It’s kind of funny to see the Left feign outrage over the reorganization happening at the CIA. From warning us to “be afraid” to claiming this is evidence of a “imperial theocracy” the Left is complaining about the President’s actions, claiming it’s an unprecedented assertion of Presidential powers…

Newsday is reporting that “Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush”

Can you believe things like this would happen at the CIA? I mean, that the President would take actions against those who may be disloyal?

Just look at this tyranny:

Administration officials started to argue that CIA was not providing them with “the proper support.”

Can you believe that? The “proper support”. The nerve of some Presidents.

A number of analysts who have challenged or refused to conform to these new policies were demoted, reassigned or sent abroad.

Wow. The shame.

Are you outraged yet?

Assuring that CIA briefings coincide with Administration policy and cannot lead policy makers to accuse the Agency of “disloyalty. Analysts must recognize that if they give a briefing which deviates too much from official policy, they may be accused by the Administration officials of being disloyal.”

Apparently loyalty is a big issue with the President. Could it be loyalty to the President at the expense of loyalty to the country? [cue the scary music]

In fact, an expert says:

“this reorganization … will institutionalize pandering to policy officials who become spiteful when confronted with bad news concerning their assumptions and decisions.”

Are we Americans going to stand by and let this happen?

Apparently so, all of these quotes come from 1994… when President Clinton completely reorganized the CIA.

But those of you on the Left, please don’t let a few things like facts get in your way of feigning outrage over Bush’s actions.

Will it ever end? I’m afraid we’re going to hear analysis of John Kerry’s failed presidential bid until the end of eternity. And it seems every article carries the same undertone: how did Kerry lose to Bush?

I guess MSM just can’t accept the fact that Bush was the better man for the job. They are in complete denial, labelling Bush supporters as dumb, right-wing, Christian fanatics. It’s no wonder newspaper circulations are dropping off the face of the earth or that Fox News gets ratings higher than the other networks combined. Somewhere out in that little liberal utopia someone’s going to have to realize that Republicans aren’t stupid and Bush isn’t satan. But until then, I guess we just have to endure the incessant weeping by the losing team.

Here’s another example. Again, the Boston Globe has decided to paint Kerry as the victim of unfair conspiracies and unjust criticism…. rather than accept the fact that he was a wishy-washy war criminal who would sell his own mother’s soul to the devil if it advanced his political career or socio-economic status.

Some choice quotes from the unbiased rag:

A stiff wind was blowing across the canyon, and Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way

Would Kerry have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, one reporter asked, even if he knew then that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction? “Yes, I would have voted for the authority; I believe it’s the right authority for a president to have,” Kerry replied, as aides stood by, dumbfounded.

The senator explained to aides that part of the question had been lost in the wind; he thought he was answering a variation on the same basic query he’d been asked countless times: Was it right to give Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq? Kerry had simply given his standard “yes,” with the proviso that he would have “done this very differently from the way President Bush has” — yet the misunderstanding now muddied Kerry’s message.

If you’re keeping score at home, it’s Kerry Campaign: 0 Stiff Wind: 1 But, hey, at least it allowed the reporter to get a Vietnam reference into the story in just the second line.

“John got caught with his legalistic and logical mind wanting to make consistency matter, and not let them say [he’s] a flip-flopper,” said Kerry’s longtime friend David Thorne.

Translation: “John Kerry’s not the total idiot he seems to be. No, really, he’s truly a genius despite how he looks and sounds.”

“John’s complexity hurt him,” said his former Yale roommate Daniel Barbiero.

No, John being a liberal elitist, flip-flopping war criminal hurt him, but don’t expect to see anything resembling the truth in these liberal post-mortems sponsored by the unbiased MSM.

Bush’s critics depict him as simplistic and stubborn. But on Election Day, it became clear that a majority of Americans took comfort in the president’s clipped certainty in the face of dangerous times and moral flux. When voters left the polls that Tuesday, they gave the president a 3.5 million lead in the popular vote.

Notice how they toss out the “he’s a stubborn simpleton” reference, then say, “but a majority of Americans like that.” God knows they couldn’t bring themselves to even try and refute the allegations of Bush being a moron.

The article goes on to disingenuously call the Swift Boat Vets “conspirators” and their book based on “mostly unsupported allegations” without addressing the truths they presented.

The question of whether the campaign should have made Vietnam “such a centerpiece could be second-guessed forever,” said Thorne. ” And I think the answer is it served us well in distinguishing John’s unique biography and also helped put forth an image of a strong commander in chief, an antidote to the very allegation that Bush was making — that he is weak, can’t lead the country.”

But the swift boat campaign, he added, was like aikido, the martial art in which you “use the other person’s energy in your own defense. They used the energy that we had created about Vietnam to turn it against us.”

That, and maybe the fact that Kerry spent 4 months in Vietnam (despite not wanting to go there in the first place), garnered 3 purple hearts and quickly returned home to provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

I guess this is our punishment for winning the election handily. We’ve now subjected ourselves to 4 years of whining and pouting. Well, considering the alternative, I can certainly live with it.

Failing to find a catchy quip like “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” or produce a jury of illiterate crack whores, Scott Peterson was convicted today of first degree murder. It was a moment one could only describe as “duh!”

Peterson was also convicted of second-degree murder for the unborn baby, Connor. It’s a verdict I’m sure the ACLU will quickly seize upon and file an Amicus Brief to argue that Scott’s killing of the unborn child can only be classified as a “choice.”

What others think:

LawShawn appears unsure of how she feels about the verdict. The Murdering Idiot Is Guilty!!!

Wizbang’s watching.

• Feb. 4, 1969: Arafat is appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO

The beginning of the hero’s charge.

• Feb. 21, 1970: SwissAir flight 330, bound for Tel Aviv, is bombed in mid-flight by PFLP, a PLO member group. 47 people are killed.

In a simple miscalculation, the flight attendants used too much C4 explosive trying to turn the cheddar into swiss cheese. No harm, no foul.

• May 8, 1970: PLO terrorists attack an Israeli schoolbus with bazooka fire, killing nine pupils and three teachers from Moshav Avivim

I’m sure the kids were being very unruly and disrupting the driver. It was okay until one of them crossed that white line at the front of the bus. Seriously, they should’ve known better.

• Sept. 6, 1970: TWA, Pan-Am, and BOAC airplanes are hijacked by PLO terrorists.

“Hijacked” is such a derogatory word. We prefer “arabs traveling with ammunition to a pre-defined location not on the flight plan.”

• September 1970: Jordanian forces battle the PLO terrorist organization, driving its members out of Jordan after the group’s violent activity threatens to destabilize the kingdom. The terrorists flee to Lebanon. This period in PLO history is called �Black September.�

It’s a shame those Jordanians would let a little issue like “kingdom destabilization” ruin a good party.

• May 1972: PFLP, part of the PLO, dispatches members of the Japanese Red Army to attack Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, killing 27 people.

But their bags were obviously too big for the overhead compartments. They had been warned.

• Sept. 5, 1972: Munich Massacre �11 Israeli athletes are murdered at the Munich Olympics by a group calling themselves �Black September,�said to be an arm of Fatah, operating under Arafat’s direct command.

They were probably doping and shouldn’t have been allowed to compete anyway. Seriously, those little beanies were enhancing their performance unfairly.

• March 1, 1973: Palestinian terrorists take over Saudi embassy in Khartoum. The next day, two Americans �including the United States’ ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel � and a Belgian were shot and killed. James J. Welsh, an analyst for the National Security Agency from 1969 through 1974, charged Arafat with direct complicity in these murders.

Look, it was only two, and they were infidels. Can you really blame him?

• April 11, 1974: 11 people are killed by Palestinian terrorists who attack apartment building in Kiryat Shmona.

Sometimes you just have to get forceful with deadbeats that refuse to pay rent on time.

• May 15, 1974: PLO terrorists infiltrating from Lebanon hold children hostage in Ma’alot school. 26 people, 21 of them children, are killed.

But they were very mature for their age, so it doesn’t really count.

• June 9, 1974: Palestinian National Council adopts �Phased Plan,� which calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state on any territory evacuated by Israel, to be used as a base of operations for destroying the whole of Israel. The PLO reaffirms its rejection of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a �just and lasting peace� and the �right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.�

But this is different than the Nazis… Arafat didn’t speak German!

• November 1974: PLO takes responsibility for the PDFLP’s Beit She’an murders in which 4 Israelis are killed.

Hardly a “mass” murder… questionably even worth reporting.

• Nov. 13, 1974: Arafat, wearing a holster (he had to leave his gun at the entrance), addresses the U.N. General Assembly.

Nah, it was just a retro-belt to keep his skirt from slipping.

• March 1975: Members of Fatah attack the Tel Aviv seafront and take hostages in the Savoy hotel. Three soldiers, three civilians and seven terrorists are killed.

This shouldn’t count because the terrorist death toll was higher.

• March 1978: Coastal Road Massacre �Fatah terrorists take over a bus on the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway and kill 21 Israelis.

It had been a long, hot day and you know how those Greyhound Buses can get. It’s enough to send some innocent freedom fighters over the edge for sure.

• Oct. 7, 1985: Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Wheelchair-bound elderly man, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard. Intelligence reports note that instructions originated from Arafat’s headquarters in Tunis.

How were they supposed to know that just because he couldn’t walk meant he couldn’t also swim? Honest mistake.

• September 1993: Arafat shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, inaugurating the Oslo Accords. Arafat pledges to stop incitement and terror, and to foster co-existence with Israel, but fails to comply. Throughout the years of negotiations, aside from passing, token efforts, Arafat does nothing to stop Hamas, PFLP, and Islamic Jihad from carrying out thousands of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. With Arafat’s encouragement and financial support, groups directly under Arafat’s command, such as the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, also carry out terror attacks.

How was he supposed to know what those groups would do with his courageous and charitable giving?

• Oct. 21, 1996: Speaking at a rally near Bethlehem, Arafat said “We know only one word - jihad. jihad, jihad, jihad. Whoever does not like it can drink from the Dead Sea or from the Sea of Gaza.” (Yediot Ahronot, October 23, 1996)

What? Doesn’t “jihad” mean “peace and prosperity”?

• July 2000: Arafat rejects peace settlement offered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, which would have led to a Palestinian state.

But peace and a Palestinian state are not the only things he wanted for his people. Those sneaky Israelis didn’t offer healthcare, social security or free toasters and that is why this courageous man rejected the offer.

• September 2000: New “intifada” is launched. Arafat continues to incite, support and fund terrorism.

Yeah, but he didn’t blow himself up, so that’s gotta count for something, right?

• Jan. 3, 2002: Israelis intercept the Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and other weapons intended for the Palestinian war against the Israelis. The captain admits he was under the command of the Palestinian Authority.

It was for the New Year’s festivities, honest.

• September 2003: IMF report titled “Economic Performance and Reforms under Conflict Conditions,” states that Arafat has diverted $900 million of public PA funds into his own accounts from 1995 - 2000.

But he was still committed to the Palestinian people, peace and a Palestinian state… he just wanted to make sure his shanty was properly furnished so he could oversee the freedom fighting.

• May 29, 2001: Gilad Zar, an Itamar resident, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush by Fatah Tanzim.
• May 29, 2001: Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
• June 18, 2001: Doron Zisserman, 38, shot and killed in his car by Fatah sniper fire.
• Aug 26, 2001: Dov Rosman, 58, killed in a shooting attack by Fatah terrorist.
• Sept 6, 2001: Erez Merhavi, 23, killed in a Fatah Tanzim ambush shooting near Hadera while driving to a wedding.
• Sept 20, 2001: Sarit Amrani, 26, killed by Fatah terrorist snipers as she was traveling in a car with her husband and 3 children.
• Oct 4, 2001: 3 killed, 13 wounded, when a Fatah terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula.
• Nov 27, 2001 - 2 killed 50 injured when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.
• Nov 29, 2001: 3 killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 12, 2001 - 11 killed and 30 wounded when three terrorists attacked a bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria . Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Jan 15, 2002: Avi Boaz, 71, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car near Bethlehem. The Fatah’s Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.
• Jan 15, 2002: Yoela Chen, 45, was shot dead by an Al Aqsa Brigade terrorist
• Jan 17, 2002: 6 killed, 35 wounded when a Fatah terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle.
• Jan 22, 2002: 2 killed, 40 injured when a Fatah terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem.
• Jan. 27, 2002: One person was killed and more than 150 were wounded by a female Fatah suicide bomber in the center of Jerusalem.
• Feb 6, 2002 - A mother and her 11 year old daughter were murdered in their home by a Palestinian terrorist disguised in an IDF uniform. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.
• Feb 18, 2002 : - Ahuva Amergi, 30, was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 22, 2002: Valery Ahmir, 59, was killed by terrorists in a Fatah drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work.
• Feb 25, 2002: Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, were killed in a Fatah terrorist shooting attack south of Bethlehem. Fish’s daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl.
• Feb 25, 2002: Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, died after being fatally shot, when a Fatah terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya’akov residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured.
• Feb 27, 2002: Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.
• March 2, 2002: A suicide bombing by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem killed 11 people and injured more than 50.
• Mar 5, 2002: 3 were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Fatah terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM.
• Mar 5, 2002: Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in a Fatah shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass “tunnel road”, south of Jerusalem.
• Mar 9, 2002: Avia Malka, 9 months, and Israel Yihye, 27, were killed and about 50 people were injured when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city’s boardwalk and hotels.
• March 21, 2002: An Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber exploded himself in a crowd of shoppers in Jerusalem, killing 3 and injuring 86.
• March 29, 2002: Two killed and 28 injured when a female Fatah suicide bomber blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket.
• March 30, 2002: One killed and 30 injured in an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
• April 12, 2002: Six killed and 104 wounded when a female Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber blew herself up at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market.
• May 27, 2002: Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, were killed and 37 people were injured when a Fatah suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva.
• May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired by Fatah terrorists at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
• May 28, 2002 - Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorists killed Netanel Riachi, 17, Gilad Stiglitz, 14, and Avraham Siton, 17, three yeshiva high school students playing basketball.
• June 19, 2002: Seven people were killed and 37 injured when a Fatah suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem.
• June 20, 2002: Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• July 25, 2002: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav.
• July 26, 2002: St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv’el Zion were killed in a Fatah Al Aqsa Brigade shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. � July 30, 2002: Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under Fatah fire in the West Bank village of Jama’in.
• Aug 4, 2002: 2 killed and 17 wounded when a Fatah terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City.
• Aug 5, 2002: Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 3, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat’s Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Aug 10, 2002: Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home.
• Sept 18, 2002: Yosef Ajami, 36, was killed when Fatah terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
• Oct 29, 2002: Three people, including 2 fourteen year olds, were shot to death by a Fatah terrorist.
• Nov 10, 2002: Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, were killed when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire.
• Nov 28, 2002: 5 killed and 40 wounded when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She’an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary.
• Apr 24, 2003 - 1 was killed and 13 were wounded in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.
• May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when Fatah terrorists fired shots at their vehicle in Samaria.
• May 19, 2003: 3 were killed and 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Aug 29, 2003: Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section.
• Jan 29, 2004: 11 people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mar 14, 2004: 10 were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• May 2, 2004: Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Thank You, Veterans.

Than this? At least this explains the justification for calling you a bunch of un-American pricks. Apologizing to the rest of the world because our system of a Democratic Republic worked like it was supposed to.

I doubt it’s just a coincidence that every single photo looks to be a jobless, overly-pierced, drama club, college drop out flipping burgers until their parents get tired of their dope-smoking anarchist rants and kicks them out of the house where they will then find a happy commune of like-minded morons hopped up on bong resin and reciting Chomsky into the night, then sleeping until noon.

Perhaps 115 million votes cast isn’t enough “liberty” for you socialists, but it’s quite ironic that while you all send your apologies overseas to terrorist-loving countries like France, Russia and China, there are people dying to come here. The funny thing is the islamofascists want to kill each and everyone of you as well. Think saying “sorry” will stop them?

Maybe it’s time to kick in a little exchange program and ship your spoiled asses overseas in exchange for hard-working people who would give their lives just to enjoy a fraction of your freedom.

I am unapologetically proud to be American. Screw you.

Update: You simply have to read this. Treacher puts the real captions to each of the “Sorry” liberal pictures.

Newsweek is giving some revealing behind-the-scenes accounts of the failed Kerry campaign and it’s ironic that the entire piece is aimed at painting Kerry as a victim while including a very important fact that was successfully supressed during the campaign:

Edwards played along, but his aides were indignant. They warned the veep candidate that the story was already out of control and about to get worse. Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of a wartime biography of Kerry, cautioned that Kerry’s diary included mention of a meeting with some North Vietnamese terrorists in Paris. Edwards was flabbergasted. “Let me get this straight,” the senator said. “He met with terrorists? Oh, that’s good.”

I pointed out a few weeks ago that questions are still unanswered about Kerry’s anti-American actions during the Vietnam war. The article goes on to offer quotes of those warning Kerry that he may face “dirty ticks” and “misleading” charges by “right-wing operatives,” “pro-Bush Fox News,” and “attack dog Bob Dole” among others. It’s pretty disingenuous to continue this line of defense for the senator from Massachusetts, considering his OWN WORDS in his diary. It’s no wonder John Edwards was “flabbergasted” - his own running mate failed to warn him he was teaming up with someone who’d admitted to “meeting with terrorists.”

So let’s review MSM’s definition of “fair and balanced” - promote documents known to be fake to try and take down a sitting U.S. President while suppressing a candidate’s OWN WORDS that he met with terrorists DURING A WAR.

And a hearty thanks to Newsweek for publishing such a long, in-depth article on THE LOSING CANDIDATE. I see the liberal media bias didn’t die with the dreams of their candidate.

“Let�s talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they�re going to portray Kerry and Edwards � I�m talking about the establishment media, not Fox � but they�re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all. There�s going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that�s going to be worth maybe 15 points.�

I take special pride in this week’s election results because I was a foot soldier in enemy territory for the battle. Along with several hundred very anxious and very capable attorneys, I went into Northeast Philadelphia as a “Lawyer For Bush”. For those of you who don’t know what that means, imagine yourself strapping on 50 pounds of red meat and jumping into shark-infested waters… or worse, imagine covering yourself in twinkies and cookie dough and entering Michael Moore’s house.

I spent the final 72 hours of the 2004 campaign season in Philadelphia. Pushing my way through Kerry supporters in front of our Headquarters in downtown Philly, I was amazed at the animosity in their voices. Walking anywhere downtown, one would see gatherings of 10 - 20 Kerry supporters at many intersections holding up signs and cars honking their praise. I certainly felt like I was behind enemy lines. Being bombarded with this every waking minute was enough to make me really question whether I was on the winning team. Not that I would’ve changed sides for anything, I did feel a sense of envy with those Democrats who seemed to have all the momentum in the world. My optimism only grew weaker on election day as I took on the task I had traveled across the country to perform.

Our task was to monitor a certain set of precincts around Philadelphia to insure a fair election process. From what I had been told going in, Philadelphia was a bastion of voting fraud. The Democrat infrastructure I personally witnessed left me feeling less than confident in our electoral process.

Each side is allowed to have “Poll Watchers” inside the polling place to monitor the situation. Unfortunately, it seems Philadelphia was about 99.9% Democrat, so the RNC folks apparently dragged dollar bills through the streets to hire poll watchers. Needless to say, this didn’t seem to help our cause much.

Some of our poll watchers showed up late or generally just “didn’t get it”. They were there for the money and that was it. A few poll watchers were on the ball, and happened to catch the opening of the voting machines that magically already had votes for Kerry on them. Given that our poll watchers were probably only able to see about 10% of all machines before the polls opened, I can only imagine how many “Kerry votes” were present across the city and states before the polls even opened on Tuesday.

Apart from generally monitoring the process and preventing major issues, the Poll Watchers had a primary job. Here’s where the fun began.

There were roughly 100,000 new voter registrations in Philadelphia alone. When the RNC received the list of new registrants, they promptly sent out brochures, welcoming them to the process and promoting Republican candidates. Soon, some of those brochures began coming back with notations like “deceased” or “vacant lot” or “abandoned warehouse” on them. In all, returned mailings totaled around 10,000. That’s 10,000 registrations that appeared to be fraudulent.

We compiled a list of those questionable registrations and gave them to our Poll Watchers. Their duty was to watch for folks trying to vote using those registrations and challenge the voter to provide ID and otherwise verify they were legitimate.

It wasn’t long before I had my first encounter with a “Kerry lawyer” (as he called himself). I noticed him walking in and out of the polling place all morning (a criminal offense to do so without proper certification). He approached one of my Poll Watchers and took the list out of his hand and then returned outside. He then declared, as if he was making a proclamation before the United Nations, that me and my “Republican thugs” were using this list to “intimidate black voters” and “suppress the minority vote”.

He obviously did not want us using the list, because it would expose the fraudulent registrations they were banking on for votes.

Now keep in mind, other than the “Kerry lawyer”, I was the only other white guy standing around this polling place on election day. Throughout the day there was, on average, 50 - 100 people just hanging around this location (it was a youth gym that seemed to be a popular hangout). As he would proclaim my attempts at disenfranchisement, it would stir up the crowd and I would hear the anger boiling inside them.

Then his assistant whipped out a video camera and shoved it in my face. (I’m guessing Democrat lawyers are in some cave somewhere analyzing the video today trying to figure out how they can allege something against me to somehow make up for a resounding defeat of their candidate - good luck, guys) This guy stood in front of the polling place videotaping for 10 minutes. This is a tactic the Democrats allege Republicans do to intimidate voters. Of course, it came as no surprise to me that a Democrat would do the very act he accused Republicans of.

The Federal Elections Commission “dark suits” swooped in to settle some issues, the District Attorney’s office sent staff, the Philadelphia police department got involved on a half dozen occasions and at the end of the night I took down the final vote tallies: Kerry - 1,131 Bush - 3

This was only one of my precincts. In another precinct, I personally witnessed the Democrat Election Judge allowing voters to cast provisional ballots and then walking over to the voting machine to cast real ballots. This would allow that voter’s vote to be counted twice if the outcome required the counting of the provisional ballots.

When I returned to this polling place, I noticed my Poll Watcher standing outside handing out DEMOCRAT brochures. I asked her why she was doing that and she said the Election Judge (Democrat) had ordered her to do it. Unbelievable

I did feel a sense of defeat at the end of the night, having spent the day in “democrat country” fighting to keep the election process fair and honest. Seeing the results posted on the door, I wondered quietly, “how can Bush pull this thing off?”

We headed over to Arlen Specter’s party and awaited the results. By the time we arrived, many east coast states had already been called and there seemed to be no big surprises. But there was a glimmer of hope… the popular vote was showing Bush with a decent lead. Then Florida starting showing signs of red. Suddenly the fatigue began wearing off and was being replaced with total and complete joy. Could this work have paid off? Could we really be on the winning side? It was interesting to see older women in formal dresses screaming at the top of their lungs “come on Wolf, would you f–king call Florida already!!!??!!?” The tide was shifting.

Now we all know the results. And while we weren’t able to deliver Pennsylvania, one thing I keep hearing from folks I served with is this: We kept Pennsylvania close requiring the Democrats to expend resources therein… resources that may have otherwise gone to Ohio and changed the overall results.

I’m glad I was there to see it from the inside. I’m happy our side was vindicated against all the vitriol, false accusations, fraud and hate. The sun sure seems to be shining brighter today.

Wow