Victory is Ours!

I have been humming "Victory is ours.  Victory is ours.  Victory is ours today!" all morning.  I want to sing it at the top of my lungs, but IK is still asleep.  It was a late night for everyone last night.  I have two reasons to celebrate.  The obvious one is Obama, the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.  Woohoo!!!!  The second reason is that my son DK won his own bid for VP at his school today.  Woohoo!!!!!    

I have been up most of the night reading reactions, both from Democrats and Republicans, about the outcome of the election.  Yes, I actually read the National Review.   I stopped when I got to the article that equated allowing abortions to allowing slavery.  Huh? 

Overall, most people are congratulatory.  Obama overcame many obstacles and ran an excellent campaign.  Conservatives agree that the Republican party needs to regroup and devise a new agenda that appeals to the middle class.  What they need  is to start the difficult task of separating themselves from the religious fanatics that make up their current base.  I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's one of the main reasons you lost, folks.  The American people decided they do not want a right-wing evangelical that close to the presidency.  What part of separation of church and state do you not understand?  Some of you might think I feel this way because I am not religious.  Wrong.  I am a Catholic.  I believe in God.  I believe in Jesus (which by the way, wasn't Jesus also a community organizer?)  Maybe where we differ is that I believe in helping people not just in telling them how they should act based on my own personal beliefs.

But back to my literature review, the most disturbing part is that the majority of the opinion pieces I read on the National Review did not seem to blame Palin for their loss. How is the Repulican party supposed to regroup and appeal to the general public when they are tied at the hip to these right-wing evangelicals?  Not that we don't have our own left-left-lefties, but for a party to win it needs to appeal to the middle.  I'm sorry, but in America, the middle is not made up of conservative, evangelical Christians, guys.  Time to do your homework, Republicans, or you're going to be in the same boat in 2010 and 2012.  

Must wake up IK to go to Little Gym class...TTYL.