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This post election victory celebration of a MoveOn group shows their total inability to live up to their namesake.



Having been part of political organizing myself in conservative circles you can be sure that liberals don't have a monopoly on such idiocy. They simply don't have the energy to hold down that fort since they spend half the time monopolizing the mainstream media, while the other half is dedicated to denying it.

In politics everyone wants to be the smartest man in the room and the center of attention just has to be on them. As they say, politics is show business for ugly people. (You're trying to think of a good looking politician now...aren't you?)

Seriously, why do you think Sarah Palin was such an overnight hot commodity?

"I got a bookish look and you're all hot fo' teacher."

That's funny because its true people! But I digress....

Even in death Copernicus can't catch a break....politicians all over the world carry on like the universe revolves around THEM! This is why government, despite our best efforts, grows as if its a force or nature (or as Bill Clinton might say, like his "cigar" at the sight of Monica Lewinsky's misunderstood beauty) : a politician's need to feel consequential is a legislative beast that is never recognized, and its hunger can never be satisfied.

Which of course begs the question: Do politicians REALLY try to avoid scandal? Because writing laws ain't making it happen for them. Unless you're President the only things that get a politician a headline worth talking about are:

1. Scandals, and

2. Nothing else.

Thats the problem with politics...its really just one big open mic night for attention whores, and the video above is exhibits A-Z.

Once in a RARE while we get someone who rises through the ranks who is indeed fighting for something bigger than themself...the kind of person who, risks being hung for treason against the crown by taking on the most powerful empire in the world (or as MoveOn would put it: "some rich guys who didn't want to pay taxes), the kind of person who knows that a house divided cannot stand and gives his life to the cause of preventing its collapse, the kind of person who knows that their highly paid advisors are wrong when they tell them not to admonish the world to "tear down this wall."

The don't come often enough, but thank God they come at all.

The video above is a testament to the fact that it wasn't superior organization, or even better ideas (or any ideas) that got President-elect Obama elected, it was the incompetence of the Republican Party the moment George "W"ubber Stamp Bush became president....it has to be that, I refuse to believe that conservatism has become so unintelligible that it lost to the people in the video because they were smarter.

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Its been more than a couple of weeks now...so hopefully some of the "shock" that McCain can add the number 44 next to 43 on his personal "Numbers that aren't lucky for me" list has worn off.

Another good thing out of this election is I have a new favorite knock knock joke:

Knock knock

Who's there?

Guess....

Guess who?

Guess who never deserved to be president in the first place?

Come to think of it...that joke works no matter who won.

I did not vote for McCain...despite my previous proclamation that I would. After the debates, and especially after he wanted to buy up all the bad mortgages in the country (leaving me to wonder why I still lived in an apartment) I decided this man should not be the face of my preferred political philosophy. Its bad enough that "stupid, with a daddy complex" ruled the day for 8 years....it doesn't need to be amplified by 4+ years of "crazy grizzled".

I have to make it clear that I did not vote for Obama either...because Russian Roulette with 5 bullets is more fun than doing that.

I did a write in-vote, and somewhere in our great country there are several men or billions of liquid molecules who owe me a debt of gratitude for casting my vote for them.....Jack Daniels.

I'm not gong to play the boo hoo games that the left plays when they don't get their way in an election (I'm sure California Prop 8 protesters have no idea what I'm talking about)...Barack Obama will be my president, I might not like his policies, but I accept him. (and by might not I mean "most definitely will not...but I hope I'm wrong")

So the Republican Party needs get their act together. I know its hard to tell whether that stinky smell they've been ignoring is either its national leadership or the result of its head being up its ass since 2000, but they need to figure something out now, because I speak for the entire party, especially when their candidate for president in 2008 allowed Indiana to go blue and creating a celebrity sighting at Saks when Satan was purchasing a parka, when I say:

I vote for "A Choice Not an Echo."

Its ironic that the publication by the great Phyllis Schlafly that got McCain's direct Senate predecessor, Barry Goldwater, the nomination for president in 1964, is the same sentiment that cost him the presidency in 2008.

The Republican establishment needs to figure out that there is a place in the party for more liberal minded members....its a broom closet in the RNC basement with a sign over the door that reads:

Democrats in Denial