The Mandate Debate (Sirotablog) - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Oct 08
  

  politics election 2008 opinion reform conservative

  • This is also why I believe Bush did receive a mandate in 2004 - because while he only won by a small margin, the country knew the ideological choice it was making. There was no question that Bush was anything other than a pro-war neoconservative on foreign policy, and a royalist on economic policy, and that Kerry was very different. And when voters went into the voting booth and chose that ideology, they unfortunately gave him a mandate to continue governing with that ideology.

  • If a guy billed as a black Muslim socialist/terrorist can win an election in such an ideologically polarized environment, it is a huge rejection of conservatism - one with a mandate for arguably more progressive governance than Obama himself is even proposing.

      

    That's why conservatives are freaking out - they realize that under such circumstances, a McCain loss isn't just a loss for one candidate in one election, but a much more far-reaching rejection of an entire ideology.

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