The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.
John Podhoretz
Related If Rob Simmons can survive in the 2004 presidential election year when George Bush got 40 percent of... CARL FORTI [I asked Barbour who would win in November, and here is what he said:] Mark, if this election is abo... GEORGE W. BUSH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran ag... DANA PERINO They didn't win, and I got that from the white press. At four o'clock [on Election Day 2004], that e... DICK GREGORY I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidenti... LINCOLN CHAFEE Tom DeLay and the other leadership of the House of Representatives are not going to impeach George W... BOB GRAHAM It would be the equivalent of George W. Bush running for election with a family full of communists. EFRAIM INBAR At the end of the day, this isn't about George Bush; it's about Randy Kelly. The Republicans have wo... CHRIS COLEMAN Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry, as campaigners, wants to risk advocating cut-and-run in Iraq.... BOB NOVAK You know he[George W. Bush] is there[in the White House] illegally. You know he was not elected eith... MICHAEL MOORE In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the el... JUAN WILLIAMS John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. MARK SHIELDS Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone w... BARRY CRIMMINS Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectru... ERNIE ALLEN It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will ... DAVID LIMBAUGH George W. Bush and Dick Cheney want to restore some dignity to the White House. They want to restore... DAN CRONIN Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out. RALPH NADER We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent o... ANN COULTER Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with Afr... LAMELL MCMORRIS We had a lawful election. We've had a certification of that election, and the only way that the Bush... LOIS FRANKEL George W. Bush is rightfully our president-elect, ... We should not prolong a constitutional impasse... BOB TAFT I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf. GEORGE W. BUSH Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE If nothing else, the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 have shown us that merely increasing th... BOB BUCKHORN I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come... GARY COLEMAN Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government sp... TONY CAMPOLO To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this m... JESSICA LANGE I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on ... GLENN BECK The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just ... DAVID LETTERMAN Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or eve... JAY LENO Chief Justice Rehnquist will forever be remembered for his unique role in presidential history, firs... ANTHONY ROMERO What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w... NIGEL HAMILTON So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win. IMRAN KHAN They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky So many a midnig... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.' EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy... ELLEN MALCOLM To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this m... JESSICA LANGE Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have o... ED GILLESPIE This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American histor... HELEN THOMAS Accordingly, on behalf of the state Election Canvassing Commission and in accordance with the laws o... KATHERINE HARRIS We have won this election. We have won both the presidential and parliamentary vote. OFWONO OPONDO I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physio... JERRY SALTZ Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz... ROGER KIMBALL 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in resp... ZAC GOLDSMITH Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that. DAVID GREGORY Look at where the gay community was five years ago and what's happened since the (2004 presidential)... DANIEL LIPMAN I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a deserter. What I meant to say is that... MICHAEL MOORE It was a big win for us. Now we have to go win that last one. HARRY STATHAM Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I lear... JOE KLEIN I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist att... HENRY KISSINGER The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly someth... TUCKER CARLSON The greatest battle you will ever win is the one with yourself. MARJORIE CANALES One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while... PAUL BEGALA This win was big for a lot of reasons. I told the guys that you will only have one opportunity to pl... BRIAN RILEY I want to make clear that the SPD has to begin to understand that they did not win the election, the... EDMUND STOIBER I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the inco... JERRY FALWELL George W. Bush sided against people with disabilities in an important Supreme Court case. Now that h... DOUGLAS HATTAWAY The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush, CINDY SHEEHAN That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored. HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. DAVID GERROLD It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar... KAREN MARIE MONING The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ... EUGENE H. PETERSON You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi... DARREN SHAN Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid ... NILESH RATHOD I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district. JIM COSTA Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think... LINCOLN CHAFEE Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember ... DINESH D'SOUZA Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's ... NOAM CHOMSKY In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting hims... SAMANTHA POWER He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsi... HUGO CH Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Tex... YOGI BERRA It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe-to-toe with George W. Bush on national sec... WESLEY CLARK It would be a grave mistake for the Republicans to assume they can replay the boll weevil strategy o... WILL MARSHALL Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight,... JON MEACHAM The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout mat... JEFF MILLER
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