Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, November 03, 2004
This morning THE LORD GOD PINCH and his trusty dog BILL, followed by hundreds of bedraggled upper-class vagrants desperately clutching laptops and ENGs, roamed the streets of America, screaming "WE WON! WE WON!! WE WON!!!" Unfortunately, though they might hope to savor the short-lived daydream of victory for several weeks -- it would scarcely last twelve hours -- they did not win. This was a victory for conservatism like Reagan's landslides and the 1994 election. The turnout belied the victor's weakness -- suggesting the millions voting for Dubya may have voted less for him than against something: against terrorism, against capitulation, against appeasement. That he won in the wake of a blazing repudiation of gay marriage suggests something else: a vote for morals, for personal self-restraint, for character. And we cannot dismiss that with one mighty voice the public issued a call to our superiors -- the superiors of show-biz, of the press, of academe -- to stop lording it over us, to stop running interference in our culture and our lives. This was a mighty victory for the people. What will the people do with it?
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