The party of the old white guys?

  In an article entitled, "GOP's Rural White Guys: The Night They Drove New Dixie Down," Politics Daily writer Donna Trussell describes her concern over the "rural white guys" that forced the tsunami in the last election. She goes on to lament that everything men get involved in turns to mush, including education and start-up businesses. It's a pretty pathetic piece and spouts the usual anti-male crap about how great women are and what bumblers men are, quoting her grandmother that she had "never met a man who was not a liability." 

  So even though conservative women are rising in prominence, they don't count because they won't be pushing dependency and free stuff for women, infants, children and the elderly, according to Trussell, as if those policies are what really smart qualified politicians do.

  She harkens back to the fact that these conservative women are just manipulative and have to work through gettin' the strong powerful men to do for them what they can't do for themselves because they just aren't capable themselves.

  This woman is in complete denial; she is looking forward to 2012 where she is sure strong women candidates will emerge: REAL women candidates, not the phony conservative ones. This year was a "freak" year, not usual.

  Practically speaking, Ms. Trussell ought to look around at who the old white guy party is these days. 

  Out of touch liberals like herself and The One's destructive economic policies are tearing apart this country. Obama himself is both weak and strong, a narcissist so in love with himself that he cannot conceive policies that will benefit the country outside his vision of complete control of The Lives of Others.

  Ms. Trussell's assumptions are not only misguided, they're wrong. There are a number of reasons this election went the way it did, in addition to the emergence of the tea parties and public dissatisfaction with the cavalier way that democrats have dealt with public dissent. For example, all these factors are significant, as the electorate is changing in its focus:

• women voted Republican
• the higher profile of libertarians
• independents voted Republican
• a third of gays voted Republican

  Democrats continue to cling to African American voters but their hold is loosening; this is why they dread the appearance of so many minority Republican candidates. Democrats accuse Republicans of bullying if they even campaign in black districts.

  In reality, minority candidates are more likely to win in a rural white districts than in minority primarily black districts. 

  Thus, who're the bigots, one must ask?

  And who is the party of the old white guys? Which party is energized, youthful and growing?