Obama looked whipped.
Romney looked confident.
The economy was the topic du jour and it still is.
We all saw it.
I don’t think Obama thought he was going to win.
Romney ran a VERY competent strong race, but he lost to the Ozero.
The question is why?
The answer is not “shoot our own.”
The media began portraying a rosy future for the economy about a month before the election...in the end it swayed enough voters to go with “the devil they know.”
“Romney ran a VERY competent strong race, but he lost to the Ozero.
The question is why?”
The answer is not hard to see or understand, if you’re willing to look it squarely in the face.
In fact, it’s quite simple:
The Republican party (and in a larger sense, conservatism per se) no longer has a “product” that a growing number of Americans have much interest in.
What we have to sell, they ain’t buyin’. I sense the folks at Ford must have discovered that when they tried to sell the Edsel!
The folks who still do “buy Republican/conservative” are slowly dying off, and they’re being replaced (and in some states, DISplaced) by a “new cohort” of Americans who clamor for what the democrats have to offer.
And it’s going to be very difficult — perhaps impossible — to ever “convert” these new cohorts to conservatism. It’s not in their vocabulary because its not in their heritage/ethnicity.
Conservatism is a concept that essentially embodies the mores, precepts and traditions of a single ethnic group. That group is no longer in ascendance in The West. Quite the contrary, it’s in decline, and here in North America, our governments seem to be doing everything possible to hasten that decline while the media and “trend makers” of Hollywood celebrate their own demise.
Is it really that difficult to see this?
And, once you have come to grips with these realities, why is it so hard to see the future?
I’m a realist, and that’s what I see.