Posted on 11/07/2012 7:22:46 PM PST by i88schwartz
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos talks what President Obama's re-election means for the country on "World News" with Diane Sawyer.
DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: So give me your bottom line on the Republicans now. We talked about the soul-searching, what do they do next?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Soul-searching, perhaps a civil war. You've got to look at this party right now. They have won the popular vote only once since 1988, in the presidential race. And it was probably best summed up by Al Cardenas, the head of the American Conservative Union (ACU). He said the party is too old, too white and too male. They lost young women, single women by almost 40 points, Hispanics by almost 40 points, blacks by more than 80 points. This is a party that has to create a much bigger tent.
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“He said the party is too old, too white and too male.”
Bull. Romney didn’t match McCain’s numbers. Those people didn’t vote for Obama, his numbers were way down. They stayed home. Stephi is playing the part of Concern Troll.
Is she still drunk?
WGAFF
They lost young women, single women by almost 40 points, Hispanics by almost 40 points, blacks by more than 80 points. This is a party that has to create a much bigger tent.
Create a bigger tent; Sellout to Jay-Z, Eva Longoria, Sandra Fluke and all the other Socialist Sheep who idolize the celebrity in the White Hut who uses a stolen birth certificate, a social security number issued in a state he never resided (CT), and a proven forged selective service card with a ‘80’ year instead of ‘1980’ year (as required by Federal Law at that time) within its date stamp.
CW-II is indeed possible.
And if bonehead Boehner tries more compromise, he just may be the start.
Ok
Young/Single women - free birth control and free abortions
Hispanics - Amnesty for all
Blacks - Reparations for slavery
And republicans would still lose.
RINOs do not win presidential elections.
utter rubbish. These people are below evil in that they have no class and delight in rubbing into open wounds. As Rush said today we have plenty of prominent blacks in the Republican Party and it's ignored. Romney had more minorities in his staff than Obama.
Dems have been successful in fictionalizing phoney images. Our side has been inept at exposing the lies and propaganda. we will get no where until we have warriors willing to expose these games
Then how did the Bush Brothers, father and son, win?
The only people to start a Civil war would be the actions of Obammy and his Marxist pals. In order to save the Constitution and individual freedom.....count me in.
I will never believe that Romney didn’t match McCain’s numbers. Maybe after the votes for Romney weren’t COUNTED he didn’t. We got screwed by fraud because of the fraud running against him.
“young ...single women by almost 40 points, Hispanics by almost 40 points, blacks by more than 80 points.”
All the usual suspects, IOW.
Big deal.
All those who want more for nothing.
It’s kind of hard to create a bigger tent when the other side’s VP accuses you of wanting to reinstate slavery and isn’t immediately laughed off the ticket by every “mainstream” news organization in the country. Not that it would matter. America’s blacks made the depth of their racism quite clear yesterday. Hispanics? Too many dropouts looking for gimmes. Single women? How exactly does the GOP reach the demographic who apparently either want infanticide on demand or are looking to use the state as a sugar daddy for themselves and their bastard babies? America may just be too dumbed-down for a party that tries to argue for principles of liberty and responsibility. We have degenerated as a nation.
Then how did the Bush Brothers, father and son, win?
MSM still smoking mary jane.
As Jim Geraghty summed up:
Just did this quick math of Obama’s margin in key states.
Virginia- 107,339
Ohio- 100,763
Florid- 47,493
Colorado- 111,094
Nevada- 66,379
Total= 433,068
In other words, convincing 1/10th of one percent of the American population to vote for fiscal rectitude would have changed the course of history.
Mandate my ass. And if you think this razor-thin margin will make Barack Obama more willing to cooperate with the 49.99% of Americans who voted against him, well, I’ve got some land on the Whitewater River in Arkansas I’d like to sell you.
MSM still pushing propaganda to make it appear that a “clear” majority wants BHO and his agenda.
This is a party that has to create a much bigger tent.
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Im a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Heres an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What youll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff wont have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. Were often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone elses rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. Thats a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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The party is too RINO!
The party is too willing to take liberaltarians seriously
I’ve been saying it for years...
run a Mormon and 10-15% of the base WILL STAY HOME
this combined with a month long ‘voting cycle’, allowing the potheads to get around to voting, results in an overwhelming loss
Denocrat Stephanopoulis: “LET’S TO AND HIM FIGHT!” LOL!
Real spending cuts for real debt, real spending cuts for real taxes: a policy RINOs and conservatives can unite on.
Marl Levin actually suggested something funny tonight: have every young woman that we know to write letters to congress asking for their free birth control.
One of the things that we do not do we’ll is to overwhelm their systems (an Alinsky technique.). Every conservative should start filling out every form for every program—whether they are eligible or not. Making them process forms will bog down their processes for everyone. Collapse their system.
The oldest trick in politics BTW.
I am all for a civil war in the Republican Party as Conservatives must destroy the Karl Rove Wing of the party along with the moderates like McCain and keep Jeb Bush’s ass away from the nomination in 2016, HW, Dole. McCain and now Romney shows what happens when you nominate a Republican Liberal to run a Big Government Marxist.
Whenever a liberal like Stephie says anything such as this it is what they are planning. They mention it now so should it happen by their actions they hope to have planted the seed in everyone’s mind that the “evil, rich, white, Christian conservatives” did it.
"That's ageist,racist, AND sexist!"
It will be the Democrats having a civil war starting today. They have to pick a 2016 candidate who’s not Obama. Let the blood letting begin.
Obama got 9 million fewer votes as well. A lot of ‘mericans just don’t give a sh!t anymore.
The problem is that conservatives in the party were betrayed — long before the primaries Mitt Romney was anointed by the elite leadership, that endorsement and pushing is proof that their vision of the GOP is STATUS QUO/BUSINESS AS USUAL — the people rejected this because Mitt Romney *is* liberal.
Look at the Libertarian Candidate, Gary Johnson, he got more than 1% of the vote!
That’s astounding, especially given that the Democrat and Republicans spent _hundreds_ of times more than the Libertarian party.
http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/1139562-votes-for-gov-gary-johnson-record-setting-libertarian-party-presidential-vote
Now imagine if the Republican party had run a truly different candidate like Ron Paul (financial policy), Newt Gingrich (judicial policy), or even Johnson... but of course they wouldn’t do that, that means changing things, making things *gasp* different and ending the comfortable go-along-to-get-along nature of the GOP.
I did not hear anything about a “civil war”. I just heard two socialists telling Republicans they have to become socialists to compete with socialists. They want a socialist Tory party to “compete” with them.
They will pick hillary.
Drama Queen
Oh Stephy is so much more than a “news” anchor.Didn’t he work for Clinton WH?
Isn’t he really the one who started the whole birth control issue at a primary? Until the primary, it was never an issue. Dems needed something to run with and apparently it worked.
I have given my children a much better life than I had. I know how one voted. It is their Republic now to save. I am going to reap my rewards. If one wants socialism, so be it.
The party is too RINO!
The party is too willing to take liberaltarians seriously
FWIW, when he says “civil war”, I’m pretty sure he means an ideological war within the Republican party, between old-school conservatives and big-tent “moderates” over the future direction of the party.
The other kind of civil war is not going to have anything to do with the Republican party, but I’d be surprised if we don’t get one of those as well sometime soon.
Yeah they are so gone right, that is why Jeb Bush’s Name is popping up one day after Romney got ran over by a Socialist.
They WANT us to do it. You can tell! They want Obama to have an excuse to turn his browncoats on us and imprison us. This has been in the works for a while....
Civil War 2 against the Greek midget and his pukish ilk. I’ll take my 12 gauge and give Stephy a colonoscopy and perforated bowel.
CW-II has already started.
It’s currently a cold war..
For now.
already been done with SSD.
And my wife can’t work.
2-3 years to get a chance with the judge.
Good thing i am a jack of all trades and can jump from sector to sector to stay employed.
The time for civil war was 40 years ago.
Yep, Paul and Gingrich actually ran campaigns based on bold ideas. One had some flawed policies, and the other some personal flaws, but there is no doubting their overall sincerity and passion. I’m sure some people migrated to Gary Johnson out of frustration. I think the real reason Johnson did better than the Libertarian normally does is that he’s actually a legitimate politician, with a record that is enviable. “Governor Veto” was awesome for his state. He vetoed more bills than all of his 49 contemporaries combined! He’s basically a younger Ron Paul (though pro choice), who has been a chief executive. He stands for something, as do Gingrich and Paul. Romney didn’t stand for anything other than the proposition that he’s a better manager than Obama. That is undoubtedly true, but not enough.
In the not too distant future Chinese immigrants will easily outnumber Hispanic immigrants.
When possible Republicans should do business with other Republicans.
and just where oh where are the gay black female half lation reporters on ABC? Dianne Sawyer couldn’t be any whiter ...thought our nation was supposed to be color blind..once again it is the left that plays the race card.
Like they’d ever be spun favorably by the MSM even if they were the same as the libtard democrats.
Stephi is a bonehead. Civil War? No, because a civil war is where different factions fight for control of the central government. It would be more like the war between the states (called the Civil War incorrectly) in which some people merely wish to secede and be left alone. Red states need to divorce the blue and let them sink in their own mire.
Single women - substituting govt for a husband - stability. Single women look to govt as to what to do, and women generally are more submissive to authority figures.
Latinos - amnesty / easy citizenship for their vote. Reclaiming the southwest.
Blacks - never ending welfare and favoritism. Reparations not called reparations, and they don’t want that gravy train to ever end.
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