The Sound of the Crowd • November 9, 2004January 3, 2023

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Kevin Drum on this whole Kerry in 2008 nonsense.

A cartoon by Don Wright.

A funny-sad slideshow of Kerry voters apologizing to the world at large. As well we might. We tried, guys.

And now, here’s a fella who has issues. My kinda issues:

“All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you’re the ones who built on a fucking swamp. “Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole,” we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.”

“Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we’re-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.”

Tell it, brother.

You’ll need a Salon.com day pass for this if you’re not a member, but it’s worth it if you’ve got the stomach. Behind the scenes, campaign 2004. See Bill Clinton encourage Kerry to sell out gays! See Mary Beth Cahill and Bob Shrum fumble the ball, counseling “caution” when confronted with the Swift Boat pack full of lies.

Kerry wants to blame them now, but hey, he hired them. See number one above, John. Thanks for trying, we’ll get back to you when we need somebody to rescue a fucking hamster.