This is a discouraging outcome. I don’t know how anyone could vote for Obama this year. There is a Milky Way size debt, continued high unemployment, a rising Arab Spring with a decidedly radiacl Islamist tilt, and a President who’s more interested in celebrity than policy. Is there anything he’s been successful at?
The fact that we almost won provides a small spring of hope. As of now, Obama’s popular vote margin is only
60,132,028 to 57,432,727, far from a mandate. The Republicans waged a national campaign while the Democrats ran a state-by-state campaign and that brought them the electoral vote. Conservatives not only held the U.S. House of Representatives, but may increase our margin. The outcome in the U.S. Senate races are entirely due to poor candidates on our side (especially Missouri and Indiana).
The American people who make their choices intelligently need to hang in there for another four years and hope that no U.S. Supreme Court justices retire.
Better minds than mine are trying to make sense of this.
My take is that Obama is a larger than life figure - a personality that has assumed the status of cult leader. Can you imagine anyone but Obama being able to pull this off? Biden, Reid, or any of the other dinosaurs in that party?
Despite all his failures, there are still a lot of people out there who project on to him what they want to see. Young people see someone cool and hip who they like because their parents and grandparents do not like. Minorities see him as the ultimate revenge on white people. Minority women see him as the husband and/or Dad who stuck around. Women in general see him as a caring Dad and husband and quite frankly I’m sure a lot of women think he’s sexy. Working class men believe he swooped in to save their livelihood a la the auto bailout.
Democrats have offered goodies to all their core constituencies during the past four years. Despite what they can see out there with their own eyes, they choose to disbelieve what they see in favor of believing everything Obama says. It’s him and his sycophants against the world. They’re a tight, cozy coterie that lives in their own bubble of truth. They are also the most self centered and self absorbed group of people to ever emerge as a majority in the American electorate. They care nothing about the greater good of this and future generations. They care only about what they have been told they personally deserve and are entitled to. The Me Generation has taken over our electorate and the Democrats have their finger dead center on the pulse of this group.
Romney was the Grinch who was going to steal Christmas. Obama was the coolest, hippest Santa that ever lived.
I don’t care how sound and well stated your arguments are, they will fall on deaf ears if you have an electorate which is only concerned about what they can get, not what they can give. And whose thoughts extend only as far as the next text message they receive.
Republicans will never be able to give out more than Democrats do. That’s a losing battle.
Like it or not, we’re going to have to come up with our version of Obama as far as being hip and cool goes (not his deceptiveness). We can’t run another Grandfather.
The goose that laid the golden egg is slowly being strangled to death. But Obama is King.
“The American people who make their choices intelligently need to hang in there for another four years...”
My FRiend, what makes you think they’ll be anything left in another four years? This election was it.
You are a master of understatement my friend! ;d