.
The mainstream media tells us that the war in Iraq is in a mess. Most American voters sense that the war in Iraq is not going as well as it was initially hoped, but they also realize that war in unpredictable and messy by its very nature. And these voters are savvy enough to know that President Bush did not say the war was concluded the day he landed on the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier, despite the spin in the mainstream media. These same voters know that President Bush cares deeply about the loss of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and that the country cannot make decisions based on the casualty counts or difficulties of the moment. There is also a sizeable segment of the likely voters who believe that the Vietnam War could have been won, or ended much differently, had not the media and the anti-war movement joined to create the false perception of a “quagmire” and hopeless situation. But, unlike then, it is now easy for individuals to access views contrary to those foisted by the mainstream media from sources such as the Internet, talk radio and FOX News. For example, FOX News recently bested the networks in its coverage of the Republican National Convention and surpassed all of the other cable news channels combined in prime time during the third quarter of 2004. This shift in sources of news, and in the public’s perception of the fairness and accuracy of those sources, is an extremely important development and bodes well for the republic.
The mainstream media also tells us that the economy is in a mess. Symptomatic of this mess, we are told, is the widespread outsourcing of jobs, persistent unemployment and malaise in the technology sector. The only problem with this picture is that it is not accurate and does not reflect the improving economy and the strengths that allow the U.S. economy to persist and thrive in the face of a war on terrorism, a war in Iraq and a steady drumbeat of negatively-spun economic news from much of the mainstream media. The mainstream media hasn’t yet realized that the old spell that it used to cast just isn’t working as well. Too many of us know who is behind the witch doctor’s mask and what their agenda is.
The only true “quagmire” that exists today is the one Senator Kerry is mired in. Senator Kerry and his followers no longer represent the views of the majority of the country and the old recipes for political success just aren’t working. Kerry’s followers are a rag-tag assortment of anti-war protesters, socialists, environmentalists, Hollywood leftists, academics, personal injury trial lawyers and one-worlders who share only one common trait—they are all elitists who want to tell the rest of us how to live our lives and enforce those dictates by means of governmental coercion. Their day has come and gone and they don’t yet realize it. And leading the charge for this leftist crowd is the mainstream media that still believes it can sell hokum to the American public if it is repeated often enough by their chic and fashionable commentators and pundits. The only problem they face is that much of the electorate in the “red” states and in the “red areas” of the “blue” states are now self-assured enough to know that chic and fashionable don’t equate to real and honest. And when the mainstream media’s stranglehold is broken on November 2 and the walls of its ramparts come tumbling down, many of us will be there cheering.
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