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a message from Michael Moore 9/20/04 Dear Friends, Enough of the handwringing! Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying. They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republ ican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a m inority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for br eakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet. Bush gets a bounce after his con vention and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland ag ain. Yes, they found the frequency in Dan Rather and ran with it. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Ke rry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they ev en lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springste en heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I People like Kerry run. Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass campa ign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those phony s wifty boaty bastards down. Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and sc reaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happ y The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. On Frida y, one poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them both t ied. "Likely" means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are not polling people who use their cel l phone as their primary phone.
You are bei ng snookered if you believe any of these polls. Instead of shunning Clinton ( as Gore did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake. Much of it is not being captu red by the mainstream press. Do not let those well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare you. But if it is decided on the job we are doing in Iraq, then Bush loses. And folks, that "job," you might have noticed , has descended into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. It is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and the body bags will sadly only mount higher. Regardless of what Kerry meant by his original war vote, he ain't the one who sent those kids to their deaths -- and Mr and Mrs Middle America knows it. Had Bush bothered to show up when he was in the "service" he might have somewhat of a clue as to h ow to recognize an immoral war that cannot be "won." All he has delivere d to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last Thanksgiving. It is this fail ure of monumental proportions that is going to cook his goose come this November. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another fo ur years of George W Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. More than half of all Americans are pr o-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault we apons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YO U DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GI VE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. Then you can bitch all you want about how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the courage to stand up for something. Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a hand to him and help the inner soldier/protester come out an d defeat the forces of evil we now so desperately face.
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