Whew!

Okay.  So, I've been trying to avoid politics on the blog for awhile now.  This is a Blog about, in order of importance, 1) TORC Press, 2) Comics in General, and 3) Some Random Crap from my Life.  And I've been trying not to bother with the third one too much.  But, having said that, anyone who knows anything about me knows I'm a fairly Liberal dude.  If you've spent any amount of time talking to me, and if the conversation has strayed away from important stuff like Comics or Pro Wrestling or Tacos, then sooner or later I'm gonna start talking politics, and when I do, I'm gonna lean to the Left.

Needless to say, this Election was a Nailbiter for me.  In the beginning it seemed Eezy Peezy Lemon Squeezy.  Romney sucked as a Candidate.  He was Fake.  And he wasn't even good at being Fake.  He always looked uncomfortable and a little scared, like deep down inside he knew he wasn't really up for this, and yet he was gonna do it anyway.  Romney's main qualification for President was that he was Super Rich.  No military service, a brief and less than honorable track record as Governor of Massachusetts, and his time at Bain Capital made him out to look like a Money Vampire, viciously bleeding companies of their money to feed his bloated, overseas bank accounts.  Romney didn't want to be President to help the American people, in fact, on TWO separate occasions Romney openly Dismissed Poor People (little political tip, when 2% of the country controls 90% of the wealth, and 50% of the country are Poor, you better suck up to the poor, cause they gots more votes).   No, here's why Romney wanted to be President:

Most of Romney's income comes from Investments, most of which are held in overseas bank accounts which he doesn't pay American taxes on.  His actual income-income comes from Making Speeches.  People hire him to stand up in front of a bunch of people and blather about... I dunno, whatever it is that he thinks he's good at.  In a single year, Romney makes more from Speechafying than I will make in 18 Years.  That's not a joke.  Those are the numbers.  18 Years Working 45 Hours a Week in a Sawmill = One Year of Speech making.  Now, why did Romney wanna be President?  Because after you've been President, you can CHARGE MORE FOR YOUR SPEECHES!  Yeah.  Here's a guy who is already stupid rich, already makes more money in a single year than most people will earn in their entire adult lives, and he wants to President so he can make more money after he's President.

So, no, never liked Romney.  And that whole Mormon thing didn't help.  Kinda creeped me out.

Of course, the Republicans never had a better choice.  Hell, they never really had a choice.  All the other candidates sucked, and Romney outspent his competitors big time. 

And at the beginning, things went smoothly.  Romney insulted the Poor on National Television.  Romney went to the Olympics and made an ass out of himself, which didn't exactly give people faith in his skills at diplomacy (conversely, Obama improving our image overseas has been one of his top selling points).  Stuff like that, coupled with strong Poll Numbers for Obama, made it look the election was gonna be cake.

Then Paul Ryan got the nod for VP.  Yut oh.  He's young.  He's handsome.  He's dynamic.  He's superultraconservative to make up for the fact that Romney was a Moderate, then a Superultraconservative, then suddenly in the span of a month, a Moderate again.  Sure, Paul Ryan's economic plan sounded like a Nightmare from Hell specifically designed to Destroy the Middle Class, but he was young, handsome, and dynamic.  Hell, for most Conservatives, Ryan shoulda been at the top of the ticket, not Romney.  Suddenly, the Republicans were back in the game, and I started to get worried.

Then the Democratic National Convention hit, and my boy Billy Boy Slick Willy I would Vote for him Tomorrow if He was Running for a Third Term as President Bill Clinton got up and made such a Killer Speech for Obama that it reversed the Game right back around.  Cake walk.  Bill says Obama's the Guy, so Obama must be the Guy, right?

Then things went nuts.  Negative Campaign ads 24/7 from both sides.  Lies.  Fabrications.  Falsehoods.  Half truths.  Obama's supposed lead started to erode.  Tea Party commercials.  Super PACs (oh, how I hate Super PACs). 

And then there was that first Debate.  Holy Crap!  That went poorly.  That one debate almost sunk the whole boat.  Suddenly, Romney had the lead in the Polls.  Crap!  And he held that lead for too long.  Suddenly, Romney wasn't stumbling and bumbling like he used to.  After sucking for most of the Campaign, Romney was now in the Zone.  He was owning it.  He hit his stride, he had his confidence, and it looked like he could win it.

Needless to say, this did not sit well with me.  The whole thing kinda made me sick to my stomach.

So, Election Night hits, and it's 50-50.  It's all down to Ohio.  Everything hinges on Ohio, and Romney has spent asstons of money in Ohio, and there's rumors that Republican in Ohio were attempting to rig it so minorities and poor people couldn't vote, and I'm nervous and freaking out and kind of depressed.  I couldn't take it anymore.  I went to bed at 8 o'clock, with Romney holding a lead in Electoral Votes.

Got up this morning expecting the worst.  Obama wins.  Decisively.  He needed 270 Electoral Votes.  He got 303.  And Florida still hasn't even got their results in yet.  Obama won most of the Key Battleground states, including Nevada, a state I spent almost a whole week in, and had to listen to hundreds of Radio Ads for Romney. 

So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty good this morning.

Oh, and as an added bonus, that Scumbag Sleezy Piece of Crap, Tod Akin, lost his bid for the Senate in Missouri.  Guess what?  Turns out in the New Millennium you can't go around insulting women on National Television and get away with it.  Who knew they could vote?

Hahahahahahaha!

Oh, also, I'm watching Fox News this morning, and for the first time ever, it's not annoying me.  It's just hilarious.

Now, do I really think this makes everything swell or that the next four years are gonna be smooth sailing or anything like that?  No.  Of course not.  We've still got a Gridlocked Congress.  We've still got Fox News.  We've still got Insane Conservatives.  We've still got the upcoming Fiscal Cliff (whatever the hell that is).  It's gonna be rough.

But at least there's not some Fat Cat Businessman in the White House openly seeking to Destroy the Middle Class.  I'll buy that for a dollar.

Oh, new page of Pulp Horrorshow.  http://www.torcpress.com/ph3-3.html