As one of those living oxymorons, a "Conservative Folkie", you can imagine how I felt on Wed. Morning; sort of like a surving veteran of the Army of Northern Virginia on the Morning of April 9, 1865 to furl the battleworn, smoke and blood stained Stars and Bars and face the reality of a cause lost.

As I went around pulling up the campaign signs I'd put up before the election (many of which frequently fell or vanished due to "selective microbursts" that regularly devistated Republican Candidate's signs but left Democrat signs untouched for some strange reason) I kept singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

Ken Mehlman, the National GOP Chariman, sent me (and a million of so other pubbies, I suspect) a "Thank you" e-mail for our activism efforts, futile though they were.
And many of you would be surprised by my somewhat scathing reply to him.

In a nutshell, IMHO the Democrats didn't "win" this election so much as pubbies LOST it, fair and square. If Dems have a "plan" for America beyond impeaching Bush, leaving Iraq to it's fate at the hands of bloodthirsty Islammofacist savages and raising taxes, I seem to have missed it, or they aren't articulating it all that well.

But many of our Pubbie standard-bearers in Washington were an utter disgrace to their party, constituents, and the very Constitution that they have sworn to uphold and defend.

Grandiose promises made by our "leadership" seemed to fizzle out and be forgotton - you know, like education, immigration, and social security reform, border security and fiscal responsibility.
Ja; riiight.

You know quite well what really happened, and here's one pubbie what ain't at all proud of "my" party right now.
Then again, for those of us who have certain issues with Marxism, it's about the only show in town.
If someone comes up with a viable, Constitutional, Life-affirming third Party, I think a lot of us would seriously contemplate jumping over to it right about now.
Of course that might be a Democrat's delight; look what Ross Perot did for you when Daddy Bush #41 flipped off his conservative Christian "base", assuming that we didn't have anywhere else to go...
Then along came Mr. "All Ears", and as a consequence we got 8 years of the Clinton dynasty.

Hoo-ray for you!

So the GOP once again did what it seems to do best; sieze defeat from the jaws of victory. And those of us who huddle in the "big tent" and feed off of dried elephant dung are getting pretty sick of it, frankly - but dont' see anyplace any more promising to go at the moment.

Congratulations, Democrats; now's your chance.
Socialism looks pretty good on paper; now you get to try it out in practice right here in the good ol USA.

Again...

Just please; don't leave us and our children living a damned Caliphate under Sharia law.
And there are more than one of us who are sorta concerned that you're apt to.
If you think that us "Right wing radical extremist Christians" are a bitch, then you don't know crappe about hardcore Islam, Amigos.
If you miss "church" (Mosque), you'll likely be severely beaten by the "religious police"; let them catch you having or providing an abortion and they WILL KILL you.
No lawyer; no appeal; no ACLU. AK-47 to the back of the head... or public stoning, which is probably worse. Count on it. think about it.

Give it your best shot, gang.

We'll be watching... and waiting.