Posted on 11/08/2012 12:48:05 PM PST by NYer
Rush is finished. Us old white guys have no more time for his bullshit.
Exactly
He wasnt always like that.
He was great in the early 1990s. But the GWB years and him drinking the GOP Koolaid did him in. And maybe his success too. Now he changes his story so often there is nothing there.
It must feel great to believe him when he says Romney (and McCain before him) is going to win. Then after election day the Rush hangover is always like this.
Al Capone and his methods gone national.
Be prepared to hear all about lots of “voters staying home”...the Bipartisan Oligarchy would rather we all stew in that mess..than having us all bothered, and deciding to investigate, about all the voters voting who never voted...
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
I have joined Free Republic just so I can post on this issue. Every morning I wake up in the dead of night with the utter certainty that votes were dropped and this election was stolen. When people ask “Why didn’t they vote?” and then go on to tear down Mitt, or social conservatives, or whatever, it drives me crazy. The answer to “Why didn’t they vote?” is “THEY DID”.
It makes no sense that there were 3 MILLION fewer Republicans showing up to vote this election for Mitt Romney than John McCain, NONE. Yes, there are those that voted 3rd party but there always are. We got a good taste of what the country is like being run by an incompetent, pathetic, narcissistic boob and wanted to lodge a protest vote. Repubs didn’t show up??? Not a chance.
Look at the margins of victory in each swing state for Obama and you will see that all are below 100 thousand and many below 50 thousand. How convenient... I don’t know if the truth is going to come out in the next month but I’m praying so. I’m not a conspiracy sort of person but this is driving me crazy.
I think that was a factor. Mormonism is seen as a fringe religion by most evangelicals. They are taught about this in Sunday School as they grow up. I hate to use the term "cult" about such a relatively significant number of Americans, but, being raised as a conservative Christian, whose Holy Book is the King James Bible, that's what I was taught.
It doesn't really matter that Mormons are generally moral and conservative people, and I don't even think the polygamy thing is that big of a deal. After all, polygamy was practiced by Old Testament patriarchs.
However, once you examine the history and teachings of the LDS church, the word "cult" does retain some validity. Combine that with some rather strident Protestant indoctrination during one's formative years, and there's probably many evangelicals who had a problem with it. Heck, Cathoholics (sorry, I couldn't resist) have had issues attracting votes from a Protestant electorate, so why wouldn't we expect a Mormon to have an even tougher go of it?
So I think that represents a portion of these 3 million voters who didn't show up, but probably not the majority of them. Also, given that that still would only have meant a 180,000 vote advantage in the popular vote, even that probably wouldn't have been enough, which is disturbing.
I think that the real solution for the future is to do a better job articulating libertarian/conservative/classical liberal principles to our fellow citizens, especially minorities, and to get them to join with us. Make them understand what being on the plantation really does: creates dependency, erodes their freedoms, destroys their prosperity, and ultimately imposes Tyranny on all Americans. We can't just preach to the choir, we have to convert more to the cause of Freedom. We have to show people that Santa Claus will eventually go broke and only be able to give everyone a lump of coal, not a cell phone.
I too have woken up with a start these last days, horrified. The whole thing is very odd. The first Scott Brown election, the 2010 elections, the Walker recall. Then this. The smug certainty the Obama camp had is eerie, when there was no sign that I saw of their “vaunted” GOTV operation.
At my polling place in NOVA, there was no identifiable Obama campaign presence beyond a person who came in a van from DC - 30 miles away - to sit outside and hand out the sample ballot. No poll watchers, no lawyers. But a bunch of people showed up to vote who didn’t look like they could possibly be citizens. New immigrants, couldn’t speak aenglish, didn’t know where they lived. Yet they - or the names they used - were registered and voted.
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