Well, to say Nov. 4 was emotional would be the understatement of all time. I lost track of how many celebrities who admitted shedding a tear or two because I was too busy shedding a couple of my own. This has been a long hard-fought emotional battle for eight years which seemed more like a lifetime. Yeah, yeah, I know I should be magnanimous in victory, but stick that thought up their crazy GOP asses. I want to stomp on their ugly heads every time they pop up from the whack-a-mole hole. I want to chase them into the hell they claim to believe in that they so richly deserve.
Our side always knew this election was never a black or white thing, but about right and wrong issues. We’ve been fighting for years against policies we knew to be pig-headed wrong, policies both domestic and foreign designed to favor the filthy rich at the expense of the majority. Policies based on fear and outright lies. It was beyond frustrating to suffer through the GOP stealing just enough votes and fooling just enough idiots with wedge issues to prevail. Why would anyone care if his neighbor married his dog? After all, we did find out from Sarah Palin that pit bulls wear lipstick, or hockey moms, whatever.
While everything seemed to go wrong for the McCain campaign, from his fumbling to find a consistent message to the bad timing of economic events, not to mention the almost perfect campaign Obama ran, the turning point for me was the Katie Couric interview, run not over one day but three. You almost had to feel sorry for the repubs (I didn’t), going from the euphoria of her convention speech to three solid days in a row of rolling their eyes watching over and over again her flubbed grade three answers to simple grade six questions. The fight for moderates and independents was now over because how could they vote for a candidate who picked such a light weight for VP, a choice who quite possibly could take over the presidency considering McCain’s age and heath. McCain, like Bush, was making choices based on politics and not what was best for the country. Most Americans had had enough of poor decisions and and god-awful choices for important positions in government and that was reflected with overwhelming clarity on November 4.
The future is hardly predictable, but at least for the next four years unlike the last eight, we know the smartest guy in the room will be calling the shots. What happens after that is anyone’s guess, but it’s a good bet that if the GOP picks Ms. Palin for 2012, we can all rest easy until 2016.
I suspect after a few more weeks, once the comics run out material for jokes, it will be Sarah who?