Well, my month of daily “Two Minutes Hate” toward President Obama is winding down, and to be honest, I’m glad to see it going away.  I dislike the President and his policies, but to sit down every evening and vent my spleen is exhausting and depressing.  Not complaining, just rejoicing in the end of a chore.

We are at six days and counting in the initial phase of this election.  I look forward to the crazy season coming to a close.  I’m not going to predict who wins, but I do have some predictions for afterward.

• The election isn’t going to end when the polls close on November 6.  There are going to be court challenges, recounts, and blowhards on the TV and Internet for weeks afterward.
• I don’t think there are going to be riots after the election, at least not widespread.  I look at the jerks who are threatening them on social media the same way as I see the people who threatened to leave the country if Bush won in 2004.  I think it’ll be more like a few drunk bastards smashing a few windows and starting a few fires before they go to jail to sober up.
  • That’s not to say that I don’t plan on staying close to home on election day and that I haven’t checked our supplies in case the worst happens.
• If you thought this election cycle seemed to drag on forever, you haven’t seen anything yet.  Election 2014 and 2016 will begin approximately 10 minutes after the last court challenge in Election 2012 is over.
• If Barack Obama does not win, I would be surprised if he didn’t spend the next four years campaigning to re-take the White House.
  • If he does, look for a replay of the 2008 primaries in 2016.  Hillary Clinton isn’t going to let him get away with losing the White House and possibly the Senate.
• If Romney wins, I doubt his coattails will be strong enough to give the Senate to the Republicans.
  • I see this as a good thing, actually.  A Solomonic situation in the Congress will keep the stupidity on both sides of the aisle in check. Obama and the younger Bush did their worst when they had majorities in both houses of Congress.
  • If the Republicans do take the Senate, it won’t be a filibuster proof majority.  It might be thin enough that a few mavericks like Rand Paul or Marco Rubio might have the power to try to get something constructive done under threat of not supporting the party leadership in close votes.
• Expect a raft of Fast and Furious related pardons from an outgoing President Obama.
• Expect a lot of investigations in 2013 if Romney wins.  Most of them will be looking for the truth, some of them will be punitive in nature.  All of them need to happen.
• Either way, I’m going to enjoy a cold adult beverage to celebrate the end of this election.  It’s been one of the nastiest elections I’ve ever heard of, and certainly the worst in my lifetime.  If this is how it’s going to go from now on, we are in trouble.