Ain't It The Truth...

got this from an email somewhere...it's the Concession Speech Kerry should have given...

My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken, and spoken
with a clear voice. So I am here to offer my concession. I concede that
I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the
people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to
vote for him. I never saw that coming. That's really special. And I mean
"special" in the sense that we use it to describe those kids who ride
the short school bus and find ways to injure themselves while eating
pudding with rubber spoons. That kind of special.

I concede that I misjudged the power of hate. That's pretty powerful
stuff, and I didn't see it. So let me take a moment to congratulate the
President's strategists: Putting the gay marriage amendments on the
ballot in various swing states like Ohio... well, that was just genius.
Genius. It got people, a certain kind of people, to the polls. The
unprecedented number of folks who showed up and cited "moral values" as
their biggest issue, those people changed history. The folks who
consider same sex marriage a more important issue than war, or
terrorism, or the economy... Who'd have thought the election would
belong to them? Well, Karl Rove did. Gotta give it up to him for that.

I concede that I put too much faith in America's youth. With 8 out of 10
of you opposing the President, with your friends and classmates dying
daily in a war you disapprove of, with your future being mortgaged to
pay for rich old peoples' tax breaks, you somehow managed to sit on your
asses and watch the Cartoon Network while aging homophobic hillbillies
carried the day. You voted with the exact same anemic percentage that
you did in 2000. You suck. Seriously, you do.

There are some who would say that I sound bitter, that now is the time
for healing, to bring the nation together. We in blue states produce the
vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and
you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes
while complaining about 'em. We in the blue states are the only ones
who've been attacked by foreign terrorists, yet you in the red states
are gung ho to fight a war in our name. Blue state civilians are the
actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state
civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling "Oh, yeah!? Bring
it on!"

More than 40% of you Bush voters still believe that Saddam Hussein had
something to do with 9/11. I'm impressed by that, truly I am. Your sons
and daughters who might die in this war know it's not true, the people
in the urban centers where al Qaeda wants to attack know it's not true,
but those of you who are at practically no risk believe this easy lie
because you can. As part of my concession speech, let me say that I
really envy that luxury. I concede that.

Healing? We, the people at risk from terrorists, the people who
subsidize you, the people who speak in glowing and respectful terms
about the heartland of America while that heartland insults and
excoriates us... we wanted some healing. We spoke loud and clear. And
you refused to give it to us, largely because of your high moral values.
You knew better: America doesn't need its allies, doesn't need to share
the burden, doesn't need to unite the world, doesn't need to provide for
its future. Hell no. Not when it's got a human shield of pointy-headed,
atheistic, unconfrontational breadwinners who are willing to pay the
bills and play nice in the vain hope of winning a vote that we can never
have. Because we're "morally inferior," I suppose, we are supposed to
respect your values while you insult ours. And the big joke here is that
for 20 years, we've done just that.

It's not a "ha-ha" funny joke, I realize, but it's a joke all the same.

And I make this pledge to you today: In the next election, there will be
no pandering. Next time we will not pretend that the simple folk of
America know just as much as the people who devote their lives to
serving and studying the nation and the world. They don't.

I'm talking to you, you ignorant, slack-jawed yokels, you
bible-thumping, inbred drones, you redneck, racist, chest-thumping,
perennially duped grade-school grads.

Thank you, and may God, if he does in fact exist, bless each and every one of you.