:Reasonable Force

After the debate last night, my wife said to me, “At least it will all be over in three weeks!”

I asked her if she remembered how long it actually took for the election to be over last time.

In 2000 and, I fear, to a greater degree in this election, the left has seriously undermined the public’s confidence in the process by which we elect our nation’s leaders. If George Bush wins in November (or December or January… whenever the inevitable lawsuits, appeals and various assorted Constitutional crises are concluded) it would not surprise me in the least if there are riots and acts of violence and mayhem all over the country. The loons (moonbats, if you prefer), have already stormed and fired shots into GOP offices in several parts of the country, inflamed as they are by their media-fed hatred of George W. Bush. I don’t think it’s a stretch to predict that we will see at least one assassination attempt within the first year of his second term.

If, on the other hand, Kerry is determined to be the winner, even if fraud is evident, the right will likely suck it up and accept it “for the good of the country,” though I doubt that good will result. Not that we won’t try to redress any grievances in court, but once the legal process has run its course we would likely resign ourselves to a sour taste in our mouths every time we uttered the words “President K…”

I can’t even type it.

Maybe I’m being too alarmist here, but it seems that the worst case for the election is that Kerry wins and our sovereignty gets further eroded if not entirely abrogated, plus terror strategists are emboldened knowing that a Kerry administration can be strong-armed. The best case, on the other hand, is that a large percentage of the population, whipped into a rabid frenzy of misguided rage by four years of Democrat lies and rhetoric aided by media distortions, forces President Bush to deploy National Guard troops to restore order. Kent State will likely be mild in comparison.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it hard to believe that all this anti-Bush fervor will just dissipate should he win. And the tactics of the Gore campaign in 2000, coupled with the endlessly repeated mantra of the left, that Bush stole the election and disenfranchised voters, will be in large part responsible for the fallout.

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