Of Course

I've had a few friends ask me what I will do with The Fold once George Bush is out of office, since I'll have nothing to write about. My answer to them is as long as we have right wing nutjobs like Bob Novak running around job security isn't something I'm too concerned with.

Bob Novak 2004

Q: Bob Novak, is 51 percent of the vote really a mandate?

NOVAK: "Of course it is. It’s a 3.5 million vote margin."


Bob Novak 2008

"He may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities."
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The right wing is going to try their hardest to spin this as a victory for conservatism. However, the right wing is not conservative and knows nothing about conservativism. In their world 51% is a mandate but 53% isn't. In their world a 3.5 million vote margin is a mandate but a 7 million vote margin isn't. I'm pretty certain The Fold is going to be just fine.