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The real losers

Linda Chavez:

The real loser in Tuesday's election wasn't Democrat John Kerry, but the liberal media and intellectual elite who demonstrated, once again, how out-of-touch they are with the American public. In the final analysis, John Kerry and running mate John Edwards accepted their defeat with dignity and grace. It remains to be seen whether their supporters among the intelligentsia will do the same. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was typical. Writing "without knowing the election results," as he admitted in the column that appeared the morning after the election, he nonetheless felt he should lecture "the millions of farmers, factory workers and waitresses who ended up voting -- utterly against their own interests -- for Republican candidates." The common folk, you see, just don't know what's good for them. That attitude explains why the elites continue to get it wrong.

There is simply no way to explain away the Republican Party's stunning victory Tuesday. Not only did the president win some 3.5 million more votes than his opponent, but he did so despite a relentless onslaught of bad press in the final days of the campaign. The president prevailed in spite of vicious attacks on his personal character and integrity by an array of well-funded partisan attack dogs. The president won re-election even though Democrats and their allied-groups outspent Republicans by an estimated $70 million.

Kristoff and other liberals still do not get the diastrous consequences of their soak the rich mentality and how it hurts the common folks. There is no better example than the luxury tax on yachts, that put the New England boat builders and all of their employees (none of which were rich) out of work. The rich put their marginal income back into the economy in ways that help the average American much more efficiently than the government ever could hope to, because of teh efficency of the capitalist free market system that awards the person with the best product or service at the best price, instead of the government system of awarding failure.