Commentary

Yes, I know, I said I was going to take a break and lick my wounds after going out on a limb with my optimistic outlook for the GOP on November 8, but I sensed that a number of Republican voters believe our future is grim on the political front.  After the initial shock, evidence reveals that not to be the case.

We have won the House with a number of seats still to be confirmed, and importantly we will no longer have Nancy Pelosi as speaker.

In addition, we continue to have an opportunity to retake the Senate. With the races in Arizona and Nevada too close to call, those results should be in by week’s end. 

And we now know that that the Walker-Warnock Senate race in Georgia will go to a December 6, 2022 runoff vote.  A 51 Republican Senate is in the cards.

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

Berra’s quote came when the New York Mets he managed rallied to win the 1973 National League pennant race.  After trailing, the Mets went on to win three out of five games against the Cincinnati Reds on a path to the World Series.

“It’s not time to panic.  It’s time to stay focused.” – Rush Limbaugh

This quote perhaps best fits the emotions some of us experienced after the disappointing Election Day evening, summed up by Rush Limbaugh in a response to a caller to his radio talk show on October 12, 2016.

“I am in panic mode,” the caller, a woman from Charles City Iowa, exclaimed, having watched Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “Hillary’s America,” the evening before. “I’m scared to death. I’m an absolute basket case.  It’s all going down the tubes. I saw what’s coming down, what they have planned.”

“It’s not time to panic,” Limbaugh said. “You have to understand, this is the first time in my lifetime that Democrats have been seriously opposed.  That’s what ought to tick you off.”

After defusing the thought of Hillary, Limbaugh conceded that he too gets angry and frustrated, but “not panicked in the sense of the word.  It’s time to stay focused … to make sure that you do everything you can to be unaffected by the tripe that suffices as the so-called news of the day,” adding “it must be hard to accept it for some.”

There’s more …

“Never give up.  Never give up. Never give up.” – Winston Churchill, October 29, 1941

“Don’t give up the ship.” – James Lawrence, aboard the USS Chesapeake, in 1813

Then there’s this Kramerontherightism, “Hang in there.”

May God continue to bless us as we demonstrate that the Democrat threat of democracy’s demise was bogus if we won.