My feeling is that what happened in last night's election was that the era of talk radio politics is over. Or at least, the first round is over. Americans are tired of conservatives and republicans going around and saying that people are un-American or traitors simply because they question the current administration's actions.
Why? Because most of the rank and file Republicans kept their jobs. But the vocal Republicans. The one's that stole elections. The ones that bashed gays. The ones the called people traitors. The ones who said Al Qaeda would have parades on American streets if the Democrats won. They are all gone. Chris Matthews had an interesting point last night when he said, "These are people I know losing. These are big ticket Republicans. The ones that come on the talk shows." Exactly, Chris. Exactly.
Second, conservative talk radio hosts tried what they could to suppress the vote. As an example Laura Ingraham tried to disrupt the Democrats vote fraud service by having her listeners spam the phone lines. Thankfully that failed because with the falling ratings these talk show hosts are whistling past graveyards. But the call I heard that was recorded was really funny. I could listen to that all day.
Anyway, I'm hoping that this election starts to heal the split that Rove and Gingrich have created in this country. That split is artificial. We all want to do better. We all want to win wars against our enemies. We all want to keep our kids safe. We all want to be healthy and live happy and productive lives. Let's all work together towards those goals, and eschew these politics of hate and the people that preach them.
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