It's the end of their world

Check your post-Election analysis, and you get a bunch of "why are the voters so stupid" pieces.
A bad one comes from Franky Schaefer, and Mayor Bloomberg pushes stupid further in an interview.
“If you look at the U.S., you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate—they can’t read,” he said. “I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here, only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.”

Saying, "I'm so smart and you're so dumb" doesn't work well when you'd like to persuade people to your point of view. Unless you just want to berate them into giving up their view.
The Other McCain pointed me toward the Schaefer piece. I remember him and his father's books well from my college time in the 1980s. He's now reduced to saying "I've learned from my days in the Religious right. Read my book to find out how."
He has met some people who went too far thinking "the end is near" and projects that line to millions of people across the nation. The election results are a mistake made by people who don't see reality.
What just happened in this election is that the culturally left-behind hit back.

They won but will still claim they are victims of the "liberal elite." Actually they are victims of bad theology that has tutored them for generations to accept myth for fact.
It's no wonder that these folks believe lies more easily than truth. Sure the bad economy played a part in the mid-term results, but so did bad theology that has made a virtue out of being misinformed. We're sorry to hear of the problems from Schaefer's life - that the reality he lived was different from what he and his dad talked about for years. But it doesn't mean that the voters are divorced from reality.
If you're spending more you don't have, or see Iran preparing for it's own version of end times, maybe you want elected oficials who share your concerns.
The longer people see the election as a paranoid reaction against President Obama's background, they will remain in the background.
It will only be the end times for their careers.

"Get out" the vote

You can easily sum up the past few elections.
2006 - "Get out" of Iraq.
2008 - "Get out" George W. Bush's crew.
2010 - "Get out" of our pockets.

"He's a stud. Plain and simple"

Ace of Spades likes seeing Marco Rubio out front. They approve of his message.

Keep fighting, Democrats

Let others talk about Keith Olbermann. Give me a Virginia Democratic battle anyday.
Who should be the DPVA chairman? Brian Moran, who got creamed in the June 2009 primary?
The most liberal of the three candidates, can one position on one issue destroy the party?
If Brian Moran is chosen as DPVA chair and continues lobbying against Obama (on for-profit education), Obama will probably decide he can't work effectively with the DPVA and will likely write off Virginia in 2012.  Obama's path to victory would be much narrower without Virginia, and he will have to focus more of his time in states like Ohio.  Without Obama's energy and coattails in Virginia, Senator Jim Webb will probably also lose to George Allen or Bob Marshall.
Hey, I'm now supporting Brian for DPVA chair. Go Brian, go.

"Loathesome Rhodes" hits the road

Poor Keith Olbermann. Caught dishing out campaign contributions to lawmakers he interviewed.
Time to break out my parody ballad for Olbermann, "The ballad of Loathsome Rhoads." His nemesis, Glenn Beck, stays on the air. Sorry.

Hear the popular talk show host
His fans come in sky high
My numbers took another blow
I'm so loathsome I could cry

I've never seen a crowd so big
They fill the mall, oh my
Hear Sarah Palin wow the crowd
I'll hide my face and cry

Did you ever see a grown man cry
When his hope begins to die?
That means nobody watches my show
I'm so loathsome I could cry

Can't silence this big radio star
Can't beat him though I try
And as I drop out of sight
I'm so loathsome I will cry

How about a little Hank Williams Sr. doing the original classic.

What's the biggest rebuke for Obama?

On Tuesday, the voters ousted more than 60 Democratic members of the House.
And McDonald's brought back McRib for several weeks.
Which will drive President Obama crazier?

You can't please some people

On Facebook last night, one of my friends was complaining about the rich, white men lining up to run for president as Republicans.
I suggested a nice woman whose father was a teacher. A lady who knows hunting and fishing.
My friend doesn't like rich white guys, and doesn't like Sarah Palin. He's not going to be happy for a while.

The looming battles

Two posts at Instapundit sum up the intra-party battles of the next two years.
Democrats wonder if Obama is cool.
Republican political insiders think their work make it a good Election Day.
Inside vs. outside, not Democrat vs. Republican, will be a big part of the next two years.

Know your president

Is Barack Obama a muslim? No.
Is Barack Obama a muslin? No. He's cheap polyster.

Read this, Chuck Todd

Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, NBC's Chuck Todd has the same thought - the Republican house majority will be smaller than the current Democratic majority.
The message behind the thought - if Democrats had trouble getting their agenda passed, then the new Republicans would too.
Instead, the likely scenario comes from Fred Barnes.
Ten Democrats whose seats are up in 2012 come from right-leaning states or saw their states scoot to the right this week: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jim Webb of Virginia, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Jon Tester of Montana, and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.

It’s a good bet that some or all of them will be sympathetic to cutting spending, extending the Bush tax cuts, scaling back ObamaCare, and supporting other parts of the Republican agenda. With Democratic allies, Republicans will have operational control of the Senate more often than Majority Leader Harry Reid and Mr. Obama will.
Democrats needed a party line vote to get their agenda passed. Since Republicans have the momentum and ideas that are attractive to many Democratic voters, Republicans have more margin for error.
That's the error in Todd's thinking.

Weekend watchdog

After losing its first two games of the season, Virginia Tech has rolled to six straight wins. Will the trend continue in the November stretch run?
The Hokies host Georgia Tech Thursday in ESPN's Prime Time game. Since being upset by James Madison, Virginia Tech has righted its ship nicely - leading its division by two games over Georgia Tech, Miami and North Carolina.
A win Thursday puts the Hokies in great shape to spend the first Saturday of December at the ACC championship game. Then a BCS game is only one win away.
Friday, ESPN2 shows the C-USA contest between Central Florida and Houston at 8 p.m. Saturday at noon, ESPN will feature Illinois against Michigan.
CBS has the top 20 battle between Alabama and LSU Saturday afternoon. ABC gives the country four choices in that time slot, with ESPN2 showing either Washington-Oregon or Northwestern-Penn State. ACC country will watch North Carolina's game with Florida State, and parts of the Midwest will get Nebraska at Iowa State.
In primetime, ABC has the Pac-10 matchup between Arizona and Stanford or Missouri at Texas Tech. ESPN goes with an SEC contest between Arkansas and South Carolina at 7 p.m., while ESPN2 has Texas taking on Kansas State.
Clemson hosts North Carolina State on the ACC game of the week Saturday at noon. Comcast offers CAA action Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., with James Madison taking on Richmond. Later in the evening, there's Arizona State's visit to Southern Cal.
On MASN, the Big East game between Louisville and Syracuse kicks off at noon. Then it's Navy's visit to East Carolina. Versus has Penn-Princeton from the Ivy League at 3 p.m., then heads west for Oregon State-UCLA.
The Redskins have a bye this week - maybe Donovan McNabb can catch his breath - but fans can enjoy watching the Cowboys limp into Green Bay Sunday Night. ESPN features the Steelers' visit to Cincinnati on Monday Night football.
Sunday afternoon, CBS has the doubleheader - Dolphins at Ravens early followed by Peyton Manning taking the Colts to Philadelphia. FOX in Washington plans to show the late game of New York Giants at Seattle.
NASCAR's chase for the Cup heads to Texas, with the green flag dropping at 3 p.m. on ESPN. The Nationwide racers hit the track Saturday at noon on ESPN2.
The NBA on TNT Thursday starts with the Knicks taking on the Bulls at 8 p.m., then Oklahoma City against Denver. ESPN's Friday doubleheader starts with the Bulls' visit to the Celtics at 8 p.m., followed by the Clippers vs. Nuggets.
The Wizards take on New York Friday on Comcast-plus, then host the Cleveland not-LeBrons Saturday on Comcast.
It's Breeders Cup weekend on ESPN2 Friday, then ABC and ESPN Saturday afternoon.
The Capitals are home twice this weekend, meeting Boston Friday and Philadelphia Sunday at 5 p.m. on Comcast. With no local action Thursday, Comcast shows the Rangers facing the Flyers.
The MLS playoffs continue Thursday with San Jose's trip to New York on ESPN2. Sunday at 9 p.m., Seattle battles the L.A. Galaxy.
On Sunday, Comcast has a pair of ACC women's championships - the field hockey contest at noon and the women's soccer tournament final at 2 p.m. MASN has the Big East's women's soccer title game Sunday at noon.
ESPN2 has Big 10 volleyball Sunday afternoon with Penn State facing Michigan.

"I hope he fails" succeeds

American Spectator has a lengthy look at Rush Limbaugh's January 2009 comments - and where it led.

Helping out the "Teapublicans"

I found a new word at Blue Virginia - Teapublicans.
Their advice for Democrats:
ATTENTION DEMOCRATIC LEADERS: Get out there and start convincing the American People that they just got hoodwinked by a bunch of extremists.
Because calling Tea Party members extremists the past few months worked out sooooo well.

Trog got an Insta-lanche

Hey dude, don't get cocky.

Keep analyzing like this

I like checking out Blue Virginia to see the unhappiness of Democrats.
And you can only watch Lawrence O'Donnell mention the debt limit vote so many times.
The latest analysis looks at the clean energy bill. More than half of the Democrats who voted against it lost on Tuesday.
So is that because:
1. Voters were unhappy with their no vote.
2. Voters were unhappy their party members voted yes.
I lean toward number two on many of the Democratic excuses coming out. The vote that ousted them came in January 2009 - voting for Nancy Pelosi as speaker.

Whiners and losers

Blue Virginia looks back in sadness at the election.
The losers part is best. Probably because Democrats know losing best.

Bring on redistricting

The election is over, and now the fun begins - redistricting.
You take the census numbers and try to create 11 districts across Virginia with nearly equal population. Problem one for Republicans - three members live very near each other in the southwest part of the state.
We know the 9th District will grow north and east - at least to pick up Morgan Griffith's home. But they've got to give Bob Goodlatte something in Roanoke and Robert Hurt something around Chatham.
I can't wait to see the new 9th.
Wonder if the Democrats will float a proposal with Griffith and Goodlatte in the same district? That would really be fun.
Another reason for Democrats to mourn losing so many races in 2009.

Round the clock with Instapundit

Instapundit and Ed Driscoll provided nearly round the clock election coverage.
Scroll down and see what you've missed.

Remember how you messed up

Blue Virginia starts the parade of unhappy Democrats trying to figure out what went wrong.
Among the ways Democrats failed:
Finally, I've got to say, too many supposed "Democrats" ran campaigns that only can be described as pathetic, pusillanimous, and principle-less. For instance, we had one Democratic campaign in Virginia bashing health care reform in its TV ads, posing a false equivalence of blame between Republicans and Democrats, distancing themselves from Nancy Pelosi, and generally failing to stand up for Democratic core values and accomplishments. With Democrats like this, who needs enemies, yet across the country, we saw way too much of this disloyalty and Democratic "brand" damaging. It's inexcusable, and my bet is that most of these jerks will lose anyway. Good riddance.

It's going to be fun the next few days.

Enjoy your Election Day evening

If you've voted, it's time to wait until the votes are counted. Forget about those exit polls.
They just help the media know where to look Election night. You don't need polls to know where to look tonight.
Relax and enjoy yourself. Or relax and hide from the news. In 1974, my family went to see "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the movie theater. Better than watching election coverage with three boys ages 12, 10 and nine.
Election Days as a newspaper reporter aren't as good. All the waiting with none of the payoff for being on the winning team. Although when I lived in South Carolina, I would write-in the names of my newspaper colleagues and my precincts' results were the first ones posted. That gave them a good laugh.
In 1988, I was in a back room of the county courthouse, calling in voting totals precinct by precinct. Where was the internet when I needed it?
My co-workers celebrated in 1992, and I celebrated in 1994. Even if you aren't supposed to root in the newspaper's editorial area.
Tonight, I'll probably be watching Cartoon Network or Nick with the boys. As long as I get to check the computer for the latest news.

More time for "Sourland"

Looks like later tonight, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will have more time to devote to their country music duo Sourland. From April 2009, here's my first parody for the duo - "All I want to do is Tax you."

Apologies to Sugarland - Jennifer and Khristian – and their fans.

I don’t want to listen baby, turn off all the phones
I don’t see those tea party people or want to turn my fax on
I’ve got ways to spend on my to-do list anyway
Hide behind this door and waste away money
Taxpayers think we’re lazy when we drive them crazy

All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo
All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo is tax you

I’ve spend my whole life winning votes to climb the ladder
Look at me, look at me, I’m the only thing that matters
Come a little closer Reid, we’ll pass bills without dissent
Hang a sign on Capitol Hill please do not disturb
Taxpayers think we’re lazy when we drive them crazy

All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo
All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo is tax you
Pass me a bill, full of that pork
I don’t want to cut this
All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo
All I want do wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo wo woo is tax you
All I really want to do
All I really can do
All I really want to do is tax you, tax you, tax you

Go a lot higher baby, we can spend without remorse
Hang up on those complainers, please do not, please do not, please do not disturb
When I sit down in my office, all I really want to do
When I fly back, when I fly back to Frisco baby, all I really want to do..

For you Sugarland fans, here's the original performance

40 years already?

GrandpaJohn looks at how quickly time slips past you.

Frost on the car; ballot in the box

It's a boring Election Day in Fishersville. The Democrats didn't bother having a candidate to face Rep. Bob Goodlatte, and there's no statewide races in Virginia this year.
I scraped some frost off the car and headed off to the polls. Several Fishersville residents were there when I arrived at 6:07 a.m. to cast my ballot.
Get out and vote in your races, since they have to be more exciting.

The Giants win the pennant

The Giants won the World Series without Willie Mays in the lineup. Here's how he helped them win in 1954.

Twas the night before the election

Pat's ready for Election Day. Are you?

How to stop Sarah Palin - gain 90 seats

It's not even Election Day and the establishment GOP is trying to slow the Sarah Palin express.
Haven't they seen the promos for the movie "Unstoppable?"
Only one way to slow the express. Get on board. Sitting in your seat and reading your paper, you can't tell if it's going 5 mph or 105 mph. And the Palin express is going 105 mph this Election Day.
If GOP operatives and current political gurus want to keep Palin from running for president in 2012, the best way is an overwhelming win Tuesday. Palin doesn't need to run for president if everybody gets on board with her message.
If Republicans only has 230 seats in 2011 (only, just 51 more than now), then the battle continues and will be rough. Palin will need to weigh in to keep the momentum going.
With 250-plus Republican seats in the next House, everybody will have gotten the message. Palin can keep doing what she does so well, instead of dealing with the expectations of a presidential primary run. No dealing with the package other people carry when they think of her.
Palin doesn't need to run for president to be powerful. Those operatives and gurus need somebody powerful to make them powerful.
The operatives and gurus just need to take Palin's message to heart. The message will win, even if they doubt Palin would win in 2012.

Be the wave

Ace of Spades has been promoting "Be the Wave."
Interesting where the slogan can appear.

What's Creigh Deeds thinking?

Is it, "They thought it was my fault, heh?"

Awaiting the expected horrors

Politico helps me start Monday on a good note.
Hope it brightens your day also.
Among those in the Democratic consulting class, there’s a gloomy acknowledgment that many of the incumbents the DCCC has spent millions of dollars to protect won’t be coming back to Congress.
“Everybody that is tied will lose, and everyone that is ahead by a few points will lose because of the GOP wave,” said one party media consultant who is involved in a wide array of House races. “There are going to be some surprises.”

November is here

It's November. It's here.
Soon, numerous Democratic lawmakers will not be here.
Vote Tuesday.