Election Over

I would have felt mortified if Romney had won, and/or if Claire McCaskill hadn't beaten Todd Akin. The latter would have been a disgrace to my state. After two years of election coverage, it's finally.

This is a worse defeat than it first looks. Only gerrymandering kept Repubs from losing the House. Republicans know this. Moreover, some of the most hardline conservatives either went down (Allen West) or made it by the skin of their teeth (Michele Bachmann). The survivors are going to be less audacious.

Conservatives like to make the excuse that Romney was a weak candidate. And which of their other candidates was stronger? They had a large sample of Conservative leadership on display early this year. What they showed me was modern Conservatism produces people who are either dishonest, insane, thieving or two or more of the above. I can't imagine Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain running a campaign that came within ten points and two hundred electoral votes of President Obama. The embarrassment is they spent four years smearing the guy-- this is supposed to be Hitler--  and they couldn't beat him. They still couldn't beat "Hitler."

Republican leadership is not going to get better, because these are the children of Reagan. One generation raised under Conservative auspices and propaganda that isolated them from the real world. It's given the GOP the likes of George W. Bush and Rick Perry, plus a constituency that pretends that there's nothing wrong with those guys.

For the billionaires, like the Koch Brothers, who donated, um, invested millions in PAC money, you can't blame. You can't blame a piece of shit if it still smells after you've dressed it up. He was the best candidate you could get, and sadly, that was the best campaign he could have run for your cause. With Citizens United removing donation limits, they thought they had it all figured out. They some media companies. They redistributed some wealth. Another election like this and those companies might just build a fiberoptic system so that our Internet isn't third world anymore. They might think twice about campaign donations now. They might just come to the conclusion that it's cheaper to be taxed instead.

The election might be over, but the whining has started. From Rush Limbaugh, to Ann Coulter to Carl Rove. They all can't believe all the smear tactics didn't take. They can't believe that people would rather worry about being buried under medical bills for bad luck. No, this is called letting the government do its job, as it does with medicine in every other country in the civilized world.
 
And they're all shocked. Didn't you guys read polls? They did but you didn't believe them. They preferred the Intelligent-Design approach to interpreting polls. Catch up with the times. Polls have become extremely good in the last few decades. When most are pointing the same direction, you can count on the election going that way.

I would have felt guilty if the Dems had lost, though, because this time I didn't volunteer. I needed my time. Still do. Maybe 2014, but let's give it about 20 months before the campaigning starts.

Oh, anybody notice that Puerta Rico voted for statehood? Here's the US flag with PR as the 51st star:

Yeah!