Posted on 11/10/2012 7:20:25 AM PST by Sioux-san
....In the short term, the GOP must fight the count. Romney should never have conceded, and he must now find a reason to "unconcede." It's alarming advice to give the GOP, but in this the party must behave as the Democrats do. Try to imagine, for example, how the Obama campaign would have reacted if the numbers in Florida were reversed; if Scot Brown seemed guilty of practicing law without a license and won anyway; if a half-dozen major precincts responsible for electing Republicans claimed turnouts of 99% or more; if the Romney campaign had rather obviously both solicited and accepted foreign money.
I know we'd all like to be better than that -- but we're not going to save Democratic voters from their leaders without breaking through the social and political barriers that leadership have put in place to protect their positions. Ask your neighbors, your family members, anyone who votes Democrat but isn't fanatical about it: do they want $8 gas? Thirty million unemployed Americans? Dysfunction in health care and the military? ... more than half of all Americans are abandoned to people who treat a lie as just another tool, who have no shame and no loyalties beyond themselves.
So we have to do it -- and we start by denying Obama any aura of legitimacy. We fight the count, we impeach on Libya, we go after him personally and in every possible way.
In the middle-term, the GOP should turn to its financial backers -- and those backers should move to take over major media players.... Gannet, Time Warner, and McClatchy are all horrifically unbalanced but great properties nevertheless. Republicans should buy these -- and run them as real news and entertainment businesses, not as propaganda outlets...
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SOF-soldier of fortune.Another name for a highly skilled contract killer.
Very interesting idea!
I am assuming that you would use the SOF for their skills as community organizers, not for their contract killing skills.
By the way....I don’t think we will see revolution in the U.S. Instead, it will be more like Argentina with its “disappearances” on both sides of the simmering conflict.
“Special Operations Forces”. Green Berets, Rangers, SEaLs, etc.
How would you manage the “purge”?
Suggestions would be welcome.
Yea,right.
What about the “dwarfs” in the press and the Hollywood entertainment industry?
Do you think it is a coincidence that the so-called conservative media was silent about Obama’s eligibility and have said almost nothing about the massive voting fraud in the swing states?
I find myself thinking coercion and threats. Look at how many Republican contributors are being investigated by the IRS.
Well, I agree with you, but I’d say to Paul Meyers that before you start your “micro analysis” district by district, do a macro analysis of what the word “Hispanic” means and where it comes from. Rubio may be from a Spanish-speaking country, but he’s not Hispanic in political terms. First of all he’s white, second, he launched his career from an exile community, not an immigrant community. We do know the difference between a political exile and an immigrant, don’t we? Then, when it was discovered that his parents in fact came here as immigrants before the communist takeover, he at first said he didn’t know what year his parents got here - a ludicrous statement, because every Cuban knows the year, month, day and hour that they left Cuba, and they talk about it all the time. Then, when the facts could no longer be denied, he switched to the immigrant narrative. I saw the entire interview on Spanish-language TV, and he looked like a lying jerk. But more important, the Republicans demonstrate a type of contempt when they don’t bother to learn these very basic facts about the difference between the exile/refugee who comes here as a medical doctor, a university professor or the owner of a chain of hardware stores - and an illiterate peasant who comes here to pick fruit or wash dishes and send the money back to Mexico or Honduras. Other than speaking Spanish, those two groups have nothing whatsoever in common. And even though Rubio now gets up and tells the story of how his father came here with two dollars in his pocket and a dream - (or was that Ted Cruz’s story?) nevertheless he is tainted by his living among and being a member of, a community that all the other “Hispanics” hate because the Cubans repudiated and fled from communism, and the Mexicans et al adore Fidel Castro. So the idea - the contemptuous idea - that Hispanics are an undifferentiated mass, and that you can take one at random who is cute and glib and throw him out there to catch the “Hispanic vote” is laughable and stupid and ultimately insulting - and, guess what - won’t work, anymore than putting a Frenchman forward would get the “European vote” when Swedes, Italians, Germans, etc are voting.
The Second Amendment has already protected us and has done so for many decades. it weren't for the Second Amendment the communists in our nation would have made their move in the 1920s.
We can battle the demographics by changing the way their votes are counted. Having more voters than residents in a district should set off warning bells far and wide - for some reason this is now “the new normal”.
I do NOT agree with scrapping the electoral college. I do think that we need to change the way elector votes are ‘won’.
It is up to each state to determine how their votes are given out. If we can change states from winner take all to winner by the district the elector represents that would help. The two votes given for Senate seats should go to the winner of the popular vote.
This would help to re-establish the voice of the people as intended by the founding fathers and also make more states relevant - also an intention of the electoral college.
I may be wrong in my understanding of the system (it’s been 40+ years since any civics and history classes) but I cannot believe that the founding fathers wanted states to be left out of the process, nor did they want the mob rule of the popular vote.
What a well thought out and witty response. Make the case, Sparky. Or STHU. Put up or shut up.
I'm glad that somebody besides me has seen through the hypocrisy of O'Reilly and Hannity. And to be more specific about how O'Reilly, Hannity, and basically all "conservative" celebrities, including Limbaugh, are arguably helping to protect Obama's constitutionally indefensible socialistic policies, please consider the following.
O'Reilly, Hannity and others wrongly ignore Congress's Article I, Section 8 limited powers in federal public policy discussions. Given that Section 8 makes no mention of healthcare, for example, the 10th Amendment clarifies in general that the Constitution's silence about things like healthcare means that healthcare is a state power issue.
Note that activist justices got away with not finding federal Obamacare unconstitutonal because the schools probably don't teach the enumerated constitutional principle of division of federal and state government powers anymore, the division of powers evidenced by Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment.
OReilly is a big mouth populist. Instinctively he correctly identifies problems, but his solutions are poorly conceived by his instincts to appeal to the ‘folks.’
Hannity has a low wattage mind. His heart is in the right place and he means well, but he just doesn’t have the intellectual depth to be an effective warrior.
Neither are establishment shills, exactly.
Correct, Amendment10.
And for those claiming the “media” “media” “media”, they sure do listen to them. Jumpin the shark
They all have big D.C. bureaus.
And how do we change the way the votes are counted when the people who control how the votes are counted like the way the votes are counted?
We had a chance to fix it. No more.
O’Reilly has been mocked as Ted Baxter and excoriated as O’Blowhard for practically the entire time I’ve been Freeping.
I’m glad you noticed. Better late than never. O’Reilly puts the blow in bloviation. He’s the Paris Hilton of old white guys, famous merely for being famous, but nobody can quite remember why.
What I don’t understand is why the Romney campaign didn’t do anything about this? Maybe he didn’t think it would be good for the country but I disagree. I hope that all these cases are investigated and brought to justice or these thugs will always win and there will be no reason to have elections, just like Venezuela and Iran. Or is it too late?
Make the case for not losing America? You’re an idiot.
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