Well said! I agree with your comments except for the following:
“I also blame “right wing radio” for disseminating a miasma of despair among certain blocs who, although they listen to right wing radio all gd day, have been discouraged from even voting.”
If I followed your logic, then I shouldn’t even be reading Free Republic. We had two pitiful candiadates in 2008 and 2012, yet the choir here at FR said they were staying home. I agree neither were worth voting for, but look what we got by default.
Whenever mentioning this, I should say,
BTW, the number of FReepers who stayed on the couch on election day is a disgrace. The KB VFW Bar Poll noted that the loudest "conservative" mouths in the group were often the MOST likely to have forgotten to vote.