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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

What Am I Doing Tonight?

Just sitting in my recliner and watching mindless TV.

For some reason I thought this would be a good post. You see, so many of us have worked our butts off for months, for free with the sole purpose of getting information out to help the President get re-elected. Every night and day, many of us would scour the web for any news story we thought needed to be blasted across the Internet. Many of you sent us tips. Many others gave great ideas in the comments sections. "Posters" came and went, each one picking up the slack as each of our careers got in the way.

My job when this began was at Goldman Sachs in lower Mantattan and my office (47th floor of 1 New York Plaza -- a few blocks away from the old twin towers) could look into the pit that is ground zero. My co-workers were all there that day (I didn't work there at that time and was in San Francisco on 9/11). No one ever talked about ANYTHING other than the most tangential things they did that day or what they saw (the 2nd plane flew right over their building and into the 2nd tower). When I began blogging well before the election, I would blog about the war on terror and regularly felt I was blogging for them. Someone needed to set right what the tragedy of 9/11 changed in so many of these people. Clearly George Bush was that man. So my blogging more and more was about supporting him in any way possible. Although Goldman NEVER explicitly condoned my blogging, they all supported me. I started the unofficial Bush-Cheney 2004 blog when the President announced he was running for re-election. I was thrilled with the immediate publicity (ABC News picked up on it on day one!) but knew I lacked the techical expertise to match the DeanforAmerica types (hey, I had a real job!). Anyway, thanks to an unnamed friend (who deserves more credit than any post could ever give him) he hooked me up with Matt Margolis who had picked up the mantle and started this group blog at BlogsforBush and we took off like a rocket.

Unfortunately when I switched jobs, my blogging became sporadic at best. The demands on my time from 7am to 7pm was constant. I still snuck in a blog post here and there but there was no way I could blog like I had much earlier in the Democratic primaries. My boss kinda knew what I was doing but he was a big Bush guy so he turned a blind eye -- I just couldn't go to the well too often or he'd get pissed. We sit on a trading floor for one of those huge global banks so we can see what each other is doing at all times. My job also precluded me from ANY publicity and I had to turn down many interviews and "pundit" opportunities since my real job has potential conflicts of interest with little know companies . . . like say . . . Halliburton! My lack of blogging made me feel guilty as I wanted to make sure I had done everything to get people to volunteer or write letters to the editor (the end of that weekly post by me nagged at me every single damn Friday) or do whatever is needed to help the President. I got to meet many of you and found everyone to be fabulously enthusiastic, talented and devoted to the cause. I met celebrities, TV pundits and politicians of all levels thanks to this blogging and each time it energized me more and more (anecdotal point to blow any credibility I may have, I had had a number of drinks when I posted the original "Web of Connections" post that Saturday evening...)

We fought the good fight and we won. And last night at about 2:45am when I popped the champagne bottle on the main stage and sprayed the crowd at the NYC Election Watch party, it was more than a release of the pressurized alcohol. It was a release of all my emotions, obsessions and hopes for the last 18 months. I really hope Scott or Gail got a good photo of it :).

After thousands upon thousands of e-mails and a couple thousand blog posts, it is all over, and I am exhausted.

So I am sitting in my recliner.

And I am happy.
- posted by KP @ Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |

Monday, November 01, 2004

Step Aside Mr. Kerry

Scenes from the Campaign Trail (from our friends at "Noted Now":

THE OTHER GUY IS STILL PREZ: Kerry is held on Milwaukee tarmac until Bush's motorcade, excluding press and extraneous vehicles, arrives at Air Force One. Kerry's motorcade was then allowed to depart as Bush's press corps was held at the entrance to the airport, ABC News' Ed O'Keefe reports.

And here are other Photos from the campaign trail:

1) Everyone wants a piece of the President

2) Republicans are sexy! (damn stright!)

3) Herbert Walker Bush telling "fish" stories...
- posted by KP @ Monday, November 01, 2004 |

DNC Deputy Chair Attacks President's Daughters

As if it wasn't bad enough that John Kerry brought up the sexuality of Dick Cheney's daughter (thinking it would slander her), Ben Johnson, the Deputy Chair of the DNC attacks Barbara and Jenna Bush in a discussion about social issues in todays' campaign on a New York City radio show:

Suddenly Johnson got personal, telling co-hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter:
"Let me say this. No one has a monopoly on morality in this country. If you want to talk about morality, I mean, look at George Bush's daughters. If he was such a heck of a father, why couldn't he keep those girls straight? They were out there ..."

At that point Malzberg interrupted to tell Johnson his attack was out of line. But rather than withdraw the comments, the DNC honcho insisted, "It's a fact, it's a fact."

Before joining the DNC, Johnson served for eight years as director of President Clinton's Initiative for One America program.

They are clearly desperate and have absolutely no principles. Get out and vote and then get everyone you know to vote for Bush. We can't let the Democrats get away with this.

- posted by KP @ Monday, November 01, 2004 |

Widespread Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

Here is an exclusive from a Duquesne Law School correspondant:

REGISTRATION FRAUD: Philly Fiasco In Kerry's Key County

Over 10,000 Registrations Appear Invalid, Polling Places Include Senator Vince Fumo's (D) Office And Vacant Funeral Home, Illegal Convicted Felon Absentee Voting, Military Ballots Controversy, And More...

If Republicans question invalid registrations and addresses in urban area, that is voter suppression, but if Democrats abuse the hell out of voter regisatration in urban areas, they are just expressing their freedom to vote?

Don't let them get away with this. Volunteer at your polling places. Record Democrats attempts to intimidate GOP supporters. Do whatever you can.
- posted by KP @ Monday, November 01, 2004 |

The American Insurgency Continues . . .

Looks like the Left is resorting to physical violence these days in Colorado:

Fort Lewis College student Mark O'Donnell experienced an unwanted lesson in hardball politics when he was kicked for wearing a cheeky FLC College Republicans sweatshirt.

The GOP shirt, emblazoned across the back with: "Join us now … or work for us later," drew the ire of a woman who saw O' Donnell clad in it at Gazpacho New Mexican Restaurant.

While talking with friends, a girl at his table asked to see the sweatshirt, O'Donnell said. After showing his table the back of the shirt and the phrase, people at a neighboring table asked to see it. O'Donnell said he knew someone sitting at the other table. While modeling for the other table, he said, a woman, later identified as Spero, approached from behind and kicked him in the calf.

O'Donnell did not know Spero, and the kick caught him by surprise. Not one to mind a good political argument, O'Donnell nevertheless said, "To physically take that out on someone because you disagree with them, that is completely wrong."

After the blow, O'Donnell said, "She said she should have kicked me harder and higher."

The ridiculousness of the Left's positions and animosity grows.

Hat tip: Karol Sheinin at alarmingnews.com.
- posted by KP @ Monday, November 01, 2004 |