A message from Michael Moore...

[Bill Spillz]

Monday 20 September 2004

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!"

>>No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate

>>Kerry

>>is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate --

>>he's

>>a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose

>>the

>>elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up

>>the

>>ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run

>>--

>>and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.

>>Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass

>>campaign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those

>>phony swifty

>>boaty bastards down. But WE are not running for president -- Kerry is. So

>>quit

>>complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a...

>>Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, "Oh

>>God, NOT a

>>friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had

>>four

>>wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't

>>help you. I had a Pontiac once and it lasted a good year. And it was a

>>VERY

>>good year.

>>My friends, it is time for a reality check.

>>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.

>>2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team. Instead of shunning Clinton

>>(as

>>Gore did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake.

>>3. Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya,

>>there

>>is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being captured

>>by

>>the mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real. Do not let

>>those

>>well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare you. Turn off the

>>TV!

>>(Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything else is just a

>>sugar-coated

>>lie).

>>4. Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on "9/11" (the

>>fear

>>of terrorism), Bush wins. But if it is decided on the job we are doing in

>>Iraq, then Bush loses. And folks, that "job," you might have noticed, has

>>descended into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. There

>>is no way

>>out. It is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and the body bags will sadly

>>only

>>mount higher. Regardless of what Kerry meant by his original war vote, he

>>ain't the one who sent those kids to their deaths -- and Mr. and Mrs.

>>Middle

>>America knows it. Had Bush bothered to show up when he was in the

>>"service" he

>>might have somewhat of a clue as to how to recognize an immoral war that

>>cannot

>>be "won." All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last

>>Thanksgiving. It is this failure of monumental proportions that is going

>>to cook

>>his goose come this November.

>>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?

>>Just for me, please? Buck up. The country is almost back in our hands.

>>Not

>>another negative word until Nov. 3rd! Then you can bitch all you want

>>about

>>how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the

>>courage to

>>stand up for something. Personally, I think that kid is still inside him.

>>Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a

>>hand to him

>>and help the inner soldier/protester come out and defeat the forces of

>>evil

>>we now so desperately face. Do we have any other choice?

>>Yours,

>>Michael Moore"