Remember the Angry White Male? He’s the jerk who votes Republican, in contemporary mythology. As Charles Krauthammer put it—14 years ago now!—:

The Angry White Male, suitably capitalized to indicate that the menace has become a media-certified trend, stalks the land, or at least the land of the media. In the 10 years before the November election, there were 59 (Nexis) references to angry white men. There have been 1,400 since. A post-election front-page headline in USA Today was typical: “Angry White Men: Their votes turned the tide for the GOP.“

By sheer numbing repetition, the legend grows. “The Republicans scraped together a majority,“ explains the genial Garrison Keillor, “by appealing to the sorehead vote, your brother-in-law and mine.“ By early April, the term receives its official presidential seal of approval when Bill Clinton confirms that “this is psychologically a difficult time for a lot of white males, the so-called angry white males.“

Well, the narrative is holding—or at least the angry part, and we can assume the rest. When voters elected Obama, the public was in a joyful mood, or so we were told. Now that it’s voting Republican, it’s really “grumpy.“

It couldn’t be that certain reporters are projecting just the least little bit, could it?

Heavens no.

The democrats set the course of their impending defeat when they decided to forgo governing as adults and embark on a crusade to destroy Bush by any means nessasary..even if that meant rooting against their own country in Iraq and stoking race hate during Katrina. They embraced the insane left in order to tap into that demo’s hatred. Previous generations of democrats knew the danger of doing this. Now the nuts are in the house and they won’t leave until the party’s over…literally.

One could argue that the republicans face the same decision..at least if one gets their news from comedians or democrat run outlets like MSNBC or CNN. Problem is, the far right isn’t nearly as uniformly ignorant or insane as the far left and, because this is a center right country in which a politician like Obama has to sound like Reagan to get elected, the far right also doesn’t seem so FAR as the far left.

Today the democrat party is run by the worst and most useless of the Woodstock generation. The grownups are all gone. The wrinkled hippies have squandered their parents legacy and now they’re going after their childrens birth right. They create nothing of their own. They don’t understand that concept.

These people have been hiding out in our institutions for decades waiting for their chance to implement all revolutionary fantasies of their never ending childhood. Aging hipsters with power. The country rejected their sillyness then and will likely reject it today…regardless of their gray hair of stylish suits.

Remember when Bart and many others was bloviating pointlessly about the demise of the Republican Party. Well, they seem alive and well today.

So too I think the Democrats have not lost too much ground.  They never had it to lose, nor did the Republicans.

Political gyrations are normal. There is no mandate for anything. The existance of Bigfoot or the Tooth Fairy is more likely.

There is a danger of ignoring the obvious as well…....

There is a danger in over-analyzing election data.

The elections have not turned out much different than expected.

The final inconvenient truth…

“Perhaps more amazing and disappointingly under-reported by the media is the fact that 18-29 year olds in Virginia voted for Bob McDonnell over the Democrat 54% to 44%.“

Voter turnout among immature voters was down considerably, highlighting the reality that the 2008 election of Obama had more to do with personality cult, racial novelty and shallow “coolness” than it did with an ideological realignment of the country.

Unemployment now at 10.2%

Another inconvenient truth is that independent women went for Christie in NJ by a 2-1 margin, and McDonnel won the chick vote by a 6 point margin…even after the WaPo spent 6 weeks in mid summer desperately trying to “macaca” him with his college thesis.

The Angry White Male narrative is just that, a narrative. It’s used because democrat journalists lack the imagination to create a new narrative, they’re living in denial or they’re too lazy to look at the demographic results of the election. Again, it doesn’t matter what narrative they trot out.

No one believes them anymore.

Uno is the bloviator. Angry white male.

He should be happy. Sing happy songs. Hug bunnies. Love baby booties. Smell the coffee, sniff the flowers and enjoy the sunshine. Like R.Smith, Mr. Sunshine.

Now I do know one happy white male. A Goldman Sachs CEO recently informed me he felt “amply satisfied” about life. He is happy. You want happy. That’s happiness, ample satisfaction.

Five people stare at a painting and all five see something different, what they want to see. A partisan will see a victory as a triumph of ideology. Losers will make lame excuses for failure. The fence sitters, the people in the middle, won’t give a rat’s patootie one way or the other. Minorities and young people have always been notoriously difficult to motivate, not just this one single election. Republicans have always been fired up and mad as hell and not gonna take it any more, not just this one election.

All of us pay attention to our wallets. That is the message Washington should take to heart, not that other 4 observations are wrong either, but pay attention to basics.

Well, R. Smith, bloviator that he is, always has something to say.
“Political movements built on hate can not last. Bush is gone. “ R. Smith bloviation quote.
  So, by the same logic, does that mean those that hate Obama, the tea Bags, and R. Smith himself will soon be in the dustbowl of history.
  Actually haters can sustain power a long time. The post-Civil War South with its Bilbos, Tillmans, Byrds, Judge Smiths
lasted about a 100 years. And the Klan and Nazis are still around. The militias are still around. Clinic bombers and extremist Christians are still with us.
  And so is R. Smith with his pathetic political stew of racist,sexist, anti-gay/
lesbian stuff.

George Allen beat Mary Sue Terry by a similar margin in 1993.

McDonnel won by such a large margin because people are uneasy about the direction of the gov’t. Obama ran as a centrist but has governed as a leftist. The post racial candidate turns out to be a run of the mill, race obsessed, “redistributive justice” spouting academic with no credible knowledge of economics or human nature.

And then there’s Congress. They have contempt for the public. Only an idiot…Nancy Pelosi?...would think they could get away with ramming thru a 2000 page health care bill before it’s even finished being written. Only a feeble minded moron…Harry Reid?...would think hiding it from the public would’nt cause a back lash. Throw in the pork filled, political payoff stimulus that knowbody believes is working and a political class discussing health care and global fart restrictions while we have 10% unemployment, troops dying in Afganistan while begging for reinforcements while Obama plays B-ball or attends a dozen fundraisers or campaign stops and you get what happened on election night.

Like I said…a political movement built on hate cannot last. Bush is gone.

The college kids who cried at Obama rallies have found other novelties and fads to entertain themselves. The black vote is only animated by a black candidate. King was right on when he said “I dream of a country where a man is judged solely by the color of his skin…..so vote Black Quimby!“

Trying to ressurect the angry white male narrative isn’t going to work. There’s no point in formulating a narrative when nobody is listening to you any more.

Election night cable ratings? FOX had more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and Headline News combined.

Dismissing the trend might be easier than facing the reality in the short term but it will be desasterous in the long term.

Continuing to rely on infantile teabagger cracks might soothe the bruised ego of the partisan chior but, it’s not going to win anybody over.

In the end, Americans like knowing that gov’t is there when they most need it. Americans DO NOT like gov’t in their faces every second of every minute of every day. The democrats are headed in an ALL GOV’T ALL THE TIME direction.

Americans just slapped them back….and will continue to do so until the message sinks in. Disregard that fact at your own peril.

Quote of the day…

“We got walloped,” said Sen. Mark Warner, the junior Democrat from Virginia

More scapegoating of the white male. If it isn’t GWBush’s fault, then it must the fault of the white male. Now he is angry. Most of congress are white males—they are feckless and thrive on no-fault attitudes. They are not angry. You have to have a position or be frustrated to be angry. Like Biscuit, the US congress bloviates and sits.

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