The Ghost Of Republicans Past

Republicans... Climb off of your electric horses... Congratulate yourselves while you have the feeling, because November 2012 is right around the corner... Don't get too comfortable on that fake equine, driven by your fake outrage.

Let's face it, Democrats stayed home to the tune of 14 million Democratic voters.  That 14 million represents the 18-29 age group that actually gave Obama the victory in the first place. They're angry because they felt Obama and the Democrats sold out on the Public Option, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, GITMO and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. True Democrats understood that times demanded bold actions that would set the Obama administration apart from Bush's... They didn't quite understand that Republicans obstructed almost every job creating piece of legislation put forth by their Democratic legislators...

The good news for Democrats is Republicans only won their races by a total of 5 million more votes in all, a number easily trumped in 2012 with a bolder team of Democrats willing to take the risks needed to get the country moving again.

Nevertheless, it actually turned out well for all concerned... Even Democrats! We kept the Senate, and you got rid of 30+ "Blue Dog" Congressional Democrats for us who were basically Republicans in hiding. Of course, in California we ran the table on you. Californians know what Republican dollars really buy:  Nothing but phony outrage, and sweetheart deals for their corporate sponsors.

Now you have to govern... You actually have to go to work and stop your sniper fire from behind the Fox News microphones... You've had 18 months to campaign against Democrats without taking any of the responsibility, and without offering one thing that helped the country move in the right direction.  It's been "All Hate Obama, All The Time." You've spent the last 18 months marshaling your surrogates and enablers with high pitched, and outrageous whistles only fit for K-9 ears; dog whistling "Death Panels," Obama is a Muslim terrorist sympathizer, "Show me his birth certificate" et al... 

Your victory this past Tuesday now forces you to do something you have never done before, which is to treat ALL American citizens, not just the rich ones, with equity and respect... An impossible task for any group that is run by Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh with Sarah Palin as mascot...

Your base heard your calls... a deafening frequency that most Democrats didn't recognize, or perhaps refused to passionately silence. 

We will, though in the next general election.... 

The "Ghost of Republicans Past" are sure to appear in the form of tax cuts for the rich, and hatred for gays, Mexicans and the usual assortment of disenfranchised Americans whom you constantly blow down with your fake outrage.

Enjoy those hobby horses... They stop running in two years.

G.L.M.