When Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign once the DNC selected Obama as its nominee, despite Clinton winning more votes than anyone in the history of presidential primaries, Team Hillary was heartbroken. This was made all the worse by Obama’s followers, who kept up their attacks on Clinton long after she left the race. They made fun of the person we respect most in the world, and berated all of us for our loyalty to her. In fact, strangely, some of the cruelest and most vicious attacks Obama’s followers ever made on us came AFTER Clinton conceded.

The way these people treated us, with Obama’s encouragement, is a large part of the reason so many of us voted Republican for the first time in our lives. The reason Obama will lose tonight is because of his followers, and the way they behaved.

These people are going to realize this — it will dawn on them that they are largely responsible for Obama’s loss.

So, we want to ask all of you out there to please refrain from rubbing any of this in these people’s faces. Many of them never even bothered to learn much about Obama intellectually — they just supported him from a place of raw emotion. And so we think they will be even more depressed and hurt tonight than we were in the primaries.

As much as we don’t like these people because of the way they treated all of us — Obama’s candidacy has produced enough division, bitterness, and aggression.

Starting tomorrow, a new page turns, where we all have a change to come together under President McCain and work on the problems facing America. We don’t have any time to get into grade school fights with Obama followers, and we should not treat them with anything less than the respect we’d want if the shoe was on the other foot.

Perhaps, if we win this with grace and treat Obama’s supporters with understanding and kindness, they will see how foolishly and maliciously they behave the last two years. Maybe they will learn from all of this and become better people.

That’s our hope at least.

So, when this election is over, just remember what your parents or guardians always taught you: treat others the way you would want to be treated. We can all agree to disagree without being disagreeable.