03 November 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-44 Wednesday Chronicle Make a down payment on the future of liberty! Support The Federalist -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/support.asp
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To find out why, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.org/ Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ CONTENTS: THE FOUNDATION INSIGHT UPRIGHT EDITORIAL EXEGESIS DEZINFORMATSIA THE DEMO-GOGUES VILLAGE IDIOTS SHORT CUTS NIGHTLINES ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people." --Thomas Jefferson ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it." --Horatio Seymour "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." --Hubert Humphrey "The chief cause of problems is solutions." --Eric Sevareid "The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms." --William Douglas "Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials." --Will Rogers PUBLISHER'S NOTE: As we go to print this morning, our countrymen have provided President George W. Bush a second term, and, given Republican advances in both chambers of the U.S. Congress and the states, President Bush has a clear mandate. John Kerry and John Edwards delayed concession, opting instead to provoke controversy insisting "every vote be counted" in order to foment indignation among their constituents, doing what Democrats do best -- keeping the "two Americas" divided. Indeed, Kerry, et al., unloaded their entire arsenal on George Bush in the last few months, but they could not muster a majority. End of story. As most of our readers know, The Patriot is not published from a fashionable address inside the Beltway. While our editors and contributors are located across the nation and around the world (thanks to AlGore for inventing the Internet), our operations are located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We mention this only to note that the Volunteer State was among the first called for George Bush last night. Not only that, but conservatives took control of our state Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Additionally, it was most gratifying to see our friend, Tennessee Senator and Majority Leader (now "Big-Majority Leader") Bill Frist, thank Tom Daschle for his service as Minority Leader -- and bid him farewell! It has been a very rough ride for the last six months around our shop. Our editors and contributors have put in long hours, consistent with our mission, "Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis" -- always vigilant, prepared and faithful. That mission became all the more clear last week when Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not return to bench as scheduled. Chief Justice Rehnquist, now 80, is being treated for an aggressive form of thyroid cancer. Along with Constitutional constructionist Justices Thomas and Scalia, Justice Rehnquist has defended the bench from what Thomas Jefferson called, "judicial tyranny" -- of the sort advocated by Leftists like John Kerry. To wit, Justice Rehnquist said, correctly, of Jefferson's oft-misquoted 1801 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, "The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based upon bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. ... The greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intention of the drafters of the Bill of Rights." On behalf of our editors and staff, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to, and prayers for Justice Rehnquist and his family. We thank all our countrymen, you American Patriots, who stood fast with us this past six months against a powerful storm, which threatened the very core of American liberty. That storm has now passed, but others brew on the horizon. As always, please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return. Mark Alexander Executive Editor, The Federalist Patriot ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "My opponent continues to say things he knows are not true. It's especially shameful in light of the new tape from America's enemy [Osama bin Laden]." --President George W. Bush ++ "The thing that I find amazing about it is that John Kerry's first response [to the bin Laden tape] was to go conduct a poll. He went into the field...to find out what he should say.... It's as though he doesn't know what he believes until he has to go and check the polls, his finger in the air, to see which way the wind is blowing and then he'll make a decision. George Bush doesn't need a poll to know what he believes, especially about Osama bin Laden." --Vice President Dick Cheney "When George W. Bush tells you something today, he won't be telling somebody else something different tomorrow. We need a president who says what he means and sticks with his convictions." --First Mom, Barbara Bush "No government authority should have invited international monitors to cast judgment on our elections. They are here only because Democrats, should they lose, will do all they can to embarrass their country. They have submitted our elections to a 'global test' and rigged it so that we will fail. Their hatred of George W. Bush has taken them beyond the extreme." --Thomas Kilgannon "The Founding Fathers sought to protect certain fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of speech, against the changing whims of popular opinion. Similarly, they created the Electoral College to guard against majority tyranny in federal elections." --Ron Paul "The entire Democrat Party is built around a cult of 'never again' with regards to accepting their 'victim' status in Presidential politics. Let them have the night. But I think they are making a grave mistake if they are counting on the patience of the American people to endure for very long the clear loser refusing to concede -- especially when it's clear he can't win. But give 'em the morning. Let them have their coffee. Let the propellor beanie types come in and explain things to them." --Jonah Goldberg George W. Bush needs just one Electoral College vote to get him over the top. I'm going to take this as a done deal, and start gloating. Now, gloating is of course bad -- coarse, heartless, insensitive, and ill-mannered. Magnanimity in victory, that's the thing. Humility, grace, gentlemanly forbearance, there but for the grace of God... YEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAA!" --John Derbyshire ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "We've allowed the lawyers to ruin most everything else in American life -- from the practice of medicine to the practice of prayer. Might as well let them drive the entire political system over the cliff. 'Right now we have 10,000 lawyers out in the battleground states on Election Day, and that number is growing by the day.' So Michael Whouley told the Associated Press last week. Mr. Whouley is commander in chief of the division of lawyers Mr. Kerry has drafted to invade the voting precincts of Ohio, Florida and any other state still inhabited by enough free-thinking Republicans and Democrats to make the election there close. Bob Bauer, counsel to the Democrat National Committee, said last month: 'Our SWAT teams...will have done nothing but prepare through the fall. We want to be able to send teams out to fight these wars simultaneously.' SWAT teams? These 'wars?' As Al Davis, the political philosopher who runs the Oakland Raiders, might have described the current state of our politics: 'Just sue, baby.' Beyond this army of white shirts with a license to throw rocks at the vote, the Democrat rear brims with legal go-fers and spear-carriers. Yesterday Common Cause, which preposterously still identifies itself as 'nonpartisan,' sent out an e-mail announcing it will have teams of analysts -- 'including political scientists' -- to take voters' phone calls about 'registration problems, mechanical problems and voter identification issues, among others.' The New York Public Interest Research Group, NYPIRG, says it is formally affiliating itself with the Common Cause effort. ... The Republicans of course are massing their own army of litigators whose purpose is to 'respond' (counter-sue) the moment after Mr. Kerry's lawyers file. (And people thought trial-attorney superstar John Edwards was brought on to the ticket for his charisma.) At this rate, casting a ballot Tuesday will amount to little more than giving a deposition in the legal Armageddon that is the 2004 election." --The Wall Street Journal ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Ignarus Perpetuus" Award: "The Bushies' campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: Because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. Because we haven't caught Osama in three years, you need us to catch Osama in the next four years. Because we didn't bother to secure explosives in Iraq, you can count on us to make sure those explosives aren't used against you." --Maureen Dowd This week's "Theophobic" Award: "If reelected, Bush -- who has injected religion into public affairs more than any president has in modern times -- is expected to continue his messianic mission in the White House. He will blur even more the separation of church and state." --Helen Thomas This week's "TheoLib" Award: "As someone for whom faith is incredibly important, and who regularly prays for all the people and things that matter to me, I'm hopeful that God is as appalled as I am with the way His name is constantly being taken in vain on the Bush campaign trail, and with how the president is abusing his faith to justify to himself and to the world his disastrous policies." --Arianna Huffington >From the "Conspiracy Theory" Files: "I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing." --Walter Cronkite to CNN's Larry King on bin Laden's pre-election tape **Walter could probably use one of those really comfortable white coats with the long sleeves... >From the Commissars of Public Opinion: "That was an improvement from the spring but less than forecast." --ABC's Peter Jennings regarding the announcement of a solid 3.7 percent GDP growth rate for the third quarter of this year This week's "Non Compos Mentis" Award: "Polls Suggest That Veterans Prefer Bush; No Clear Reason Why" --Headline, Naples' Florida Daily This week's "Keen Sense of the Obvious" Award: "Early Returns May Point to Winner -- or Long Night" --headline, USA Today ______----********O********----______ THE DEMO-GOGUES This week's "Nuance" Award: "And we would -- but that's what you -- have inspectors for. And that's why I voted for the threat of force. Because he only does things when you have a legitimate threat of force. It's absolutely impossible and irresponsible to suggest that if I were President, he wouldn't necessarily be gone. He might be gone. Because if he hadn't complied, we might have had to go to war. And we might have gone to war. But if we did, I'll tell you this... We'd have gone to war with allies in a way that the American people weren't carrying the burden and the entire world understood why we were doing it. --John Kerry **Huh? "If you believe, as I do, that America's best days are ahead of us, then join me tomorrow and change the direction of America."--John Kerry **Oops. This week's "Primo-Prevaricator" Award: "I feel kind of distant from the to and fro of the elections, and a lot of these things I see happening, I just shake my head and say, 'Gosh, I did that for 20 years, I know, but it doesn't have much to do with how we're gonna live when it's over.' On the other hand, I think it matters profoundly." --Bill Clinton **"It doesn't have much to do with us, but it matters profoundly. That's nuance worthy of John Kerry!" --James Taranto This week's "Hyper-Hypocrisy" Award: "I think it's unfortunate that anybody puts Osama bin Laden into any political context in the United States' election." --John Kerry This week's "TheoLib II" Award: "That's how God wants it to be." --Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin who claims John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day. This week's "Periplaneta Americana" Award: "It's obvious to me that bin Laden is trying to help George Bush, because George Bush is the best recruiter that al-Qa'ida has." --Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Heterophobia" Award: "[T]he 'busy-body Christian people,' when they're not preparing for the Rapture -- are trying to make gay people miserable. ... The Pope recently castigated the media for making gays look normal. Yeah, he's a real good judge of normal. With the gold dress, and the matching gold hat, living up in the Vatican with 500 men, surrounded by the finest antiques in the world. You go, girl!" --"Comedienne" Margaret Cho This week's "TheoLib III" Award: "I fancied myself as some kind of god...if the truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble. It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out. ... Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it." --Billionaire wacko and self-proclaimed atheist, George Soros; aka "god" This week's "Tyranny of the Few" Award: "I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the states where the fraud occurred or in Washington DC." --Petition by No Stolen Elections, including the autographs of Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff, NAACP chairman Julian Bond, et al. **Somehow we don't think they'd care about voter fraud in the event of a Kerry victory.... ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "Some people were calculating that if Kerry lost Ohio but won South Freedonia and North Moositania he could still pull it out, but everyone here knew it was over." --Rich Galen "Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that -- like taxes, defense and education -- they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them." --Ann Coulter "What? You don't have your own attorney on retainer? How on earth do you plan to take part in our elections, then? Perhaps, in the throes of this nasty season, we should change our country's slogan from 'The land of the free and the home of the brave' to 'Land of 10,000 lawyers.' But, of course, there are so many more lawyers than that. ... Can a country remain free without the freedom to speak out about politics? As it stands now, before you answer, you may want to consult an attorney." --Paul Jacob "If every possible fraudulent vote [in South Dakota] -- um, excuse me, I meant unintimidated vote -- were gained on the reservations, Daschle might pick up around 2,000 more votes than he was expecting. He will lose more than that in Democrat Sioux Falls alone for this stunt." --Joseph Bottum "If John Kerry has the support only of Americans who believe in evolution, then, he will have the lowest popular-vote percentage of any major-party presidential candidate since William Howard Taft (23% in 1916). And indeed, even evolutionists may have second thoughts about voting for Kerry, seeing as how he's a descendant of apes." --James Taranto "Yasser Arafat collapsed into unconsciousness Wednesday, causing his doctors to describe the PLO leader as gravely ill. His death could cause a major disruption. The Israelis thought they were done with the Jewish holidays this year." --Argus Hamilton ______----********O********----______ NIGHTLINES Jay Leno.... Let me tell you something -- if you thought Halloween was scary, wait until next Halloween when we still don't know who won the election. .... Of course tomorrow is Election Day -- how many are voting first thing in the morning? How many are voting later in the day? How many are going to wait until everyone else is in line to vote and then sneak in and get a flu shot? .... Remember it's not who wins tomorrow that's important, it's the fact that this campaign has finally ended. .... It's hard to believe, just one more day until the Vietnam War is over. .... Can you figure out all these ballot propositions? You know we should just have one proposition that combines everything in it and you just vote yes or no on that one. For example, it'd be like "prop 101" which would create property tax to benefit stem cell research on Indian casino owners who use medical marijuana. .... See this Red Sox [World Series] victory has really given hope to both these campaigns. Its given hope to John Kerry because he's from Boston. And its given hope to President Bush because although they made a lot of errors on the ground, it didn't cost them. .... The Boston Red Sox have broken their curse after 86 years. 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