Gov. Romney ran as a conservative. Is he truly a conservative in the recesses of his heart? Probably not. But he endorsed many conservative policies and had an overall conservative framework to his campaign, even if imperfectly so.
You have made the perfect the enemy of the good. We now will all get to pay for it.
“Now we can work toward electoral victories.”
There is no reversing via the electoral process the damage done by re-electing the anti-Christ. We are now beyond the ability of politics to undo the europeanization of our government and society.
Obamacare is here to stay. Thus, so are high taxes. So is government control of health care. So is the new relationship between government and subject (our citizenship is highly attenuated through the nationalization of our health care, and as a result, we are now more subjects than citizens, on the way to becoming serfs - but I guess you'll celebrate the regression toward the new feudalism?), as the government will now be able to successfully assert the right, with no mediation, to define who will receive what health care under what conditions. This is the power of life and death. Having successfully asserted this power, there are no other powers reserved to the people or mediating institutions.
Now it's "Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state."
The persecution of the Church is set in stone. As people become increasingly comfortable with the government as final arbiter of reality, folks will become increasingly hostile to the idea that the Church has its own sphere that is outside the proper jurisdiction of government. This way of thinking had been eroding over time, but this election puts the final nails in that coffin.
Within a few years, it will be illegal to openly speak about homosexual activities as deviant. Laws protecting the innocent and the vulnerable will all be washed away, as there will be no legitimate spokesman to make the argument to keep them. We have entered a time of government of the strong. The strong will have what they want, whether it's money, power, sex (either natural or unnatural, with old or young), and the weakest will suffer most.
This election was for all the marbles.
The left succeeded. They now have sufficient control to increasingly turn us into a society of damned welfare-statist euroweenies. They don't need any more legislation. They don't need any more votes. All the pieces are in place. Just a matter of driving the bus.
We lost.
Game over.
Time to attend to re-building the culture, time to ask God for forgiveness and for repentance, and the grace and strength to endure through the persecution, the economic ills, the abuse of the weak and vulnerable, the want of the poor, the violence and destruction to come. The use of politics now is to soften the blows as they come, one-by-one. We will not regain what has been lost, politically, in terms of our fundamental rights and civil rights, via that route. Not until long after God has brought us to repentance. If he chooses to do so at all.
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But the lesson to the GOP that you don't win elections without a truly conservative candidate stays, too. On balance, good outcome, that builds the necessary foundation for the rollback of the leftwing government.