Some Post Election Musings I found on my computer.

       Mitt Romney was not my choice at the outset of this long campaign, but in the end I think he was one of the best men to ever enter politics, graceful, elegant, a living testimony to honesty, charity and integrity.  The fact that he was so soundly defeated says everything about successful demagoguery. I left for the polls at 5:00 a.m. full of hope and dragged myself home Tuesday night stunned, my tail between my legs. 

        But then I remembered that I had prayed earnestly that the American people would put the right guy in the White House, and Obama was re-elected by a significant majority.  One of two things is true.  I was wrong, and in a second term Obama will be the president we hoped he would be 4 years ago.  Maybe he really will call on Mitt Romney and John Boehner.  Maybe this time he really will address the fiscal cliff.  Maybe his will become the most transparent administration ever. 

         On the other hand, it could as well be true that he will continue to preside by fiat and executive order.  Maybe the most onerous predictions of our founding fathers will come to fruition.  Alexis de Tocqueville said 250 years ago: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”  Actually it’s worse than Romney’s 47 percent.  The truth is that in California, for example, only 37 per cent of the people work at all and only half of those working make enough money to pay taxes.  The odds are pretty bad, 1 in 8; and if we hike taxes and hype regulation it will be worse.    Maybe we have to slip into the darkness of despair in order to find the light again.

         We don’t find a George Washington in the light of day.  George Washingtons emerge out of the darkness.  I am confident, however, that the idea of America, the ideas that created the founding, will emerge again because all people want to live free; it’s the nature of man and the intent of God.  As Ma Joad said in The Grapes of Wrath, “We’re the people that live.  They can’t wipe us out-they can’t lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.” I hate to see my grandchildren have to face the darkness caused by my lack of attention to important matters, but they will find the strength.

           America was born in a conflict with the most powerful force on the face of the earth; we survived a bloody civil war and managed to defeat both the Third Reich and The Empire of the Rising Sun.   As Bill Whittle says,  “If you think a Botox  harpy from San Francisco, a greasy used car salesman from Nevada, the dumbest man in Delaware, and a thug from Chicago can destroy the idea that is America you are out of your mind. “