Here’s the thing...
Bush won two VERY close elections. The country didn’t have to move very far for McCain and Romney to lose two not very close elections.
The country has moved left, and it’s enough that I just don’t see what Republican can win.
Yeah, I think you are. Sorry.
I'm convinced this was the very last U.S. Presidential election where conservatives could make a difference. In short order, barring unlikely gutsy resistance from the House, the 2nd Obama administration will:
Open the floodgates to immigration to the south. That means millions of "instant Democrats."
Fill all new Supreme Court openings with far-left apparatchiks. If you think the Constitution is being violated now, just wait... The Obama Supremes will make law, not interpret it. They'll have plenty of help from Obama appointments to the lower courts which will all begin to behave like the Ninth Circus.
Implement increasingly burdensome regulations on business, especially through his Commis-"czars" and the increasingly dictatorial anti-business EPA.
Put into effect his long-standing plan to fetter capital mobility (Agenda 21.) He plans to de-fund the suburbs and send their money to inner cities. California's (thankfully defeated -- this time) Proposition 31 was a sneaky attempt to launch this program. It would have created a regional "tax-base sharing" arrangement eliminating the suburbs' ability to determine their own economic status. Tax money would flow into a common regional kitty for redistribution to inner cities and "less well off" suburbs.
The second shoe to drop in this scenario is to prevent suburbanites and the companies they work for from "voting with their feet." Regulations are planned to require what amount to "exit visas" from companies that want to move elsewhere. These plans are being developed for the administration by Peter Dreier, an urban affairs advisor to the President in the 2008 campaign. He also happens to teach politics at Occidental College, Obama's alleged alma mater. He's been outspoken about the plan to "undercut freedom of [capital] movement."
Author Stanley Kurtz, writing about Dreier's plan, says: "As companies are trapped, unable to move, they and their employees will have no choice but to submit to a given city's redistributive tax-and-spending plans." He says Dreier believes that blocking the mobility of capital will succeed only at the national level. Many think the recent battle to block Boeing from opening a new plant in South Carolina was just a test run for the new program. This stuff is just the beginning -- there's much, much more to come.
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