Rather than gloat in the accuracy of my prognostication that Obama would beat Romney in the presidential election, let me admit that I was surprised and depressed. The polls showed a very close race, the results did not. I expected a cliffhanger not a landslide. I anticipated that voter turnout would be high, not low. No matter, my guy lost and I'm sad and disappointed.I also hoped to get an elusive answer to a simple question: How piss poorly does a president have to perform before the American public will vote them out of office? This is an inexplicably open question at this point. Honestly, how bad does it have to get? And how long does it have to stay there? How high does the national dept need to climb? Or how many tens of millions of Americans have to be unemployed?
Honestly, I believe that as a country we've got the equivalent of battered spouse syndrome. Oh no, we say, he's a good president. He loves us. The black eye and the bruises? ...oh, we just ran into the door, that's all that is. We just tripped and fell. He didn't do that. Don't take him away. He loves us. He takes good care of us.
Well, here's to four more years of violent beat-downs and denial.
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"Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs.
Romney's recipe was the old standby: American route to success--hard work. That gets sneered at.
In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?
Romney put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't.
And that resonated."
Romney's recipe was the old standby: American route to success--hard work. That gets sneered at.
In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?
Romney put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't.
And that resonated."
-Rush Limbaugh
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One comic moment of the evening came when President Obama told the crowd at his victory rally that, "the best is yet to come." I almost laughed. We could have elected a bruised avocado as president and reasonably deduced that the best is yet to come. We could have elected a three-legged hampster as president and been confident that the best is yet to come. We could have elected a bowling ball as president and searched in vain for anybody to challenge the claim that the best is yet to come. Considering the last four years, how could it be otherwise? When you're lying flat on your back at the bottom of a deep hole, the only way is up. But hey, it's always nice to hear the guy who helped put you there call down, "Don't worry, the best is yet to come!"
Another bit of straight-faced hilarity followed when The New York Times wrote, "Now that President Obama has overcome Mitt Romney and a sluggish economy..." Oh thank heaven above, Obama has overcome the sluggish economy. Hallelujah, hallelujah, he has overcome!!! Now that doesn't mean that any of you 23,000,000 out of work Americans will be getting a job any time soon. Because YOU didn't overcome the sluggish economy, HE did. Hope and change! Forward!
Another depressing result of last night's festivities was the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in both Colorado and Washington. And the vote wasn't even close! We're now a majority soulless, morally bankrupt society that has no compass and no rudder other than our own carnal desires. And the whole argument that legalizing marijuana will bring in taxes is so shortsighted that I'm actually embarrassed for anybody who sincerely makes it. Our two existing legalized drugs (tobacco and alcohol) have a roughly 1:10 benefit/cost ratio. In 2007, the government collected $25 billion in tobacco taxes, but spent over $200 billion on health and other tobacco related costs. Also in 2007, the government collected $14 billion in alcohol taxes, but spent $185 billion to cover health, crime and other alcohol-related costs. And I'll wager this fails to account for the enormous social and financial costs of broken homes, shattered marriages and loss of productivity associated with alcohol. The economics of marijuana will be no different, and perhaps even worse. To advocate legalizing marijuana, one must possess neither moral compass nor higher intellect...or posses and be high on marijuana. Same basic condition.
And the initiative to legalize gay marriage passed in multiple states, of course. Nobody wants to be a hate monger or bigott (one can't possibly defend traditional marriage for any other reason), and very few today appreciate what marriage actually is, so such initiatives pass. And will continue to do so. So rather than stand in the way of progress I'm going to accelerate it. I'm advocating for polygamy It's the next logical step. And anybody who opposes it is really just a hate mongering bigot.
And why stop there? What if we legalized pedophilia? Like homosexuality it's genetic--the pedophile gene is called Progranulin (PGRN). They can't help the way they are and we're a bunch of bigots for the way we, as a society, treat them. And by legalizing it we could at least regulate it, right? Like marijuana. Hey, maybe we could even tax it somehow.
And what about zoophelia? I have yet to read of an identified genetic link there, but we both know they'll find one if they look. So legalize it! And please don't attempt the pathetic argument that, "there are hardly any people who are attracted to animals." Who cares! Fair is fair, regardless of the numbers. We're talking about a principle here, not a popularity contest!
If you think anything I've said here is radical or unrealistic, you're wrong (and a bigot). Just keep following the road we're on to it's logical and inevitable terminus and you'll be there too. See ya soon.
