Where We Go From Here

American Thinker ^ | November 7, 2012 | Selwyn Duke

[Jack Black]

"My feeling, however, is that perhaps this will show the GOP that they can't win by trying to be Dem lites and that maybe this will push some of our better conservative thinkers and activists to really get out there and fight to win the hearts and minds again, so to speak."

So a "hard conservative", a real choice,would do better? Where? What state would a more conservative candidate have won that Mitt lost? Not Washington State, we just legalized dope and 'gay marraige'. I agree with the author. The nation has changed and it's not going back.

[Newton]

In 2009 when they first started pushing fubocare, people expressed their frustrations at the town halls and told their congressmen we do not want this. Large rallies were held to get the message across – leave us alone.

They didn’t listen.

In early 2010, a republican was elected to Ted Kennedy’s seat, to stop fubocare and the encroachment on our rights.

That didn’t work.

In the 2010 midterm elections, republicans were elected to stop further erosion of our freedoms, good people like Allen West were sent in, worthless people like Alan Grayson were removed.

That was supposed to stop the bleeding until we could get to 2012.

The 2012 primaries provided us with less than stellar candidates, at a time when we needed a strong candidate more than ever. We ended up with one that most of us would not chose, but we accepted it and got behind him. The crowds grew, he looked stronger and Obama looked weaker, and it looked like it might work. The hope being he would stabilize the patient until we could eventually bring in a specialist.

Instead, not only did we lose our opportunity that we were told to take (how many times have we been told to take the fight to the ballot box) but we have lost a good person like Allen West, a tolerable moderate Scott Brown was replaced by a socialist liar and Alan Grayson with his special brand of crazy is back.

So what next? I’m personally sick of the “work to get good people elected” mantra. We have done that for the last 4 years and here we are. Nowhere. I believe that we are no longer united as a people. The line in the sand was drawn last night. There are those who want to be provided for, and those who will get stuck with doing the providing. We are two separate peoples and I believe that at this point the only solution is secession. I do not see how as a nation we return to who we were. There are too many who want dependency to ever be willing to stand on their own and provide for themselves. There are too many who truly do not care about our history, who we are as a people, or what it really means to be an American. That ideal died last night.

[manic4organic]

If I had the money I’d get some land in the country, grow my own food and hunker down. As it is I’m stuck in the suburbs, tied to my house and business. I see no good way out of this situation. America the dream, the experiment is over. I don’t see us seceding, even here in Texas. We’ve talked about it for years. Nobody has that big of cajones.

[MrB]

Last phrase...

“in the course of human events”

seems I’ve read that one somewhere before.

[MrB]

I’m with you - the crash will happen within the year.

With a Romney election, we would have had a 2-5 year runup before the crash.
Now we’ll just have the crash. Perhaps it won’t be as far to fall.

[Sheapdog]

I think the GOP in a year from now will move decidedly left itself. Just like in all tyrannies and as in the USSR people will go along to get along. The left and their supporters will become more crass and abusive and many on the right will become silent as they go into survival mode.
Succession is a pipe dream. I’m in Texas and I don’t sense any ability to do that.
People will now be marked as friends or enemies of the regime. Already people would turn their backs to me and or walk away when I inform them that I don’t subscribe to some liberal tenant of faith. In the near future this hostility will turn to ridicule and abuse and the end of civility.
NWO here we come.