I suspect that a large number of my fellow Conservatives carried out their threat to stay home on election day in order to convey their displeasure with Republican leadership. While I understood and shared their frustration, I thought it was a foolhardy thing to do. It struck me as being as irresponsible as teaching a toddler not to play with sharp things by filling his crib with knives and nails. Liberals, after all, can do a great deal of damage in two years. Which is why I suspect that, on November 8th, millions of Conservatives woke up, much like drunks awaking after a binge, rubbed their eyes and said, “I did what?!”
The only real upside to the election that I can see is that two years of Nancy Pelosi’s shrill voice and arrogant personality could serve as a fair warning of what four years of Hillary would be like.
Prior to the election, the thing that kept confounding me was all the talk suggesting that the media’s reporting early returns in the East might have an effect on voter turn-out here in the West. Was I the only person who was aware that we weren’t electing a president? Did anybody really think that we westerners might stay home and not bother voting for a senator, a governor and scores of congressmen, just because the polls had closed in New York and Massachusetts?!
If I came away with any final thought, it’s that the electorate clearly has no problem voting for clowns, but as they showed in Montana and Virginia, where they failed to elect Burns and Allen, they draw the line at professionals.