Medved: Hold the Obama bashing
Michael Medved is a very smart man- and, as usual, he has some good advice for those of us who are less than thrilled about the outcome of the election.
It's going to be tough, but we need to lay off the Obama bashing for a while.
As Medved rightly says, we need to give the man a chance to make his mistakes, and allow his disasterously extreme Left-wing agenda to become manifest as what it is. Although I have little hope that the hatemongers on the Right will be any more sensitive to this point than those who have been lying about and slandering George W. Bush for the past eight years have been, the American people are quite properly sick of political trash-talking.
Make no mistake: most of Obama's supporters are going to continue talking trash. They are not apt to be any more gracious in victory than they were in defeat. But Obama's much-publicized campaign for reconciliation and civility among Americans will still manage to make the Democrats come off as the reasonable, charitable ones if we Republicans treat Obama the way the Democrats have treated Bush- or, to be honest, as we treated Obama during the campaign.
There will be a time to go on the offensive. This is not the time. Let it rather be recorded that after two elections in which the Democrats were such sore losers as to effectively throw a pair of four year- long tantrums, Republicans know how to act like grown-ups.
Let's let the other side expose themselves for what they are, and not tar ourselves with their brush.
HT: Real Clear Politics
It's going to be tough, but we need to lay off the Obama bashing for a while.
As Medved rightly says, we need to give the man a chance to make his mistakes, and allow his disasterously extreme Left-wing agenda to become manifest as what it is. Although I have little hope that the hatemongers on the Right will be any more sensitive to this point than those who have been lying about and slandering George W. Bush for the past eight years have been, the American people are quite properly sick of political trash-talking.
Make no mistake: most of Obama's supporters are going to continue talking trash. They are not apt to be any more gracious in victory than they were in defeat. But Obama's much-publicized campaign for reconciliation and civility among Americans will still manage to make the Democrats come off as the reasonable, charitable ones if we Republicans treat Obama the way the Democrats have treated Bush- or, to be honest, as we treated Obama during the campaign.
There will be a time to go on the offensive. This is not the time. Let it rather be recorded that after two elections in which the Democrats were such sore losers as to effectively throw a pair of four year- long tantrums, Republicans know how to act like grown-ups.
Let's let the other side expose themselves for what they are, and not tar ourselves with their brush.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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