The results of the recently held off season elections bear out that voters are turning off of the tea party. Most significant was the Democrat, McAuliffe, winning the governorship in Virginia. Exit polls confirmed that a big issue was abortion rights – Cuccinelli, the Republican who lost, kept emphasizing his anti-choice stance. Silly boy.

Kathleen Parker, a conservative writer, and attractive, was on MSNBC and said that McAuliffe had just posted negative ads and hadn’t really stated his own positions. I got onto her Facebook page and told her that worked for me. I said the Democrats could have run a monkey and the monkey would have gotten my vote. I really don’t understand women who don’t get it. This is a state that, under the Republican governor now leaving, led the campaign to humiliate women who wanted abortions by passing laws that required invasive, unneeded vaginal ultrasounds, and that passed laws against gays, and that refused to pass the violence against women act, and also did not want an equal pay law for women. The first thing McAuliffe will do, on taking office, will be, he said, to issue an executive order to protect state LGBT workers from anti-gay discrimination, reversing departing Governor McDonnell’s own first act when he took office.

I am encouraged that voters around the country are waking up to the insanity of tea party ideology and are voting against these guys.

In the New York City Mayor’s race, Democrat Bill di Blasio defeated Republican rival Joe Lhota in a landslide and is the first Democrat to gain the office in 20 years. I got a kick out of the obligatory transfer-of-office amenities with Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg, for all that he is a moderate Republican, sat across from Di Blasio and looked like he had swallowed a lemon. I’m disappointed in him. He was a good mayor. Why can’t he be graceful? Or maybe he thinks it is a reflection on him. But he would be wrong. It is a pervasive realization on the part of thinking voters that, right now, most Republicans cannot be trusted to act in our best interests financially and can’t keep their prurient little minds out of our bedrooms. Case closed.