Harry Reid has rapidly devolved into nothing more than a low-class punk. I'm honestly surprised at how quickly it occurred.
It appears to me that these people still don't understand the fact that we are watching. Not just looking, but watching; not just hearing, but listening.
Witness the Left's actions in and around the last three elections (2000, 2002, 2004):
One involved calling a major state for a candidate while the polls were still open in the state's two time zones, and in areas where the voters were more predisposed to vote for the challenger, based on his (and his father's) respect for the military (and his opponent's loathing of the same).
When the results came back much closer than expected (as in "the trick didn't work"), the incumbent challenger held up the proceedings in court for a full month, lying through his teeth that he wanted "every vote counted", while only counting in highly Democratic counties, railing against ballot inconsistencies (designed by a Democrat), suing to get the overseas military vote thrown out, and trying to force his opponent to agree to a full recount (which he had already won). No election will ever be the same again, and 2000 set the precedent.
Another election was marked, or perhaps it is "mauled" by the distaste of a memorial service turned into a political rally. I wasn't much into the midterm elections, and didn't know what they really meant, and as such had never heard what happened until I read Bill Sammon's book "Misunderestimated".
What one party did, at this man Wellstone's memorial service, was beyond "beyond the pale". As a result, the "opposition party" tuened into the minority party on both sides of the legislative branch, and the usual circumstance of losing seats in the House/Senate did not happen with this President.
The final election occurred during wartime, something that had not happened since--well--Vietnam. I'm hesitant to even mention that word, because I heard more about Vietnam in the last year and a half than I ever heard in elementary, junior and senior high school. And not once did I hear of the extraordinary exploits of a war hero with the same initials as a slain president.
From what I heard in school, Vietnam was just an all-around disaster for America. It figures, then, that a candidate for the Presidency (30 years later) would try to ride his "fame" all the way to the White House. Never mind that a REAL war hero, a World War II hero, lost to an admitted draft dodger eight years earlier. But I digress.
Only the brashest of the brash would try to position himself as a war hero of a war that was hated by many Americans (or was it?), a war that we lost (but had been winning), and--though he didn't think we'd know--a war from which he'd been deferred FOUR times, before finally going after his fifth deferment was denied.
Imaginary tales of war crimes; admitting that he himself committed them; not being able to substantiate them in a debate against a gentleman he probably never thought he'd see again--
---and this was the best that one party could do against a sitting President whose father had been Vice President to one of the greatest leaders this country has known, and who--by way of his election as President--worked in the White House for 12 straight years;
--the incumbent who studied at Yale and Harvard (and earned an MBA there), was a former owner of a baseball team, was elected to two terms as Governor of Texas, had been elected to the Presidency, had guided the country through its worst attack in 60 years, and had waged two highly successful (and ongoing) campaigns against terror sponsoring nations...
The media was in the challenger's back pocket. Some of the most vile, hateful, vindictive things that could be said about a man were said about this President...they even went to the point of saying how much better Reagan was, and the Left hate(d/s) Reagan. When Reagan died in June, the candidate praised him...in the midst of a campaign...when Reagan left office in 1989, the same candidate, then and now a Senator, called Reagan's presidency "eight years of moral darkness".
The President who said as a candidate in his convention speech in 2000, "I don't have to take a poll in order to know my mind", who said "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon", and then went out and--gasp--did what he said he'd do, this man was framed as a deserter, AWOL, miscreant, shirker of his National Guard service...from the same time period as the challenger's service in Vietnam (by the way, did you know that John Kerry served in...)
Anti-incumbent books were produced for the challenger, and given free publicity by the media(side note, I just saw many of them collecting dust at a publisher's clearing house...heh heh heh)...especially by 60 Minutes...while books with an opposite point of view were given minimal to no exposure, even to men who ALSO served in Vietnam and with/for the "Presidential candidate", who were labeled by the same as a "front for the Bush campaign".
Of course, there was more...and on election day (my...ahem...original point), an effort was yet again made to deceive the voters that the outcome was already decided...this, in the form of fraudulent exit polls that were jumped on by those who are almost ohgasmic to break a story. (Sorry, Drudge...)
And still, it didn't work. The books, the slanders, the trial lawyer vice-president "mah dahd wuhked ina meeel", the shouts of "creepy liar", the former vice president derangedly yelling for the resignation of every person in the President's cabinet ("Paul WOL--FO--WITZ...OUGHTA RESIGN...IMMEDIATELY!"), the propaganda piece that made Joseph Goebbels look like Cecil B. DeMille, the featuring of the same in the "Presidential box" next to that noted foreign policy master, Jimmalaise Carter...
It didn't work. The President was reelected, the Republicans added seats in both houses of Congress (again), and--showing his class--the failed candidate said "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot!"
And so it goes. People like Dingy Harry better hope that one race that has been solidly in the Democrats' corner for years--mine, American blacks--don't continue to slip away...because I have been watching. I have been listening. I am highly motivated to do what I can to help ensure that this government "of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth".