The Day after

Dear Citizens:
Election day always follows Halloween, All Saints Day and all Souls Day and there are reasons for that.  Tricks and treats are followed by prayers for the departed, the living, and then the candidates.
Please God let my candidate win!  or the subtle variations on that theme: "Please vote for my Dad",  "Hi, Remember Virginia vote your conscience.",  "I am voting for the person who brought my child into this world."
During the run up to the election we heard the candidates described as too weak, too strong, too conservative--Taliban Ticket, too liberal-- and he stutters,  Too Slick, Not Slick enough, and on and on.
The following groups have helped me decide who to vote for.
Move-Back.org and the ClubYourGrowth.  Thanks folks for all your help.
Recently the conservative radio host, John Batchelor went on a rant about the right wing even I couldn't dream up.
"All together, these potentates constitute a right-wing nihilism made up of charming or churlish older males who come down from their gated neighborhoods in Olympus now and again to preach their giddy “I’ve got mine!” libertarian cant to the meek of the Earth and threaten mayhem against the Republican Party if it does not obey a Busby Berkeley kick-line of billionaire cranks. Before the concoction of the Club for Growth, a right-wing political group that advocates limited government and lower taxes and invented the "RINO Watch" list, in the last moments of the Clinton presidency, it was possible to ignore the carping of the rich and insufferable. Yet since the toxins of the Bush presidency rendered the party a taxidermist’s exhibit in the North and West–anywhere outside of the Confederacy or the Mormon Tabernacle—the Club for Growth crowd has learned to enjoy a sadistic sport—harassing anyone in the GOP who does not kiss the hem of His Rt. Hon. Tax Cut or who has fresh thoughts outside of a looped reel of Life with Father."
That is a worthy rant--a little election humor for both parties --Wow I need to find a quote like that for Move-On.Org.
BUT and here is the small print ---The bottom line comes Tomorrow, the day after the elections, who ever wins still has to find the funds to run our state government and both candidates said no to new taxes.  Promises neither can keep the day after!


Be well
A Journeyman