Posted on 11/12/2012 4:33:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Disbelief is the word that defines the Republican state of mind in the wake of the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama.
The obvious questions are: “How can Americans have re-elected a president who has presided over an economy where unemployment still hovers at 8 percent ?”
And, “How can Americans have re-elected a president who still doesn’t grasp that his big government policies are what have blocked our economic recovery?”
The Republican Party needs to take responsibility for this disaster.
Nothing in the outcome of this election is a surprise. The realities which produced these election results have been looming before us not for months, but for years.
Yet Republicans have made a point of ignoring it all. Now, “the chickens have come home to roost.”
What are these realities?
The profound changing demographics of the nation. And, the challenge of getting a nation that is already addicted to government off it.
I wrote last April regarding an analysis done by Ron Brownstein in National Journal: “Brownstein estimates that Barack Obama could be re-elected with as little as 39 percent of the white vote. He notes that in 2008, when Obama was elected with just 43 percent of the white vote, it was the first time ever that a presidential candidate was victorious with double digit losses of white voters.”
In a column I wrote a month ago, I noted: “What was once the exception to the rule in America – not being white, not being married, not have traditional views on family, sex, and abortion – is becoming the rule. And these constituencies are becoming sufficiently large to elect a president.”
A nation doesn’t change overnight. Yet, Republicans have been in chronic denial about what has been happening.
Ironically, the Republican political establishment, and particularly this year’s candidate Mitt Romney, presented themselves as the party of businessmen who know how economies work.
Well, businessmen pay attention to their markets. They make sure they understand their product and present it clearly and that they stay attuned to their customer base.
Republican Party operatives ignored both -clear definition of their product and savvy marketing to a diverse base of customers.
Instead, they chose wishful thinking. Simply hope that more and more white voters will turn out and vote Republican to make up for their shrinking part of the electorate.
When polls showed what was really happening, these same Republican operatives chose to deny them too, charging they were biased.
We can win our country back.
Low and middle-income blacks and Latinos are hurt disproportionately by a sluggish economy that can only be revived by less government spending and regulation, and low taxes. They just need someone to care to focus on their communities and explain these dynamics to them.
They need to get their kids out of public schools, a cause which only conservatives champion.
And they need to understand that they have everything to gain by getting out of the entitlement programs that the left tells them they need.
The last thing low-income earners need is to pay payroll taxes when they could save this money and build wealth. And the last thing they need is government bureaucrats running their health care.
When the only message blacks and Latinos get is from left wing politicians and media telling them they need government to take care of them, what can we expect but what we just saw in this election?
Business is also about knowing that there is no short cut around hard work.
Republicans must do more than showcase a few black and brown faces at their convention every four years and call this outreach.
Conservatives must get into black and Latino communities, talk to their clergy and community leaders, and explain how conservative policies of limited government and traditional values will save their communities and our nation.
The AG is a RINO and the SOS is a far left Dim.
I personally don’t know of any voter fraud, although I’m sure it occurred. I heard about a suspicious incident in Delafield, but it was a 3rd hand story. It’s hard to get anyone to investigate voter fraud. Everyone wants to sweep it under the rug. Our main problem is the same day registration IMO, but that is like a Holy Cow in this state. No one wants to touch it.
IMO, registration should be closed 30 days before a single vote is cast to give time for the clerks to check the address. And photo ID should be required.
Same day registration, early voting, Motor Voter, hackable electronic optical scanners and other electronic vote counting devices: all are gifts to prospective fraudsters!!! And none of those existed or at least were not common when Reagan won the presidency. Voter ID would help somewhat in reducing these problems, but it's not an instant panacea. The best single measure to tamp down on electoral fraud and cheating is to enforce the state criminal statutes already on the books by charging, prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing the perpetrators.
Now why the heck should same day registration become such a Holy Cow to anyone interested in preserving the honesty and integrity of the vote? Those who cherish it are the same bunch who are vehemently opposed to voter ID cards.
In 1980, we nominated the guy who lost to Ford who lost to Carter.
They make you shut off your phone in a medical office. They should make you shut off your phone (or better yet they should temporarily confiscate it?) in a polling place. Who knows but someone has developed a Bluetooth-capable app for a smartphone that can read data from an optical scanner. They can then step outside and tell the other side how many more people to bus over for votes. I'm not putting it past them.
And without exception, they are Democrats.
So why can't Wisconsin, with a popular GOP governor able to survive recall and a GOP legislature, enact a state law repealing same day registration.
I’ve been asking that for 27 years. We have a cocuple of generations of residents who have been brainwashed by their union teachers into thinking that it is a good idea.
Many of us admire you personally for your life story and conversion to a cleaner life through a sharp change in your value system and your political orientation.
But we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion about changing demographics had the election been conducted on the level, because Mitt Romney would be president-elect. What Republicans should be criticized most for is failure to recognize the threat from the fraudsters and cheaters who turned this election around and failure to take adequate countermeasures to combat it.
Just about anyone following this race up until Election Day predicted a probable Romney win. Unfortunately, the most objective pollster or pundit can't account for the fraud and cheating beforehand.
Michael Barone, who probably knows the geography and demographics of the country and their influence on real voting patterns better than anyone alive, predicted a significant Romney win. And he knows all about "demographic change." So you probably should have been surprised, as were many in the Romney camp.
Barone predicted “landslide” (as did George Will, no less). Wish Barone had not apologized so quickly because there is enough actual evidence mounting for fraud. Lost cause thus far. RINOs are too busy kissing up to the “new” Administration.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/barone-i-was-wrongwhere-it-counted/article/2512860
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BTW: Did you see this?
Infographic of the day: Obama lost independent voters in all swing states minus NC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2959496/posts
As everyone on FR knows any Freeper who brought up any reasons at all why Romney would lose or was going to lose was instantly attacked by a couple of Mittbots who would argue that person was just encouraging the Obama forces and discouraging Republicans.
SInce I"d been convinced by Mitt as far back as March that he didn't really want to win and would not entertain any advice outside of his small group of Massachusetts cronies, I didn't elaborate on all the hurdles he had to advance through, although I could have as could others.
Dude was loser from the get-go. Actually a double loser. It's one thing to be a loser. It's another to want to remain ignorant of what the threats are.
His first problem was attracting sufficient people from the Republican base to work for him so he could get inexpensive campaign coverage ~ he rejected the base all over the country several times ~ so they didn't show up to help in his campaign AND he supplemented that problem with a shortage of campaign materials.
His second problem was the Democrats had gotten 10 million more votes than the Republicans just 4 years earlier. That was repeatedly dismissed as a non-problem because, as 'they' liked to say, all those voters were in New York and California. Apparently they were in Virginia and Ohio as well ~ few efforts were made to suppress that vote ~ and there are ways short of violence, or even threats.
He'd probably done much better without his Mittbot cadre
What has happened is our level of oursourcing has gone critical.
We would have won still this election, but Mitt expelled the GOP conservatives. This left Mitt alone, and he lost.
So be it. How can we turn it around?
Two things:
1) STOP OUTSOURCING
2) Elect real conservatives
Get to work.
What’s that Obamabot? (Duck’n & runn’n :-)
Well, pretty much all the people who did or did not vote for Mitt are still there.
Any sensible post mortem would be inquiring directly about why.
Frankly I’m not worried about why.
I voted for Mitt because he was the best we had left after Sarah Palin stood down.
I did not like it one bit, but Romney was our strongest candidate left.
But he lost.
We need to change direction. Stop outsourcing, and build America strong again.
Now.
As was said here before by other posters; the Romney campaign appears to have been inept at basic campaign building/running.
Surprised to hear that with Romney's background. They just stunk at getting people out to vote.
Interesting logic.
As far as the Free Republic “Mittbots” you refer to, they only came into existence AFTER the Primaries were over and Romney was the Republican Nominee. I could have been defined as a Mittbot by you, but I was just facing Reality as he was the only Candidate left standing to face Obama.
The Republican Electorate chose Romney over a field of interesting characters that may or may not have appealed to the Electorate as a whole. My choice Newt Gingrich would have been sliced and diced into a pile of kibbles if he had won the Nomination.
Never underestimate the power of the Liberal Media to define the enemy, which is “us” of course.
No use whining about it. There are more of them than we imagined and less on our side who look at Obama as a threat to the Republic. To them he is just another Democrat that they can live with. Republicans (Conservatives) assume people are smart, but Democrats (Liberals) know people are stupid.
Never forget that we here are preaching to the Choir in a Church full of empty Pews. Our impact on this or any Election is minimal. We argue, discuss and throw fits, but we are only influencing people who already belong to our Club. Nothing anyone did or said here had any influence on last weeks outcome. It was inevitable and we were punked.
They can’t accuse of fraud, it would make Republicans be seen as “not nice.”
Of course I’m not sure how that would change anything because God forbid we are seen as not nice while being accused of wanting women to lose rights, blacks go back to slavery and old people to die.
There were Mittbots last summer ~ in 2011! We called them that.
Really? Did any of them Vote for Mitt in the Primaries?
If so, I owe a couple of FReepers a dollar. If not, a couple of FReepers owe me a Donut. Chocolate covered custard filled, yum, yum, yummy...
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