Harry Reid's Re-election

Rush Limbaugh has been fuming about unnecessary pessimism among Americans in the aftermath of the mid-term elections that delivered an historic rebuke of Obama and his agenda. We understand all the reasons for optimism, but we also understand what’s at the core of the pessimism: it is primarily Harry Reid’s re-election to the US Senate.

A solid majority of the American people despise Harry Reid. It was Reid’s face and fingerprints that were all over the travesty of backroom deals, bribes, extortion and general disdain for democratic process that marked the ‘passage’ of Obamacare. And if there was one event that pushed Americans of all kinds into the tea parties and away from Obama, the passage of Obamacare. Nevadans are just like other Americans. They were in no mood to re-elect Reid; exit polls even showed 55% said he did not deserve re-election. Yet he won going away, and we are told to believe it was an honest result; that questioning it is sour grapes; that the people in their wisdom simply rose up and rejected the obviously inferior human being named Sharron Angle in favor of the obviously superior human being named Harry Reid. Even the esteemed RINOs in Washington would have us believe that the election result was all about Angle’s inadequacies.

Americans are fully prepared to accept that some local elections may not correspond to the national mood. But not as to Harry Reid. The American people aren’t buying this crap, and their bitterness at watching all semblance of election integrity get mocked and thrown out the window right in front of their faces is the reason for the smoldering discontent that has had a muffling effect on what would otherwise be a rightly enthusiastic general attitude.

Sorry, Rush—we are big supporters of yours and generally are in your camp in terms of being optimistic about the big picture. But Reid’s victory is a symbol of lawlessness at work in the country, made even more disgusting by yet another reminder that the Obama/Holder Justice Department is not a Justice Department at all, but an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that all but the terminally obtuse know is a menace to the very concept of law and order. Americans should not be scolded or faulted for noticing all of this and not being happy about it.

Reid’s election was a raw exercise of union financing, pressure and intimidation, involving obvious violations of federal election law, and we wouldn't be surprised if it included outright fraud in the determination of eligible voters and in counting the votes. It was about as honest a process as that which Reid used to jam Obamacare down America’s throat.

We’re reminded of the original verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Americans knew then and know now that Simpson was guilty of the murder of his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman. But Americans had to keep their disgust under wraps, and then endure a bunch of pompous television fools lecturing them about the way the jury system works, about the ‘genius’ of Johnnie Cochran, about misconduct by the LAPD, about long-term, societal justice for blacks—about everything but the outrage of a scumbag celebrity, motivated by nothing but old-as-humanity lust and jealousy, get away with two murders scot-free because of a bunch of sideshow hogwash. The verdict was 'legitimate' in some literal dictionary sense of the word; it was bogus in every other common sense sort of way.

The Simpson verdict was very damaging to American society, in ways the media can never measure. The PC worldview could sweep it aside all they wanted and proclaim it no big deal, but that did not make it so. Truth was denied, which means that justice wasn’t done. Americans faith and trust in their judicial system suffered a major hit.

It took many years for justice to catch up with Simpson, when his further criminality gave the system a chance to correct its earlier miscarriage of justice. He’ll be in jail for the rest of his life for crimes not nearly as vile as the double-murder, but at least he’s in jail.

Harry Reid isn’t guilty of murder, but his re-election in November 2010 was no more legitimate than O.J. Simpson’s acquittal. He knows it; Democrats know it; Nevadans know it and Americans know it. And so damage is being done to the national psyche so long as Harry Reid continues to hold himself out as the product of an honest election process, and all Americans are told to respect his alleged political skills. It’s all a sham, and it just smells too much.

So we understand the undercurrent of less-than-jubilant-optimism over the mid-term election results. But we’re confident that as time moves on, Americans will be able to ‘compartmentalize’, and keep their extreme discontent over the Reid result from diluting their overall satisfaction with the way the direction of the country was in fact changed by the results of November 2nd. In fact, so long as Harry Reid continues to join with Obama as the faces of the Democrat Party, Americans will be motivated to go to the polls in 2012 at levels that will make 2010 look like an off-year election for the local justice of the peace.

Paul Gable

November 5, 2010