Miscellaneous

Where Are the all the Sour Grapes?

When your team wins the Super Bowl, or the World Series, or the Stanley Cup, half the fun has always been in the camera shots of the opposing team's dugout. Man: There is nothing more satisfying than watching a New York Yankee or a New England Patriot cry. And then get all blame-y, and finger point-y. It's so much fun!

So, in that spirit, I searched the nets this morning for McCain supporters, for Fox News pundits, and right-wing nutjobs puking up their sour grapes. For a few minutes, at least, I wanted to smugly bask in their misery.

But I couldn't find any such videos. I found several videos from Republican pundits talking about what went wrong, what they needed to do to regain power, and where the future of the Republican party was. But no one on the right was crying foul. No one was crying in their Cheerios. Or talking about how awful the next four years are gonna be. They were strangely conciliatory. Even Karl fucking Rove.

McCain gave one helluva nice concession speech last night -- probably the best speech of his campaign, ironically. And I honestly think that the Republicans took his cue. In the days to come, no doubt, they'll crawl out of the woodwork. Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, and Seam Hannity aren't going to disappear just because we elected a Democrat. But maybe we've silenced them for a few hours. Or maybe -- just maybe -- deep down they're not that upset about the defeat of McCain. Maybe a few of them even got caught up in the elation of this historic moment. Maybe they don't think our country is going immediately into the toilet, after all.

Hey! Anything is possible. After all, we just elected a black man to the highest office in the land.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on November 05, 2008 (boomark / email).