Year: 2008

A college professor who gets a tingle up his leg from stealing McCain signs.  What great people who have won this election.

I can’t agree more with this message from Bob Krumm and Rightwingprof.  Obama won.  He will be legitimately our President.  The margins were high enough in most of the states that mattered, I don’t think we can attribute it to fraud.  We can attribute it to Republicans sucking.  I am willing to give Obama the chance to govern as the center-left moderate he’s sold himself as.  I am willing to give him a chance to show me he’s not going to come after gun owners.  And I am absolutely willing to start talking about the 2010 elections.  We have an election to win, folks, and we only have two years to get ready.

Unfortunately, we lost our presidential and congressional race this election.  It was a bad day to be a Republican, and people overhwelmingly said the economy was their top concern.  But, both our endorsed State Representatives comfortably held on to their seat, and we did oust one anti-gun Democrat in my distrct (Chris King).  We also got a B rated state rep elected over a question mark candidate.  Interestingly enough, I don’t think Obama’s coattails reached down to state level races.  We did pretty well at the state level, overall, at least in my district.

My State Representative, Chris King, who’s grade dropped from an A- to a C-, was ousted by Frank Farry.   Frank’s NRA grade was “?” because he didn’t get his questionare in, so I could send him no volunteers.  But I did talk to him, and got a reassurance he was a good guy on our issue.  This is a win for gun owners.  It’s also a win for class.  Seriously, how much of a goober are you if you don’t show up to thank your supporters and congratulate your opponent?  I think it’s safe to say Chris King’s political career is finished.  Frank Farry ran a stellar campaign, and to oust an incumbent as a Republican in a Democratic election year is a testament to that.  I hope we’ll be able to work with Frank moving forward, and that he’ll earn an NRA endorsement for 2010.

Let’s be honest about who’s fault it really is we lost this election.  The Rove strategy has proven to be a total failure at this point.  New England now has no Republican representation left at all.  Pennsylvania is following close behind.  The South is still solid, well, except for Virginia, and maybe North Carolina.  George Bush destroyed the Republican Party, with a lot of help from a formerly Republican Congress.

Your name can be Barack Hussein Obama, and you can be black, and you can be President.  America is not a racist country.  There was no Bradley Effect.  If you think about America going from forcing African Americans to sit on the back of the bus, to electing one President within a generation, that’s really not an achievement that should be discounted.  I am worried for my country because of the political outcome of this election, but there is a silver lining in this outcome.

That is all.  Get ready folks, we are in for some dark, dark times.  It was hard getting people to vote on guns this election.  I couldn’t get gun owners here to lift a finger.  This is why we can never just win, and constantly struggle with victory and loss.

We made 800 calls to households between the two of us to get out the vote.  Our county had a goal of 20,000 phone calls.  We actually made 35,394 phone calls to households.  We stayed late, because two precincts had extended hours because of problems at the polling place.  I really feel like we did everything we could.  I hope to God it was enough.  Time will tell.  I’m blacking out news until there’s actual, real data.  For me, this election is over.  It’s just a matter of results… and the aftermath.

Politico has confirmed this.  I’m headed back to Victory Headquarters to get the vote out for his opponent.