Looking at Conquest
November 6th, 2008 by Syd
Xavier hits a home run with:
Looking at Conquest
It has happened. What Syd so succinctly dubbed the Electoral Apocalypse has occurred. Gun rights advocates lost in the 2008 election. What do we do now? Where do we go from here?
First, accept defeat with dignity and grace. We must do that. An individual or a group is not characterized in how they achieve victory, but rather in how they accept defeat. We were whooped. Our asses are on a silver platter in front of us. But we do not have to eat. We must determine how this happened and not allow it to happen again…
(and yes, he did quote me, but that’s not why I like the article)
I don’t think we can really say that we had our asses handed to us. The popular vote was actually fairly close. Almost as many people voted against him as voted for him and more would have voted the other way had Bush not turned into such a wuss over the last couple years.
The bulk of the voters in this country lean more towards the center. This will not be fun, but it may not be the apocalypse that some fear.
OK, so we screwed up at the ballot box, but the soapbox is still very much in play and the bullet box may not be necessary.
I tend to agreed. It’s not the end of the world, but we do have our work cut out for us on gun rights.
Pro-guns lost for reasons that have nothing to do with our positions. The voters did not vote against guns, they voted against the current president and the party he’s affiliated with. It was not our fault that the economy stinks, but we’re dragged right along.