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VFR readers respond to the election
Here is a miscellany of comments that came in last night and today.
M. Mason writes:
Our long national nightmare has begun.
Robert B. writes:
It looks like Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman will retain her seat. Her biggest area of support has not reported in yet, but she has a clear lead in the race—that section that is more liberal and cosmopolitan than the rest of her district. She did this in spite of becoming national news for stating that some members of congress are anti-American. This presents hope—it really does. It means that conservatives still exist and they want real conservatives to say it like it is. Bachman will be an even bigger fighter in the House this time than the last two times. I also notice Muertha in trouble and the numbers are getting tighter in battle ground states where Obama is expected to win by narrow margins.
Clark Coleman writes:
Representative Virgil Goode, one of the few elected politicians who actually spoke of defending our civilization, the only politician in America who would speak out against Keith Ellison taking the oath of office on a Koran, a member of the House Immigration Caucus, co-sponsor of numerous immigration reform laws, official English laws, etc., is deadlocked with a smart alek Democratic punk named Tom Perriello. With 94 percent of the vote counted, Goode trails 149,694 to 147,593. There are tens of thousands of absentee and early ballots to count as well, because Virginia (for the first time) allowed a limited form of early voting (only those who would qualify for an absentee ballot could vote at courthouses in person). Vote counting will go on all night and maybe longer than that.
The Democratic Party in Virginia is becoming absolutely masterful at finding candidates who will seem “moderate” or even “conservative” in various ways, who then will pretty much follow the leftist party line as soon as they are elected. The typical voter, of course, is an ill-informed idiot who barely pays enough attention to vote, much less enough to see through this charade. In 2009, we will have two Democratic-Socialist senators and a governor and the House delegation will be close to 50/50.
Goode’s seat has always been considered a safe seat in heavily gerrymandered Virginia. If he loses, it will take an effort to keep determination from turning into despair around here.
The only consolation would be the prospect of a house cleaning within the GOP, complete with public floggings of Dubya and his neocon minions.
Mark J. writes:
I can’t quite believe that we are actually going to have to live through an Obama administration. It’s actually happening. I don’t think I quite believed that this character could get elected. I remember my father, a Democrat, saying “no way is somebody named Barack Hussein Obama going to get elected.” But here we are. I guess we’re going to find out if it wakes people up or not. I feel like the end of the good times has arrived, that the America I grew up in and took for granted, is over. In a way, up to now all of this discussion for the last several years has felt abstract and academic. It was an interesting intellectual exercise. Now for the first time I feel viscerally that real danger lurks on the horizon, that a time may come in my lifetime when I will face the kind of oppression and violence and poverty and crime and corruption that people in most of the world have always lived under. It makes me so sad for what I knew growing up, when it felt like America would go on forever. Our enemies have triumphed. The country the Founders knew has been conquered.
That’s how it feels tonight. Intellectually I know I shouldn’t overreact, that things will go on. But to have a Barack Hussein Obama and his white-hating wife in the White House, with Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, Kerry, etc in charge in the Senate … with a big electoral win and “mandate.”… real nightmare stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever look at the Presidency the same again. I feel disconnected from it now, like it was another era when I felt patriotic and felt America was my country.
Tonight, to me, this feels like the end of the United States of America and the beginning of a several-decade phase of political and social disintegration that will have to be survived before we can get to a brighter future.
DB writes:
You wrote:
“But if it can’t be done, if European America-its culture, its historical memory and identity, its ideals, its way of life, its intellectual and moral standards, its Constitution, its true freedoms-cannot be saved, then the only recourse for those who still care will be for traditional Americans to start gathering together in certain states and regions of the country and form governing majorities there, with the ultimate aim of becoming independent of the Brazilianized entity that the United States will have then become.”
How serious about this are you? That is, at what point do you declare we have passed the point of no return and the traditionalists need to start thinking that way before its too late? Personally, I think its sooner rather than later.
Terry Morris writes:
Change your “The truth about the election” heading your sidebar to “We’re SCREWED ‘08.”
Randy N. writes:
As of the time of writing, it is reported the Democrats won four more Senate seats. I say they gained five. Now that McCain no longer has to put on a pretense, he will probably vote more consistently with the Democrats.
Maybe you should start a pool for VFR readers.
1-How long before Obama pulls the race card. 2-How long before McCain blames conservatives for his defeat.
One positive aspect. The Neocons are now in the dust bin of history.
One final thought. The American people have changed for the worse. The so called elite and middle class have morphed into the underclass. No matter how bad McCain was, there is no reasonable excuse for casting a vote for the likes of Barack Hussein Obama-especially just seven years after 9-11.
Andy K. writes:
I hope the Stupid Party realizes that very likely from now on, the Democratic Presidential candidate will be Black or Hispanic. I can’t imagine ever again the Democrats allowing another White male, or even female, to be a serious contender. The Black man won it for them while the last two White men didn’t.
I’ll bet the minority turnout, (the percentage of eligible voters who actually voted) was a record this time. Usually it’s a lower percentage compared to Whites. And with the way our demographic change is going, the Democrats surely know this will continue as long as their top candidate is nonwhite.
Meanwhile the Republicans will likely claim they lost this year because they couldn’t keep the Hispanic vote at the 2004 level, ignoring again the loss of the White vote. Will they ever learn? I’ve come to the conclusion that the one thing the Republicans fear the most, even more than losing elections, is to be seen as the party of White People.
If they keep making this mistake, and the Democrats keep running nonwhite Presidential candidates, they’ll never win the White House again.
Mark Jaws writes:
A dark clouded night indeed. For all of his Hispandering McCain did not even get 1/3 of the Hispanic vote, and I am certain that what he did get, was overwhelmingly white Hispanic. The Mestizo and full-blood Indians probably voted Democratic 8 to 1, and they are the ones flooding into our country, filling the ranks of MS-13, and having mucho ninos—all of whom supported by gringo dinero. Sheesh. Even the Asian vote went almost 2 to 1 for Obama. The ever growing non-white vote may very well keep Democrats entrenched for decades. However, Minnesota Governor Pawlenty is living in a dream world if he thinks white conservatives will stand still for further concessions to blacks and browns, territorial dispossession and cultural undoing. His “pragmatic” prescription is to tear the GOP apart.
But dark clouds usually have silver linings—and tonight is no exception.
First, for Mark Jaws and the perhaps thousands of budding pro-white activists out there, this night represents a unique Carpe Diem opportunity to declare ourselves “pro-white community organizers.” The American people have just elected an explicitly pro-black bigot who marched with Louis Farrakhan and embraced Black Liberation Theology. After all, if the president can be explicitly pro-black, then why can’t I be explicitly and unabashedly pro-white? I have tried this line on four of my neighbors and have gotten enthusiastic nods of approval. The people are awakening.
Second, I just read the following words by Lawrence Auster:
“If European America—its culture, its historical memory and identity, its ideals, its way of life, its intellectual and moral standards, its Constitution, its true freedoms—cannot be saved, then the only recourse for those who still care will be for traditional Americans to start gathering together in certain states and regions of the country and form governing majorities there, with the ultimate aim of becoming independent of the Brazilianized entity that the United States will have then become.”
This admission represents an eerily encroaching reality unthought of 20 years ago—which will engulf more and more conservative whites. Our beloved America is gone, and it will never return. There is only one hope for our survival—to concentrate our demographic group n the south and portions of the Midwest—the retiring Baby Boomers can accelerate this trend by leaving Blue States—and to build for ourselves state governments which will eventually defy the federal tyranny, seize independence, and restore the Constitution without the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
Clark Coleman writes:
We should tabulate how many writers at the NRO blog, The Corner, have found a silver lining in the election: They are so proud that their country has elected its first black president.
Chris B. writes:
I felt so sick tonight, so utterly sick. For the first time in my life I am not proud to be an American. I feel like a sheep in the woods surrounded by hungry wolves. The raging, bitter minorities know that our time is short. We are on the wane and they are on the upswing. How a people can dispossess themselves is a question I cannot answer … But enough ranting, the real reason I emailed you is that when I need you more than ever (now), you are there for me again … I was able tonight to reach VFR for the first time in months … For some reason, fate smiled again and I am now able once again to access the site, again without changing or doing anything-it just started working again when I tried it on it’s own. Where do we go from here? Do you think that it will be possible for those whites who actually do want to survive to form another country? What do we do? I am sick at heart and I feel a sinking feeling (again) that there is absolutely no hope for a reawakening.
Jeff in England sends his usual defeatist message with which he regales me almost daily::
I hope you see now that it is time to pull back and reevaluate given the message that the election(s) gave. I mean it Larry, The Times really are a Changin’ and you have to take heed of that … and deal with that in new ways with new plans of action …
And please don’t think I’m condemning or attacking you because I’m not …
McCain didn’t pay heed to the winds of changes (Make You Feel My Love) and paid the price and looked like a helpless old man at the end..
At least gay marriage had a rough ride in various states and medical marijuana use in at least one state was approved …
Anna writes:
I was very, very much surprised by my reaction. Relief. It’s been a roller coaster of due diligence; and it has taken an inordinate toll of time and trauma. Now the die is cast. The air has cleared. There is a new cast of characters. Congratulations to the winners. I will take a vacation. They all have become too much a part of my life. I will skip the parties and the second-guesses. When I am ready I will come back. While I enjoy the late autumn colors, I may wonder what I can do when I return. But there will be time for that later.
Thank you, Mr. Auster, for providing an incredibly informative forum.
James P. writes:
NRO dreamland:
“We looked at two men of different races and we judged them as two men, not two races. Obama did not win because he was black, and was not set back because he was black.”
Are you kidding me????? There is literally no chance Obama would have been elected if he were not black, and had been judged solely on his personal and political merits.
Karen writes from England:
Good morning. What a disaster for white America!
Here is a gloating article from Daniel Finkelstein in the Times which does, however, state some truths about the U.S. situation.
“The American people are becoming, literally, a different people.” Yes, certainly, mass Third World immigration has assured that.
The conventional Republican agenda has stopped working.
The big themes of Republican politics—cut income tax, fight crime, reform social security, outlaw abortion, support marriage—no longer cut it politically. The Democrat tunes play better.
The Republicans were forced to select a maverick because they did not have an electable mainstream Republican candidate. This was because the mainstream Republican agenda is no longer a winner.
Welcome to a new American president. Welcome to a new American politics.
He is saying that all the traditionalist principles which created the American nation are defunct. Thus white America is finished. This is more extreme than in Brazil where the white Christian Portuguese elite still holds the power. How do you propose to reclaim traditionalist America from this mess, a new Brazil without the natural resources?
Chris L. writes:
You wrote, “It’s curious how subdued the mood among the MSM talking heads is. They don’t seem triumphant, but a bit depressed.”
I noticed that too from what little I watched. I believe that deep down they realized they completely sold out to get Obama elected. Now that they got what they wanted they are suffering a little buyer’s remorse. It won’t change anything they do in the future. For this moment though, I think there was just a tweaking of the conscience that what they have done might not have been the ethical and professional thing to do. The cost might have been too much.
Ray G. from Dearborn writes:
For the first time in my adult life, I’m not proud of my country … …I’m actually embarrassed. A far left lawyer, with very little experience other than a legal, social agitator has been elected president—of course with massive help from the media, both domestic and foreign. How pathetic.
Sage McLaughlin writes:
Well, the news is finally in. There will be a lot of speculation and guesses about how this thing is going to work out, so you don’t really need to hear mine. Right now, I’m thinking of a moment during the primary campaign that has stuck with me—somehow I knew it would be something to remember when the results were in.
There’s no way I can go back and find the exact post, but Lisa Schiffren at NRO was commenting on one of the McCain-Romney debates. McCain had been repeatedly distorting Romney’s record, and everybody was remarking how McCain seemed so enthusiastically to “knee him in the groin, poke him in the eye, etc.” Schiffren said that McCain was presenting himself as the obviously preferable candidate. We want, she said, someone who would fight. McCain was tough, Romney was just too nice and composed, too much like a teacher’s pet. In other words, he was too decent, and like so many woman voters, she was attracted to the bad boy. In the end, she wanted to throw in with the guy who would fight like hell.
This struck me as abominable at the time, and in retrospect, it was incredibly short-sighted. We all knew that McCain was always going to play dirty and really get nasty when his enemy was a Republican. We all knew how much he relished kicking sand in the faces of men to his right. But what evidence did we ever have that McCain—Gang of 14 McCain, Maverick McCain, Reach Across the Aisle to Plant a Big Wet Kiss on Ted Kennedy McCain—would unleash his hounds of war on a minority Democrat? What made her think McCain would suddenly become some kind of bulldog for conservatism in the general election, when he had not been one during the Republican primaries?
Sure enough, McCain couldn’t wait to tell everybody what a wonderful president Obama would be as soon as the man won the Democratic slot. He had no actual fear of an Obama presidency, no special reason to fight against the possibility other than the fact that he happened to be running against him. The campaign he ran against Obama was so tepid, so devoid of life, that it really did deserve the comparisons to Dole’s wan, limp 1996 run. I’ve been shocked the last few weeks to see just how one-note and pathetic McCain’s whole television campaign was. It all boiled down to the “lack of executive experience” factor, and basically nothing else, which was an odd line of attack considering McCain has spent his career in Washington in the Senate. When he did, begrudgingly and half-heartedly, decide to use the Ayers connection, he did so in the context of a single debate. He telegraphed his intentions, Obama literally dared him to “go there,” and he quickly abandoned the tactic when it was obvious his heart wasn’t in it. Obama was a man with more personal and professional liabilities than any candidate for president in my lifetime, but McCain showed not one ounce of interest in exploiting them. This was Schiffren’s tough guy, the one who would fight.
In the end, the Republican establishment got the candidate it deserved. They got a man who could never distance himself from the Bush presidency, and especially from the Iraq war. They got a man who despised conservatives and conservatism. They got a cantankerous, famously ill-tempered old man with almost no charisma whatsoever. They got a man with no governing philosophy, and no obvious ideological differences with his opponent. They could have gotten all of McCain’s positive attributes with virtually none of his liabilities, had they thrown decisively in with Romney. At least Romney could have articulated his reasons for wanting Obama as far as possible from the White House. Incidentally, the first thing I saw when I opened up NRO again this morning was Mike Potemra going on about how proud he was of his country to have elected a black man so soon after the fight over segregated schools. That’s the problem in a nutshell.
Anyway, we’re in very bad shape, and there’s not much else to do but soldier on.
P.S.OK, now Schiffren is going on and on about McCain’s lack of punching power.
Anthony Damato writes:
The calamitous results of last night must have you in shock. You’ve written nothing since early last evening. Either that, or you are planning your escape from this country while you still can. Barack’s “Civilian Security Force” is not yet in place, so time is of the essence. I am shocked, and sick that he beat the Bumbling Maverick by so much. How could people have given power to this man so freely when he is an enemy of everything America stood for? I am mystified, but think demographics, combined with indoctrination for the last 40 years accomplished what the mighty arsenals of the old Soviet Union could not, a leftist take over of America.
Gintas writes:
If we want to rid the right of all the neocons and fake conservatives and opportunists and hangers-on and Wilsonian Globalists, yesterday was a great start.
Gintas writes:
“Another benefit of his election is that the left is too happy to be hateful against America and Republicans any more.”
Maybe for the moment, but the worm always finds something to gnaw on.
Sage McLaughlin writes:
Daniel Finkelstein’s statements in the Times make no sense to me whatsoever:
“The big themes of Republican politics—cut income tax, fight crime, reform social security, outlaw abortion, support marriage—no longer cut it politically. The Democrat tunes play better.
“The Republicans were forced to select a maverick because they did not have an electable mainstream Republican candidate. This was because the mainstream Republican agenda is no longer a winner.”
So the fact that the Republican “maverick” went down in flames somehow proves that the traditional Republican platform—which he did not run on—is a loser? McCain lost because he garnered something like 6-8 million fewer Republican votes than Bush did in 2004. He lost because his cobbled-together coalition of independents, center-leftists, and ditto-head Republican dead-enders were not enough in the absence of any appeal to traditional conservative voters (or at least, in the absence of any appeal more substantive than his bit of VP stunt casting). He lost because he is very, very bad on immigration, a key Republican issue that could have devastated Obama in the final days of the election had that groundwork been laid well in advance of the revelations about his aunt. He lost because he refused to call out Obama’s obvious lies and dissembling concerning his ghastly radicalism on abortion, which is so extreme that it places him in pro-infanticide NARAL territory that even most Democrats find positively hair-curling.
To be fair, the author actually says that Republicans had to resort to a McCain candidacy because the typical conservatives themes are losers. But that’s obvious nonsense, because what gave us a McCain candidacy was not the party’s calculation about what would work in a general election campaign, but rather the mechanics of the Republican primary. Mitt Romney was that “electable, mainstream Republican candidate” that Finkelstein says didn’t exist—and one who also happened to get more Republican votes than McCain. It stands to reason that Romney would have repeated that feat in the general election and, had he actually run on a traditional Republican platform, he just might have won it all. This is especially true since he could in no way be implicated in the failures of this ridiculously unpopular President and Congress, and would have been a very smooth operator in a war of words over the financial meltdown.
My opinion is that we don’t actually know how well that platform sells right now because the American people have not been asked to vote on a Presidential candidate who represents it. To say that this election proves the unpopularity of conservative ideas on immigration, taxes, abortion, etc., is to deny the obvious fact that those ideas were never given a serious hearing.
LA replies:
We shouldn’t get upset by this, and it’s almost not worth exerting that much energy refuting it. This is a constant of liberal propaganda. Republicans nominate a non-conservative, anti-conservative candidate, who loses, and liberals say this that means conservatism is discredited. Consider the Big Lie about Prop.187, which is still being promulgated to this day. Cokie Roberts or one of the other liberal idiots said last night that Republicans lost Hispanic support in California because of 187. Meaning, in the absence of 187, Republicans would be competitive among Hispanics!
Clark Coleman writes:
With 100% of the vote counted in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District:
Virgil Goode (R) 157,421 Tom Perriello (D) 157,415
Of course, there will be a mandatory recount. We use electronic machines, so no hanging chad shenanigans. It will be interesting to watch.
The vote tally brings to mind the Chronicles types, the cynical paleos who tell everyone they might as well not vote, let’s retreat to our caves and wallow in despair, etc. Ironically, Sam Francis, whose writings were often featured at Chronicles, wrote a book about RINOs called “Beautiful Losers.” I am not sure that “beautiful” fits the current crop of cynical paleos, but the “losers” certainly does. Rome is burning, and I, for one, am not fiddling. My wife and I got out and voted in the rain. A courageous defender of our civilization has a 6-vote lead.
LA replies:
Yes, like Gerald Russello, who in The American Conservatives’s symposium in which various conservatives were asked how they would vote in the election, began his comment like this:
I will not be voting for any federal candidate and will probably be writing in third parties for local elections, if I even step into the voting booth. [Emphasis added.]
If he’s so airily indifferent to voting, so indifferent that he even has to state it publicly, he should not have participated in a symposium on how he would vote. Clearly it’s not only liberals who lack chests. Or maybe it’s just the Catholic paleocon thing of not giving a damn about America, or, rather, of actively despising it.
LA continues:
I think many paleoconservatives today could be described as Catholic nihilists. These are people who don’t believe in anything except the Catholic Church, and thus, in practical effect, are nihilists.
LA continues:
As I remember, Beautiful Losers was not about RINOs. It was about conservatives who fight the good fight and lose.
James S. writes:
Hey Lawrence, I just killed the buzz of the lady I work with. I had no intention of doing it. After asking me if I was “depressed” because of the election (I wasn’t acting depressed, but she knows I’m not a Democrat even though I made it clear I didn’t like McCain in the run up), she then asked me if I didn’t at least think it was great that a black man had been elected after 43 white men. Didn’t I think that was so amazing? (FYI I’m a white man.) I told her “That’s not what went through my mind when I watched the news last night.” That was as close to the truth as I was willing to go on government property! That’s really all I said it really turned her off to me. She’s in the other room now sulking, in stark contrast to her normal self. I think I’ve destroyed our working relationship of 11 months! But, who knows, maybe other people out there are using this opportunity more effectively than me to explain to their coworkers why they’re not ecstatic about the prospects of a black president.
Mel R. writes:
I believe there will be an awakening of sane white people, whether it is too late is yet to be seen.
As a father of a young son I will do everything within my power to prevent him from serving in “this” country’s military. I mentioned that to one of my staff today (a very conservative woman) and she said her brother, who has two young sons, has stated the exact same sentiment in regards to his sons and the military.
Secession is already on the tongues of some white conservatives here in Oklahoma.
God Bless.
RB writes:
Nov. 5, 2008—day one of the Maquis. I heard some of McCain’s dumb speech. I did my part and voted for him, or rather, I voted for America. Now is the time for the geezer to shut up and leave. He served his purpose as the scourge of his fellow Republicans and the designated fall guy. Others who should also get out of the way are the Bushes, Bushbots and Bushniks, neocons, check pantsed country club Republicans, assorted RINOS, members of the cheap labor lobby, globalists, open borders free market and libertarian crackpots, “free” trade advocates and all who put short-term, and I mean very short-term, profits ahead of loyalty to country.
But it won’t be easy to pry the cold dead fingers of the Republican leadership, the Bushes, McCain, Lindsay Graham, Trent Lott, Karl Rove (who in a previous incarnation was known as Grima Wormtongue—“Now George W, remember the hordes invading our country can’t be stopped. Make friends with them instead and they will be your allies. Repeat after me.”), tax “cutter” and Islamophile Grover Norquist and the entire editorial board of the Wall Street Journal etc ad nauseam. To all of them I repeat Cromwell’s injunction to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long for any good you might have done. For God’s sake go!” To prod what remains of the Republican Party in the right direction, I suggest that we must have a third party. It should be one that is based first on the principles of immigration restriction, fair trade and defense of traditional values. One that will endorse Republican, and the occasional Democrat, candidates that support that viewpoint and, where no such choice is given to voters, will run their own candidates. It should focus on state and local races and not on feeding the egomaniacal fantasies of some billionaire who simply wants to run for president.
Here are some lessons to be learned. For those “conservatives” concerned with their taxes: you cannot impoverish the middle class and the upwardly aspiring Reagan, turned Hillary, Democrats and replace them with masses of uneducated third world day laborers. It eventually turns into a losing proposition. To those of a liberal disposition who have not entirely succumbed to mental disease and have expressed sudden concern with the victory of the racist far left. You can’t stand by and tolerate 40 years of multicultural indoctrination of the youth by the likes of Bill Ayers and expect said youth to give serious thought to whom they are voting for. To those Jews who returned to their Democratic loyalties, following the path they had programmed for themselves throughout their lives by voting for the Magic Negro, when he inevitably makes policy which endangers the survival of Israel, sorry there is nothing we can do for you; we have no power and are busy simply trying to preserve the home front. So you must take your concerns to Schumer, Boxer, Feinstein, Frank and Nadler and ask them to get the Great One to reconsider. Good luck guys and we’ll be rooting for you. For Republicans in general—learn from your enemies; they play hard ball and you have to also. Stop being patsies by going along with what the Democrats want and sharing the blame. They have the power now so let them alone be accountable for the consequences; no bipartisanship, no quarter given. Of course, this must be done cleverly; in a crisis give lip service support for our new president but stab him in the back as soon as you can get away with it. So when the inevitable “testing” occurs if he shows weakness excoriate him and the rest of his party. If his panicked party members push him into strong action, most likely overreaction, applaud at first but eventually slink away and leave him to the tender mercies of his party’s nut job peaceniks.
Mark A. writes:
I just read Mark Jaws’s comment and I wish I had written his name down on my ballot!!
David B. writes:
Several months ago, I wrote you that Tennessee had voted for the winner in every presidential election since 1960 when Nixon carried the state. I turned out to be half right in my prediction. First, I predicted that Obama would not come within 12 or 14 points of McCain in Tennessee. As it turned out, Obama lost the Volunteer state by 42-57. Second, I was wrong in thinking that this would reflect nationwide results.
The Great Obama turned out to be a hard sell in the state of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, and Alvin C. York. In 2006, black Congressman Harold Ford (who is lighter-skinned than Obama) lost by only 3 points in a U.S. Senate race. Some people told me that this meant Obama could win Tennessee. I told them that Ford Has a “down-home” manner which Obama lacks. I haven’t checked, but I think Obama ran poorer than any Democratic nominee in Tennessee since George McGovern, except perhaps Mondale. Tennessee is usually a bellwether, but not in 2008.
Alan Levine writes:
I was greatly impressed by your comments on this not being Obamageddon, which were not only more than sensible but of great comfort.
I am a bit surprised, however, that no one seems to have yet noted that McCain did not do all that badly, or Obama that well, at least yet. (Somehow I suspect the left will soon be discovering that the fact that he won by less than was predicted is the proof of stealth racism, or some such.)
Maybe it just is that I have thought, for several years, that it was most unlikely that any Republican would win in 2008 with the anchor of the oaf in the White House around his neck. But, despite that seemingly hopeless legacy, Obama’s greater skill as a speaker and debater, and brilliantly managed campaign (he hardly seemed to set a foot wrong), while McCain’s campaign was miserably run, the Republicans might have won if not for either the economic disaster or the blunder of picking Palin.
Amit G. writes:
Hi my friend Lawrence,
I wish to add some joyfulness to VFR it has been a day for the ages as we begin a new historical epoch. The posters at VFR will get over their initial response to Obama (perhaps they are unfamiliar with his humanism) and join all of us together in the spirit of community. The energy I feel will extend to all VFR’ers.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 05, 2008 01:02 PM | Send
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