Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore

[Pallas180]

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Monday, September 20th, 2004
Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore

9/20/04

Dear Friends,

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!"
Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.
They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet.

Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his convention and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland again. The Bushies are coming, the Bushies are coming! Yes, they caught Kerry asleep on the Swift Boat thing. Yes, they found the frequency in Dan Rather and ran with it. Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

-snip-

1. The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On Friday, one poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them both tied. There are three reasons why the polls are b.s.: One, they are polling "likely voters." "Likely" means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are not polling people who use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that means they are not talking to young people. Finally, most of the polls are weighted with too many Republicans, as pollster John Zogby revealed last week. You are being snookered if you believe any of these polls.


So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years of George W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. It's like Karl Rove is hypnotizing you -- "Kerry voted for the war...Kerry voted for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee warrrrrrrrrr..."
Yes...Yes...Yesssss....He did! HE DID! No sense in fighting now...what I need is sleep...sleeep...sleeeeeeppppp...

WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault weapons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT?

(READ THE WHOLE LETTER TO = Y O U = )

here at

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?mes...

[dogtag]

1. I just got bitch slapped by Michael Moore

and I loved it! Thank you Michael for getting me back on the straight and narrow. Emailing your letter to my 100 closest friends now.

[NJCher]

2. Bravo MM!!

Cher

[NMDemDist2]

3. kicked and nominated, I can think of several 100 people here who need

to read this daily.....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Kick again.

It should be read every time somebody posts another whine about the media or the polls or KKKarl Rove or the "weak" Kerry campaign. And speaking of "weak" -- I hope this morning's speech and this evening's Letterman appearance put that idiotic canard to rest.

[riverwalker]

4. ....slap....slap...

Get a hold of yourself!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SNAP OUT OF IT!


:silly: Wheww Thanks, I needed that. I don't know what came over me, thanks Mike. I love ya, man. Thanks for being there.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Slightly off topic, but. . . . .

If indeed the polls are wrong, why couldn't some of us DUers take our own little polls and see what happens? We could even poll the cell-phone users.

f'rinstance, if your cell phone exchange is XXX - 219 - xxxx, you could call 10 or 20 random numbers in that exchange and see what kind of demographic you come up with. I believe the exchanges are issued exclusively to the cell phone companies so you wouldn't have to worry about getting a XXX - 219 - xxxx number that's actually a land line. If that's not the case, then time to rethink.

But if it is true, couldn't we do something like --

Keep track of the numbers you call and which ones don't answer, get voice mail, won't respond, etc. Then when you get someone who will respond, give them a quick set of questions, such as --
Male or female or whatever
married or whatever
age group: 18-24, 25-34, 35-50, over 50
cell-phone only or land-line, too
Internet connected or not
Registered to vote.
If the election were held today, would you vote boosh or Kerry.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. kick

[JohnnyRingo]

8. My GOD!!!...What a pep talk...

....I haven't felt this inspired since, Uhhh..back, errr...NO, this is it!

He's said everything I've been hoping has been true all along.
We ARE going to win!

If we collectively get off our asses and show up at the polls, the repubs won't even be able to CHEAT their way out of this one.

The election is ours to lose

Thank You MM, and thank You for the post Pallas.



Fuck You Buxh....Try it....You'll be gone in the whim of a hat.

[donheld]

9. ok I got his message

but id be more than happy to have him to "come here and personally calm me down" :evilgrin::bounce::evilgrin: then i'd take him around and let him kick :kick: some hopelessly hopeless whiny democrats asses i know :evilfrown:

[samplegirl]

10. Michael Moore Optimism

Great Post!!!! Hes right. Get off the negativity we cant help it
there are dumb people.
Quit crying and start crusading.........grab a staplegun and
and some cardboard signs from your local D.H. and get busy!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeepModem Mom]

11. kicking for the Coast