Tomorrow I'll look forward. But today is for savoring the moment. I want to remember folks like Karl Rove and what they did to this country during the campaign, and relish the delicious satisfaction of seeing them get their comeuppance. Obama's unflappable demeanor, steady course, and calm assurances that he would win prevailed over the bluster, lies, and manipulations of the Right. Which pretty much reaffirms my world view that truth and kindness aren't always the easy path but in the end always trump ego, greed, and selfishness.
So in the spirit of savoring, today I think of not only the bully Karl Rove but:
Sean Hannity. Small, silly mouthpiece of a man who has been a destructive force in America. O's win makes a mockery of everything he stands for.
Rush Limbaugh. Andrew Dice Clay of the airwaves - like Clay, he'll someday be remembered only for his ugly, divisive views.
Sandra Fluke. My heart goes out to this brave young woman - hope she feels vindicated.
Ann Coulter. Mean, mean woman whose reasonably good intellect has been completely subverted by her twisted personality.
The guy who personally attacked Nate Silver. Desperation brings out the mean in these people. They're just not nice people.
The guy in my office who delighted in sending me "funny" Internet lies about Obama.
The bible-thumping woman who manages my company's fitness center, exhorting those of us in the locker room to "please go see the movie 2016. I will buy a ticket for you."
The guy in the Denver airport wearing the "I'm voting for the Mormon, not the moron" tee-shirt and loudly proclaiming that "it's going to be a landslide" for Romney.
Romney. With any luck, he'll find total fulfillment in private life and never grace the public stage again. His smug self-entitlement, prodigious lying, and empty core were profoundly depressing. And Ann was shallow.
The media lemmings and pushy pundits. Tragedy what journalism has become in this country. But on the upside, something like crowd wisdom is emerging from social media.
The Romney aide who said "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers."
Donald Trump. Now the whole world understands that he is a buffoon.
Mittmentum. Desperation tactics are no match for facts.
Other desperation memes. "You didn't build that", "revenge", "welfare reform gutted", "Medicare slashed by $716 billion", "Obama made the recession worse", and other lies well documented by Rachel Maddow didn't work either. Will campaigners remember this takeaway in the future? Doubtful.
Ayn Rand. Can we stop talking about this uninteresting woman and her wacky views now?
Paul Ryan. There's something disturbing about the blatant disrespect he showed to the president. I fear we haven't heard the last of him but I hope his budget plan goes on the rubbish heap.
The fact that reasoners beat the ranters renews my hope as we move forward. But today is for savoring. I'll think about moving forward tomorrow.