Posted on 11/05/2008 7:13:48 AM PST by Gondring
It's over. Nov. 5 has come, and no matter whom you were rooting for, many political animals say the day after an election can bring on a special sort of blues. The bored kind.
"It's almost kind of a surreal feeling. [...] When her father's campaign ended during the Republican primaries, Huckabee said she felt more than a sense of loss.
"It felt like it didn't hit us until a couple of weeks later when we were like, 'Uh, what do we do now?' You don't know how to have a normal life anymore," [...]
"Getting back to the real world is probably one of the hardest things," she said. [...] Bill McConochie, the founder of Political Psychology Research, Inc.[...]
"What I do know from my research is there are two types of political animals, if you will," McConochie said. According to McConochie, how far a person falls on either end of a spectrum of "liberal" or "conservative" traits will determine how serious they will take a victory or defeat on Election Day: The more extreme in views, the more important the election.
"Their reaction will simply depend on how strongly a person is invested in the election process," said McConochie.
[...]
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Well, the booze didn't help last night. But I plan on trying it again ASAP.
I second those best wishes. It’s surreal because the train wreck hasn’t really happened yet,,,but it’s surely coming and we will be trying very hard to get off the train, off the tracks and out of the path of the destruction. As small business owners, I say we have about a year.
Pissed off, yes......but not depressed.
And remember -- it aways better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Go out and buy a new rifle (for a rainy day) - while you still can.
And a few thousand rounds of ammo, before the price goes up 300%.....
No actually the booze was a tremendous help. I expect it to help again tonight!
Anger, like fire, can refine and purify. Let's get started.
Voted best comment of the day!
“Conservatives typically aren’t the type to be “depressed” by this kind of event.
Pissed off, yes......but not depressed.
And remember — it aways better to be pissed off than pissed on.”
Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.
I’m too enthusiastic to be depressed.
I woke up in Texas this morning.
Thank you God. Its going to be a great day.
My dog and my republic died yesterday.
Today [”post-mortem day”] I will be waiting for the guy with the backhoe to come so I can bury her.
There may be a metaphor in there, somewhere.
Right now, I don’t feel very strong or hopeful at all.
We have just experienced a political coup.
[and screw anybody who thinks I’m “whining”]
We also depend on a small home based business to survive.
A year?
*sigh*
Finding a job would sure help. I know it would sure help me anyway.
Psalms 140-143 helped this morning.
Lord, let my enemies be ensnared in the traps they have laid for me, and let me walk past them unscathed.
Only unstable Liberals get depressed. Right wing conservatives get even.
Yoda's advice different is. "The cork in the bottle keep and the crack pipe cool. Young Jedis, many Communists before you were born I fought. They can be powerful opponents, but intelligence and cunning they lack. As the powerful Jedi Master, Ronaldus Magnus said, 'Talk tough and build Star Wars.'
Survived worse we have. Again we shall thrive and succeed."
McCain was the worst possible candidate. It remains to be seen as to whether or not he was our actual choice, since so many demonRATs crossed over to make sure he got the position on the ticket.
But he didn’t deserve to win. The only thing he did RIGHT was to choose Palin- everything else was just being dumb. He “crossed” the aisle so much, he didn’t know how to fight the dems. He SHOULD have gone after Obama for every question we had about this new “dear leader” of ours. McCain is as responsible for whatever damage this cretin does as those who voted for Obama.
I am going to cope by canceling my cable T.V. and will not watch much of anything on networks. Will have to be WWIII before I turn them on.
Also goes for any of their “branch” companies such as Disney.
It’s not much, but it will make me feel better. :)
If our business does manage to stay in operation, it will be due in part to getting rid of employees.
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