....and on the plus side, I can get to bed early tonight!
Well, this kind of thing happens every few decades. The Republicans will have to retrench and regroup, and be ready to come out swinging about a year from now with an alternate agenda that will be attractive to Americans concerned about the "changes" that Barack Obama will be forcing upon the country.
Remember 1994, and an upstart named Newt Gingrich? 2010 is not far away, and we have some young up-and-comers (Bobby Jindel, Eric Cantor, and that Governer of Alaska chick...) that can help lead the party back to prominence. Not that we can't use some more talent; the candidate recruitment of the Republicans has been pretty weak after a good run in the '90's. We need a better bench than we have now...
John McCain did a fine job, perhaps the only Republican that could have kept it so close this year. Although I wonder - would it have been better, perhaps, to go down with more of a "firebrand conservative", and have offered the voters a starker choice in philosophy, one that might be remembered better four years hence? We'll never know....
And may I say a fond farewell (hopefully, only temporery) to Sarah Palin? She shows more class and cool in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt than even Barack Obama can faux up on his best day, and I think he knew it all along:
She sooooo belonged in the White House....
Unlike the Democrats, let's show some class in defeat. That doesn't mean lie down and roll over: it means fighting for what we believe in, doubly so now. But their sneering childishness is not for us; and now that they've won, they won't be able to control it even in victory. This is an unlovely party filled with unlovely people, as America's about to find out once the Obama pixie dust wears off.
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She did belong, and maybe now she can help with the base, and get a administration position once they defeat the left-wing illuminati in 2012.
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