I've been hearing a lot about there being "right wing rage" out there across America, over the lost election.

First:

It is amazing to me how Senator McCain was the left's favorite Republican from the time he lost the 2000 nomination right up until he gained the 2008 nomination. He "reached across the aisle". He was a "maverick", because he SLAMMED his party at every opprotunity. He wrote/sponsored legislation with the most liberal of the Democrats in the Senate. He created and led a group 14 liberal/moderate Republican Senators that joined the Democrats in blocking the judicial nominations of the President (who was of his party). He co-wrote and sponsored a piece of immigration legislation that was so radically left that even most liberal Democrats voted against it, as a matter of political survival.

Then, he won the Republican nomination for President. At this point, the media, and every Democrat that could be quoted in print, or stand in front of a microphone, would tell you how he was the furthest right nutjob on the planet since Adolph Hitler.

However, within 12 hours of the election being decided, those same people were being quoted, or in front a microphone telling us the "old" John McCain was back, and that the Presiden-elect was thinking about selecting him to be a special liason between the White House and the Senate.

Did this really happen?

I don't think so.

I am something of a political junkie.

Desert Storm taught me, as a soldier, that what I see on tonights news can have a PROFOUND effect on my life, tomorrow.

I sat in an apartment in Seoul, Korea, watching the US news channels broadcast the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, and in about a year, I was in the "Sunni Triangle".

So, I have a keen interest in the news.

Back to Senator McCain.

Did he REALLY change, like the news said he did?

If you ACTUALLY listened to what he said during the campaign, then your only answer can be "No".

He was the same milquetoast, moderate that he had alwars been.

Second:

What "right wing rage"?

Are we denouncing the President-elect?

Rush Limbaugh, the one person that is supposed to be the voice of our movement, has spent more time, since the election, laughing than ANY time since I first heard him. (I first heard him in 91 when I was an avowed Democrat!)

I have not seen anything on the news to say that conservatives or Republicans are demonstrating or rioting.

I am not demonstrating or rioting.

I have no rage.

I have seen rage, however.

So, let's see here.

California.

The most radically left State of our 50 States.

The Land of "Fruits and Nuts" is what we are talking about.

They had Proposition 8 on their ballot last week.

Prop 8 was such a "hot potato" that neither their state's legislature or their judiciary would touch the issue. So, given what their state's Constitution allowed, they put it to a popular vote.

Meaning that this is REAL democracy ... as in Pericles, Aristotle ... Greek style ... democracy, NOT the representative suff ... you know a "classic" republic. One person, one vote ... here is a piece of legislation ... loddy-doddy, everybody, let's vote.

If you voted FOR Prop 8, then "marriage" was defined as a man and a woman, no same sex marriages, at all.

If you voted AGAINST Prop 8, then marriage is ... whatever.

The most radically left state of our 50 voted for Prop 8.

The "nutburgers" of our electoral system were not willing to go that far.

After all of that discussion, WHO IS PROTESTING IN THE STREET? WHO IS SHOWING RAGE?





I've blathered on a bit. Okay, more than a bit in this post.

Have I been "angry" or "mean" in their presentation?

The simple fact is, that if there was REAL "right wing rage" in this country, anywhere, the media would have BLASTED it on every TV show, and print media that they could. THEY HAVE NOT. For ONE simple reason, it is not there.

The only rage is on the Left.

Which is sad, because they, overwhelmingly, won.

Being a "sore loser" is one thing.

Being a "sore 'winner'", is an entirely different realm of "poor sportsmanship".