Mixed Reactions

I guess, numerically/quantitatively, I am happy with the results of Tue's election. I imagine what the pundits are saying, but anyway one looks at them, the results are staggering. The Reps demolished the Dems. Even more so than nationally, the state results tell the picture--more than 680 party changes in state legislature seats!!!! Yet, I am concerned/bothered by more than one thing.

First, Obama and the other self-anointed elites are not likely to pay attention to the message. They might not even get it. But, assuming they do, what do we peons know? We're stupid; they know it and have told us. They are smarter than we are and know what's best for us better than we do. So, why would the election have anything to do with anything? He needs to be defeated in 2012, preferably in the primaries.

Second, the Republicans have to have heard the message. While they are exchanging hugs and high fives all over the country, the Republicans must realize what we are telling them. They must behave responsibly, not like the ersatz Republicans of the past dozen years. Here's where I favor a third or new party. I don't trust the Republicans, who've shown again and again in the recent past that they lack integrity and courage.

Third, it is devastating to me that people like Reid, Murkowski, Dingell, Peters, etc. can be re-elected. How????? Oh, I understand, I guess, how and why. But, I don't understand either. Dingell was facing a top-flight candidate, Rob Steele. The man is intelligent, wants to serve (he isn't a career politician and doesn't need the money or headaches). He had the right ideas. Yet, he lost, by 15 points or more. How? I know it's the closest race Dingell has ever had and he was running scared, but so what? He won. Dingell, on the radio more than once, laughed in our faces, pretty much calling us stupid. He claimed to have been the author of the ObamaCare bill, but admitted he hadn't read the whole thing. When questioned, he said he knows what's good for us better than we do. (Well, I have some news for him. I'm no genius, but I've heard him talk and he isn't smarter than I am!) Steele was characterized as "one of those rich guys" or something in that vein. He's a cardio-surgeon. Is being a "rich guy," which would seem to indicate he's a successful surgeon, a bad thing? Is having money a bad thing? Maybe we should ask the thousands of people whose lives he has saved or extended what they think about hims being successful or even wealthy! And Peters.... Granted, the Reps threw a lollipop at him, not a very strong candidate in opposition. But, Peters outspent the Rocky guy by two times and his ads were disingenuous, if not dishonest. The "fair tax" that Rocky supports is not "a 23% increase in taxes," not at all. And to claim that Peters is "independent" is a laugh. He voted lock, stock, and barrel with Obama and Pelosi when it counted. When the Dems didn't "need" his vote to pass stuff, he was released from a "yes" vote so he could claim "independence." I suppose that Reid barely pulling out a victory over Angle is a strong statement--couldn't a much, much better opponent be found? Yet, that he had so resort to shady tactics--could the LV casino owners have exerted much more pressure on their employees to vote for Reid?--and even voter fraud--the reports of Reid's name already being marked on absentee and early voting ballots?--should be some consolation, but it's not. I guess I just don't like it when the bad guys win--ever.

Maybe I'll perk up in time....