Seeing
Red and Feeling Blue
'Better Red than Dead'
Ron
Peacock
Wooster, OH (PN)
In your recent travels, has anyone
noticed a post-election despondency amongst a certain segment of
our population? On November 2nd, President Bush won re-election
and the Republican Party gained an unprecedented second term majority
of congressional seats. In the month following the election, the
realities of these events have been beyond comprehension to a certain
demographic of our population. It seems some of our left leaning
brothers and sisters are seeing red and feeling blue.
It has come to this writer's attention that a number of John Kerry
supporters are seeking medical treatment for a formerly unknown
ailment associated with loss or not having ones way. The symptoms
manifest themselves in the form of pervasive moodiness, sulking,
feelings of withdrawal, isolation, bitterness and anger (I could
give you my personal diagnosis, but I wouldn't want to be accused
of ragging on the Democrats). The American Health Association
has validated this puerile behavior by creating a new psychological
disorder - Post-Election Selection Trauma (PEST).
Fortunately for our misguided liberal friends, scores of psychotherapists
are lining up eager to pitch their pseudo-intellectual snake oil
like so many carnival sideshow geeks - "Why friends, for
300 plus dollars an hour, plenty of expensive mood altering medication,
a recommended lifetime of treatment and a never ending litany of
psycho-babble, we can guarantee our support and "professional"
services as long as your payments are forthcoming." Listen
up my suffering socialist friends, I am about to give you, free
of charge, some exceptionally insightful advice and an irrefutable
remedy: GET OVER IT!
Failing
to understand the true reasoning behind their defeat, others of
the purportedly tolerant, progressive and open-minded left,
have resorted to labeling the voters of red states as rednecks,
fundamentalist zealots, homophobes, stupid, illiterate, unenlightened
and worse. This shameful outpouring of hate-speech is symptomatic
of the bitter campaign and the Democrats acute denial in the wake
of their parties political collapse. The truth is, in this post-911
world, the Democrats were unable to convince the American public
they had anything remotely resembling a credible plan to secure
the safety of our citizens and defeat terrorism on a global scale.
On November 2nd, our country spoke and as the map clearly reveals,
the American people said: "Better
Red Than Dead".
We are in a struggle against a most cunning, cowardly and contemptible
enemy. The majority of Americans understand that we must not relent.
If we do not "stay the course" and defeat the radical Islamic
terrorists, we will certainly face more death and suffering within
our own borders; that is the ambition of our enemy. America has
elected to retain our present war time President, in so doing, supporting
our present policies of bringing the war to our enemy and democracy
to the middle east.
If you would like to salt the wounds of your leftist friends, antagonize
Democrats suffering from the PEST disorder or just proclaim
your red state support, you can order 'Better
Red Than Dead'
merchandise from The
Pavo News Shoppe (10% of the profit is used to purchase USO
care packages for our troops.)
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