The Airing of Election Grievances

You may be feeling angry or saddened for our country.  But whom to blame?  Here's my starter list:

1. Blame Mitt Romney, but not too much.  He was a flawed candidate and made some strategic errors.  Mostly, I'm struck by how much more aggressive he was in the Republican primary than in the general election.  But every candidate is flawed, and Romney's clean-living background and stellar qualifications are as good as any you'll find.
2. Blame the ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/NYT/WaPo media, then move on.  They are despicably corrupt, mostly because they choose to ignore or misrepresent so much of the news.  But that won't change until they die like the dinosaurs.  Turn them off, get your news elsewhere, and  deal with it.
3. Blame the lying, corrupt, juvenile, America-remaking modern Dem party, then move on.  This is who they are.  Their aim is to win elections, just like ours.  But they're willing to do or say anything to get there, while most of us are constrained by God or morality.  Deal with it.
4. Blame George W. Bush.  I liked many of his policies, but Barack Obama is his legacy.
5. Blame Chris Christie, and let his name never again be uttered in conservative circles.  No money to his 2013 New Jersey reelection campaign.  No money for his presidential run in 2016.  I don't care why he did those post-Sandy photo ops with Obama; they were a momentum killer and possibly the back-breaker to Romney's chances.  He knew what he was doing, and he is a traitor.  Throw him in the heap with Michael Bloomberg and Charlie Crist.
6. While you're at it, blame Colin Powell.  His relevance is fading, but his last-minute endorsement of Obama was turned into TV commercials that blared through my television and surely made some difference.  Remember that this guy could've -- would've -- been a REPUBLICAN president if he had run in 2000.
7. Blame the GOP for putting forward retread candidates (McCain in 2008, Romney,  George Allen in Virginia, Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, etc.).
8. For failing to win the Senate, blame conservative candidates who self-immolated, like Todd Akin,  Richard Mourdock and (six years ago) George Allen.
9. Blame our fellow citizens. The sad fact is that if EVERY citizen voted, then Obama's margin of victory would've been higher.  The less informed a citizen is, the more he likes modern Dems and Dem policies, since they sound compassionate and caring to the uninformed.  Many Americans are ignorant of our country's history, the actions and beliefs of our leaders, and of Americans' rights and duties as citizens of a free society.
10. Blame our fellow citizens (part 2).  Many Americans want free stuff.  There's nothing we can do about that. Like a junkie on drugs, many Americans will keep demanding more stuff, even when it's taken from someone else's pocket.  These "gimme gimme" Americans will keep voting for those who promise to give them stuff -- until our country can no longer give it to them.  At that point, they'll throw rocks, as they do now in Greece.  Then maybe they'll wake up.
11. Blame ourselves.  What?? You may've worked really hard in this election; I did too.  But we must stop allowing ourselves to be pigeonholed as a white-guy-focused (WGF) party.  I know that's a lie, but it is the national narrative, and numbers bear it out.  So what can YOU do?

• engage and promote qualified non-WGF politicians.  These folks, when they step up, are HUGE targets for the Left.  We need to promote such candidates in "safe" Republican districts where the Dems can't assail them.  For example, David Valadao and Ted Cruz were just elected last night.  But we also need to support  qualified non-WGF politicians in contested jurisdictions (like Luis Fortuno, Susana Martinez, and Brian Sandoval).  These folks face merciless opposition.  For example, rising star Mia Love and first-term congressman Allen West were both defeated last night, after huge amounts of out-of-state money were spent in their congressional races.  
• engage and promote non-WGF members of the new media -- bloggers, Facebookers, news aggregators, twitter operators, webcasters, etc.  Here're the Twitter handles for four good ones: @michellemalkin, @soopermexican, @newsninja2012 (Wayne DuPree), and @starparker. 
• start or support efforts to communicate conservative beliefs and values to non-WGF communities.
• learn Spanish (no, really).  It's useful and a great way to build bridges to America's second largest non-WGF community (women are the largest).