Tonight Revenge Won!

[parisa]

Tonight revenge won! He went from Hope&Change to Divide&Rule. I look at this amazing, exceptional, talented ticket, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and think what a gift at this dire time was presented to our country, and America chose the angry, bitter, spiteful community divider. What an utterly sad moment. I just want to cry, NOT FOR MYSELF and my personal investments in these Republicans. I want to cry for the opportunity we just threw to the wind.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Be careful. I was asked which side I was on tonight for saying that. Some people don’t understand what you are saying. I do.

[Jane Long]

Revenge didn't win. Revenge came in and stole everything.

I've been saying and worrying for weeks that the reason they've kept the polls so close, is so they can say "See?! It's that close! Folks are that divided."

In actuality, they've stolen the election. With the turn out for R's, and the crowds at R/R events - compared to 0 events, 0's miserable record, etc. you can't tell me this wasn't a rigged deal.

[Netz]

Three things.

1) The GOP flayed itself out during the Primaries and did not throw its full weight behind Romney from the beginning.
2) The Right and most Freepers filled themselves with a sense of Bravado and wishful thinking.
3) Romney did not break the WASP-Rich guy image and did not speak the common man's lingo.

The GOP has to do some soul searching where we let our hope and dreams dictate our false sense of confidence.

The world clock has just ticked 1 minute closer to midnight...

[Wayne07]

Romney failed to articulate a vision to the takers, so the loss also falls on him. If you can't convince someone on welfare that there life would be better with a job then you aren't doing your job.

He needed to be there saying, I'm going to help you get off welfare, get a job, have a family, own a house. Not through another pathetic government program, but by getting out of the way, growing the economy, cutting regulations, and helping american businesses.

[kevao]

I want to cry for the opportunity we just threw to the wind.

We threw nothing to the wind tonight. We had a solid team, that pursued a solid strategy. Everyone's inclination has been -- and will be -- to cast aspersions on Romney/Ryan, as if they could have done anything different to win.

It is clear now that no right-of-center campaign would have won tonight. The demographics have finally overtaken us. Everyone saw it coming, everyone knew it was coming. Well it has arrived.

Future elections will no longer be a question of conservative/RINO vs Liberal/Progressive. It has now finally become a basic question of takers (majority) vs makers (minority).

How we survive in this environment without becoming serfs in the next four years, should be a high-priority discussion in the coming weeks.

[leakinInTheBlueSea]

Sadly, we are all California now. Californians like to state that the state is a leading indicator for what is to come for the rest of the country. While I live in California, I have, to the extent possible, insulated myself from the misery that is our economic state of affairs. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that things need to get worse before they get better. My only hesitation with having the same attitude with the country as a whole is history’s examples of what ‘hitting rock bottom’ means for a nation, and the implications of that for my kids. I fear fighting the battle and supporting a weak Republican opposition only gives the Democrats plausible deniability of responsibility for the mess, while withdrawing from the political landscape entirely and letting the Democrats sink their own ship ushers in tyrannical oppression. Not sure where to go from here...

[parisa]

producers are outnumbered by takers.

Sorry I don't believe that. Exit polls showed Americans prefer smaller gov't which by definition means it's not about producers and takers. No, this is more detestable than that. I my view, It's the media, stupid. It's the power of that tube & the men/women sitting on the other side of it coming into our living room every day and methodically and consistently bending, spinning, poking, polarizing us all to the liberals' benefit. IT's nothing but media and their will we are facing.

[teletech]

Well said. I believe Romney was the right man at the right time. There is only one way to explain this defeat -———> producers are outnumbered by takers. No candidate could overcome that reality.

I agree. "Taking" is like a sickness, once you start you can't stop. You vote for one that lets you "take".

[sako shooter2]

Parisa,
My revenge shall be to stop spending. We can bring the economy crashing down.