[TADSLOS]

It is my sad conclusion that not even Ronald Wilson Reagan would have won this year. 2012 America has gone on the dole, and now prefers Santa Claus to freedom and solvency. As Rush Limbaugh concluded last week (and I paraphrase): "We have passed the point where words and ideas can save us; we have now reached the point where only events can save us." Cataclysmic events lie ahead...

Plenty of FReepers are still in denial on this point. The national mentality has shifted under our feet. It will take a crisis and will be devastating if not downright fatal.

[Fiji Hill]

Plenty of FReepers are still in denial on this point. The national mentality has shifted under our feet. It will take a crisis and will be devastating if not downright fatal.

Just two years ago, the Republicans, spearheaded by the Tea Party, elected 60+ Congressmen. How could the nation's mood change so decisively in just two years? Had we picked the right candidate, and had he run a competent campaign, we might have won.