Celebrity testimonials may help [sell] erectile-dysfunction products, but in politics, they're mainly eye candy for the media

Not my statement - but a quote from Marty Kaplan, communications professor at the University of South Carolina.

Asked whether Mr. Affleck, who wasn't available for comment, would suffer any repercussions, Mr. Dowling laughed and alluded to the actor's latest box-office flop "Surviving Christmas."

"Ben Affleck," Robert Dowling, editor in chief of the Hollywood Reporter said, "has more career problems at the moment than his political beliefs."

Now, I don't know about you, but I do still subscribe to the "vote with your feet" theory...or, better yet, "vote with your wallet" theory.

I have sorta been keeping a mental list of all of the Hollywood types that have made outrageous denouncements of President Bush or just outright lied when speaking about him. I also have noted the ones that have slandered GW (along with the rest of us 'fly-over' folks) or gone out and actively worked to oust him:

One can only imagine the despair of the Hollywood stars over the specter of glittery state dinners and policy lunches that could have been had Kerry been elected: Barbra and Moby, Uma Thurman and Viggo Mortensen, Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro, Bette Midler and George Clooney. Directed, perhaps, by Rob Reiner and Steven Spielberg.

Who knew "moral values" voters could triumph over production values?

Asked whether outspoken stars might regret their more vitriolic sentiments about the president, Mr. Snyder said he doesn't think there is a risk of backlash.

***My note***: Hold on, Mr. Snyder! that depends on your definition of 'backlash'.....if you are talking about whether or not I will be spending my hard earned dollars to support the lifestyle of those 'outspoken stars' - well, you and they might have a surprise coming.

"My prediction is the political tenor will come down for a little while," the Variety scribe said. "I don't think anyone will say anything wild. Next week, of course, might be different."

Among the most shrill in past months: Jennifer Aniston, the "Friends" actress who called Mr. Bush "a [expletive] idiot." Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who stumped for Mr. Kerry in Oregon and Florida and appeared in an ad for the Democrat on the Internet. Singer John Mellencamp, who described Mr. Bush as "a cheap thug."

Cher also threw her wig in the ring, calling Mr. Bush "stupid and lazy" during a sparsely attended rally at a Miami Beach disco in Florida.

Al Franken is also a loser today; Dennis Miller a winner. Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg and Meg Ryan: losers. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Silver and Angie Harmon: winners.

Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi lost their full-throated bids to play at an inaugural ball. Larry Gatlin and Brooks & Dunn, call your agents.

Seems to me like these folks jumped on a bandwagon they thought was 'cool' and tried to outdo each other in expressing their hatred for President Bush.

Only trouble is, they didn't consider how those ad hominem attacks would affect us. Add to the list Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Sean Penn, Madonna...well I will be here all day if I list every one of them. This is a good site and there are more.

There are plenty of hollywood types that I am sure didn't vote for Bush, but I didn't see them rushing to grab the microphone so that we could watch them slime the president.

I realize that my paltry amount that I set aside for 'entertainment' will not make a dent, hell won't make even a ding, in the money these 'stars' rake in - but I will get the satisfaction of knowing that I am not contributing to what I consider a violation of the trust we put in entertainers.

Trust, you say?

Yes - trust. When I buy a ticket to watch an entertainer perform, that is what I expect that I am going to see - a performance. If I wanted to sit through a political debate, that is what I would look for in the local 'Get Out' weekend edition - in the 'political debates playing this weekend' section.

I trust that when an entertainer bills him or herself as that, they are going to make me laugh at their jokes; sing along with the familiar ballads; you get the picture.

In other words, I am going to read the credits more carefully when deciding whether or not to plunk down my cash.

And PLEASE - don't call it reverse blacklisting.

Call it what it is.

It is the 'You Reap What You Sow' factor.

Plain and simple.

DR

Then.......and NOW

Presidential election results by county


2004

2000

uh-oh....Guess the Democratic Underground Didn't Want Us to See the Gnashing of Teeth?

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Or maybe it was X-rated...or...something

DR

Four More Years!

President Bush stated today in his acceptance speech "Our military has brought honor to America", "There is no limit to the greatness America" and "A new term is a new opportunity to reach out."


we did it! four more years...

DR

and finally - Elizabeth Edwards

shame on you!

shame...shame...shame....ON YOU!

DR

Oh, and Chris Heinz

go console yourself......snort some coke or something

DR

Deer in Headlights Candidate Concedes to President Bush

John Kerry, the deer-in-the-headlight Democratic presidential candidate conceded the election to President Bush today.

Kerry never was able to convince a majority of voters that his 'plan' - whatever it was (we never found out) - would make him a better choice for the office of President of the United States of America.

Perhaps that was really pre-ordained by the Democratic Machine.

Perhaps Kerry was simply thrust into the ring with the knowledge that he would be KO'd by the third round.

And perhaps underestimated was the influx of noise and cash that came from the main stream media, Michael Moore and George Soros - giving Kerry more 'staying power' than he could ever have mustered on his own.

Whatever the case, Kerry obviously has overstayed his welcome and we will more than likely see over the next couple of days a disavowment of him by the libs as they begin to get ready to run Hillary in 2008.

THAT was the pre-ordained outcome by the Democratic Machine...and I think that John Kerry almost screwed it up.

DR

Weekly Reader Poll Was Right

While Zogby is forced to admit "I thought we captured a trend, but apparently that result didn’t materialize", I am reminded of the Weekly Reader Presidential Poll that I mentioned last week.

While the 60% may not have been entirely accurate, the majority win was.

Weekly Reader, correctly predicting presidents since 1956.

DR

Dems are Warning Us About Our Behavior...?

Listening to the Dem mouthpieces telling the Republicans that they should "not gloat" is really, really funny to me.

Didn't we hear that the champaign corks were already being popped yesterday in K/E headquarters when a large part of the country was still in the voting booth?

Wasn't it Michael Moore that wrote his gleeful, gloating message - already at the 'victory party -the other day?

Hasn't it been the MSM talking heads speaking - ad naseum - about the pending Kerry victory?

Okay, I know we will rise above it...but a little celebrating right now is certainly warranted after lifting ourselves out of the sludge and slime they have been piling on for four years...

I will be gracious...

....tomorrow

DR

I Hate To Burst Anyone's Bubble....

...and I certainly don't want to appear ungracious...

...but Kerry is saying he doesn't want to drag this election out and is trying to position himself as if he is being the gracious one....

HA!

President Bush won this election with the biggest majority of ANY president since 1988. That includes Clinton.

There is nothing to argue, Kerry and Edwards.

Plain and simple...

President Bush has a mandate from the electorate.

And there is another issue....

John Kerry now has to go back to the Senate - to the seat he refused to vacate physically while running for office, although he vacated it mentally a long time ago....

Kerry has to 'make nice' now because he burned a lot of bridges....some which may or may not be able to be repaired.....

DR
***Update note*** just heard at Drudge that President Bush broke the all-time popular vote total, surpassing President Reagan...and FrontPage is calling it more than any other electoral candidate in history

Hey McAuliffe and Devine

go sneer in the mirror

no one else is paying attention to your drivel

McAuliffe, you are toast

DR

Kerry Concedes

Congratulations President Bush and Vice President Cheney!

Just heard that John Kerry is calling President Bush to concede the election.

DR

Hey Swift Boat Veterans

Thank you for, once again, taking fire for the American people.

You stood tall for the truth, and for that I will be eternally grateful.

DR

Hey George Soros

Your filthy millions are meaningless when up against someone that speaks from the heart.

Go back under the rock you crawled out from.

DR

Hey Teresa

....shove it!

DR

Hey Tom Daschle

you did it to yourself, Tom

your counter-productive obstructionism was not in the best interest of the country

ta-ta!

DR

Hey Michael Moore!

Bu-bye.........

What's at Stake in This Election

by Rush Limbaugh
November 1, 2004

Ladies and gentlemen, I have avoided throughout the whole year declaring this the most important election in our history. I mean, we've had crucial elections before during the Civil War, during World Wars. We had numerous crucial elections during the Cold War, and we've had a divided electorate before. This isn't the first time that we have settled national arguments or even a single national argument over several election cycles. Well, that having been said, this time there is one high stakes issue that makes domestic concerns pale in comparison, and that is the growth of international terrorism -- and this is the prelude to getting into the bin Laden tape that came out on Friday.

International terrorism, which claimed over 800 American lives in what I guess could be called "nuisance" attacks before September 11th, 2001. The growth of international terrorism is a real clear and present danger.
I mean, not just to us, but to all of Western Civilization.
Only since September 11th has this threat been met with the full projection of American power, and just as important, American political will. Now, despite the claims of one candidate and his party and his allies around the world, we have friends in this struggle. We have friends that include East European nations who were oppressed under communism for almost 60 years and do not want a return to anything like that. We have friends in support from Pacific Rim nations, from nations in Africa and western powers like the Brits and the Aussies who have been steadfast allies throughout.

But the truth of the matter is, America is the dominant power and economy in the world today. We determine the course of freedom throughout the world, not just here in the United States of America. It is something that has to be fought for on a daily basis. It's something that far too many people take for granted. It is something that far too many people think that can be purchased with appeasement of enemies. You can't purchase peace with appeasement. I heard over the weekend, "You can only rent it for a while," but eventually you're going to have to make the buy. You're going to have to purchase peace. You don't get it because you want it. You don't get it because you bury your head in the sand and ignore it. You don't get peace, you don't continue the lifestyle of freedom and liberty that we in this country too often take for granted simply by wanting it more than the other guy.

You have to back it up and you have to defend it, and to defend it you have to recognize when it's under attack, and recognizing when it's under attack takes courage. Recognizing when we are under attack takes wide open eyes, takes honesty. Because once you admit, once you come to the intellectual decision, not emotional, once you come to the intellectual decision to admit, to understand that our way of life, that our freedom that, our daily existence as we've always known it is under attack, once you come to that conclusion, then there's only one option you have, and that is to defend it. We are under attack. The truth is that we have been under attack for many years by the same type of people who think in the same way fanatic Islamists have been attacking freedom and Americans for over 20 years.
It's only in the last three years that we've decided to do something about it. We now find ourselves at a crossroads. Are we going to continue to do something about it or are we going to rent peace for awhile and allow Osama bin Laden at the end of the day tomorrow to go ahead and claim that he and he alone influenced the outcome of the United States elections? Are we going to have a victory for Osama bin Laden tomorrow and give him bragging rights across the Middle East and in the worlds of the left and in the process create a whole new generation of terrorists? Here is a man who is so incapacitated because we've made the decision to fight and defend our freedom that all he can launch as an October Surprise is a tape that appears to come right out of the text of the movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

Osama bin Laden cannot launch an attack on the United States of America. Osama bin Laden can only deliver a tape, and on that tape, bin Laden appeals to the very appeasers in this country who would allow him to gain strength by agreeing with what he says and voting for the man who is being quoted by bin Laden. John Kerry, as much as Michael Moore, was quoted by Osama bin Laden in that video that we all saw Friday and over the weekend, and I have eight audio sound bites here that I'm going to get to later in the program to prove this to you. You can say it came out of Fahrenheit 9/11, but so did the Kerry campaign. Michael Moore is not on the ballot; John Kerry is. Osama bin Laden parroting John Kerry in his tape on Friday. We have a unique responsibility to lead the world in confronting and defeating this evil threat. It's not just ourselves that we are defending, and this is despite nations who oppose us.

Many of these nations that oppose us do not face the threat that we face. Many of the nations that oppose us are doing so in part to protect their financial ties with terrorist nations. We have never in our history relied on others to defend us. We have never in our history turned over our defense to others, either an institution of nations or a single nation. It is they who come to us.
Therefore, it is us who must come to us, or we who must come to us. We must rely on ourselves in this battle. For over three decades, 30 years, terrorist organizations grew wealthy, they grew more deadly. Despite increasingly brazen attacks, American deaths were brushed off, and those years are now being referred to by the Democratic presidential candidate as the nuisance of terrorism that he would like to return to, where for three decades American deaths were brushed off.

Returning to the days of appeasement, trying to meet a "global test" of world opinion, ignoring threats from hostile nations and groups is a deadly mistake we simply can't afford to make. Those are the stakes in this race, but it goes beyond simply ignoring threats from hostile nations and groups. It's gotten to the point now where the Democratic Party is actually echoing the words of a man who happily murdered 3,000 Americans on September 11th. The Democrat Party in this country is eager to point to the things bin Laden said and suggest that he is right -- a man who happily murdered 3,000 Americans and is eager to do so over and over and over again! You say, "Rush, I haven't heard the Democrats say that." Oh, you can find it on their websites. You can find people who are going to vote for John Kerry who have said this. You can find people on various Democrat websites who are excited bin Laden said what he said. They're hoping for an Osama smack down of Bush if I may quote one of the things I saw.

But the point is you haven't heard anybody in the Democratic Party renounce this for three years. For the last nine months, you haven't heard anybody in the Kerry campaign, not one voice, not one reasonable, responsible voice from the Democrat Party reject any of the slanderous, libelous, vicious, totally made-up lies and attacks about George W. Bush, as "the next Hitler," as "worse than Saddam." You know the list of things. They have encouraged this thinking. You might say, "Why?" The acquisition of their power is crucial to them. They care more about that than anything else, and they are in their minds because they have a superior attitude over America. They have an arrogant, condescending attitude to those they live with and live near. They believe that it is their entitlement, that they are born to power. It's their right, and that right has been interrupted since 1994 and it's time for them to get it back. And they, in their minds, are permitted to lie for "the common good," as they define it.

They are allowed to attack and cheat and do whatever because in their minds they are doing it for "the common good" so they are not lying; they're not cheating. They're doing what's for "the common good" as they see it from their position of superiority. It's amazing. We have, in this campaign, we have George W. Bush, who has a record, a four-year record. He had to make decisions about life and death and war and peace, and he made them. He made them and he has stuck to them, and there are demonstrable pieces of evidence all over the world of the profound success of those decisions. His opponent has run on platitudes, promises, mysterious plans that you either have to go to his website to read or, when you go there, you'll find that many of them don't even exist.

We have a man who even today, in an AP interview, said something along the lines of, "Well, I'll tell you again what I'm going to do in January. I can't tell you now." John Kerry, on the eve of the election: a man who doesn't want to be pinned down on anything, a man who doesn't want to have to offer a solid position on anything for fear of what that will do to him in the polls. He is free to Monday morning quarterback; he is free to use hindsight. He's taken every decision that has been made and said, "I would have done it different or better or smarter," but never define how. The fact that this race is as close as it is, is what befuddles me when you get right down to it.

In the America I thought I knew, John Kerry wouldn't be within 30 points, nor would anybody in the Democratic Party, using their campaign, their rhetoric, their mean-spirited bile. There's no candidate in their party using this campaign and using the allies they've used that would be within 30 points of George W. Bush. It may not be the America I know, so we have to fight for that, as well as our liberty at the same time -- and that's what it takes, folks. You have to fight, even for the people who are wrong. The people are too blind or too uninformed or too uneducated or too ignorant or too whatever to see the threat that faces them because they refuse to take a look at it. That's the job that we all have. That's what you do when you fight for your country: You fight for everybody in it.

The Questions Continue...John Kerry...Just Sign the Damned Form 180!!!

The case is building...the echo-gram is working within the blogging community...but is there enough time to make a difference?

Along with Thomas Lipscomb, I have been trying to focus you all on the murky subject of John Kerry's discharge from military service and now we have another person finding it in the crosshairs:

Kerry's Discharge Is Questioned by an Ex-Jag Officer

A former officer in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps Reserve has built a case that Senator Kerry was other than honorably discharged from the Navy by 1975, The New York Sun has learned.

The "honorable discharge" on the Kerry Web site appears to be a Carter administration substitute for an original action expunged from Mr. Kerry's record, according to Mark Sullivan, who retired as a captain in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps Reserve in 2003 after 33 years of service as a judge advocate. Mr. Sullivan served in the office of the Secretary of the Navy between 1975 and 1977.
On behalf of the Kerry campaign, Michael Meehan and others have repeatedly insisted that all of Mr. Kerry's military records are on his Web site atjohnkerry.com, except for his medical records.

"If that is the case," Mr. Sullivan said, "the true story isn't what was on the Web site. It's what's missing. There should have been an honorable discharge certificate issued to Kerry in 1975,if not earlier, three years after his transfer to the Standby Reserve-Inactive."

Is ANYBODY listening>?

DR

A Message From Michael Moore

Michael Moore has written words of encouragement to everyone he thinks will help get out the vote tomorrow for Kerry:

To his friends on the left:
Okay, Kerry isn’t everything you wished he would be. You’re right....

...There’s a reason Bush calls Kerry the Number One Liberal in the Senate – THAT’S BECAUSE HE IS THE NUMBER ONE LIBERAL IN THE SENATE! What more do you want? My friends, this is about as good as it gets when voting for the Democrat. We don’t have the #29 Liberal running or the #14 Liberal or even the #2 Liberal – we got #1! When has that ever happened?

Those of us who may be to the left of the #1 liberal Democrat should remember that this year conservative Democrats have had to make a far greater shift in their position to back Kerry than we have. We’re the ones always being asked to make the huge compromises and to always vote holding our noses. No nose holding this time. This #1 liberal is not the tweedledee to Bush’s tweedledum.

To Ralph Nader supporters:
The choice here is clear: do we join with our friends, or do we piss on them?

After the debacle of 2000, the Democrats got smart and abandoned the conservative wing of their party. (My note: is this a message to Bill Clinton?)
That’s why 8 of the 9 Democrats in the primaries this year were from the liberal wing.

To Non-swing states:
We must not only defeat Bush, we must put a stake in the heart of the right-wing, neo-con movement.

To African Americans:
Thousands of volunteer lawyers are flying to Florida to act as poll watchers and intervene should there be any attempts to deny anyone their right to vote. They will NOT be messing around.

For my part, I have organized an army of 1,200 professional and amateur filmmakers who will be armed with video cameras throughout the states of Florida and Ohio. At the first sign of criminality, we will dispatch a camera crew to where the vote fraud is taking place and record what is going on. We will put a big public spotlight on any wrongdoing by Republican officials in those two states. They will not get away with this as they did in 2000.

In Ohio, the Republicans are sending almost 2,000 paid “poll challengers” into the black precincts of Cleveland in an attempt to stop African Americans from voting. This action is beyond despicable. Do not let this stop you from voting. I, and thousand of others, will be there to fight for you and protect you.

(My note:If I was African American, I would be pissed. Michael Moore is using them as a sideshow...oh, and, fuq, Michael Moore )

To George W:
There he was, OBL, all tan and rested and on videotape (hey, did you get the feeling that he had a bootleg of my movie? Are there DVD players in those caves in Afghanistan?)
Funny things happen at the movies. Hope you get to see a few at the multiplex in Waco. It’s a great way to relax.
(My note: fuq, Michael Moore)

To John Kerry:
Thank you.
And don’t worry – none of us are going away after you are inaugurated. We’ll be there to hold your hand and keep you honest. Don’t let us down. We’re betting you won’t. So is the rest of the world.
That’s it. See you at the polls – and at the victory party tomorrow night.

So there you have it, folks....
Michael Moore is already chilling the...whatever slop he wallows in when celebrating....

....if all of this bravado is an insight to some of the underhanded, shady, illegal methods that Moore and his goons think led them to Nirvana.......think again, Moore....

....it ain't over til the fat lady sings....and so far I have only heard her clear her throat....

DR