"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!" Yes, the lamentations of their women (both XX and XY liberal women) are what is best in life.
Posted on 12/28/2016 7:49:07 AM PST by Mr. Douglas
I am already reading so many pundits and other talking heads analyzing the disaster that was this year’s elections. I am adding my own ten cents. Here goes:
1. We are outnumbered
We accurately foresaw the enthusiasm, the passion, the commitment, the determination, and the turnout. Married women, men, independents, Catholics, evangelicals – they all went for Romney in percentages as high or higher than the groups which voted for McCain in 2008. It wasn’t enough. What we saw in the election on Tuesday was a tipping point: we are now at a place where there are legitimately fewer Americans who desire a free republic with a free people than there are those who think the government should give them stuff. There are fewer of us who believe in the value of free exchange and free enterprise. There are fewer of us who do not wish to demonize successful people in order to justify taking from them. We are outnumbered. For the moment. It’s just that simple.
2. It wasn’t the candidate(s)
Some are already saying, “Romney was the wrong guy”; “He should have picked Marco Rubio to get Florida/Rob Portman to get Ohio/Chris Christie to get [someplace else].” With all due respect, these assessments are incorrect. Romney ran a strategic and well-organized campaign. Yes, he could have hit harder on Benghazi. But for those who would have loved that, there are those who would have found it distasteful. No matter what tactic you could point to that Romney could have done better, it would have been spun in a way that was detrimental to his chances. Romney would have been an excellent president, and Ryan was an inspired choice. No matter who we ran this year, they would have lost. See #1, above.
3. It’s the culture, stupid.
We have been trying to fight this battle every four years at the voting booth. It is long past time we admit that that is not where the battle really is. We abdicated control of the culture – starting back in the 1960s. And now our largest primary social institutions – education, the media, Hollywood (entertainment) have become really nothing more than an assembly line for cranking out reliable little Leftists. Furthermore, we have allowed the government to undermine the institutions that instill good character – marriage, the family, communities, schools, our churches. So, here we are, at least two full generations later – we are reaping what we have sown. It took nearly fifty years to get here; it will take another fifty years to get back. But it starts with the determination to reclaim education, the media, and the entertainment business. If we fail to do that, we can kiss every election goodbye from here on out. And much more.
4. America has become a nation of adolescents
The real loser in this election was adulthood: Maturity. Responsibility. The understanding that liberty must be accompanied by self-restraint. Obama is a spoiled child, and the behavior and language of his followers and their advertisements throughout the campaign makes it clear how many of them are, as well. Romney is a grown-up. Romney should have won. Those of us who expected him to win assumed that voters would act like grownups. Because if we were a nation of grownups, he would have won.
But what did win? Sex. Drugs. Bad language. Bad manners. Vulgarity. Lies. Cheating. Name-calling. Finger-pointing. Blaming. And irresponsible spending.
This does not bode well. People grow up one of two ways: either they choose to, or circumstances force them to. The warnings are all there, whether it is the looming economic disaster, or the inability of the government to respond to crises like Hurricane Sandy, or the growing strength and brazenness of our enemies. American voters stick their fingers in their ears and say, “Lalalalalala, I can’t hear you.”
It is unpleasant to think about the circumstances it will take to force Americans to grow up. It is even more unpleasant to think about Obama at the helm when those circumstances arrive.
5. Yes, there is apparently a Vagina Vote
It’s the subject matter of another column in its entirety to point out, one by one, all of the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of the Democrats this year. Suffice it to say that the only “war on women” was the one waged by the Obama campaign, which sexualized and objectified women, featuring them dressed up like vulvas at the Democrat National Convention, appealing to their “lady parts,” comparing voting to losing your virginity with Obama, trumpeting the thrills of destroying our children in the womb (and using our daughters in commercials to do so), and making Catholics pay for their birth control. For a significant number of women, this was appealing. It might call into question the wisdom of the Nineteenth Amendment, but for the fact that large numbers of women (largely married) used their “lady smarts” instead. Either way, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are rolling over in their graves.
6. It’s not about giving up on “social issues”
No Republican candidate should participate in a debate or go out on the stump without thorough debate prep and a complete set of talking points that they stick to. This should start with a good grounding in biology and a reluctance to purport to know the will of God. (Thank you, Todd and Richard.)
That said, we do not hold the values we do because they garner votes. We hold the values we do because we believe that they are time-tested principles without which a civilized, free and prosperous society is not possible. We defend the unborn because we understand that a society which views some lives as expendable is capable of viewing all lives as expendable. We defend family – mothers, fathers, marriage, children – because history makes it quite clear that societies without intact families quickly descend into anarchy and barbarism, and we have plenty of proof of that in our inner cities where marriage is infrequent and unwed motherhood approaches 80%. When Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, many thought that the abortion cause was lost. 40 years later, ultrasound technology has demonstrated the inevitable connection between science and morality. More Americans than ever define themselves as “pro-life.” What is tragic is that tens of millions of children have lost their lives while Americans figure out what should have been obvious before.
There is no “giving up” on social issues. There is only the realization that we have to fight the battle on other fronts. The truth will out in the end.
7. Obama does not have a mandate. And he does not need one.
I have to laugh – bitterly – when I read conservative pundits trying to assure us that Obama “has to know” that he does not have a mandate, and so he will have to govern from the middle. I don’t know what they’re smoking. Obama does not care that he does not have a mandate. He does not view himself as being elected (much less re-elected) to represent individuals. He views himself as having been re-elected to complete the “fundamental transformation” of America, the basic structure of which he despises. Expect much more of the same – largely the complete disregard of the will of half the American public, his willingness to rule by executive order, and the utter inability of another divided Congress to rein him in. Stanley Kurtz has it all laid out here.
8. The CorruptMedia is the enemy
Too strong? I don’t think so. I have been watching the media try to throw elections since at least the early 1990s. In 2008 and again this year, we saw the media cravenly cover up for the incompetence and deceit of this President, while demonizing a good, honorable and decent man with lies and smears. This is on top of the daily barrage of insults that conservatives (and by that I mean the electorate, not the politicians) must endure at the hands of this arrogant bunch of elitist snobs. Bias is one thing. What we observed with Benghazi was professional malpractice and fraud. They need to go. Republicans, Libertarians and other conservatives need to be prepared to play hardball with thePravda press from here on out. And while we are at it, to defend those journalists of whatever political stripe (Jake Tapper, Sharyl Atkisson, Eli Lake) who actually do their jobs. As well as FoxNews and talk radio. Because you can fully expect a re-elected Obama to try to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine in term 2.
9. Small business and entrepreneurs will be hurt the worst
For all the blather about “Wall Street versus Main Street,” Obama’s statist agenda will unquestionably benefit the biggest corporations which – as with the public sector unions – are in the best position to make campaign donations, hire lobbyists, and get special exemptions carved out from Obama’s health care laws, his environmental regulations, his labor laws. It will be the small business, the entrepreneur, and the first-time innovators who will be crushed by their inability to compete on a level playing field.
10. America is more polarized than ever; and this time it’s personal
I’ve been following politics for a long time, and it feels different this time. Not just for me. I’ve received messages from other conservatives who are saying the same thing: there is little to no tolerance left out there for those who are bringing this country to its knees – even when they have been our friends. It isn’t just about “my guy” versus “your guy.” It is my view of America versus your view of America – a crippled, hemorrhaging, debt-laden, weakened and dependent America that I want no part of and resent being foisted on me. I no longer have any patience for stupidity, blindness, or vulgarity, so with each dumb “tweet” or FB post by one of my happily lefty comrades, another one bites the dust, for me. Delete.
What does this portend for a divided Congress? I expect that Republicans will be demoralized and chastened for a short time. But I see them in a bad position. Americans in general want Congress to work together. But many do not want Obama’s policies, and so Republicans who support them will be toast. Good luck, guys.
11. It’s possible that America just has to hit rock bottom
I truly believe that most Americans who voted for Obama have no idea what they are in for. Most simply believe him when he says that all he really wants is for the rich to pay “a little bit more.” So reasonable! Who could argue with that except a greedy racist?
America is on a horrific bender. Has been for some time now. The warning signs of our fiscal profligacy and culture of lack of personal responsibility are everywhere – too many to mention. We need only look at other countries which have gone the route we are walking now to see what is in store.
For the past four years – but certainly within the past campaign season – we have tried to warn Americans. Too many refuse to listen, even when all of the events that have transpired during Obama’s presidency – unemployment, economic stagnation, skyrocketing prices, the depression of the dollar, the collapse of foreign policy, Benghazi, hopelessly inept responses to natural disasters – can be tied directly to Obama’s statist philosophies, and his decisions.
What that means, I fear, is that they will not see what is coming until the whole thing collapses. That is what makes me so sad today. I see the country I love headed toward its own “rock bottom,” and I cannot seem to reach those who are taking it there.
Notice that she avoided any mention of the issue that got Trump elected.
The illegal alien inundation.
The GOP never wanted to stop it.
Americans did.
I don’t think it was the problem back then that it is now.
At least, I don’t think it was on as many people’s radar back in 2012 as it is now. Freepers are always ahead of those curves.
DJT needs to completely defund the left...
Yep. In any way possible.
I’m amazed at how this post mortem from 2012 speaks so much to what we saw and how we responded in 2016.
She is right on just about all counts.
Out saving grace is that the immature, spoiled Democrat voter base could not be bothered to get off the couch and go to the polls for Hillary, a candidate whom they found both uninspiring and loathsome.
My fear is if the Dems manage to find a candidate who lights their fire we are gonna be overwhelmed again.
1. We are outnumbered
apparently not.
2. It wasn’t the candidate(s)
Yes it was.
3. It’s the culture, stupid.
Nope, it’s the economy.
4. America has become a nation of adolescents
Yes, so fight the battle on adolescent terms and you can win.
5. Yes, there is apparently a Vagina Vote
And apparently the VV didn’t vote for Romney but would vote for Trump, even with his known issues, even against the first female president!
6. It’s not about giving up on “social issues”
Social issues are a sideshow. Economy, immigration, pocketbook issues, jobs. You win or lose on these.
7. Obama does not have a mandate. And he does not need one.
Obama is great for the GOP... if he’s not actually on the ticket.
8. The CorruptMedia is the enemy
The media has only the power you give them. Treat them as irrelevant losers and all their power will crumble into dust.
9. Small business and entrepreneurs will be hurt the worst
pocketbook issues.
10. America is more polarized than ever; and this time it’s personal
so put on your big boy pants and fight.
11. It’s possible that America just has to hit rock bottom
apparently not.
My fear is if the Dems manage to find a candidate who lights their fire we are gonna be overwhelmed again.
In this lost and fallen world it is the most we can hope for until the Lord’s return.
It has been an issue since W.’s multiple attempts at amnesty and refusal to enforce the laws.
Unfortunately the GOP was determined to squelch it as an issue and nominate amnesty candidates which made it a non-issue.
One cannot vote against amnesty/open borders by voting for amnesty/open borders candidates.
LIBS don’t get off the couch to go to work if a paycheck doesn’t inspire them would you REALLY expect ANY human being on the planet INSPIRE them to vote!!!..............NOT!!!!!!!! We were actually VERY BLESSED the LSM worked OVERTIME trying to supress Trump supporters voting by LYING about the polls and how HELLARY had it in the bag, BACKFIRED big time!!! OUR supporters would have walked over HOT COALS to make sure THE QUEEN did NOT WIN!!!! LSM are FOOLS and today I am ELATED they are such IDIOTS!!!!
Even when I was pushing for Cruz back in 2015, I told my friends that I thought Trump had a good chance of winning the presidency if he won the primary.
The reason was simple. He was seen as “anti-GOPe”. It means that he was perceived, almost, as an independent. And this is important regarding the folks in the middle and the disgruntled left who supported Bernie.
It meant we could relive the era of “Reagan Democrats”, which I believe is a little of what happened. But they helped him both by voting for him and/or feeling comfortable enough with him to either not bother to vote, or waste their vote on one of the also-rans.
And that is what happened.
That’s exactly right, in my opinion. I thought there would have to be a record turnout if Trump was going to win, I was wrong. Eligible turnout % was less than in 2008 and 2012. Look out if they manage to nominate a candidate that is more appealing than maggoty roadkill.
We haven’t even had 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908, despite millions and millions being spent on campaigns. That could be a good thing or bad thing. And all that money is spent to sway the swayable, the dumbest 10% of voters who still manage to vote but vote one way and then another for generally no rational reason.
FReegards
Revised for 2016:
1. We are outnumbered
Perhaps, but we are far less outnumbered when we actually show up to vote. If President Trump is a success, turnout for 2020 will be even higher among patriotic voters.
[Note: History suggests that even if we hold the White House for eight years, decent Americans will decide that government is no longer a threat, and too many of us will stay home in 2024. In this first year under President Trump, we have to roll back as many of the losses of the past three generations as possible; it’s not enough to hold the line and dismantle a couple of the worst excesses.]
2. It wasn’t the candidate(s)
It was the candidates. President Trump was, in the eyes of many voters seriously flawed. However, Hillary was fatally flawed even in the eyes of those who couldn’t vote Trump. Democrats just didn’t turn out for her, and that helped us to sweep the elections at all levels.
3. It’s the culture, stupid.
The culture is a serious issue, and we have lost almost irretrievably in some cultural areas. That is bad for America, but it may also be good politically if the culture warriors just stay home now that they can pretend to be married.
4. America has become a nation of adolescents
In 2016, we voted that the adults don’t want to support other people’s (and countries’) overgrown children. Even many adolescents took that position.
5. Yes, there is apparently a Vagina Vote
Yes, there is. Just as many racists voted Barack Hussein because of his race, many sexists voted Hillary because of her sex. We also found that with a candidate whose only qualification is her genitals (such a marginal trait that even Bill Clinton wasn’t interested in that part of her), the vagina vote was a monologue with very few listeners.
6. It’s not about giving up on “social issues”
It is about setting limits on the intrusion of the social justice warriors and their invented social issues. Once they started agitating for perverts in public restrooms with our children, they had stepped too far.
7. Obama does not have a mandate. And he does not need one.
True. The usurper had no mandate, but he was still able to damage all aspects of our country. President Trump may not have a mandate, and the media will certainly repeat that he doesn’t but he doesn’t need one. He is the President of the United States, and he will have Congress and the state governments on his side. He needs to shrink government back to its proper limits, clean house, and drain the swamp,
8. The CorruptMedia is the enemy
The people realized that the Media-Emperor has no clothes. President Trump bypassed the media, and the people were perfectly willing to listen directly to Reddit, to Twitter, and to other alternate media to, for the first time, have access to the truth.
9. Small business and entrepreneurs will be hurt the worst
Job creators were hurt the worst, and that wiped the democrat party from power in a large part of our country. It turns out that enough people don’t like being dependent parasites.
10. America is more polarized than ever; and this time it’s personal
America is so polarized that we were willing to overlook some rather big things from President Trump in order to avoid Tyrant Hillary. Even republicans who had major issues with some of President Trump’s positions or rhetoric could not stand aside or vote Hillary.
11. It’s possible that America just has to hit rock bottom
We allowed Barack Hussein to take power. Twice. That’s hitting rock bottom, one step below a second winter as a homeless person. If that self-inflicted disaster wasn’t enough to turn America around, nothing would be.
The record turnout and popular vote landslide Trump victory will be in 2020.
The Trump Democrats are why he won Pennsylvania and Michigan.
They were an integral part of why he won.
You’re right that he was viewed as not GOPe.
Largely because he promised to stop the illegal alien inundation against the wishes of most of the GOP.
Personally I am convinced that if the Dems ever get control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency (God forbid!) they are going to implement rules where you will have to show proof of having voted in order to receive welfare, food stamps, student aid, or any other sort of government benefit.
Turnout over 70% will certainly result in Marxist-Leftist rule.
I liked her number 4 because we actually saw it in spades from the opposition after the election. Nobody denies it any more - at least that they liberal side is a bunch of crybabies, and worse.
"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!" Yes, the lamentations of their women (both XX and XY liberal women) are what is best in life.
If that ever happens, yeah we would be done. It’s actually a wonder the state benefits voting tipping point hasn’t happened way before when you think about it.
Freegards
Only 23 more days till this feckless, petulant, insufferable, traitor is out of office. My God, Obama is such a horrible human being. The world
and the human race was cursed with his unfortunate birth. I hope Trump hires
Serve-Pro to send their best workers to clean up the White House, after the
Obama’s and their spawn are gone, “like it never even happened”
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