Were we really suprised?

Well the mid-term election is over and wow what a difference a day makes. I guess I'm getting old when you look forward to watching election results, I was anxious to watch it two years ago even though I knew the guy I voted for was not going to win. The left had to know that with such a big swing to their side two years ago that it was going to swing back the other way, and did it ever. I watched the returns with a friend of mine as I did two years ago and I remember watching President Obama giving his acceptance speech, I told my buddy that he has two years to figure out how to walk on water or I'm afraid he will be the next Jimmy Carter. The similarities are striking, Carter inherited a mess, lingering effects of overseas conflict, a terrible economy, an angry country. Back then it was Watergate that led people not to trust the government.

Watching the coverage the other night you seemed to hear a recurring theme, the middle and the south has swung back to the Republicans. Not so fast guys. I think south and the middle of the country has swung back to conservative values, mainly because they have gotten a good look at how the left wants to do things and it scared the hell out of everybody.
You also heard some funny stuff as well, the guy who won the Senate seat in West Virginia, said something very odd in his acceptance speech, "None of us expected to loose Senator Byrd but God had other plans." What??? He was talking like the guy was killed in a hot air balloon accident at the age of thirty. The guy was 93, were they expecting him to live to be 200???
The other was the head of the DNC, who made the rounds licking his wounds all night, said the democrats now realize how "closely divided" the country is. That gave me the same reaction as Will Ferrrell in Old School when he was dancing with his wife and the guy drops the F bomb in the song, did he just say that?
The President had a next to impossible job two years ago, now it is just plain impossible. I feel sorry for the guy but there are always lessons to be learned. Going back to President Carter, what did Regan do after he beat him? He let businesses go out and make money, he knew that the smartest people in business were not working for the government, they were working for themselves. As a former small business owner I know how tough it is and I also know that small businesses account for over half of the jobs in this country. Lesson learned.

There is always a lesson, especially in politics, and although the name Obama was not on a single ballot this fall, this mid-term election was about him and his agenda.
I did not vote for President Obama, not because he is black, not because he might be a Muslim, not because of his affiliation with the "pastor of disaster" Reverend Wright, not because I felt that he hated America, like some of the kooks thought. I did not vote for him because he was a half term Senator/community organizer, who has never held a real job in his life. I guess I felt that his first real job should not have been President of the United States.
Lesson learned? I hope so.