November 2 was a devastating defeat for liberals.

George W. Bush defeated John Kerry, taking a majority of the electoral college and the popular vote. Exit polls throughout the day suggested a Bush defeat, and even if they hadn't it's not hard to envision liberals interpreting them to mean that Bush would lose. The faulty exit polls, combined with the lingering bitterness from Florida, makes Tuesday an especially difficult defeat for many Democrats to take. One-hundred percent of the precinct votes have been counted in Ohio, and Bush leads the state by more than 125,000 votes. Even if there are 150,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted, those votes would have to go almost unanimously to Kerry for the Democrat to win. It's over. The fat lady has sung. The coda has been played.

In South Dakota, John Thune defeated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. This is the first time a Senate leader has been defeated since 1952, when Barry Goldwater defeated Ernest McFarland in Arizona on the coattails of Ike and through the campaigning of the then popular Senator Joseph McCarthy. In the Senate, Republicans may, when the smoke clears, control fifty-five Senate seats. In the House, they increased their numbers by five.

Around the country, initiatives banning gay marriage won in eleven out of the eleven states where they appeared on the ballot.

The Democrats have lost three straight national elections. In each case, their solution to their electoral woes has been to move further and further left, e.g., making San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi their House leader, nominating Ted Kennedy's understudy for president, championing gay marriage, etc. Time will tell whether Democrats attempt to cure their current political ailments by prescribing more of the poison that got them sick in the first place.

A governing mandate, House dominance, and the irrelevance of Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chafee! All is right with the world!

Oh, and did I mention the Mavs smoked the Kings in the first game of the year. Start planning the parade route.

I can’t take it: Pats win the Superbowl; Red Sox win the World Series; Bush is back in for fo’mo’ and that devisive Leftist Dashle is ousted out of his comfy chair.

Congrats to Bush and the GOP. I was hoping that Specter would lose in Pennsylvania so as to insure another Republican would become chair of the Judiciary Committee, I was excited when it looked like he could lose. That would have been the best case scenario for pro-lifers, I think, having Bush reelected with a larger Senate majority while getting the liberal Specter out of the way.

Overall, I am pleased but I hope that the GOP learns two lessons: 1) the cultural and moral issues are critical (that is, none of this Bush coming out in support of civil unions crap) and 2) with the turnout by the evangelicals and the dominance of the moral issues it should be clear that this election would have not even been close at all if it weren't for Iraq.

I still want the neocons to get ousted, see.

I wonder what DB/Sid has to say today?

One more thought on why this is a bad day for liberalism (ignoring how liberal the president is momentarily).

Somebody from the Republicans needs to send a thank you bouquet of flowers and a fruit basket to Cheif Justice Margaret Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. If it wasn't for liberals inability to live under the rule of law in which we effect policy change through the legislative and electoral democratic process then the GOP would not have had such a great turnout from its base. The Democrats and liberals can thank their penchant for judicial tyranny forcing us backwards Americans from the hinterlands into conformity with their elite amoral "values" for their stinging defeat.

Those eleven states which had amendments against so-called "gay marriage" were critical ones in defeating Kerry. The only reason they had to make such amendments to their constitution (I mean really we actually have to tell people what a marriage is?) is b/c they could clearly see that the activists were going to use the legalization of the marriage licenses from Mass. to force other states to recognize them.

Now if only the GOP as a whole would get serious about ejecting these petty tyrants in black robes.

WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!

A great day for Conservatives!

God bless George Bush.
And God Bless America,
- Happy GOP, Maryland

Huh? You mean their is a GOP presence in Maryland?