No happy spirit this morning. I don't mind the Republican collapse yesterday, but the free sex and death culture's trifecta worries me: "South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research."
Let's hope the Republicans' poor job the past couple of years resulted in their failure to turn out their base and that these ballot defeats are an aberration.
Possible bright side: Maybe the Dems will interpret these three ballot victories as a sign that it's time to come out and push their real social agenda (Sex and Death!). If a lot of conservatives stayed home yesterday (and to be honest, I almost did), they'll get stirred up in 2008.
Humorous aside: While surfing last night at 3:00 for election results, I saw one House Republican (I forget the name) say that the Republicans now need to re-trench and do what they do best: fight for limited government. Give me a break. The ruling Republicans in D.C. stopped walking that walk when GW came to the throne. I'm not sure I even heard that phrase during the campaign season, probably because the Republicans knew they dropped that ball back on their own eight yard line.
By the way, now might be a good time to subscribe The American Conservative, if you want to know how a right-leaning person ought to think. It's a good magazine that fights for the principles of conservatism: a culture with an ordered yet diverse citizenry, local control, and a measure of isolationism.
That's it for now. I'm tired. Before leaving, one item from my random book readings. From Camus's notebooks:
Radici, a member of the French militia who had volunteered for the Waffen SS, tried for having had twenty-eight prisoners in La Sante shot (he was present as the five groups were executed), belonged to the Humane Society for the Protection of Animals.
