首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The most important thing now is for Democrats not to panic. Despite what your gut is telling you, this is not the end of the wor
The most important thing now is for Democrats not to panic. Despite what your gut is telling you, this is not the end of the wor
admin
2013-06-12
57
问题
The most important thing now is for Democrats not to panic. Despite what your gut is telling you, this is not the end of the world. The republic survived one run of the George & Dick Show. It will survive another. But I recognize that for those of us who really, really wanted to send President Bush into early retirement, it’s hard to stop sobbing long enough to think rationally about the next four years.
The disappointment wouldn’t weigh so heavily if the promise of victory hadn’t swirled so tantalizingly close. John Kerry’s finest days, the period when he looked the most presidential, came during the debates, with the campaign finish line twinkling on the horizon. Throughout October, as the race pulled tighter than Paris Hilton’s jeans, Kerry volunteers flooded the purple states to energize their voters—tens of thousands of them newly registered.
And then ... defeat. Now, with the image of Bush’s victory speech seared into Democrats’ forebrain, the temptation to abandon all hope is almost overwhelming, especially for those who, right up to the end, refused to entertain the possibility of a second term.
Just before Election Day, I quizzed some of my liberal friends about how they would cope with a Kerry loss. Their answers were variations on the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Of course, the more politically obsessive the friend, the more anger and depression were emphasized. One die-hard Bush hater couldn’t even contemplate acceptance. "I will be incapacitated," he declared.
Bitterly divided as the country is, many Kerry supporters instead must simply learn how to function at whatever stage of recovery they can attain. I know plenty of folks who plan to nurse their anti-Bush ire, using it as a motivating tool to work even harder for a Democratic victory next time. Such chronic rage may sound unhealthy—but it did the trick for Newt Gingrich’s troops in the wake of Bill Clinton’s 1992 win.
For some liberals, the first step forward will be less political than personal as they struggle to repair the damage done to relationships with friends and colleagues who backed Bush, "I’ve sat around listening to people I normally respect talk about how they planned to vote for him, and I just want to shake them," fumed my exceedingly gentle best friend, who spent the summer registering Kerry voters in her suburban Tampa, Fla., neighborhood. But beyond mending fences, my friend had no ideas for how to work through her blues. "It’s not like there’s really anything you can do—other than move to another country."
Unfortunately, what for too many Democrats will be tempted to do is indulge in the traditional orgy of recriminations over where the party went astray. A strikingly amorphous candidate, Kerry provides more than the usual fodder for Dems’ eternal squabble over what they should stand for: moderates can claim Kerry was too liberal to woo swing voters; lefties will say he was too inside-the-Beltway to energize the angry, disillusioned masses; and the increasingly unbalanced Ralph Nader will declare him another loathsome Republicrat slave to corporate America.
This sort of infighting may feel cathartic, but it is dangerously counterproductive, serving largely to confirm Republicans’ claims that Democrats lack the core values necessary to run the country. Besides, Kerry’s problem wasn’t his policies; it was his personality. The guy was simply too cerebral, too equivocating and too out of touch with Middle America to wrest enough purple-state voters from even a seriously tarnished Bush. Sure, his Vietnam medals were pretty, but no Democrat who attended Swiss boarding school, hails from Massachusetts and raves about his love of French skiers had a snowball’s chance of unseating good ole W.
So we ran an unlikable candidate, and we lost. There’s no reason to go nuts and launch a civil war over whether to embrace A1 Sharpton or Zell (Mad Dog) Miller as our ideological guru for 2008. However we opt to handle our grief, Kerry supporters need to pull themselves together on Inauguration Day—because if you thought the past four years have been scary, just imagine the policy atrocities to be attempted by a Bush White House freed from the concerns of re-election. With George & Dick on the loose, self-pity and finger pointing are unaffordable distractions for liberals. To paraphrase renowned political sage Jesse Ventura: Democrats haven’t got time to bleed.
According to the passage, which of the following is the reason why the Democrats are so disappointed at the election result?
选项
A、They failed to send President Bush into early retirement.
B、The votes for John Kerry and George Bush were so close.
C、They have to face the next four years with Bush as President.
D、John Kerry was defeate
答案
B
解析
本题答案为第二段的第一句。民主党人之所以如此失望是因为两党的投票数是那么接近。故选项B为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/vM4O777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
WhichofthefollowingisNOTanIrishwriter?
WhichofthefollowingworksisdifferentfromtheothersintheAmericanliteraturehistory?
SimilaritiesandDifferencesbetweenPublicSpeakingandConversationⅠBothPublicSpeakingandConversationneedyouto
WhichofthefollowingisthemostpopulouspartoftheUnitedKingdom?
BetweentheeighthandeleventhcenturiesA.D.,theByzantineEmpirestagedanalmostunparalleledeconomicandculturalreviv
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwhatkindofsystemisultimatelyadopted.Twodis
Spenser’smasterpiece______isagreatpoemofhistime.
Oftheworld’s774millionilliterateadultstwo-thirdsarewomen,asharethathasremainedunchangedforthepasttwodecades.
生活并不是一个悲剧。它是一个“搏斗”。我们生活来做什么?或者说我们为什么要有这生命?罗曼•罗兰的回答是“为的是来征服它”。我认为他说得不错。我有了生命以来,在这个世界上虽然仅仅经历了二十几个寒暑,但是这短短的时期也并不是白白度过的。这期间我也曾看
在十二世纪及随后的几个世纪中,练金术在欧洲得到广泛的研究,并引起许多有学问的人的注意.虽然他们制造金子的种种尝试注定了是要失败的,但是他们的工作却使许多新的化学知识和实验方法得以发展。然而后来欧洲的许多炼金术士却是十足的骗子,他们施展各种诡计诈骗那些信以
随机试题
设曲线y=x2+x一2在点M处的切线的斜率为3,则点M的坐标为()•
胎儿神经管畸形是由于孕早期严重缺乏
对建筑工程而言,下列工程中属于分项工程的是()。
以下关于发行公司债券,债券持有人保护的说法正确的有()。Ⅰ.公开发行公司债券的,发行人应当为债券持有人聘请债券受托管理人,并订立债券受托管理协议,非公开发行是否为债券持有人聘请债券受托管理人由发行人确定Ⅱ.债券受托管理人可以由本次发行的承销机构担
教师劳动的社会价值,主要是对教师劳动与需要它的社会之间的关系而言,指教师的劳动针对需要它的社会所具有的功能属性。()
汉语拼音的学习,对后面英语字母的学习产生的影响属于负迁移现象。
南水北调东线工程起点在长江下游的江都,终点到天津。()
有11个人围成一个圆圈,依次编成1—11号,从1号起轮流表演节目,轮流的方法是:隔一个人表演一个节目,隔两个人表演一个节目,再隔一个人表演一个节目,隔两个人表演一个节目……这样轮流下去,至少要表演多少个节目,才能使每个人表演的次数同样?(
下列表达式的值为2123的是()。
A—reading,referenceandcopyingJ—lecturehallB—staffonlyK—readingroomforreferencebooksC—closedshelvesforundergradua
最新回复
(
0
)