The Anchoress observes:
Weirdest election fall-out so far…
Just judging from my email and a few sites I’ve visited here and there…the weirdest fallout I’ve seen from the election is that the far left folks seem to be annoyed…angry, even at the right for not being more pissed-off, for being mostly philosophical instead of enraged about the results. I think they were hoping to enjoy watching us flip out, and they’re not seeing it. Instead of ranting and carrying on about “leftards” and spewing venom and hate and charging “stolen, stolen,” the righty blogs are thinking things over and talking and even - fer heaven’s sake - daring to laugh in real amusement as they watch the strangely positive headlines which have surfaced in the press since Tuesday.
I mean, it is VERY amusing (sad, and pathetic, too, but also vastly funny) to see the MSM (the “mediating intelligences”) suddenly proclaim the new gains in the stock market as fantastic news! (Stocks climb on Dem wins! When they reached 12,000 under Bush and a GOP congress, it was doom, doom, doom!). In three days Afghanistan went from a quagmire to a place of hope oh, and look! Now that the Dems are incontrol, we’re finally allowed to read about the tremendous advances being made in ADULT stem cell research!
I agree with her somewhat, but probably for different reasons. I'm not ranting and raving at the democrats or about stolen elections because I don't blame any of that for the loss. I blame some in the Republican party who were so intractable about the border issue and so insistent on fence, fence, fence, no amnesty that they cost good people like J.D. Hayworth his seat. People who actually live in border states do not like the Malkin/Tancredo idea of immigration reform, they want comprehensive reform like the President has proposed. I am with that group 100%. Many more did not like the way some in the party abandoned the President on Harriet Miers. It isn't that they had an overriding desire to see Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court. They objected to the unfairness of the criticism without giving her a day of hearings. I was in complete agreement with that point of view and very offended by the hardline attitude of people like Bill Kristol and his minions. A part of me is very glad to see those wishy washy politicians defeated. I do not want my representative to kowtow to the loony right anymore than I want it to listen to anything the loony left has to say, no matter how comical it is.
If it weren't for the military issues and my fear of what will be coming down the pike tax-wise, I wouldn't give a damn who won. Well, scratch that, I care a big deal about that senile old man, "cut and run" Murtha, being reelected. I find myself in a position of having almost nothing in common with these neo-rights. I usually reserve my accusations of elitism and arrogance to the limousine liberals, but I have to admit now that the traits aren't limited to the left. They are alive and well in a whole segment of the Republican party, who got way too big for their britches and began to think their voices should be considered far more important than the average grass roots citizen and voter. Where I see disaster is in the lack of objectivity of this group and their so-far inability to take responsibility for their part in this loss. Instead of realizing that it is they so out of touch, they think they have to work harder to alienate even more people by becoming even more hardline and intractable in their positions. This does not bode well for the future.
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