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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Many of us including JimRob have been pointing out this outcome. A smaller amount of us did actually abstain from voting to make it a reality.

Nice to see it recognized. Hopefully more will come on board and WE will be able to select the 2016 nominee instead of the GOP-e.


6 posted on 11/14/2012 8:08:52 AM PST by delapaz
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To: delapaz

i respect the right of everyone to vote or not vote, but what did we gain by electing obama? that the country is going to fall so far into a pit that we’ll never recover. i can really understand not loving romney, but i can’t understand allowing obama to completely destroy the republic. i would have voted for a warm turd if it meant electing a new president. now we’re looking at amnesty (big-a@@ mistake). we have pundits talking in 30 second anecdotal soundbites on how to fix things. i don’t know if we recover from four more years. i’m at a loss and i’m very very sad for my kids.


13 posted on 11/14/2012 8:17:14 AM PST by dreamerintexas
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To: delapaz
Nice to see it recognized. Hopefully more will come on board and WE will be able to select the 2016 nominee instead of the GOP-e.

I hope I'm wrong here. But I don't believe it will matter in 2016 how many conservative voters decide to show up or how conservative our nominee will be. We have crossed the tipping point of givers Vs. takers. In 2016 we will be trying to convince government dependents to dump the sugar daddy.

I believe there will be more than 50% of the population at least partly dependent on government subsidies. They will vote for democrats (along with the idealistic elite). Republicans will indeed have to sell the nation on reducing benefits to current beneficiaries in order to stabalize what will be a nation in fiscal chaos. This dog won't hunt today or in 2016.

We'll need a republican politician that is a conservative in a liberal's clothing that sells one thing and then goes Reagan X2 on cutting government regs and spending. We'll need a liar.

I think we missed our chance to turn this spiral around. I would like to believe otherwise and hope someone will change my outlook. But I think we have sealed our fate toward a 30 to 50 years fall from exceptionalism to mediocrity in European fashion.

14 posted on 11/14/2012 8:18:22 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (The Click-&-Paste Media exists & works in Utopia, riding unicorns & sniffing pixy dust.)
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