Excuse us on the Left for still feeling drunk with glee about the election. We view this as a classic Good Vs. Evil story and we were the good guys. For instance: We didn’t say your guy was lying about his religion or his
place of birth. We didn’t say “DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD” and offer no
alternative for poor women seeking healthcare screenings. We didn’t yell
“Repeal Obamacare and offer no alternative for people without health care
coverage to be cared for. We didn’t look the other way when our side refused to
pass any job bills and then blame President Obama’s “POLICIES” for the
unemployment rate. We didn’t support
Republican governors and legislatures when they put into law, state required
shaming of women by sticking a vaginal probe in their vaginas to MAKE them not
have an abortion through embarrassment.
We didn’t try to change the wording in
law to redefine “RAPE” to appeal to a religious constituency. We didn’t turn a blind ear to a congressman
yelling “YOU LIE!” to The President of The United States during a state speech
and give him tons of money afterwards for his disrespect. We didn’t give money to support a governor
after she stuck her finger in the face of the President of The United States in
a disrespectful tarmac incident. We didn’t support governors and secretaries of
state that sought to suppress the vote and when asked about it, simply say with
a straight face “No we’re not… It’s about voter fraud!”
We didn’t support an
entire political movement that was created with teabags hanging off their hats,
purely to oppose and disrespect The President of The United States, or turn a
blind eye to the overwhelming racist rhetoric of it’s members. We didn’t say for years that criticism of the
President of The United States, stops at the water’s edge and then support
multiple people that went around the world doing just that. We didn’t boo the First Lady and the Second
Lady at a Nascar event when they were there to support the troops. We didn’t criticize the first lady for
stating that America should eat healthier.
We didn’t demand to see the birth certificate of President of The United
States and when he produced it, claim it must be fake. We didn’t demand to see the college records
of The President of The United States, because we believed he couldn’t be
intelligent. We didn’t lie and say The President of The United States dislikes
Israel even though his policies are the same as all recent presidents towards
Israel. We didn’t pull our kids out of
school because The President of The United States was going to speak there that
day.
We didn’t turn down a visit from
the First Lady to speak at an elementary school, simply to show disrespect to
her. We didn’t support an unprecedented increase in filibusters to keep The President
of The United States from moving our country forward. We didn’t support members of Congress who, to be disrespectful,
refused to attend a speech by The President of The United States. We didn’t support a Speaker and Majority
Leader who refused to take a phone call on election night from The President of
The United States and claimed they had already gone to bed.
We didn’t support candidates that believe
that women shouldn’t be paid the same as a man, that climate change is a hoax
and a woman or girl who is raped, should nevertheless carry that rapist’s baby
to term, NO MATTER WHAT. We didn’t call women sluts because they wanted
contraception covered in their healthcare plan. We didn’t support people like Sarah Palin, Allen West and
Michelle Bachmann, whose only qualifications seem to be their ability to say
the most vile and untrue things about The President of The United States.
We didn’t have a primary that each week
voted different candidates as front-runner, based on their promise to say the
most disrespectful things to The President of The United States at the upcoming
debates. We didn’t praise children, but
demonize teachers. We didn’t buy big
beautiful houses but demonize firefighters. We didn’t complain about crime, but
demonize police. We didn’t usher our
celebrities out to disrespectfully talk to chairs or claim, as Chuck Norris
did, that we would experience a thousand years of darkness if Obama were
re-elected.
We didn’t claim that the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would ruin
the military and after it didn’t, remain silent with our apology. We didn’t
demonize our Chief Justice because he chose the law over ideology. We didn’t pretend that a network that is
clearly not fair or balanced, actually is, simply because it criticizes The
President of The United States continuously.
In short, we watched this litany of lies, obstruction and
disrespect for four long years. We watched how those on the Right cared less
about our country, than the color of the person leading it. They cheated and
did so blatantly. So ultimately, we
will come to be the gracious winners we were always told to be, but it will
take a little time to get there. In
this election, more than any other in our lifetime, the opposition truly
deserved to lose….and they did.
