The Campaign is OVER

There is a thoughtful commentary -- perhaps several actually -- brewing in my mind about the state of the regime, the election, the electoral college, all of it.  However, I just can't pull it together tonight.  No, tonight I have just a bunch of questions about the election and subsequent conduct that refuse to coalesce into persuasive commentary.  Or perhaps they do coalesce.  Some of these are:

• If you are too stupid to vote for the candidate you want, why is it my problem?  Why is it an excuse to engage in idiotic protesting?  Why aren't people EMBARRASSED to admit they are too stupid to read a ballot and follow an arrow?  Why is it that idiots like this draw attention and are celebrated, instead of being called idiots?  Why isn't someone asking this question:  if they are too dumb to follow an arrow, how in the hell do they manage to do more complicated things, like feed and dress themselves without help?
• Isn't it time for Jesse Jackson to get a job?  Why does he think he is my, and the rest of the nation's, moral conscience?  Why does he continue to conclude that everything controversial is Selma?  Why don't reasonable Americans -- not African Americans, not Caucasian Americans, not Asian Americans, but just plain Americans -- stand up and tell this idiot to leave us the hell alone?
• Why do I keep hearing references to the "Gore campaign team" when the campaign is over?  Or is this what various pundits mean when they said before the election "The Clinton-Gore team has run a permanent campaign while in office?"  Is this what Bush meant would be different when he vowed to bring "different leadership" to Washington?
• Why does the "Gore campaign team" keep vowing to "fight" when a constitutional mess, if not crisis, looms?  Why is the Bush team fanning the flames with untimely statements when the best leadership would be cool, calm rhetoric from James Baker, and most certainly NOT Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, or the other Austin dimwits who might very well have blown this election for Bush?
• Why is it that our current President has not spoken to calm tensions in Florida?  Could it be that he has no moral authority or credibility left?  Could that mean Republicans were right when they said character matters in the one office elected on a national basis?
• What gives Bill Daley the right to presume he speaks for "the people" in saying this: "If the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory in Florida and be our next President?"  Further, what gives ANY judge the right (or, to speak legally, the power or authority) to claim to speak for "the people" in this matter, and how would that work?  Further, wouldn't it be substituting elitist rule for the very democratic procedures Gore/Daley claim to be trying to uphold?  Does anyone else see this paradox?
• Why is nobody (but me, John, and Hallmark, as far as I can tell) wondering if this election will wind up with Al Gore winning the popular vote AND electoral college vote, and STILL defying the intent of the Founding Fathers (which was, by virtue of the electoral college, to require candidates to run a national campaign instead of concentrating on handfuls of population heavy states)?

I have many questions today.

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