Post Election Blues

After the election, I fully expected to have many partisan Democrats email me or phone up to gloat and tell me how wrong and foolish I was for supporting the President, etc., but to my surprise, not one person took that tact except Darryl, the one fellow I’d previously considered to be a non-partisan, thoughtful Independent. Imagine my shock when he was the only guy to try and ‘kick me when I was down’ by sending me newspaper clippings purposely selected to be vengeful and bitter, devoid of any of the intellectual integrity or curiosity he’d always presented in our discussions. Articles and cartoons Calling the President “stupid”, labeling him a “chicken-hawk” or attempting to rewrite history are the kind of childish nonsense that I’ve come to expect from radical, leftist, wing-nuts. Prior to this past election, he was always able to disagree without becoming disagreeable, he could debate ideas without distorting reality and he kept ugly suppositions such as; Class Envy, Avarice and Egotism out of our talks.
Darryl is a smart guy and so are the authors of the news clippings he sent, but trust me, given the choice I’ll go with the man who graduated Yale with a better GPA than John Kerry, earned an MBA from Harvard, conceived of and built the Ball Park at Arlington, defeated Ma Richards, was re-elected Governor of Texas and has served as President of the United States for six years! And by the way, Rush Limbaugh has single-handedly built the largest radio audience in the Free World, been America’s #1 broadcaster for 17 years running and earns $25,000,000 a year, but he must be stupid ‘cause Darryl said so.
I still consider Darryl a friend, but don’t think that means he can come into my home and bad-mouth the men I admire most. Just because a few democrats got elected to Congress hasn’t and will not shake my convictions or resolve, because they are born from knowledge and principal not popularity polls and propaganda.
I regret our disagreement took place in front of his wife and daughter and was so upsetting to them. With Hanukah fast approaching, I’d like to see our families be able to get together without repeating the fireworks of last night, so I’m going to encourage my wife to extend that invitation and I hope he’ll consider accepting, only this time leaving his newfound, defeatist books and attitudes at his house – we’re not buying any of it!