Posted on 11/06/2012 9:35:19 PM PST by quicksilver123
Well, I've watched the election all year, and predicted a defeat for the Democrats and a repudiation of the last four years. I have to admit that I called it wrong and Obama has been re-elected.
It turns out that Romney was right all along: 47% of the country is just "gone", given over to the takers and "looters" as Ayn Rand described it so precisely 50 years ago. Obama knit together a coalition of union thugs, marxist regulators, affirmative action winners, a corrupt media, sixties throwbacks, illegal aliens, race hustlers, and the young and impressionable. I guess congratulations are in order.
For 225 years or so, the USA really was the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that country that we all grew up in is gone: it is now in the same pantheon as ancient Greece and glorious Rome. Like very few countries in history, we have voted for our own demise and dictatorship.
I know the gleeful Obama voters that read this will just consider it to be sour grapes, and I suppose it is. Bitter? You bet.
I won't live long enough to see the totality of the gray, bleak future, but my kids will: they already owe tens of thousands in federal debt, and my grandchildren will suffer even more.
Remember all this country had accomplished and what it once meant to the world: The first modern democracy where the individual ruled, the country that sacrificed the lives of close to 700,000 citizens in a bloody civil war to right the wrong of slavery, the country that twice went to war to salvage the corrupt European political culture, that fought and won the cold war, that grew a prosperous middle class like had never been seen before.
All gone now: get ready for the new normal... My fellow citizens have decided that a pompous and inconsequential narcissist should have his four years of failure rewarded with four more years to accomplish his goal of destroying a once great nation.
they will likely rue the day...
It turns out that Romney was right all along: 47% of the country is just "gone",
coup
I tried to be optimistic but this confirmed my suspicions. Bleh.
I’d like to move overseas somewhere. Suggestions, anyone?
Don’t sweat it. They aren’t half as bad as their roar. Those on the right will always be the winners in life, if we believe it.
That's because that 53% wasn't in his pocket, didn't want to be, and in the end he even took down our best shot at taking over the Senate.
He knew he was our weakest candidate.
You were wrong, but at least you weren’t a whiney bitch about it. Losing with dignity is beyond the other side.
Its more than 47 percent..more like 50 percent..and after 4 more years of Obama it will be more than that..you give enough people freebies, and they are owned for life..permanent slaves of the Govt, and happy to live like that..cant really mock Venezuela and Cuba anymore, we are officially who we despise
We’ll know soon enough if your pessimism is warranted. The fiscal cliff looms and both parties MUST compromise - on taxes and spending. If they don’t, then you’ll stand correct.
The country has fundamentally changed. We are no longer the majority, and the majority does not have our vision of what America should be.
Obama will treat this as a mandate, and I can’t really fault him for that. The percentage of registered voters that actually cast a ballot is pathetic, and it is the old school conservatives that didn’t vote.
Time to get hip and learn to get along with the next generation.
I’m 50, and I have a 7 year-old Daughter. I shudder to think what this election means for her and her generation. It grieves me to watch the ignorance of voters plunge this once-great nation into the abyss.
To my Daughter - I am sorry. We did what we could sweetie.
You were wrong, but at least you weren’t a whiney bitch about it. Losing with dignity is beyond the other side.
The only thing that explains how Obama could win after his horrible “recovery” is that the 47% voted for their freebies and were enough to put him over.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” — Benjamin Franklin
Get out of here with that. Nobody in the field this year would have done better against obama. Santorum would have been painted as wanting to kill women, Gingrich would have been painted as absolutely corrupt. Obama has the media on his side and it’s a huge weapon.
you are not alone—those of us who voted for Romney are right there with you. We have lost this battle, our nation’s fate is set.
I’m gonna watch “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy over the next few days, and turn off news and talk radio. I’m gonna dig deeper into my Bible, put mulch in my flower beds, get down my Christmas stuff and start planning my holidays. Yes, I’m going to “pretend” the world is not crashing down around me.
Recommend you find a way to alleviate stress, get some rest, and refocus on what’s really important. That’s what I’m gonna do...maybe for the next 4 years! :)
1) How’d we do in the states?
2) Build the state and local tea party groups.
3) Fight the federal takeover at the state level on a tenth amendment basis.
4) The Constitution still stands as the law of the land.
5) Fight for it like banshees.
6) Do or die.
Semper Fi!
I’ve been pretty accurate for the last few years. I predicted a big McCain loss in 2008, and thought Romney had a 50% chance tonight. At last check, Romney was getting 50.05% of the vote...so it appears I can prognosticate with the best of them.
Unfortunately.
I'd have thought so, but then I thought he was in for an historic ass kicking tonight, so maybe not. Maybe they'll think they made the right choice.
There is some truth to that and it is a big challenge however one thing you missed is that Romney is a loser. He was a very weak candidate.
Incidentally he said that point secretly recorded. Not like he was making a brave stand or anything,.
I'm 51. I have a 10 year old and 14 year old daughter. I feel the same way.
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