This was sent to me by someone I work with who I hadn't even suspected was a Kerry voter. It's funny. It's going up on my refrigerator. And the source of it actually made me even prouder of being a blue stater.
We have to stand up for OUR values because they represent noble, pure Jeffersonian ideals for our democracy. We need to defend this line in the sand and stop apologizing for being who we are.
Enjoy:
The actual first draft of John Kerry's Concession Speech
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, and 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 that may say that I sound bitter, and that now is the time for healing, and 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!"