Republicans, This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 6th, 2008 5:28 am by HL
Republicans, This Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
For members of the Grand Old Party, this is a day to celebrate. Your long national nightmare, otherwise known as the Bush administration, is over. Of course, there will be plenty of hand-wringing, finger-pointing and even internecine warfare among party activists and their interest-group allies over the next few weeks as various constituencies within the party seek to assign blame for Tuesday’s Democratic sweep, though it was not nearly as bad as it could have been considering the public mood and the Democrats’ financial advantage. Some will predict the end of the GOP. Others will merely consign it to minority party status for years because of demographic changes.
In with the New
In the end, American voters serve as the great equalizer. When one party goes too far, voters snap the leash, as they did on Tuesday. I still maintain that John McCain was the better presidential candidate, but I can’t blame swing voters for rejecting a party that had lost touch with the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans, and instead deciding to take a chance on the forward-looking Barack Obama. Thus history is made.