I think I'm giving up hope that anyone that I vote for will win. Sure, in my younger days I voted for Chuck Grassley and Jim Leach and such, but this is my third presidential election, and I have yet to vote for someone who won. Part of that is my stubborn insistence on voting Liberarian whenever possible, but I'm kinda disappointed in that I'm never on the winning side. It's a little demoralizing.

So congratulations to President Bush on his re-election. I don't agree with a lot of his approaches, but much of the electorate does, and I will respect him because he is the President. I would be content if he uttered just one sentence: "In hindsight, after discovering no weapons of mass destruction, invading Iraq should not have been as high on our priority list." I think that is what bothered me the most. I hope that President Bush will learn to re-evaluate his courses of action, and adjust when needed. I hope that when Bush has to replace many of his Cabinet members and advisors, he will replace them with people with many different points of view, so he can get a more well-rounded picture of the situation. I hope that the election "mellows" the Bush administration. But that might be asking too much.

In conclusion, Smarties are one of the best candies ever.