Election Night 2004 - from NBC - part 7!!

[stfdbitch]

Bush destroyed the country. 8 years of hell.

[billybudd94]

@ 3:21 it becomes clear just how big a task Kerry faced in terms of needing to secure the necessary electoral votes needed to become President of the United States. He really didn't stand much of a chance. Good job too, the US electorate, regardless of retrospective fashionable consensus, got it right in 2004. Bush was the right man for the job.

[redletter2008]

@billybudd94 I agree, even though I felt Bush had the typically disappointing 2nd term. Still, had Kerry won, it is quite likely he would have surrendered the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. Also, the looming financial crisis may have been worse with Kerry. The GOP won the House & Senate in '04 & would have thwarted anything Kerry tried to do (same as Dems did to GHW Bush in '89). It was (IMO) important that Bush won to help dispel the narrative that he "stole" the Presidency (which he did not do).

[ChristopherSaindon]

@billybudd94 Absolutely -- if law allowed I'd vote for him a 3rd time :-)