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Money Can't Buy You Victory

Money can't buy you happiness, love, and for Democrats it can't buy victory.

Capping a stunning year of record fund raising by both sides, the Democratic National Committee said Thursday it outraised President Bush's GOP this election cycle. Its Republican rival wasn't disputing that, but noted the money didn't buy victory.

Figures the DNC planned to file with the Federal Election Commission showed the DNC took in at least $12 million more than the Republican National Committee since Jan. 1, 2003.

DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said he considered the fund raising - combined with a lack of debt - all the more remarkable because the party finished the 2000 presidential race with $18 million in bills to pay. Now, it can spend four years building the groundwork to try to reclaim the White House in 2008, he said.

The Democratic National Committee can keep the $12 million advantage for all I care... we got the White House!

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush at 8:49 PM in category Loser Watch

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Yeah, that money and those 527's sure helped.
Can we keep McAuliffe? In his two elections:
1. We've kept the presidency.
2. We've captured 6 Senate seats.
3. We've captured 8 House seats (and we might get two more).
Averaged out, that's 3 Senate seats, half a president and 4 (maybe 5) House seats.
T-Mac ROCKS!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO T-Mac!

Posted by: pd at December 2, 2004 09:18 PM

so i guesse kerry was keeping that 15 or so million so things would be fair?

Posted by: luke at December 2, 2004 09:45 PM

You won quit crying.

Posted by: Gwynn at December 2, 2004 09:52 PM

You won quit crying.

You're the one crying. We are laughing. It must suck to be you.

Posted by: Scaramonga at December 2, 2004 10:15 PM

"You won quit crying"
Please tell me how you inferred from this entry that anyone was crying.
We're laughing, as Scar says.
You lost. Quit crying.

Posted by: pd at December 2, 2004 10:31 PM

I thought this was a great analogy to describe the Democrats refusal to deal with their loss:

(From James Taranto's Best of the Web):

Stalking the Electorate

Yesterday's item on Mel Gilles's comparison of Democrats to a battered wife brought this comment from reader David Bricker, who describes himself as "a psychologist who specializes in marital therapy":

Gilles takes the position that the Democrats are looking a lot like a battered wife, and there is something to this. Some of the behaviors do overlap. But the logic breaks down immediately. Gilles sets it up so that the partner in this analogy is the Republicans, who defeated them. And she suggests that the 56 million Kerry voters form a kind of really big support group to get by. But where does this lead? And specifically what are they going to do about the next election? Is Gilles suggesting that they secede and only deal with good folks like themselves? Because if they come back to contest the next election, they are going back to the abusive spouse, something that no one in the domestic violence field is ever going to feel too good about.

A better analogy is that the partner is the country as a whole. The marital analogy is a good one if we see the Democrats as the rejected spouse and the U.S. as the rejecter. This makes much more sense. The insistence on recounts is like the husband who stalks his ex-wife, who doesn't understand what "no" means. The denial, the rationalizations, the vilification, the aimless depression are all typical of someone who's in the early stages of rejection and can't figure out what to do next. Likewise, Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton experimenting with finding religion look a lot like someone trying anything to get the partner back. "Maybe if I get a hairpiece, she'll come home."

Gilles also errs in assuming that since the Democrats are acting battered that someone must be battering them. It doesn't work that way. As the saying goes, "If you walk around with a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail." Closer to home, if you walk around with control issues everyone looks like a bully.

This analogy could also be used to describe the Liberal Media.

Posted by: MICHAEL in MI at December 3, 2004 12:11 AM

So does this mean they will quit whining about being the poor?

Well probably not, since the rich on the Democrats side didn't have to work for their money (actors, extortionists (oh I mean trial lawyers), etc) http://blog.kir.com/archives/000941.asp

Posted by: PlutosDad at December 3, 2004 12:15 AM

what I meant was, they didn't have to work for their money so they think no one else had to either, therefore high taxes are ok.

Posted by: PlutosDad at December 3, 2004 12:17 AM

When is Mr. Longface going to spit out the 15 million he pocketed? Or is it to buy Mrs. Ketchup a new mansion in Paris?

Posted by: Miguel at December 3, 2004 06:07 AM

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