A landslide for traditional marriage

At first, it looked as if there would be a grim and lengthy repetition of the Democrat reaction to the 2000 election: The N.S.L.C.B.C. (National Sore Loser and Crybaby Campaign).

The senator from Chappaquiddick’s big contribution to the Kerry campaign, Mary Beth Cahill, declared:

“The vote count in Ohio has not been completed. There are more than 250,000 remaining votes to be counted. We believe when they are, John Kerry will win Ohio.”

Kerry spokeswoman Jen Pelmieri declared:

“We have 3,200 lawyers and paralegals on standby in Ohio.”

Then, at 2:30 am on Nov. 3 from Boston’s Copley Square, The Running Mate – who was unable to help carry even his own home state of North Carolina – (which suggests the real reason Sen. John Edwards ran for president rather than for re-election) declared the following:

“It’s been a long night, but we’ve waited four years for this victory, and we can wait. John Kerry and I made a promise to the American people that in the election, every vote would count, and every vote would be counted. Tonight, we are keeping our word and we will fight for every vote. You deserve no less.”

Less than 12 hours later, these three Kerry campaign promises were all broken – by the said Kerry, who telephoned President Bush and conceded.

This rescuing of our nation from possible weeks of national uncertainty shows that there is some good in even the worst of us. And John Kerry was the worst ever nominated – from whom we should rejoice to be delivered by 59 million American votes or 3 ? million more than for Kerry.

More than once prior to Nov. 2, I predicted that George Bush would win re-election.

Also, more than once, I contended that the issue of same-sex marriage would be one of the biggest in this presidential campaign.

Now the results are in and President Bush’s steadfast and unwavering stand in support of traditional marriage, as between one man and one woman, passed in all 11 states where it was on the ballot.

By striking contrast, loser John Kerry repeatedly claimed that he opposes same-sex marriage – as he failed to show up to vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment (part of the huge number of bills he missed votes on) and voted against the Defense of Marriage Act.

This hypocritical Kerry voting against what he claimed is his conscience – evoked an awesome payback on Election Day in the very key state of Ohio.

While 38 percent of Ohio voters voted against what was the broadest measure of all 11 state ballot measures on this subject (Ohio’s barred any legal status that intends to approximate marriage) a devastating 3,241,160 voted yes.

In other states, similar same-sex marriage amendments passed in Arkansas (75-25 percent), Georgia (77-23 percent), Kentucky (75-25 percent), Michigan (59-41 percent), Mississippi (86-14 percent), Montana (66-34 percent), North Dakota (73-27 percent), Oklahoma (76-24 percent), Oregon (57-43 percent) and Utah (66-34 percent).

“Among African-American voters in Ohio – a core Democratic voting group – President Bush nearly doubled his support over the 2000 election from 9 to 15 percent,” Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, said in a statement.

“He also improved his support among Catholics and women by 5 percent. Indeed, America demonstrated broad-based strength and momentum for our Federal Marriage Amendment – strength and momentum that transcends all racial, cultural and religious boundary lines.”