Looks like a Bush victory

Although the key state of Ohio hasn’t been counted in, commentators are tentatively labelling the 2004 election a victory for Bush, who took 51% of the popular vote, 28 states to Kerry’s 20 and 254 electoral votes, to Kerry’s 252. The President plans to announce his victory sometime this morning. John Kerry, in a scenario growing familiar for Democrats, has pledged not to concede defeat and to fight until the bitter end, or to put it another way, until the entire country has grown so sick and tired of his moaning and whining that it begins to jeopardize Democrat prospects in 2008.

While I have no great liking for Bush, I prefer a Bush victory to a Kerry victory any day. Let’s face it, their policies are virtually identical, and neither of them is any different from the other on issues like statism, selective service and so forth. Kerry disagrees with the Iraq war - for today, at least - but he doesn’t have any great plans on what to do afterward. So, we have two candidates virtually indistinguishable in policy, the key difference as I see it being that George W. does what he said he’d do, whereas Kerry changes his mind every few days on almost every issue. Kerry must be a liar, or so insecure and lacking in self-confidence that he can’t take a stand on any issue, or perhaps worst of all, so desperate for power that he’d say anything to get it. Any way, this is definitely not the kind of man who should to be in charge.