{"id":82713,"date":"2018-11-07T07:55:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82713"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:06:54","slug":"yesterdays-election-results-a-semi-feel-good-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82713","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8217;s Election Results:  A Semi-Feel-Good Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great day for the Republic yesterday, but not a bad one either.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/georgias-stacey-abrams-refuses-to-concede-to-republican-brian-kemp-says-her-victory-within-reach\"><i>Georgia<\/i><\/a> as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republican-ron-desantis-defeats-andrew-gillum-in-florida-gubernatorial-race\"><i> Florida<\/i><\/a>, the <del>Communist<\/del>   <del>Socialist<\/del>    \u201cProgressive\u201d candidates running for Governor both appear to have lost.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas, the drunk-driving, ex-punk rocker <del>Communist<\/del>   <del>Socialist<\/del>    \u201cProgressive\u201d candidate for Senate \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/orourke-falls-to-cruz-despite-70m-fundraising-windfall\"><i>lost in spite of apparent out-of-state, Hollywood celebrity-led attempts to buy the Senate seat for him through massive fundraising<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the House was lost to the Prevaricating Promisers from the Pandering Progressive Party (the incumbent President\u2019s party virtually always loses a number of House seats in mid-term elections, often losing control of the House), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/polls-close-in-six-states-as-dems-look-for-telltale-signs-of-potential-blue-wave\"><i>the Senate remained in adult hands with an even larger adult majority<\/i><\/a>.  So any Federal offices requiring Senate confirmation will still be considered by a majority consisting of adults vice dung-flinging SJW howler monkeys.  <\/p>\n<p>And if any rank idiocy from the Pandering Progressives manages to get by the Senate . . . well, the current POTUS has a pen and knows how to use it, too.  Good luck in overriding a veto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/battleground-state-dems-who-opposed-kavanaugh-suffer-midterm-defeats\"><i>All but one<\/i><\/a> of the Senators standing for re-election in competitive states who participated that organized campaign to destroy a good man\u2019s reputation using highly suspect \u2013 and in some cases, outright fabricated \u2013 bogus testimony . . . lost.  (Why West Virginia voters didn\u2019t kick their jerk to the curb is beyond me.)<\/p>\n<p>And, finally:  guess which one of these guys (well, the term <i>technically<\/i> also applies to the one on the left) had the last laugh?  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/hp.foxnews.com\/images\/2018\/11\/1024\/576\/35ad8289a21608187f8169e870fa0792.jpg?tl=1&#038;ve=1\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\"><\/p>\n<p>You can call him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republican-u-s-house-candidate-mocked-on-snl-gets-last-laugh\"><i>\u201c<b>Congressman<\/b> Hit Man\u201d<\/i><\/a> now, Davidson. (Well, you could if you were truly a man vice a smarmy, butthurt little twerp who gets a kick out of mocking better men than yourself because of their combat-related disabilities.)  (smile)  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><u>Added Postscript:<\/u>  Oh, and it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gops-blackburn-projected-to-win-tennessee-senate-race\"><\/i>Taylor Swift will be eating a bit of crow today, too<i><\/a>.  Hope you like it, lady.  A dry rub with garlic and chili powder might help. <\/p>\n<p>And perhaps you should just stick to singing in the future.  (smile)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great day for the Republic yesterday, but not a bad one either. 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