It's over ...
Even two years ago, I would have been devastated by a Republican loss at the polls, especially one of this magnitude. But I’m not devastated now. In fact, I’m not sad at all.
The truth is my party didn’t deserve to win, and everybody knows it. John McCain, whom I detest, was spot on last night:
We were elected to go to Washington and change it. Instead, Washington changed us.
That’s it, isn’t it? The GOP became the very thing it used to rail against. After only twelve years in power, it was no longer clear what the Republicans stood for, except for power. Even on the war, the central issue of this campaign, the GOP put power over principle. Rather than risk the political consequences of reinstating the draft and putting half a million troops in Iraq, the party left our boys without a path to victory.
America didn’t embrace the Democrats; she rejected the GOP.
The proportions of yesterday’s defeat more or less guarantee that the Republicans will be out of the majority, at least in the House, for a decade or longer. I hope they use the time to rediscover their principles.
In the meantime, I hope the Democrats, whose rhetoric has often been unhinged, are sobered by their victory. The danger to our country is real and large, and the responsibility for coping with it is now theirs.
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