ENOUGH SCHADENFREUDE!

Me | 11/6/2002

[ArcLight]

I've detected way too much gloating up in here. It makes me uncomfortable and I wonder if it bothers anybody else.

I thank God the GOP did as well as it did, but I harbor no hatred for the opposition. For one thing, well, I just don't. I find it hard to hate somebody just because he'd pull a different lever in a voting booth. For another, if we did that, we'd be just like the worst, creepiest people we've seen in the Democrat party--the ones that held the Wellstone funerally or who passed out Oreo cookies to attack a black Republican in Maryland.

I can't stand that kind of hateful attack-dog stuff, and I want no part of it. The gloating I see here reminds me of it, and I hope that people will dial it back a bit, now that the first flush of victory has passed.

Or is it just me?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

No gloating here. In RI, we held of the attack of the red witch, Myrth-less the Commie, but we were over run and slaughtered in every other contest.

The sun isn't shining too brightly in the Black Lagoon.

[Shooter 2.5]

I usually notice that type of behavior from people who weren't part of the process of getting the work done. The workers for the campaigns are just tried and relieved.

The workers can easily see it could have gone the other way.

Senator Cornyn said it best. Now the real work begins.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

After all the Democrats have put us through, I think we're entitled to feel good about this. The message is that the country is rejecting them and embracing President Bush - that makes me happy. I won't apologize for it.

Maybe you're talking about something else, and I just haven't seen the posts that are causing you to cringe.

When I heard the new "junior" senator from New Jersey take one final [insert slang for urination here] on Forrester in his breathtakingly classless acceptance speech, any reluctance I felt to gloat was whisked away. To hell with 'em.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

No gloating here. In RI, we held off the attack of the red witch, Myrth-less the Commie, but we were over run and slaughtered in every other contest.

The sun isn't shining too brightly in the Black Lagoon.

[BuddhaBoy]

I harbor no hatred for the opposition.

Well, the 'opposition' wants to take your money, property and freedom, and redistribute it to THEIR voters.

They want to negage achievement, punish success and dumb down the country, so that they might easier gain and hold power.

Bottom Line: I do hate them, and I dont mind saying so.

They are my constant enemy, because I know that they are out there plotting to take away more and more of my constitution rights for their own self-enrichment.

I intend to laugh it up as much as I can, because tommorow the fight begins again.

[vikzilla]

It ain't gloating when you back it up. Great job GOP. These people are evil. Those that support them are evil or complicit. I hold them in contempt.

"Strange Joy", naw! It's only strange the first time.

[clintonh8r]

I've seen very little gloating, lots of celebrating. And if it's gloating, so what? When McAuliffe gets fired and RAT Senate committee chairmen get their puny new assignments and second rate office space, I'll be gloating. Guaranteed.

[Hugin]

Sorry but schadenfreude is not the same thing as celebrating a hard won victory. After the what the RATS did in 2000, and the corrupt scams since then, from Jeffords to the NJ switch scheme, to the crass Wellstone memorial, we have the right to gloat a bit. There is comparison to what the Dems did at the Wellstone memorial. We won fair and square, despite the fraud and deceit of the RATS.

And I don't think the hatred is aimed so much at Democrat voters as at the corrupt and crooked leaders of that party.

[freepersup]

I've got that joyjoyjoyjoy down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart

I've got that joyjoyjoyjoy down in my heart, DOWN IN MY HEART TO STAY !

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

After all the smug and smarmy gloating they've done in the past, and indulge in every time they get a chance, I think we are entitled to a little celebrating (I wouldn't call it gloating) ourselves.

Lighten up!

[Grut]

Good heavens, if you can't gloat over your opponents' failures and consign them to eternal hellfire for their slightest character faults, what's the point of being a Christian?

Incidentally, does anybody know why "Schadenfreude" is capitalized?

[skeeter]

The other side has enough hate for all of us.

I don't hate them, but I'll be DAMNED if I'm not gonna have a little fun at their expense.

[MHT]

A couple of weeks ago I tried to exit the highway and a guy wouldn't let me into his lane (I had time and had signaled) and then he yelled at me to F-off and gave me the finger. I couldn't figure out what I had done to him and my husband later said he thought it was my Talent bumpersticker. (The buy was in a modified with ladders, perhaps a union worker.)

There could have been a wreck and this guy's road rage at me could have gotten people killed. Talk about hatred! All for a lousy bumpersticker?

America seems like two different countries sometimes and I think that their hate-filled practices have fed the division.

[A_perfect_lady]

I divide lefties into two groups: those who know where they are leading us and those who just hate the rich. I despise both kinds with a burning passion. I hate with all my heart those who will abolish our Bill of Rights the first chance they get and hand us over on a platter to the Socialists who run the UN, who will loot us and divvy up the kitty between them, and then begin dragging all of humanity into the abyss. Even now I am actually restraining myself so as not to say how I REALLY feel.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to gloat some more and plot the next round of attacks in 2004. May our enemies be vanquished, may they gnash their teeth and pull their hair, may we hear the weeping and wailing of their women, etc etc etc.

[js1138]

Can't we have 24 hours of gloating? Then we can go back to being "walk all over me" nice

Sounds good to me. But rather than "nice" I suggest getting back to the war.

[clintonh8r]

In German, common nouns are capped.

[Rytwyng]

I agree... let's knock off the gloating...the results could be tragic

Proverbs 24
17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18 or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn His wrath away from him.

We wouldn't want God's wrath to be removed from the Demon-crats, would we? I have long suspected that God allowed Clinton's impeachment to fail for this very reason. So, let's not blow it again.

Stop gloating! Leave God's wrath where it belongs -- on them, not us!

[Fred Mertz]

I've been smiling all day and I have a bounce in my step now. I'm not gloating, but yesterday's election will go down in the history books. It was a colossal, historic victory for President Bush and the Pubbies.

The rest of the world knows that not only is Bush serious, but we the people are too.

[RooRoobird14]

ArcLight, I WILL enjoy my schadenfreude today, and nobody is going to stop me!!

(Believe me, the Republican schadenfreude is 1/1,000,000,000th of what the Dims would indulge in if they were celebrating a similar victory).

[Hugin]

Correction--that should read "There is no comparaison..."