High Noon in America

  I've been basking all day. Alright, I'll admit I've been gloating.
  In fact, I made sure to listen to Glenn Beck, Pat and Stu's gloat fest, which was unsurpassed in glee when W won his second term.
   Mia Love is the first African American Republican woman to go to the House.
  The Republican South overwhelmingly voted to send the first African American Senator to DC.
  Traditionally blue strongholds went red yesterday. Indeed, with this election at least 32 of the 50 governorships, the most for Republicans since the 1920s, not to mention legislative slates in many states.
  And 67% of Oregon voters--one of the most liberal states in the country--rejected the idea of giving illegal aliens state issued drivers licenses.
  Republicans sent numerous women, like combat veteran Joni Ernst, to DC.
  I wrote a couple years ago that the Republican bench is far deeper than the Democrat bench as far as promising politicians whose skin color is not white. That would be, the Republican party, not the Democrat party, which is hanging its hopes on the lonely figure of Hispanic Julian Castro.
  As usual, the media and the Democrat party but I repeat myself are working hard to pump up Hillary Clinton's prospects, regardless the fact that just about everyone she promoted this campaign lost.
  The reaction to the 2014 elections is to blame the electorate as "grumpy" and "unhappy," as if cheer and happiness would lead to Democrat wins.
  But one of the most interesting memes emerging from this devastating Democrat defeat is the astounding supposition that, though Republicans won a great deal, the real winner of 2014 is Hillary Clinton.
  For Yahoo, Romano writes "How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms" that the GOP underperformed in swing states!"

But here’s the thing: In politics, the easy answer isn’t always the only answer, and the winner of an election isn’t always the one who benefits most. Take a closer look at demography, geography and the road ahead for the parties, and it’s clear that the long-term winner of the 2014 midterms wasn’t the GOP at all. The long-term winner, in fact, wasn’t even on the ballot this year.

Her name is Hillary Clinton.

  Even tonight while I am writing this Mara Liasson and A.B. Stoddard are claiming that all the candidates she supported are now indebted to her and that Hillary wants to run against a Republican Senate and House. (!)
  And Anne Gearan at the WaPo writes:

he Republican takeover of the Senate could be good news for at least one Democrat: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton campaigned hard this fall for Democrats, working to boost the party’s effort to preserve its Senate majority — an effort that failed dramatically in Tuesday’s GOP midterm rout.

But many Democratic strategists said the switch to Republican control may have a silver lining for Clinton, helping her better define herself as she shapes a potential 2016 presidential campaign. By providing a convenient foil for her and other Democrats, a GOP-run Congress would make it less imperative for Clinton to highlight her differences with President Obama, these strategists said.

Obama’s damaged, lame-duck condition also makes Clinton the strongest Democrat left standing.

  This is just an unbelievable lack of logic.
  Ronald Reagan's theme was "Morning in America" and, looking back, Reagan's optimism and love for America made it a better place to live.
  Personally I'd rather have Morning in America with an optimist than High Noon in America with a gunslinging electorate fed up with lawlessness, mockery and fighting but if that is what it takes to clean up the mess Leftists have made of the country and the legal structure, I'll take it.
  I, like many other political wonks, am really tired today from staying up too late but I have to ask this.
  Leftists, didja really think there would be no consequence for your constant race and gender baiting? And this? You have this old tired politician to hang your 2016 hats on?
  Huh.

AP photo from WaPo