A word of caution to the GOP and Republicans as a whole. If I were they, I wouldn't be thumping my chest declaring, "we're back," as is the case with some Republican politicians and commentators. Because in this essayist's opinion, what took place in the elections of last week wasn't as much about a return to conservatism as it was about people fed up at the way they were being treated.

The voters wanted alternatives, as opposed to more of the same. They were, and are, tired of being taken for granted and being told by those without a clue what is best for them. Individually, the voters may not have the money of a George Soros or a Wall Street financier, but what they do have is strength in numbers and a strong sense of righteous indignation. And that is the absolute best formula for term limits, i.e., "if the elected want to stay elected, they had better start paying attention to us more than every couple years."

The majority of Americans are content to go about their daily routines focused on the rigors of the day and concerns for their future. They are content for the most part to let politicians get away with lies and subterfuge, viewing same as the character flaws of those in office.

But what they are not prepared to do is simply sit back and continue to be treated as Kleenex tissues for politicians to blow their noses in/on, and then be discarded. Americans, as a whole, have a tipping point, and the Obama agenda, coupled with the narcissistic hubris of him and his congressional minions, can be credited with pushing the people to that point.

The party of Nathan Bedford Forest, led by Obama (a paradox if ever there was one), believes it can run roughshod over the people, and that the people will simply cower to anti-constitutional dictates. Obama, et al., believed they could bully and intimidate the people into submission – and in their pompous elitism, they believed wrong.

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The "people," as politicians are quick to reference us, are fed up and demanding change – and not the change that Obama is trying to force upon us – which brings me to my point.

Republicans and quasi-conservative commentators have been thumping their chests and trumpeting the recent elections as a victory for the Republican Party. I disagree – I say it was a victory for the people. Voters came together across party lines, united in opposition to the intrusive anti-constitutional policies of Obama. It wasn't that they were flocking to the Republican ticket as such – it was that they were fed up and went in search of candidates who best represented a return to an acceptable American normality.

And that is what the Republican Party is missing. I believe that, for the moment, voters are willing to give Republicans a second look – but they are not prepared to be treated indifferently, to have onerous legislation forced upon them, or to continue with indiscriminate spending. They are demanding accountability.

We may agree to disagree on certain issues, such as abortion or homosexuality, but the size of government, uncontrolled spending, unparalleled deficits, increased taxes, government seizure of one-sixth of our national economy – vis-à-vis health-care reform – being lied to and then verbally accosted by politicians getting rich on our backs is something the voters are not willing to abide any longer.

In October 2006, as I was cautioning the Republican Party pursuant to what was necessary to make gains going forward, I wrote a column entitled, "Politicians preying on the public." In that piece, I argued that the voters were responsible for what was happening to our country because they were allowing this political viremia to go unchecked in the lifeblood of America.

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Leftists think that the people are to be looked down upon as not being intellectually equal. Republicans have lost sight of what set our party apart, having become the equivalent of Democrat-little and, in effect, ships at sea without a compass.

This election showed that people aren't willing to tolerate more of the same. It also showed that, unlike any time in the recent past, they are ready for viable third-party candidates and candidates who are outside of the mainstream. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al., cannot help themselves – they are malicious marplots whose objectives are to undermine the Constitution and negate the right to self-rule.

But it would be ill-advised for the Republican Party to continue with the practices that led to their losses and think that the voters will flock to them simply because the Democratic Party has moved from being the party of Nathan Bedford Forest to become the party of Mao sycophants.

People are waking up to the fact that there is more joining common man together than there is in that which divides us. I suggest that if the Republican Party leaders are smart, they will understand same.