…the Bleacherman has entered stadium…having just left the nursery where the GOP are crying like frustrated babies…
The election is over. Obama has won, Romney has lost. Obama won the Electoral College vote by a very large number and the popular vote by a slim margin yet a margin that represents support by a majority of those Americans who voted in the election.
In eyes of Republicans, this was not supposed to happen. This was not the happy ending they expected. This was not how the world is supposed to be. Shell-shocked Republicans seem to believe that their Christian God has forsaken them. They believe that their Angels of Prophecy, Dick Morris and Rush Limbaugh, have lied to them. They believe blasphemy has been committed. The Angel of Hell is now riding the New York subway; hide the women, save the children. Or is that hide the money and save the art collection? I get confused when the term “values” is brought into a conversation when Republicans are involved. In their unique world, values somehow becomes a very fluid and moving target and difficult to define.
But I am compelled to address the political in-fighting and finger pointing that is evolving into a war right in front of me. Romney lost when most in the Republican Party not only thought he would win but unequivocally knew that Romney would win and win big in a landslide. Less than a week since the election and the blame game goes nuclear. Conventional wisdom demands that someone needs to be blamed and burned at the stake for a loss that everyone in the Republican Party claims never to have seen it coming. And pundits and politicians don’t seem to be at a loss for whom to blame.
Fox News’ Bill O’ Reilly, a man of a lot of words and little wisdom, said it best. He said that white, old man America is losing its power and prestige in this country. The good old boys club is crumbling. People of color are taking over his America. And Bill-O does not like that.
In this new order (which old white men like Bill-O fear), blacks can vote and on all levels of life operate on equal par with their former white masters, women can emancipate themselves from the kitchen and the bedroom to successfully run major corporations, Latinos are capable of achievements far beyond just knowing how to use a gas air blower and Asians do more than just make great sushi. (I know I left out many cultures and I apologize to all but do acknowledge your contributions to an expanding and growing America.)
David Frum blames what he calls the conservative entertainment complex. He claims that because of a small group of people who operate from an entirely different and self-serving agenda, the GOP had lost sight of reality and was drinking its own Kool Aid. Radio and television personalities spent years hovering over the periphery of American politics. They focused on birth certificates, ideological labels, make-believe layoffs and a myriad of other inconsequential matters and in the end did nothing but offer up a menu of lies, distortions and pure unadulterated bull shit that took the focus away from real issues. People like Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich made outrageous claims of landslide victories that were reinforced by talking heads and Fox blondes who sought to will an outcome rather than to report objectively on the election itself. They chose to disbelief the ‘main street’ media because in the end they believed their own lies.
Along with the finger pointers comes the sore losers. Sean Hannity on Wednesday said Americans deserve the government they voted for. The temper tantrum continued when the little boy proclaimed that “America now deserves Barack Obama – good luck with that.” Sean then took his ball and ran home. He didn’t want to play with the other boys and girls anymore.
Ted Nugent was not too happy when President Barack Obama was reelected, so he took to Twitter to denounce the “pimps,” “whores” and “welfare brats” who re-elected the President.
Ex-Judge and resident Fox News Intellectual Andrew P. Napolitan, sobbing uncontrollably, wrote an editorial where he said, “Only in America can a president who inherits a deep recession and whose policies have actually made the effects of that recession worse get re-elected. Only in America can a president who wants the bureaucrats who can’t run the Post Office to micromanage the administration of every American’s health care get re-elected. Only in America can a president who kills Americans overseas who has never been charged or convicted of a crime get re-elected. And only in America can a president who borrowed and spent more than $5 trillion in fewer than four years, plans to repay none of it and promises to borrow another $5 trillion in his second term get re-elected.”
In conclusion, he asks, “what’s going on here?”
Well I’ll tell you what is going on! What is going on is that I, an informed voter, believed that Obama was better suited to run this country for the next four years. I am neither a pimp, whore or welfare brat. I have a Master’s Degree in Economics. I am neither a communist nor a socialist. I am white, a member of the Judeo-Christian cult and more or less main stream. I am a veteran, fought for this country and I still love it. So I ask all of you cry babies to stop having a temper tantrum and stop condemning me for how I voted.
We live in a democracy and I have the right to choose my elected officials. So stop making America into your Christian, White man Fascist State. Stop I ask you again to stop condemning and belittling me for how I voted. You can disagree on ideological grounds but don’t demean me because I see the world differently than you do. You have no license when it comes to being right, you have no special vision granted to you because Fox is stupid enough to grant you either your own show or air time on radio or television. You are no better or smarter than I am. Period. So I ask you all to grow up and stop your little temper tantrum. If you want to leave this country then go ahead, take you toys and hatred and leave the sandbox – the sandbox your tax dollar built so all Americans, regardless of race, religion or color, can enjoy its utility.
…the Bleacherman has left the stadium…
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