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 doesnt 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 doesnt change overnight. Yet, Republicans have been in chronic denial about what has been happening.
Ironically, the Republican political establishment, and particularly this years 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.
FRAUD
FRAUD
and STUPIDITY
Normalcy Bias
I think that near the end, Obama was the only one honestly facing reality.
ENOUGH with the navel-gazing already. Suck it up, Buttercup!
Well, that’s what I keep TELLING myself. It ain’t helpin’, but that’s what I keep telling myself...LOL!
And, How can Americans have re-elected a president who still doesnt grasp that his big government policies are what have blocked our economic recovery?
Does anyone really believe Obama wants an economic recovery? I sure don’t.
“0bama was the only one honestly facing reality.”
Hence the tears... ;)
It is not impossible. I met a white congressman from a district in IL who said his district was majority D and 40% black and he won reelection (2 years ago, having been elected in 2008 I think) with 56%. He said he went to every black church and every union hall and asked for their votes. He said he got some, but the most important thing was that they told him it was the first time ANY Republican had asked for their vote. He implied that he got more the second time around.
Every time I saw Romney at a campaign appearance, there were nothing but white faces behind him. That was just dumb. Bus them in like Obama does.
>>> Hence the tears... ;)
Exactly...
And with all of his other schemes going so horribly wrong so far this year (Bengazi?), I suspect that he completely lost confidence in what we KNOW happened on election night.
EVIL WON! Plus VOTE FRAUD!
I truly believe 0bama thought he was going to lose, then take all of his marbles and move to Hawaii for the cushy remainder of his life.
While I’m glad to see him suffer this huge set-back, I’m deeply saddened for America.
I’ll be OK. It’s the REST of the loser schmucks in our country that are going to be causing us a lot of headaches. ;)
bump
Plain and Simple...
O's debate screwup was no accident. Canny Obama and his cunning, sinister crew knew then that O would win...... no matter what Romney did or said. B/c the WH orders had already gone out----their massive voter fraud operation was already in place.
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REFERENCE mark o'malley excerpt: Every campaign, of course, believes its going to win. Obamas team, however, conveys such a visceral sense of self-confidence that even protestations to the contrary take on air of comically profane absurdity......
Here's....Axelrods understated way of saying that he thinks the election is already over. . .
The (Romney camp has) this fantasy that the debates will come and the dam will break like it did in 1980, Axelrod said. I think they are delusional.
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Clearly the sinister Axelrod knew the outcome even before the debates began.
Axelrod: The (Romney camp) didnt give people anything to grab on to, and they allowed us to define him before he could define himself, Axelrod says of Romney.
SAY WHAT? Early on, O's campaign spent an astounding $300 million to tarnish Bain/Romney-----with little or no effect. Romney kept climbing in the polls----virtually every poll had Romney ahead.
Make no mistake---massive voter fraud took place---the Ohaha connivers were confident of victory b/c they were micromanaging the fraud from Day One.
The Obama Campaign demonstrated an such arrogance even in the face of Romney’s surging poll numbers, I suspected all along the election was rigged. The fix was in. Electronic voter fraud can make millions of votes appear, disappear, and reappear. The low-tech bus and stuff techniques were all the rage this year too but Ohio, Virginia and Florida did not shift 7 points in the polls because of Acorn. Crossroads and other PACS should fund a nationwide, independent investigation into voter fraud: interview every poll worker, election officer, voting machine operator and vendor, trace invoices, communications, seek injunctions and refer for prosecution. Anything less invites the same.
The Republican pundants (Hannity/Palin/many others) talked every opportunity about “Obama’s failed policies”. Instead they should have recognized his “failed policies” as not failing at all, but were planned and are very successful in bringing this country to it’s knees. When every EPA reguletion is aimed at killing off business as well as the NLRB, OSHS, MSHA etc. DOE has, and continues to indoctrinate our children. The Obamacare costs are going to bring financial ruin. DHS is buying guns and ammo by the millions of rounds to make sure of killing off the opposition. So ask yourself....Have his policies failed? We will see very soon. Stupid RINOS let it happen right under their noses!
Every manaical official govt act is dedicated to chipping away at the bulwark of American freedoms.
They are a virulent anti-American plague of religion haters.......vacant, surly Me-First humanoids who worship at The Church of Whatever Works For Me.
Cadres of self-absorbed punks squatting in govt are clearly disturbed---obsessed with religious cleansing and kicking so/con Repubs to the curb.
The Ohaha savages duped the citizenry, led us over a multi-trillion dollar deficit cliff, into massive corrupt bailouts, and atrocities like amnesty.
Their motto: "Everything For Us--Nothing For You."
That same generation inculcated with moral relativity and situation ethics has segued into The Entitlement Generation---better known as "Pay Me--I'm a Victim.
We need to remember that the Obamanoids are ruthless predators w/ no empathy for others and no remorse, anti-social psychopaths who recognize no moral boundaries--aggressively going after what they want, irregardless of the consequences to others.
These people are even scarier in triumph, when they've clearly mocked democracy and stolen the election
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Paraphrasing Saul Alinsky----the author of evil anti-religious satanism......"they do not have a fixed truth -- truth to them is relative and changing..... they are free from the shackles of dogma."
Maybe they cheated!
Nothing went wrong.
The plan to steal the election worked perfectly
To take the blame is to become a bigger loser
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