Elephants in the Room

By William L. Garvin
 

In a forceful repudiation of presidential policies to “fundamentally transform America,” American voters stampeded herds of conservative elephants into the halls of congress and state legislatures throughout the land.  Curiously, President Obama seemed oblivious to his political rejection in the clear message from the one-third who voted and divined solace and personal support from the two-thirds who didn’t vote!  When he was reelected by only thirty percent of the eligible voters in 2012, no such divination was evident.  It’s a good thing the Denier-in-Chief is still found to be so “likeable” by the liberal media or he might be regarded as petty, petulant, pompous and predictable.

This election also exposed several liberal mastodons that should immediately be relegated to the elephant burial grounds.  The Democrat party loves to characterize the Republicans, the Tea Party, and conservatives in general as “angry, old, white men.”  That is lib-speak for “racist” and “sexist.”  Yet throughout the country, the race card and the war on women were played and waged not by Republicans but by Democrats.  Democrats delighted in demonizing opponents with images of Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, and lynchings.  Charlie Rangel hinted they still believed in slavery!  Nonetheless, voters elected Tim Scott (Republican) to the Senate, the first black American senator from the South since Reconstruction.  They elected Mia Love (Republican), the first black female American from her party to the House.  In a somewhat embarrassing display of political partisanship, the NAACP not only failed to congratulate these victors but gave Senator Scott an “F” in their ratings.  Hats should be doffed to every black American who runs for office as a conservative.  It takes a great deal of courage knowing the racial invective and opprobrium that will be heaped upon them by the intolerant left.  Ask Allen West, Ben Carson, J.C. Watts, Ward Connerly, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, or Condoleezza Rice.

The same is true for the so-called conservative “war on women” which in reality is only waged by the left on conservative women.  Nikki Haley in South Carolina, Mary Fallin in Oklahoma, and Susana Martinez in New Mexico, all Republicans, were emphatically returned to their governorships.  Republican Joni Ernst became the first female senator from Iowa; Republican Shelley Moore Capito became the first female senator from West Virginia; Republican Elise Stefanik from New York at 30 became the youngest member in the House; and 18-year old Republican Saira Blair became the youngest state legislator in the country thanks to her 63-30% election in West Virginia.  Showing their intolerance, twitter world was filled with vitriol such as “dysfunctional,” “weird mutant,” and “psychopathic.”

Also of note were the overwhelming rejections of Wendy Davis and Sandra Fluke.  Davis, aka “Abortion Barbie,” had her pink tennis shoes handed to her on a platter in her run for governor of Texas.  In a gaffe-filled campaign that made Joe Biden look like a statesman, she foolishly mocked her opponent’s confinement to a wheelchair and declared he would outlaw interracial marriages despite his own marriage of over thirty years to a Latina!  True to form, even after her defeat, her supporters kept shouting their extremist views by saying every woman who voted Republican should “fall off the face of the earth” and “kill all the babies”!  In comparison, Fluke’s twenty point loss for the Senate in deep blue California was tame by comparison.  The only irony here is how someone so concerned about getting taxpayers to pay for contraception can come up with a $100,000 loan to her ill-fated campaign.

A final elephant in the room is the lack of effectiveness of the vaunted Democrat get-out-the-vote machine.  Now that President Obama’s policies have been so ineffective and his charm has worn thin, he was not seen as a sparkling asset but as a toxic liability.  Even in safe states where he and his wife campaigned, Democrats still lost because of their support for his policies.  To drum up the base, Democrat candidates turned to Hillary Clinton and the “Big Dog” Bill Clinton.  Hillary’s efforts were as disastrous as her book tour and thirty-two of her candidates lost!  Bill was equally impotent as far as the campaigning went.  The invincibility of the Clinton machine and the inevitability of Hillary’s presidency were sudddenly brought into question.  That’s why the “suicide watch” at MSNBC and other liberal media should remain vigilant!  Now it’s the Democrats who look old, angry, and tired.  They need to fire their writers, get some new material and freshen up their rap ‘cuz this ain’t your grandpa’s GOP!