The conservative talk show hosts can put on all the brave fronts they want to.You can't convince me that true republicans aren't disgusted with the results of this mid-term election. I don't know if I can stand listening to Nancy Pelosi's voice for the next six years. How in the world did all of this happen? What on earth is the Bush Administration doing with Secretary Rumsfield?

  Nancy Pelosi had some nasty things to say about President Bush during the election campaign an she should be ashamed of herself for not showing more restraint. President Bush was much more restrained when asked questions about democrats. Pelosi behaved like a kindergartener and I pray that she acts like an adult for the next six years.

  The Bush administration seems to have made a miscalculation by not letting Secretary Rumsfield go before the election. I am almost certain this would have changed many of the outcomes of close races. President Bush didn't see this landslide coming. I'll gamble that he may have prepared for losing the House of Representatives but not the Senate.

 The most infuriating thing is that the democrats didn't even have a platform to run on. They kept yelling change but no idea what that change is going to be, other than most likely trying to block everything President Bush proposes or perhaps undue some good things he has done with tax cuts and such. The only thing conservatives have to be grateful for, is that the majority is so thin in Congress that in the worst case scenario, we all get stuck in gridlock and nothing gets done. This will backfire on the democrats because I believe that they haven't thought much about keeping power after getting there. They had no original ideas coming in so what will change? Another positive fact is that several of the democrats elected lean closer to the right than to the left.

  The American electorate is baffling, though, it is a historical cycle in a president's second term for shift in power within Congress. This time is unique because we have a good economy, the gas prices have come down, and there was some movement on immigration. But then there is the war in Iraq. Was this the single reason for the democratic victory? Was it in the minds of Americans to achieve a "check and balance" on presedential power? It is an odd situation because so many other issues were voted on such as on gay marriage bans. These passed all over the country  with the exception of Arizona. There was a social conservative movement across the country.

  The thing I suspect about this election is that so many people went out and voted out of emotion instead of taking the time to think first about long term consequences. I am almost certain that there weren't many people who considered the fact that President Bush may have at least one more Supreme Court appointment to make. It wasn't an issue that was promoted during the campaign, to the conservatives detriment.

  With anger and disppointment aside, I guess it is time to take it like a man. I have to say that this election really hurt for me, especially since it was the first election being a black republican and getting solidly behind the GOP. I hadn't felt so excited or alive about an election in all my life. Early on the evening of Election Day, I got a sinking feeling in my stomach that things were not going to go well. Two things entered my mind by the midnight hour. First, "Should I go to Walgreens to get some medicine for an upset stomach?" and " How do I get hold of some prozac?"