Feast on this: The Five Stages of a Conservative's Grief
Last Tuesday evening I went to bed in denial, thinking that there must be some mistake. I declined to believe that a majority of the voters were stupid enough to re-elect a President whose incompetence makes Jimmy Carter seem Washingtonian by comparison, whose mendacity far surpasses that of a pathological liar like Bill Clinton, and whose administration is so corrupt that it actually evokes nostalgia for the Nixon era. I was sure that, when all the actual votes had been counted, they would reveal that the voters of Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Colorado had been sensible enough to send this cheap grifter back to Chicago.
On Wednesday, forced to face the grim reality of the election results, I became angry. My seething thoughts turned first to the "news" media, whose behavior during this election cycle would have brought a blush to the cheek of the most cynical Pravda propaganda merchant. Then I thought of domesticated conservatives like Ann Coulter, who wrote that the media were pushing alternatives to Romney "because they are terrified of running against him." In reality, the delusions of Coulter and the GOP establishment notwithstanding, Romney was the man the media and the White House desperately wanted to run against.
It was obvious to the Obama reelection team, its media toad eaters, and anyone else with a grain of sense, that Romney could easily be portrayed to the voters as an out-of-touch plutocrat whose only memorable "accomplishment" as the Governor of Massachusetts was the enactment of a health "reform" law that rendered him unable to credibly denounce Obamacare. During the presidential primaries, however, all serious challenges by Romney's competitors for the nomination were met by vicious and often personal attacks from super-PACs funded by GOP establishment types who believed Romney was "electable."
By Friday, I had reached the bargaining stage. I told myself that the House of Representatives was still controlled by the GOP and that this would ameliorate the damage that Obama could inflict on the nation during his second term. Moreover, I thought, Republican control of the House might also mean that Darrell Issa, the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, might actually get to the bottom of the Benghazi blunder and the Obama administration's clumsily executed cover-up. If the facts are as damning as many suspect, they might even provide grounds for Obama's impeachment.
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