I think he's right; this "Obama win" was really a cultural thing. It wasn't a huge win, but it definitely shows that the majority in our culture has fundamentally changed and most people now believe that we get everything, including our morality and our pattern for conducting our economic lives, from the all-knowing socialist government.
In a sense, however, this isn't completely accurate. Romney, with his liberal social values and big-government orientation, offered no clear alternative to the majority culture, meaning that he didn't give the religious or even the residual socially and economically conservative minority a clear enough rallying point to garner voter support.
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.
There is an aspect which NOBODY talks about, and it is the reason the GOP is failing.
The GOP has been disassembling American manufacturing.
For an entire generation. Each and every America who used to help America build things for export, has been laid off.
Laid off. Because their job has been SHIPPED OVERSEAS.
That is what is happening to America. We have been exporting what it was which made us strong.
We need to build things here.
Here.
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.