We will just have to wait and see…

So the election has taken place and the GOP turned out to be the big winners.

I only hope that Republicans do not think that this election was due, in any real part, to their recent actions. In fact, if I had to describe what the strategy of the majority of the party was in the last couple of months, I would have to say it was to try to keep quiet and avoid saying anything too stupid. Ultimately, most of the winners [with a few exceptions] were simply happy to sidestep the anger of the American voters and quietly slip into the seats of those who were pushed out by that anger.

In this one I have to give it to Marco Rubio [Senator Elect from Florida] who said it would be a mistake to interpret the results of the election as being an embrace of the Republican Party. Here is a rising member of the Republicans who is willing to speak the truth even when it may not cast his party in the best possible light. Rubio was correct in his understanding that this election, for many, was simply a choice between what they viewed as the lesser of two evils.

We will see if the new batch of Republicans will rise to Rubio’s call that they become “what they said they were going to be not so long ago” or if they will fall back into the trap of simply talking like true conservatives while acting the opposite way. Should the Republicans fail to follow Rubio’s call to action, there is little doubt that they will soon find themselves on the receiving end of the same anger they were just able to avoid.

Now is the time to lead. The question is whether they will have the strength to do it.