[Dialogue] Fwd: Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore

[WTW0BL@aol.com]

9/20/04
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
www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint at aol.com