I am forever amazed how even so-called conservatives have amnesia when it comes to what happened in 2010, one of the most historic elections of our lifetimes. Yet, it is as though those elections never took place or have absolutely no meaning for what will happen in 2012. I credit the Dems and the MSM for downplaying or ignoring them.
Kabar, I readily admit that I’m discouraged, and that probably (no, certainly) colors my outlook on the current political situation more bleakly than it probably deserves. I can safely say that the mainstream media really hasn’t had a hand in my pessimism, since I don’t read newspapers or watch television. As a matter of fact, I pretty much use Free Republic as my jumping off point for news.
I simply can’t accept watching the media, because I understand they can’t help themselves with their ingrained biases. It is in their very nature, and that isn’t going to change.
It turns out that Free Republic is by far the best option for me. I will say this, I didn’t see a huge amount of jubilation or optimism… what I saw (in my opinion) was a guarded gratification in the outcome coupled with a “let’s wait and see” attitude. I did think that was the proper response, given what we had seen up to that point. I do recognize that credit should be given where it is due, and that is to a degree the gumming-up of government, in effect slowing everything down.
Where I am having difficulty is in believing 2 things: First, that this will carry over into the main election, and Second, that even if Republicans do manage to regain the White House, I’m not sure that any candidate on the Republican side will supply the correct medicine.
Since putting some energy into getting Scott Brown elected (both time and money) then seeing him do the things that he did, it brought me to the hard realization that being a little bit liberal is very much like being a little bit pregnant. Just like the progression of a pregnancy ends up (most of the time) in the birth of a child, the progression of liberalism is very much a one-way ratchet, in that every surrender to liberalism is ground lost, rarely to be regained.
In other words, I’ve come to the conclusion that you reach the same degree of liberalism by being a bit liberal as you do by being fully liberal.
It just takes you longer to get there.
Anyway, I do agree completely with your assessment of the historic nature of the election, something that was completely muted, as far as I could tell.
And I add to that, I still, to this day have not gotten over the shock that I experienced after the election of Barack Obama.
It still befuddles me, even though I understand the dynamic completely, that our country would have elected a person like that to the Presidency. Here was a man whose political mentor was a known terrorist. A man who sat in a so-called “church” and listened to virulently racial sermons for 20 years, and claimed he hadn’t heard it. A man whose Bible was not a Christian Bible, but a book by an evil man named Saul Alinsky who found it necessary to include a tribute to Satan in the Bible that he wrote.
As I write this, I still have trouble believing it. This guy I described above was elected President of the United States.