jim wilson

Convinced that "people of faith" gave a second term to Bush, or pretending
to be convinced of that, a number of these tv boys are confessing their core
religious beliefs to the nation. I've never heard so much talk of God in
one evening of political commentary. Joe Scarborough is leading the pack,
cynically using Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan to bolster his case. He's the
guy who looks and talks like a young John Wayne and ostensibly was part of
the Republican Revolution in Congress before he joined MSNBC. Right after
the first debate, which I still think Kerry won on style and performance but
Bush won on substance, Scarborough could be seen yocking it up with all of
his liberal colleagues. He looked EXACTLY like one of them and seemed very
happy that Kerry was perceived to have skunked the prez. You could just see
the wheels turning in his head, ready to make whatever philosophical
adjustments were necessary to comfortably survive "the new reality."
Now, with the Bush victory just behind us, Scarborough is "reaffirming
his essential conservatism" and pretending to be a born again Bush lover.
Why, he's acting so conservative I can barely stand it. Pat Buchanan has
been a thorn in Bush's side for the last two or three years, criticizing him
from "the real right" for giving us the Iraq war, but even he came out in
support of Bush in the final days of the campaign, asserting that W was the
lesser of two evils. Now that the rest of the media are painting the
election as if it took place in church, Scarborough has hopped on that
particular bandwagon. "I never talk about it," he said, "but I'm religious,
DEEPLY religious." Why, it's enough to make one faintly nauseated. Is it
any wonder that tyrants put these people up against a wall as soon as they
consolidate their power?
The truth is, Americans from every walk of life supported the
president, not just those with a certain narrow set of "faith-based
values." Similarly, Kerry was supported by a cross section of Americans,
and not just those "without faith or values." This annoying bullshit gets
bandied around by both parties when it suits their respective purposes. I
spoke in support of Bush in thousands of posts, hundreds of emails, and a
good many letters to officials, periodicals, and celebrities. The RNC was
happy to take several contributions from me for this election, totaling
about $240, which is a lot of money for me to be blowing on politics.
Funny, not once did I mention my religion to them or insist that I supported
the president because of "shared faith-based values." I don't have any
kids, so we don't share "family values." I don't have a load of money, so
we don't share "great success in our chosen field." I don't know a bunch of
influential people or get invited to their houses so we certainly don't
share the desire to be popular. I do like Bush and I like his lovely wife,
his dogs, and his two pretty young daughters. I think he's done a good job
as our president, with certain reservations, and seems to be a man of honor,
courage, and integrity. Beyond that, I don't really know what his "values"
are and he sure as hell doesn't know what mine are. So, as for "values"
being the real reason Bush won the election, all I can say to that is
horseshit!
When the Establishment wishes to twist things around to favor whatever
status quo they next intend to foist upon us all, it's got little to do with
who won the election or who supported them and voted for them. The
Establishment, whoever those bastards really are (they're not Bush or
Cheney, believe me), simply "decide for us" what anything means or adds up
to and starts pushing it on us, nonstop, over that goddamn tube, the goddamn
radio, and in the goddamn newspapers and magazines. The people who are
running those organs full of perpetual lies are the true enemies of the
people, and not the Republicans or even the Democrats.
Some screener on a talk radio show told me in all seriousness that
nothing on the internet has any credibility, including Matt Drudge. I can
agree that much of what one finds on this one-eyed monster is so much
poppy****, but the fact that I called the election for Bush at 10pm Mountain
Time right on this very newsgroup, and that Drudge called it an hour later
on his website, meant nothing, he asserted. The only thing that mattered,
according to screener-boy, was that the opinionated bigmouth he worked for
on an LA station called it at 2AM the next morning (four hours later) and
THAT, according to him, was the first time "ANYONE" called the election for
Bush. He was loudly proclaiming to have been the very first "couragious
soldier for truth" with the guts to do what the mainstream media refused to
do. What's more, screener-boy wouldn't let me on the air to publicly point
out to the bigmouth that he was in error. "I don't find what you have to
say very intersting," was screener-boy's lame excuse. You can think what
you want about me, my ego, or my admitted delusions of grandeur, but THAT
says more about our society than you will ever hear in any debate on the
boob tube. They will never publically admit that if you ain't one of THEM,
you don't mean shit in their book, no matter how stupid or wrong they are or
how smart and right you are. And THAT will never change, regardless of who
we elect as our president.