New Terminology

A surfer can stand on a board one of two ways. If a surfer plants the right foot at the tail and leads with the left, they call it natural footed. If the right foot leads with the left at the tail, they call it goofy footed. Most surfers have a tendency to prefer one stance over the other just as most individuals will favor one hand when writing or doing something requiring manual dexterity.

Waves will usually break to either the left or the right based on local features. For instance Hawaii's Pipeline breaks to the left giving natural footers an advantage. Another famous Hawaiian surf spot, the monster waves of Jaws, breaks to the right. Goofy footed surfers have the advantage on such a break. A few surfers will switch stance depending on the break, but most stick with their favored footing. A top notch surfer knows how to catch right and left breaking waves equally well regardless of footing. A goofy footed gromit (inexperienced surfer, like me) would get chewed up, spit out, and probably killed at Jaws same as the natural footed grom would at Pipeline. It doesn't matter where you stand, but how you surf.

So from now on we should call Republicans goofys (right foot forward) and the Democrats naturals (left forward). Who cares, they're all a bunch of groms.