Press Action ::: A Democrat's Look at 2004

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

A Democrat's Look at 2004

By Micah Holmquist

2004 was a tough year for us Democrats. The right man for America right now and America’s only hope for a future was defeated.

Nonetheless we have to remain positive because, if we keep it up, Rush Limbaugh will eventually be forced to stop saying we are negative, so let’s look at the highlights…

There was a coup in Haiti. We Democrats didn’t really have anything to do with it, but it was a reminder of how great our foreign policy should be. “Find a leader we don’t like and quietly get rid him” has never sounded so beautiful.

There were the 911 hearings that showed us that Bush is bad.

Air America Radio launched and never lost of sight of how no belief is more important than the core principle that voting Democratic is the only way to go.

Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry talked some sense into an anti-war protester on April 14 in New York City. When will these people learn that you are either a Democrat or a Republican?

The Abu Ghraib scandal happened. It is so sad that Bush doesn’t know how to handle this sort of thing.

On November 2, for the third straight time, we defeated Ralph Nader. Hopefully Nader, a guy who we are always supposed to say did something we approved of once upon a time, will not be a menace to America ever again.

Seizing upon our victory over Nader, we helped pass the intelligence reform bill. This made us safe enough to start looking ahead to future elections where we will run candidates. If we are to be successful, we must not forget that we lost this year by being too left wing. It is sure folly to think we could have won in America with a candidate who once opposed a war waged by America!

Such commonsense is lost on liberals like Michael Moore who portrayed Bush as stupid, even though everybody knows this isn’t popular and never will be since we are rightly opposed to arguing with anybody about anything except the need to vote Democratic.

Even as you keep all of this in mind, don’t lose hope. The end of one election cycle is the beginning of another. And, if we skip the congressional races in 2006, we are already on the way to victory in 2008.

Micah Holmquist, editor of Irregular Thoughts and Links, is a Cadillac, Mich.-based writer.

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