John Kerry lost on Tuesday. The other guy (maybe we should stop using his name?) got more votes. 3.5 million more, to be exact. 130,000 more in Ohio. 377,000 more in Florida. In the most closely-monitored election in American history. With no credible evidence of irregularities significant enough to even begin to match those margins.
So can we please stop claiming it was stolen?
Too many lefties have been over-focused on problems with voting machines for months now (which is not to say that paper audit trails aren't a damned good idea). Before the election, I wondered if a lot of it wasn't a perverse kind of wishful thinking: hoping to have the moral satisfaction of shouting "fraud!"
I know it's easier to chalk misfortune up to shadowy conspiracy than to face up to facts that are emotionally devastating. But if we ever want to take our country back, we've got to do exactly that -- and then pick ourselves up and figure out where to go from here.
Posted by Michael at November 6, 2004 12:41 AM | TrackBack