I never get bored watching politics; I get frustrated, morose, and psychotic, but not bored. How can I be, even after elections? There's so much to yell, scream and throw at the TV set! The best invention man has come up with are socks – they are wonderful to roll up into a wad and hurl at the TV screen in moments of insanity.
This time around, I didn't load up a basket of cotton projectiles because the public knew what it wanted. It delivered a powerful “lovers slap” across President Bush's face heard around the globe, leaving an unmistakable stinging red donkey on his cheek. The man who didn't get it, finally got it - and so did Republicans across the board in state and local races. It is on the state and local levels the show really played out.
Here in Dallas County, I watched a traditional Republican stronghold turn from red to blue. It wasn't in a few races – it was in all races. National politics came home and delivered every contested seat into Democratic hands. How mad do the voters of a major county have to be to turn it straight blue? The answer, it seems, is extremely mad. Some reporters have chalked it up to Dallas County turning blue slowly with immigration trends, and lamenting this was the natural course of the political scene, while ousted candidates admitted the national brand name of “Republican” was bad.
Most were right when they said, “this is a good year to be a challenger”.
It wasn't until later in the evening when the glum faces in the Republican camps gathered at the larger of the parties – the Dallas County RNC, it went from sad to ugly. It was there the Republican figurehead spouted his anger like a sour grape under pressure, railing with sentiments of, “the voters of Dallas County kicked out seven blacks and the only Asian and Latino in power!” Only he saw race, but the voters saw red.
He didn't understand or want to understand something the average voter does: it's not about “race”, it's about party. Baby Republicans grow up to be big Republicans, and even if they choose to stay in the crib with their bottle and taxpayer nipple, they still give cash to the big Republicans.
This was a multi-faceted decision, and in the voting booth, most are colorblind beyond red and blue. It was an indictment against the big Republicans they've been giving cash to. It was an indictment against President Bush. It was an indictment against the Congress who is not only corrupt, but has destroyed major freedoms instead of protecting them. It was an indictment against the Senate, who never acted like the check or balance our founding fathers intended them to be.
This was an absolute routing against all things Republican. Retired Rep. Dick Armey was partially correct when he said that Terri Schaivo and flag burning amendments weren't the bread and butter issues, and neither was the steroids baseball scandal. They were “simple” issues to distract from a larger duty, and Americans let the Republicans know that with a delivered landslide. No amount of voter intimidation, dirty politics, or illegal polling and discrediting the voter's right was enough to stop it.
As I watched the RNC head for Dallas County angrily give his speech, I couldn't help but think to myself, “Sir, I bet you have kids and maybe even grandkids…did you teach them to scream and yell when they lost?” I can't imagine that image leaving my brain for quite some time – and other voters are probably thinking the same thing. It was like watching a male version of Faith Hill. They placed the blame squarely on President Bush and his unpopular policies, but never mentioned any of their own personal faults that might have contributed to their personal downfalls.
This is certainly a factor, but what local and national Republicans have so far displayed is the same negative image: sore losers. In all the coverage I watched, not one Republican on the national or state level took it on the chin gracefully – they blamed something or someone else. I'm certain they probably taught their kids and grandkids to own up to their mistakes, but it seems those lessons have been forgotten as they age.
Amazingly, they didn't come right out and call the voters stupid, but Karl Rove has come close to it in the past by referring to us as “inattentive”. His disguise as “boy genius” regurgitating political gospel, has fallen away, giving light to the “turd blossom”. It seems the American people aren't as “inattentive” as you gambled, resulting in your bacon being tossed in the fire. It must have been a knee-knocking, wet diaper moment when it came to informing King George the strategies of fear and intimidation to keep the peasants in line, went down like the Hindenberg.
The November of sour grapes, has once again, produced enough sour whine to last through November 2008.
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