On The Voting Line

I went to vote this morning, as most/all of you no doubt did, as well. The line was long, but everyone I saw looked extremely...well, there's no better way to say it: GRIM. No one smiled much. No one joked around, and there was very little talking except among voters who were obviously related. Knowing the percentage of Oklahomans who are voting for McCain, especially in my area of town, I suspect most of them were thinking the same thing as I was: "Am I casting my vote in a lost cause?"

Make no mistake: whoever wins, there will be a lot of very unhappy people. I don't see a whole lot of the "healing" and "reconciliation" coming that so many people (especially Democrats) are mugging for. As if it weren't already the pot calling the kettle black...just look at what happened in 2000. How high were the stakes then, compared to the stakes today? Yet eight years later, Democrats see this as an opportunity to "right that wrong"...they just can't let that go, and they spent eight straight years harping on it, fighting tooth-and-nail, insulting any non-liberal, non-Democrat. How much "healing" was accomplished during that time? How did those losers reconcile then and since?

All this talk of "good losers" and that sort of thing...what the heck do you think this is, a friendly tennis match?? Do you think we're playing for marbles here?!?!?! Now, admittedly, I'm very competitive and have never been able to lose with grace. My view has always been, you won, I lost, you got the reward and I didn't, so shut up and deal with it if I don't like it. And that's just for insignificant stuff like sports and games...this is people's lives we're talking about. This is the real deal, and real people, honest, hard-working fellow Americans, are going to be stomped on, marginalized, and ruined if Obama wins.

On the other hand, what if McCain somehow pulls out the upset, especially a squeaker or the odd lost-the-popular-vote-but-won-the-Electoral-College thing like George W. Bush? Lots of people will feel stomped on, marginalized, and ruined. How long do you think the riots will last? Did you go buy some ammo and stock up on water?

I might be wrong about all of this, and I hope that I am.