Just some additional thoughts on the recent election and why I still feel that being conservative/Republican is part of my nature.

After the 2000 and 2004 elections which the Democrats lost, it seems that conspiracy theories abounded. The Republicans stole the election, the Republicans committed voter fraud, the Republicans rigged the electronic voting machines. Even assuming all of these things were true, in part, the 2006 election just proves to the world that Democrats have been living off fantasies of irreversible persecution. The government is theirs to have if they convince enough of the people that it should be so. Same as it ever was.

Perhaps the fact that the Bush administration had six years of complete control of the government and couldn't manage to turn the US into a Nazi-style dictatorship is just another sign of their incompetence. :-)

The other day, the Senate was lost by only several thousand votes out of about 56 million cast. Now as usual, their was plenty of dirty campaigning on both sides. There were even scattered reports of irregularities at the polling places. The one thing you don't hear though from the Republican leadership and conservative media is the assignment of blame to anyone but themselves. I don't hear Republicans calling Democrats (yes that means you dear voter) "stupid" or "misinformed". I don't expect to see a wave of conservative protesters disrupting or attacking liberal speakers.

There is no anger - just acceptance of the inevitable. Rush Limbaugh even feels "liberated".

In sports, when a team loses on a bad call or some other turn of bad luck, the great ones say they never should have put themselves in a situation where they could lose. The Republicans did, they know it, and to paraphrase Tom Hanks character in "A League of Their Own", there is no crying...in politics. It's time to get back to basics - less government, less pandering to the fringes and better communication.

To Hillary Clinton - the slaves on the "plantation" have been freed. Let's see what kind of crops you produce.