Maine Remembered, Sense Forgot

AIA-FL Blog ^ | November 16, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Maine Remembered, Sense Forgot

Malcolm A. Kline, November 16, 2009

When most voters don’t win at the ballot box, they usually get over it the next day but make mental notes for the next election. Left-wing voters, particularly the academic variety that now may make up most of the breed, seem to need therapy, at least in print.

“Waking up Wednesday morning this week I had to face the disappointment and the noise,” Wesleyan University president Michael Roth wrote on The Huffington Post web site on November 6, 2009, three days after the recent spate of elections. “The disappointment was clear enough.”

“The turnout in Virginia and New Jersey ensured that the progressive wave some of us last year thought might wash across the country had a strong undertow, or at least a rip current.” He must have missed those TEA parties.

Yep, he did. “The noise came from the shrill predictions that now there is a fresh conservative tide returning to wash away the hopes for change,” he ruminated. “If two governor races were all there was to talk about, then they just had to become bellwethers for pundits without a clue.”...

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Hey I’m mad too, as anyone can tell by researching my posts. Of course FR to me is a place where I can blow off steam. I do though have a moral foundation, and a firm belief in God. I don’t opine about election losses.