I'm Ashley Webb, and I Approve This Message

*Disclaimer: My panties are in a very tight wad.  I've had just about all I can take with the political bashing/debating and I don't want no mo'.  So.  If you can't say anything nice, go say it on FaceBook and not on this blog.  (And if you do say it on this blog, I can and will delete your comment.  So there.) 

Please and Thanks.

*Disclaimer #2: I do like you.  I don't want to offend you.  But this is my party and I'll cry if I want to.  (You should cry too, cause it happened to you...   You just sang that in your head, didn't you?)

Yesterday sucked.  

And I didn't like it.  

I dragged the juniors to the polling place (used my new CA I.D. that was issued with the wrong name on it and attempted to vote, even though I wasn't registered - even though I did register.  Yea.  Try explaining that to the volunteer vote-counter.) and I voted.  

I voted hard.

I practically ripped a hole in the paper from voting so hard.  

 

And then I waited.  I was feeling pretty good about it.  You know - 16 trillion in debt, 8% unemployment, record-high gas and food prices, train wreck debates, a VP who's a complete baffoon, the worst schools in history, the despicable handling of the Benghazi attacks...  

It doesn't really seem like a tough call.

But then the crap hit the fan.  

Apparently it is a tough call.  

Seriously.  This country needs a Department of Common Sense.

And the rest, as we all know, was history.

And the truth is I was kind of crushed.  

Like don't-even-want-to-talk-about-it, think-I-might-throw-up, please-let-this-be-a-bad-dream, CRUSHED.

I just had actually started to believe that some real hope and change could take place.

And it didn't.

And it made me kind of sad.

And then I woke up this morning and started to count all of the reasons that this might actually be a good thing.  

And here they are: 

#1: Mitt and his family will get to live their lives in (relative) peace.

I hated what the media did to him during this election.  It was despicable.  And he didn't deserve it.  

Maybe now, they'll leave him alone.

(Plus, his sweet family won't have to sit by and watch their dad get torn apart.  If I had to hear 1/100th of the stuff about my dad that people have said about him, I would be serving hard time.)

#2: The media can drop the lie telling and ridiculous attacks on my church.  Which is good, cause I couldn't take much more.

#3: Mitt would have inherited this huge rats nest of a mess and then been blamed for everything that Obama wasn't blamed for.  It would have happened.  And it would have been frustrating to watch. 

#4: No matter who leads us, we are still the greatest nation in the world.   

#5: We can grow from this.  

You see, I was praying pretty hard about this election.  I prayed that what was best for America would happen.  

And I think it did.  

Now, wait.

I'm not saying that Obama is the best leader for America.  He's. Not.

I'm saying that maybe America needs this right now.  

Maybe we need the trials.

Maybe we need the opposition.

Maybe we need to use this as an opportunity to be renewed in teaching our children what's right. 

Maybe this is a test that we need to pass.

Maybe this is our chance to prove ourselves.

Maybe.