Obama will be our president. Good for him and his supporters. Let them go to sleep in joy tonight. Tomorrow is a new day, when they realize that the burden of governance is something quite of a different order than winning a campaign.
We still are targeted by terrorists. We still have an economy that is tanking. We still face rising challenges from totalitarian regimes in China, Russia and Iran. We have big challenges ahead.
So enjoy your victory, Democrats. Don’t drink too much tonight though, because you have serious work in front of you. And I will be there, sniping at your heels every moment.
I now join the loyal opposition, more loyal than the Democratic opposition of the last 8 years. I will fight you when you are wrong and support you when you are right and you are doing right by the country. But we Republicans will be back in 2012. Be ready, because you will have a fight on your hands. We are defeated, but not unbowed. We will fight and we will win, if not today, then tomorrow, because we are right and you are wrong.
May the next four years with you at the wheel not be too damaging to our country.
