Posted on 11/09/2004 11:06:11 AM PST by ambrose
The election is over. Does anyone feel like it was all a bad dream?
What I mean is when you wake up from a bad dream and everything is fine, it takes a while to convince your conscious mind that it was all a bad dream.
That's how I am feeling about this campaign now. We woke up Wednesday morning, and the prospect of a Kerry presidency turned out to be a bad dream, yet I still can't quite convince myself that these Rats are going to go away and leave us the hell alone now.
Of course they're not going to go away and leave us alone. And why should they? Did we go away during the Clinton years?
I guess I'd better change my tagline.
On Monday before the election, I was very confident that Bush was going to win. The only time I was concerned was Tuesday afternoon after the exit polls leaked out. The concern vanished when I saw the early returns from Virginia, North Carolina, (especially) Florida, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Ohio, including which counties they were coming from in Florida and Ohio. Now I am ready to (excuse the pun) move on to the next four years.
I had a quiet faith that Bush would win...I have faith that the grumbling amd mischief will continue by the dems..We are going to have to listen for 4 years about their superior "values"...
Unfortunately all the ones threatening to leave the country..won't.
I was confident, but let me tell you one thing. I don't know if I am the only one who feels this way, but I feel like I went through an emotional 10 round boxing match with a really big boxer who whipped me till the very last minute when I got in a lucky punch.
Even though I won, I knew I'd be sore for a long..looooong time.
I am old enough to have been through the wars of elections since Eisenhower...I have been sorely disappointed before.
I really wanted Bush to win last time and the long wait on the final election decision was really draining...moreso than this..
This is really over..though there will be accusations of this or that..There are no "perfect "elections.
There is always a bit of a letdown after all the intensity and then the "high" of winning,of course.
I am feeling good,...America won.
"Does anyone feel like it was all a bad dream? "
No, but when I woke up extremely constipated last Wednesday, I went to the bathroom and took a big Kerry and felt better.
"I feel like I went through an emotional 10 round boxing match with a really big boxer who whipped me till the very last minute when I got in a lucky punch."
Actually, I felt like I wanted so much to hit the other guy except his larger wingspan kept me at a distance. I and my GOP brethren finally got past the barrier and landed a devastating blow.
When it was over I felt like I had emotional whip-lash.
As for the Dems going away, sadly, no. Even though the news is good for the country and ourselves, nothing is more dangerous than a cornered rat.
Literally.
Ever since November 1992.
I mentioned to a friend yesterday that I feel like I've just returned home from a long trip. I finally feel like I'm back in my own life.
Many times during the past year I felt like I was in a nightmare and couldn't wake up. It seemed at the time to last forever, but in hindsight, it seems to have passed quickly.
The "passing quickly" may be because I was dreading the possible aftermath. After living through the 2000 recounts and court cases from the geographical center of the storm, it's such a relief to drive through town now and see no news trucks, no reporters, no David Boise, and no UHauls full of ballots.
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