Conservative revenge will prove costly
Drive-By Media polling analysis indicates that on average, only a shade more than 32 percent of registered Republicans voted yesterday, and roughly 30 percent of that meager turnout voted for Democrats to "teach Republicans a lesson." Congratulations ... you showed them, you threw the bums out. What now?
Monday evening, The B2 Journal predicted a Republican retention of power in the House and Senate, but only by the slimmest of margins and ONLY if the conservative base turned out in force on Election Day. The first did not happen because the second did not happen, and today America is indeed saddled with a new direction.
The price of self-righteousness
But before all of you smugly-satisfied, single-issue conservatives wind up choking yourselves with glee as you gloat over what you have wrought, you might want to consider the price America will pay for your fifteen minutes of selfishness.
The domestic social and economic mayhem that will certainly result from your self-centered, short-sighted election Jihad will be addressed in a following article because there is simply too much ore to mine in one dig. However ...
Ahem. Pardon me whilst I flash back to the 1970s, because it is upon the international stage that our most alarming concerns should lie. As al-Qaida's Ayman al-Zawahiri and Hizballah's Hassan Nazrallah predicted and hoped for, the congressional power shift will be seen by our adversaries as a monumental victory. They have been proven correct in that the resolve of the American people and their leaders has been tested and found sorely lacking.
Deja vu all over again
This same scenario was played out not too long ago, as those of you old enough to remember our shameful abandonment of Vietnam will attest. Then just as now, voter apathy, payback voters, and Democrat radical leftists in Congress opted to renege on our pledge to South Vietnam, cut our ally's trade and military assistance funding, and stood by as the North Vietnamese Communists crushed them in a matter of weeks.
In the process, that decade's version of today's smug, righteous egocentrics also disgraced the memory and sacrifice of 58,683 of America's best and brightest boys and girls.
It didn't end there, of course. The world saw us to be, as President Nixon would later say, "a pitiful, helpless giant" who was unfaithful to its allies and without the courage or resolve to stay the course. For the rest of the decade until the salvation that was the Reagan Revolution, Communism flourished and the United States despaired through its worst economic and international diplomacy humiliations since before World War II.
Can't happen again? Get over yourselves. It will happen again, but this time America's enemies can and will strike on our own soil. Rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran will test us at every opportunity and do whatever they wish, secure in the knowledge that the United States is indeed a paper tiger nation. And this time, there will not be another Reagan or any of his stature to bail us out because the Greatest Generation, those who were raised on Great Depression-honed sacrifice, hardship, honor, and loyalty, are no more.
Watch and learn.