Ralph Lopez

The Elephant in the Room; a Combat Manual for Democrats Ralph Lopez

As numbness in much of the country wears-off from the 2004 election, many people are still left with the question: What happened? Pushing past the taunts of - "You lost, get over it!" - comes the blogger Polis, an underemployed, self-proclaimed "smart-aleck" who frantically watched this most historic election unfold. He worries, frets, and tears his hair out at what he sees as horrible message management by Kerry. "Everything on the line right now. Greenhouse gases, jobs, terror, the suspense is so bad I'm a nervous wreck. I'm a hundred-percent sure that if Kerry doesn't win we'll have another terrorist attack. Every moderate Muslim will begin to hate each one of us, personally. Now the guilt for Iraq will not be the government's. Bush's sins will become ours." "A battle plan for the future." -Charles Long, Art New England Magazine