Here's where I get to say I told you so. I've been warning about this.
So Republicans don't like it, let them look at how they contributed to it. First by electing an idiot like Bush, who stole the nomination from McCain with dirty campaign tactics, elevated ignorance to a virtue, and made a mess of the country. Then by sabotaging their own candidate this time around. I was watching one of the TV news shows today, don't remember which one, which reviewed the campaign and showed candidate McCain being booed by REPUBLICAN audiences. That's a great way to keep your party in power.
I have another great article by David Brooks to post on this when I have more time. The Republicans screwed up big time with their Joe Sixpack anti-intellectualism and trying to push moderates out of the party. All they are doing is marginalizing themselves.
But with so much power the Democrats too will probably overreach, make the voters sick of them, and the pendulum will swing back. Both parties are so greedy and stupid and power-mad and too dumb to learn from each other's mistakes, so it's bound to happen. But before it does, Republicans will have to live with what THEY helped to bring about.
And I can imagine some WSJ readers may fear "ritual hangings," when some of their heads will be most deserving of the noose. Can anyone say Richard Fuld?
President Obama will be an exquisite revenge on the religious right. That's the one aspect of this that I will relish.
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