PrintNovember 3, 2004
Licking their wounds
It is amusing to scan the left wing pundits and read their sorry ruminations on the election results. William Saletan of Slate thinks that Bush won because he is simple (and so are you, stupid Americans).
Bush is a very simple man. You may think that makes him a bad president, as I do, but lots of people don't—and there are more of them than there are of us.
Democracy really is a terrible burden on the coastal elites!
Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times is more nuanced (forgive me that expression!). He understands that the elitism of the Hollywood and New York crowds is repelling more people than it is attracting. Still, he cannot help condescending himself, as he writes of
...millions of farmers, factory workers and waitresses who ended up voting — utterly against their own interests — for Republican candidates.
I just love it when Harvard—educated New York Times columnists use their vast and all—knowing intelligence to lecture 'factory workers and...(Read Full Article)
