If it's any consolation, She, I'm already experiencing this same feeling of "being history" at 37. On 9/11 this year (before the news of Benghazi or the embassy in Egypt broke) I encouraged my mostly freshman college students to take time to remember that terrible day. I asked them to share any memories they might have. The bulk of the class barely remembered it at all, having been in second grade at the time! Of course this makes perfect mathematical sense, but as recent as that day still feels eleven years later,  it didn't even cross my mind how young they would have been at the time.

I  had been thinking the same thing, Gary. Unless this has nothing at all to do with Benghazi, which doesn't seem likely, this seems like the most logical explanation. We'll see.

Peter, your post reminds me of something a local talk show host in Minnesota, Joe Soucheray, pointed out about traveling after 9/11; something I had noticed myself. In those uncertain days, when we all were feeling wounded and many felt the need to defend the nation — somehow, in whatever way our daily lives allowed — there was a connection that would form between men when boarding a plane. Maybe it was just a glance, a meeting of the eyes, but there was that unspoken question, "Are you in?" If some jihadi starts attacking people or storming the cabin, "Are you in?" I'm not meaning to compare Democrats to terrorists (though analogies could be made, considering the destructiveness of their policies), but I feel like that kind of camaraderie is alive and well here on Ricochet. We won't go down without a fight.

Read this and tell me how worried liberals are with being nice (if you're depressed, this won't help).

At last, all these weeks and months of liberal hand-wringing can finally cease. The hot bubble of shock and awe that Mitt Romney managed to lie, fake, and bulls–t his way that close to the White House can finally burst and recede into giddy pools of nervous laughter and multiple double shots of whisky. Join me? Hell yes.

But wait, there’s more. Turn your thoughts for a precious, relieved moment to the Supreme Court, to how it will doubtlessly be reshaped in the coming few years by Obama in positive, progressive, intelligent ways that will make Scalia scream, Alito whine and Clarence Thomas look around in numb confusion, same as always.

Isn't that nice? You'll all find this comforting, too, I'm sure:

The apocalypse may be nigh, we might very well be racing toward our doom, but at least we are in capable hands for a little while longer.

I know you're not saying liberals are nice, Casey. This is just an example of what's at their core.

Agreed, Chris. I'm more upset with our side as well, and the American people at large for being so ignorant, but I'm just saying there was no "good game" feeling in me this time around. I noticed one conservative friend on Twitter posting a general "congratulations" to Obama & Co. and it turned my stomach. Maybe I'm just becoming a sore loser as I get older, but I didn't feel that way before Obama had a record, back when he had to run a more civil campaign.

Well said, Brent & Chris. Chris, that sounds like a good plan... but right now I don't feel motivated enough to make any argument, or even post about the election anywhere but in the comments on Ricochet. I'll give it a few days before seeking medical help, but man, I don't remember the last time I was this depressed. Even my smiling avatar annoys me. This seemed to hit Peter Robinson pretty hard, too. He disappeared from the live podcast last night and I haven't seen any sign of him on Ricochet since. Last time I was able to muster a "congratulations" to friends who supported Obama. Not this time, after such a classless campaign and with the stakes being what they are — or rather, were.  I think I've lost what little faith I had left in the American people. But ask me again next week.

Of course. But those of us who feel that way are becoming a minority, and faster than we thought.

I can't believe I'm agreeing with someone at Mother Jones:

Republicans should feel betrayed by a conservative media that told them what they wanted to hear instead of what was happening. 

There's also a YouTube playlist of the entire Free To Choose series (beats the clunky interface on the official website, and it's a great way to load up your 'watch later' list).

Great responses. Some of the things you listed were in my daydreamed response (haven't written one and I'm not sure I will), but there were a number I wasn't aware of.  EJHill — very amusing. I'd post that as the response but the first paragraph comes off a bit harsh — sheismy aunt after all (needs a grammar tweak, too). Love the idea, though. Thanks for playing, guys.

Kind of funny, but disappointing. Certainly not surprising. I like a lot of his work, especially Firefly/Serenity, The Avengers, and his writing on the Astonishing X-Men comics. Sorry to see that he's just another Hollywood liberal. A creative mind like his should be able to see beyond the empty promises of liberalism and realize that conservatives are the Browncoats to Obama's Alliance.

Good find. The Obama presidency in a nutshell (be sure to watch the excerpt from the original Depression-era version at the end). Deserves some thumbs up over on YouTube.

By that logic we should all be wearing helmets and sumo suits just to check the mail. Bubble Boy, here we come…

Minnesota is immune to Romney’s momentum. Conservatives here are used to feeling left out when it comes to electing a president, but it’s particularly depressing this time around. How my fellow Minnesotans can be so stubbornly set in their union-loving, wetland-saving, Garrison Keillor-worshipping ways after the last 3.8 years is beyond me. There’s even talk that voter ID is losing support now, thanks to relentless, deceptive ads (including from public radio) that threaten nightmarish results if citizens are forced to do what most of them have already done. Don’t get me wrong; I’ll cheer right up if Romney wins, especially in a Rahellian landslide. It would just be nice to be part of putting a guy in that office for once!

I’m going to pull an Obama and ignore your question and instead talk about a YouTube video — or link to one anyway. Perhaps Romney should have shown this short but effective video by way of explanation: Do Women Earn Less than Men? (from LearnLiberty.org).

If he had some verifiable numbers readily available he could cite them in questioning the premise, but it’s him alone against a monolithic narrative and I’m not sure it would be worth trying to change minds to that degree in a 2-minute answer.

Voter ID is likely to pass here in Minnesota, despite the best efforts of MPR and many other liberal organizations like the Minnesota Council of Churches. Their ‘wisdom’ on the subject:

“The voter ID amendment seems innocuous enough,” Chamberlain said. “But when we started to unwrap all that it means we began to see the threat this could pose to the right to vote for tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Minnesotans.”

Apparently the details of what was discovered in this unwrapping weren't scary enough for the reporter to include. But you heard it from them first — hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans are going to be disenfranchised by having to prove who they are. (Are there even that many Minnesotans without a photo ID?)