Election week -- what an amazing time this has been, as my Republican friends and I bask in the glow of victory. I admit, I am gloating a bit, but there is a point to my pomp and circumstance. For the first time in decades the party in the White House also took both the House and the Senate during midterm elections. The Republican Party defied expectations and proved victorious in high-profile gubernatorial races in Florida, Maryland and elsewhere. The list of Republican victories this election at the national, state and local levels goes on and on. The point is, the American people have spoken.
Meanwhile, Democrats everywhere are shrugging in bewilderment. They lament about ineffectual campaigning of the top dogs in their party, a weak party platform and other so-called factors that affected the outcome of this election. You'd almost get the sense that these missteps were anomalies. CNN (affectionately termed by my friends and me as the Communist National Network) has already begun talking about possible Democratic candidates for the presidential election in 2004.
That party can talk all it wants, but the truth is the Democratic Party is impotent, has no tangible vision for our future and is gravely out of touch with the majority of American citizens.
It's this kind of naivet? that plagues many left-wingers in this country, including some on our own campus. A professor of mine was shocked to learn that Fox News Channel is the number-one rated cable news network. She said she thought only "far-right extremists" watched Fox News.
What was most amazing to me about what happened this past Tuesday at the polls is that it solidified the argument that liberals can no longer legitimately label conservatives in this country the way they used to. Democrats are going to have to adjust their name-calling techniques and dream up new put-downs for the conservative majority in this country. No longer does it make sense for liberals to refer to us as "extremists" or "the religious right" or "right-wing zealots." Extremism is a relative term. If politically conservative citizens in this country are "extremist," then by that logic, the bulk of this nation is extremist. A more accurate description might be to label us the "right wing majority."
The point is, one cannot argue with such overwhelming numbers. The left-wing minority can name call and accuse and whine and refuse to debate the issues. But they cannot argue with these tangibles: The majority of Americans prefer Fox News to CNN or MSNBC. And the majority of Americans lean toward the right politically, rather than the left, when it comes to choosing who will lead this country.
This must come as a terribly bitter pill for the Democrats to swallow. For all the flak Jerry Falwell has taken this past year in particular, the truth is, he is more in touch with mainstream America than, say, Al Gore or Tom Daschle. Alan Keyes is making more sense than Al Sharpton. The majority of Americans identify more with Sean Hannity's political ideology than with Alan Colmes'. Ann Coulter has her finger closer to the pulse of America than, say, Hillary Clinton. And thank God. Nov. 5th, 2002 was a huge indicator of a nation that, somewhere along the line, turned a corner for the better.
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