Posted on 12/27/2012 3:44:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Saw this the other day and can't stop thinking about it. It makes all the sense in the world that conservatives would be despondent after Obama's re-election. But more despondent than liberals were after the Bushitler's re-election?
A lot more, as it turns out:
Why are the numbers so much worse for Republicans now than they were for Democrats in 2004? It can’t be because the GOP thinks Obama’s done irreversible damage to the U.S.; Bush-hating liberals thought the same about Dubya. Besides, we’ve got a deep bench for 2016. Is it a demographic thing, with Republicans fearing that they’ll never (or seldom) enjoy power again?
Update: An obvious possibility: It's not just politics that’s got Republicans down. Democrats in 2004 could console themselves with the fact that the economy was doing fine and their jobs were secure. Not so now.
Awesome. i’m hoping for free cheeseburgers and large fries.
“They didn’t vote while blinded by sentiment, or out of ignorance, and they weren’t voting against Republicans rather than for Obama. They know what he is, and that is what they really wanted. That is a huge development, and a very disconcerting one.”
So explain to us all how Obama was re-elected with multi millions fewer vote this time? The problem was with the Republicans more than it was that everyone was in love with Obama. Face it, conservatism requires intellect, something that’s in short supply in this country today. But the morons on the Right who stayed home because Romney wasn’t pure enough for their vote got FUBO re-elected. Romney was admittedly the shits of a candidate both as to his politics as well as his wooden personality on the stump, but if the “intelligent conservative” sits out the election ( and they did) all of us suffer. The idea of waiting around for the “right candidate” guarantees that the country will go Marxist, and it is!
“So explain to us all how Obama was re-elected with multi millions fewer vote this time?”
Because he still got more people to vote for him than the other guy. America picked the commie, again, and this time we can’t explain it away so easily. Our country really is that foolish.
You want to focus on some little band of scapegoats, but that’s not on my agenda, so ply your wares elsewhere. If anyone is to blame, politically, for the loss, it’s Romney, since he was the candidate. It’s his job to win, not the people’s job to vote for him.
And they own the propaganda machine know as 'the media'.
“The Democrats play to win and they play for keeps while the Republicans are sitting on the sidelines wondering if the color of the white chalk on the field clashes with the green grass.”
Republicans - 2012 = Whigs - 1852.
It’s no longer a question of when the Pubbies will become irrelevant in American politics. It’s a question of when...
” It’s his job to win, not the people’s job to vote for him.”
True, but at the end of the day you have two candidates from which to choose. Choosing “None of the Above” is BS! You can bitch all you want about neither of the candidates being worthy of the position, but one of them is going to have the seat despite your adverse feelings. So you are a little like a politician who votes “present.” Romney was last on my list, but when you look at him versus Obama it was no contest. To suggest that “opting out” until “your guy is the candidate is just amazingly stupid in my view. That’s the difference between the parties. The RATs usually support their party’s nominee, but the R’s don’t.
Why SHOULD the Makers be hopeful?
I see your points. However-—
1) Dear Leader is going about reshaping the military and driving out the real men. He is also shrinking the military. He may not be able to drive all of the patriots out, but he seems to be weakening the forces.
2) Even if he does not get the degraded military he envisions, he is building up his own quasi-military forces.
3) We live in a different culture than you and I grew up in. The deliberate dumbing down and indoctrination in the schools has produced a vast number of young people who do not know and respect our history and our cultural heritage. In addition, both parties have allowed our society to become infested with illegal aliens and with legal aliens who refuse to assimilate. Who will be there to even understand the destruction, let alone be motivated to rebuild.
I pray I am very, very wrong. And I wish that I shared your confidence in the future.
Those who do not vote for him for a third term are racists.
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Everyone will vote for him, except for those of us who are prevented from voting because we are inmates of the re-education camps.
“True, but at the end of the day you have two candidates from which to choose. Choosing “None of the Above” is BS!”
Ok, great, go out and start a voter turnout drive or something. I don’t know why you’re griping to me about it.
“That’s the difference between the parties. The RATs usually support their party’s nominee, but the R’s don’t.”
Nonsense. Turnout varies with every election, for both parties, based on the same basic principles. If the Republican party or candidate didn’t manage to get the turnout, then it’s because they didn’t apply those principles in their favor.
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