Post Election Day Thoughts

President Bush was re-elected. I can breathe again! Actually, I was quite at peace with the world the night before the election. I had turned over all my worries to God. I figured that His will would be done. If Kedwards was elected it would signal that He was none too pleased with the U. S. of A. and, therefore, our destruction was assured, as in Old Testament times. Hey, I'm studying the prophets right now, so I know how many times the LORD tried to warn his people, to no avail. Sometimes I feel like we're just repeating those bad times: the people continued to do what was wrong according to the LORD -- over and over and over. Sound familiar?

Although I was at peace the night before the election, that didn't stop my anxiety during the evening vigil on the day itself. I was quite relieved when ABC's Peter Jennings announced that Fox News Channel had called Ohio for Bush. At that point I channel-surfed furiously among the networks (I don't have cable) and soon came to the conclusion that they all were stubbornly refusing to call the election for President Bush (they were in as much denial as the Kedwards team) rather than "showing extreme caution," as they claimed. I decided to call it a night around 2:30 a.m. EST. I wouldn't have stayed up that late, but I really thought at least one network would come to its senses and throw in the towel. Still, I went to bed fairly confident that it would be Bush-Cheney for FOUR MORE YEARS.

The treatment of Bush and his adminstration by the Dimmicrats and liberal MSM was simply appalling. I recall similar hostility toward President Reagan (God rest his soul) during my college years. Reagan always reminded me of my maternal grandmother with his sincere faith in God, so I always liked him. In my more politically naïve days I never understood why so many in our government and around the world thought he was Evil Incarnate. Yet, it seems like "déjà vu all over again." Bush is not evil, nor are the members of his administration. Their actions and words do not merit such vitriol. They have very tough jobs and they don't have the advantage of hindsight. Every decision they make has far-reaching implications. I am glad that the majority of Americans saw the importance of choosing a leader who is decisive. Wishy-washy, flippy-floppy, finger in the wind Kerryites would have led us to disaster. Electing John-John would have signalled to terrorists and the world our Spain-like unwillingness to confront evil in our time. Thank you, Lord, for affirming your faith in us. As during 2000, I believe our fate was in His hands on November 2 and, needless to say, we are in GOOD hands.

Now, I come from a divided political family. My parents and I are the sensible conservatives while my siblings are the graduate school-influenced libs. My sister, I'm sure, threw in her lot for Kedwards -- in the Buckeye State, no less. Thankfully there were enough born-again Christians to counteract her misguidedness. I smile when I read the rantings of those like Slate's clueless Jane Smiley who believes that we Bushies are simpletons and ignoramuses and that the Republican Party "cultivate(s) and exploit(s) ignorance in the citizenry." I have read more political punditry in the past four years, from both sides, than I care to recount. My decisions are hardly ill-informed or dangerously shallow. On the contrary. I just don't buy what the Dimmicrats/MSM are selling. It doesn't jive with my built-in antenna. And, no, Karl Rove didn't install that antenna. Ha, made you laugh!

The Left & Osama bin Laden: Like 2 Peas in a Pod

Jim Geraghty at The Kerry Spot had this observation about bin Laden's October Surprise videotape:

The far left hates George W. Bush with a raging fury. So does al-Qaeda. Was it really so shocking that the rhetoric of the former would eventually be taken up by the latter?

No, this tape should cause many on the left to stare into the mirror for a long time and ask, “What have I turned into? How did I become so reflexively partisan, so blinded by rage, so intemperate in my rhetoric that my own arguments are being echoed by a man who planned and enjoyed the mass murder of Americans?”

“How the hell did I reach the point where I agree with Osama bin Laden on Bush?”

Yep, that is what many on the Left have become. Their Bush-hating has grown so radical that even Osama has to be viewed as their ally. Scary, isn't it?