For the past few days since the election has passed I have been in Southern California. It was one of the few bright spots to be for social issue conservatives in the nation. 1.6 million Barack Obama VOTERS helped push across the finish line the final word on what definition the word "marriage" gets to enjoy in that state.

Every day since a few hundred geniuses have gathered in West Hollywood, and in one place or two in San Francisco to scream at the wind, bark at the moon, and demand that the stupid damn people of California weren't so... LITERAL.

The problem here for the protesters is in part that they have NO IDEA what they're actually protesting.

The ballot measure was simple... that marriage would continue to be--as it always has a union between a man and woman. Society has always sanctioned that one particular form of sexual expression/commitment because of its potential to bring children into the culture--AND THUS--to be able to keep society reproducing future generations of citizens. (In case anyone hasn't explained to the silly protesters, a pair female genitalia doesn't do so and vice versa...)

The protesters believe that much, much, more was on the ballot...

They think that there will be a sex police force breaking into the bedrooms and halting one man from performing disgusting acts with another...

They think that they will be kept from getting a place to live if two women show up for the apartment showing and they introduce each other as their best friend...

They think that they can't go visit each other in the hospital, or leave each other all their worldly possessions.

They believe that society looks down upon them as people. (Which is patently false, though many of us do not wish to see them perform their acts of sexual pleasure and think it would be much better if they left that in the bedroom - which is where those of us who act sexually in more traditional ways do it.)

They are not arguing for equal ANYTHING, because they are presently NOT being discriminated FROM anything...

They wanted to take a term--marriage--and make it mean something its never meant before.

Marriage *IS* a union of a man and woman--a sacred commitment--for life.

That doesn't mean that if Mama Joi (pictured above with megaphone) wants to get groovy with her Susie Sad, Aunt Betty, or Ralph the puppy that anyone is going to stop her, it just doesn't mean that it has become marriage.

Long story short--in as secular a nation as the left has forced America to become--no one is going to disallow Mama Joi from cruising for chics on a Friday night while jamming to "I kissed a girl and I liked it..."

The only thing that the REAFFIRMATION of Prop 8 does mean, is that the philosophical bullies can't do whatever they want with words.

Words mean things, and in California the people have now on MULTIPLE occasions spoken in overwhelming majorities (despite being outspent 3 and 4 to 1) that marriage will continue to be defined as it always has been defined.

They don't need to be mad at the Mormons, Catholics, Mexicans, Blacks, Evangelicals, or any other group that voted in overwhelming numbers against changing the definition... In reality they should really be much more angry with... Mirriam Webster.

If only more of this could be seen by the American public:

Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who describes Emanuel's aggressive style as a "cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache."

Michelle Malkin advances the cause of taking down the former McCain aides that have untruthfully slimed Sarah Palin since the election in the most undignified of ways. A number of blogs weighed in on this yesterday.

As best as I can see it these aides had best just switch party alliance and political allegiances because of the white hot intensity with which they will be greeted if they even dare attempt to work for a conservative again anytime in the near future.

Malkin says it best.

Looks like Barack Obama did not pay his campaign staff, particularly those that like little ACORNS came rolling down the track at the last minute.

(Wait till they get a load of what he was peddlin' with all that Hope and Change mumbo...)

Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea all congratulating incoming President Obama today.

Iran's crazy-in-charge (who pictured above once provided escort services to American hostages) sent a personally written note via the "official channels" to congratulate Obama's ability to "convince the majority of American voters" to choose him.

I wonder if Obama will quickly file it in his virgin White House "me" file...

Hmmm...

The losers in the hotly contested issue of changing the historic definition of marriage to suddenly include all kinds of various definitions in California evidently do not understand the authority of Constitutional rule.

The Supreme Court of a State can not override specificity in the document that they themselves are organized by.

The ruling the California Supreme Court only months ago passed was that the state legislative measure passed a few years ago defining marriage along historic lines was not protected in the language of the state's constitution specifically.

The voters despite being outspent nearly 17 to 1 in terms of financial, celebrity, and media influenced resources decided against all of those elites and decided that the Constitution would be amended to define marriage as it has always been defined... a union of one man and one woman.

They even did this despite the fact that the homosexual advocates on the other side sent hit squads to the homes of major donors to the Prop 8 measure to intimidate, assault, and manipulate into submission on the issue.

The Constitution is accountable to the will of the people, the Supreme Court is accountable to the Constitution, the legislature is sometimes accountable to the Supreme Court, and certainly the people are subject to the legislature.

Those that have now lost (AGAIN) to the will of the people of California are attempting to rewrite the entirety of the accountability in the state's code.

They will lose - because the people have the right to define marriage as it has always been defined.

And its NOT discrimination to do so...

The incompetent McCain staffers that have been outed thus far as being involved in the sliming of Sarah Palin to the Carl Cameron and the rest of the press will be named for what they are now to me and SEVERAL other significant bloggers--including Ace, RedState, Michelle, and others...

Lepers.

For Nichole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, and Mark McKinnon will be opposed, outed, and petitioned against for ANY GOP campaign they seek to work for. We will track them down, inform the candidates they wish to work for, and even vote against those candidates if necessary to insure that they never see the light of successful campaign work again for the foreseeable future.

I was laughed at, mocked, scorned, ridiculed, and told I was smoking something.

But I was the first pundit anywhere on the planet that accurately predicted this historic moment.

I did not want to see it happen, but everything I wrote in the column predicting it came true.

And I am afraid that many of the things I have written since will as well...

Here is what I wrote in the fall of 2006:
Why it will be 'President Obama' in 2009
Kevin McCullough
Sunday, December 03, 2006

Barring several series of near seizure-like corrections, Barack Obama will take the Presidential oath of office in January of 2009. It will be a cold January morning, his beautiful wife and daughters will be by his side and they will shiver as he places his hand on the Bible and swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States. His presidency that will follow, if reflective of anything at all of his legislative record, will then seek to dismantle that same Constitution.

I have a long track record of predictions on Obama, and all of them have come true. I have no reason to believe that this one will conclude any differently.

There are reasons that this event is destined to take place, and given the option of knowing them but remaining silent, or mentioning them in the hope that the scene I've just mentioned never comes to path - I choose the latter. If any of these were to take significant turns, the formula might collapse. This is given the fact that the nation will be in a holding pattern for the next two years with absolute gridlock on pretty much everything (with the possible exception of amnesty for illegal aliens.)

RAGING LIBERALS - In 2006 the message of the voters was not Ned Lamont. Rather it was the "Crash Dummy Class of '06." Democrats who looked, and tried to talk like people of faith - at least long enough to get elected. George Soros, the Daily Kos, Al Gore, Susan Sarandon, and not to be forgotten Howard Dean, have made their go at it. They failed. But since their party won the midterms - they believe they've been justified. Their anti-American rhetoric will increase. They will express dissatisfaction with Pelosi/Reid and demand an increased presence in the 2008 picture. The democratic primary voter will reject this increased extremism and look for a "consensus builder." They will long for someone who is "above the frey." Obama will fit that profile and will bring "together" the left and right in his own party. He will do it with a sense of style, smoothness, and humor - a stark contrast to Hillary, Gore, Kerry, et al.

DIGUSTED CONSERVATIVES - Still reeling from the "ginormous" let down of the Senate under Bill Frist, and the second term Presidency of George W. Bush, normally energized conservatives will look to a field that offers a pro-choice/pro-gay mayor from New York, a Mormon from Massachusetts - who was pro-choice/pro-gay but genuinely seems now not to be - but may have hired illegal aliens, blah blah blah, or John McCain (whose single biggest problem is that he IS John McCain.) Normally eager "tax-cutting, government shrinking, let's defend our nation, pro-life, pro-family" voters, organizations, and leaders will be assaulted with speeches on Romney's health care reform, or Giuliani’s crime initiatives, or John McCain. Whoever emerges, will have not one tenth the oratory skills of Obama and they will come off looking as tired, dry, and stale as day-old toast.

EXHAUSTED MODERATES - They are tired of the stale toast, and will be looking for anything exciting. Mind you, moderates by definition don't truly stand for anything so it doesn't really matter what the candidate stands for. These people voted for Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton all based on one thing, "how does he make me feel?" Realizing this Obama will be a lightening rod on the campaign trail. He will draw record crowds for every appearance he makes (something he's already begun to do.) Money will flow in as a result. Obama's strategy of talking about cooperation, sounding bipartisan, and seeming to curtly rebuke both sides of the aisle will seem to validate his "ability" to "stay above the frey."

ENERGIZED BLACKS - The true voice for alternatives for black voters will not be heard because the voices of great men like Bishop Harry Jackson will not yet have become distinct enough within American media, and because the media, in ignoring the Bishop, will instead return again and again to the altar of Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. Instead, as the media is already doing, there will be near non-stop fawning over the Senator from Illinois as he flashes the big smile. Black voters, who in the majority vote for party and not conviction anyway, will see Obama as the personality that no one since Dr. King has been able to live up too. Obama will be invited to each and every significant black pulpit in America. He will rail with poetry, sing with soul, rhyme when appropriate, and never will the IRS even think of threatening even one of these houses of worship for illegal political action.

GULLIBLE EVANGELICALS - The most reliable base of voters for the Republican Party since the days of President Reagan have been the social conservatives. Church-going born-again Christians who believe in God, the importance of His word, and the significance of living out their faith in an open and compassionate way every single day have been the backbone of the GOP. This past Friday Rick Warren, through the implied endorsement of allowing Obama to speak at one of the largest evangelical churches in America gave Obama the opportunity to split evangelicals who will be misled by Obama's words instead of opening their eyes to his actions. In my gentle admonition to Rick Warren over the past couple of weeks I reiterated time and again that it was this opportunity being extended to Obama that would be manipulated by both the press , and Obama himself to pose as a "person of faith." Warren's stubborn action of insisting upon having Obama speak at Saddleback Church in southern California has had that exact effect .

From this point forward should the trend of any of these five areas shift significantly Obama's chances could be compromised. But there are credible reasons to believe that they won't be.

So mark this date down, because it is the first time anyone accurately predicted that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

And you have no idea how much I hope this prediction does not come true!

Bill Kristol is looking at some of the exit questions and finding some interesting stuff.

Geraldo, and some of the other NYC muckity Strategy Room mucks were going on and on last Friday as to Sarah Palin's impact on the GOP ticket. Like some other media types who are highly inflated with their own opinion he rolled his eyes back in his head and snarkily remarked someting along the lines of something about her being a ditz.

On the plane earlier today I was stuck without Fox News coverage so I was cursed to turn on MSNBC and listen to the talk radio hack Smirshconesh (SP?) as he served up perjoratives about the most popular Governor in the nation for segments on end. His obvious conclusion was that Palin was such a readily evident overall negative for the McCain ticket.

Kristol looking at the data and specifically the exit poll questions relating to how voters felt about her presence on the ticket... added up the percentages and reported that she had been a net plus.

To which Brit Hume added something like, does anyone believe that if Palin had not been on the ticket that McCain wouldn't have had a prayer of making it a 50/50 race that it ended up being?

In a word...

No.

Amanda Carpenter reported that MSNBC has already called Pennsylvania for Obama... here's the reason why Fox News had not. (They now have...)

Michael Barone when asked by Brit Hume why they had not - was due to something called "WPE".

It stands for "within precinct error" and means the difference between the exit polls and the actual vote count.

Barone said, shockingly - "WPE is running as high as 11% in positive numbers for Obama."

Meaning exit polls mean zip... which we had been telling you all this time.

As of 8pm EST...

No states have jumped the board from 2004. McCain has Kentucky, W. Virginia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee...

Obama has Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, DC... and as of 8:13pm--New Hampshire!

Father in heaven,

It is 4:00am and many times I have sought to plead with you at this hour. I ask your forgiveness for at times doing so more out of sheer desperation than deliberate intent. My failure in doing so abuses your love, and causes me to trust more in my work, effort, and skill than in your gift of grace. A gift which I do not deserve, a gift that is profoundly unique, and one that has changed my life, heart, mind, and hopes forever.

Lord this morning I ask you not to make my life more comfortable, because even in a year where I've largely been without full time employment - you met and fulfilled the needs I've had for the opportunity to work, put food on my family's table, pay my debtors, and watch you provide. On this level God I am grateful for your abundance, I am grateful for the stretching it has forced me into. Teaching me to trust even more deeply in your promise to love, care for, and bless your children.

Lord this morning I do not ask you to watch over my loved ones, or to protect those who are important to me. My Lovely Bride, my son with special needs, my family who are always extended in distance from me You've cared for, kept safe, and protected even in this traumatic economic season, even in this season of danger brought on by those who wish us dead, and even in seasons of our own disobedience. Lord there is no need to beg for Your protection on those I love, because I have seen it with my own eyes.

Father today I spend this time with You to request one simple thing. It is something we as a nation do not deserve, and yet I ask with boldness. Not because I feel a righteous wind to put an expectation upon You, nor because I have the audacity to dictate to You, but because I have great fear what we may become as a nation if You do not grant us this.

Certainly there are many things we do deserve as a nation. If You did destroy the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their incessant immorality, for their defiance of You, then surely the tone of our actions insisting upon our own definitions of sexuality, morality, and even marriage are behaviors that deserve every bit the wrath You leveled then.

Certainly if you meant the words Your Son spoke in His warning to us not to so much as damage the hairs upon the head of a child, then there must be millions degrees of judgment and punishment that we are deserving of for allowing the most vulnerable among us to be slaughtered in numbers that are in excess of all of our wars in our nation's history combined.

Certainly as You've instructed Your people--those You've redeemed--to help care for widows, orphans, poor, and sick, You did not mean for us to level against them greater poverty, isolation, and sickness.

Certainly it has grieved You that at times in even our recent history such evil existed that force was required to halt it.

Certainly Father You've had many reasons to be disappointed with those who have been charged with teaching and instructing Your children. The words they have not spoken--especially from the pulpits of those who lost their love for You--in exchange for access to a politician who has used them, even to hurt them.

Father if these and even a much longer list that could be compiled do grieve you then the obvious is clear, You would be right, You would be good, and You would be righteous in giving to us what we as a nation deserve--to be turned over to the spoils of our own lust, our own ideas to eliminate you, and our own drive to recreate this blessing you established known as America--to allow us to be judged.

Father it appears as though we are on the verge of electing for the first time in our nation's history someone who is diametrically opposed to You in his soul, his core, and certainly his actions. He is a lost man who according to his own writings barely understands who he is much less how he is to fit in to the surroundings and community around him.

He is a confused man, with ideas that violate Your principles, who does not respect your Lordship, but uses you to advance a power base, and seeks to establish the greatest gathering of consolidated power in the history of planet earth.

He has betrayed his immoral intentions, he has laughed at the suffering of Your chosen people, he has made a mockery of the ideal of what America is, he has applauded the redefining of Your institutions of family and marriage, and he has gone to public policy combat for the right of a hospital named for Your Son to starve to death those You instructed us not to harm.

He has allowed his family to be saturated with invective of racial hatred towards those who are different than him. And he has done so in Your name.

Father none of our choices as a nation were perfect in our election cycle, and certainly all of them have failed You, as have I, sometimes repeatedly in our lives. But this is a far cry different, Lord, than one who promises to transform our hope and trust that is to be reserved for You, and You Alone, and place it into the muck and mire of leftist, Godless, progressive political manipulation--that pretends as though Your will is open to the highest bidder.

God in all likelihood the election of this man would be justice leveled against us in many ways. The suffering that he portends for those who follow You especially seems a certain degree of punishment for not representing You as faithfully as You have called us to.

Yet Father in my simple way, I wish to beg for mercy on behalf of Your church, the voices of the redeemed who still wish to see Your work expanded and grown, who wish to be part of bringing Your hope to those in need and your love to those who hurt not be curtailed.

Lord God in Heaven it is you who establishes rulers and kingdoms. And in this nation You have been so gracious that you have allowed us--we the people--to be the ones who rule. I ask Father, beg actually, that you would allow us to rule mercifully today.

And Father if it is Your will that we receive judgment and punishment for our wickedness instead, create within us a humility that learns from what You wish to do in our lives. In other words Father allow it to draw us closer to You!

We beg for mercy, but we trust in You.

In Your Son's name I ask this...
Amen