The Pre-Post Mortem
So, no, I don’t think we can just blame Romney and I don’t think we can just blame the press. Even combined, those two aren’t enough to explain what happened today.
There is something deeply wrong with our country. We’ve been living on borrowed time — and trillions of borrowed dollars — for a decade already. We seem to think that we can keep on doing so. That more than anything else is “the new normal.”
Thomas Jefferson famously said of the slavery issue, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” I tremble for my country when I think that the God of Compound Interest is a far more jealous God than Jahweh, Allah, and Zuul all wrapped up into a single, bloody package.
Maybe that truth — the truth — doesn’t sell in a country that’s been suffering for four years now, and with no real end in sight.
This election should have been something like a walkover for the challenger. But no. Our economic destiny is already written in stone, with four trillion in new debt run up by Bush and the GOP, and another six trillion by Obama and the Democrats. Our only hope is rapid and wrenching reform. The alternative is hyperinflation, Cloward-Piven, and all the rest of the Zimbabwe-like horror.
And that means Mitt Romney didn’t fail us. That means people like me — people like you — failed our country. We had years to make the case, and we didn’t. We worked our bottoms off, but it wasn’t enough.
So we must redouble our efforts.
If Obama wins tonight, as seems likely, he has no mandate. He ran on a platform of “Mitt Romney is teh sux.” I’m not sure how that translates into a governing platform, and neither is anyone else. If Romney pulls this out, he’ll have a hostile Senate for at least the first half of his term.
Either way, we’re looking at deadlock.
It’s our job, yours and mine, to pick that lock. Do not tire, do not flag, do not quit.
If Romney wins, he will need us to constantly push him in the direction of sanity. If Obama wins, we will need to fight him at every turn.
I’m not quitting. Don’t you quit now, either.
Thank you Stephen. This is the only bit of wisdom and inspiration I’ve seen tonight.
Thanks, Emily. Sometimes the cocktails, they do me some good.
Yes, indeed. Thank you. I’m pretty depressed and disappointed right now. However, we have to just pick ourselves back up off the ground and continue fighting.
Yes by all means include the debt that Bush ran up for a little moral relativism. Romney lost because he would not or could not articulate the conservative positions that were the basis for his campaign. Anything that was uttered on conservative talk radio was studiously avoided and every slimy charge by Obama was not countered. In short, the establishment republicans went all moderate in the final weeks of the campaign with talk of reaching across the aisle and working with the socialists (not possible) and the independents fled. The RINO house leadership did nothing to reign in the anti-constitutional and outright illegal White House, its Cabinets and Czars. The establishment run Senate defunded and besmirched any Christian nominee, like they always do. Conservatives were sold out again. I’m leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent. If the Republican establishment wants my vote, they’ll have to cater to me
The cocktails didn’t help me. I went into drunken rage and told some lib friends to go blank themselves. They’re long-time friends and I’m working on fixing it. But I was stunned, absolutely stunned smart America didn’t vote Obama out. I was totally confident about it. When it went bad, I was hammered and all the problems in my life boiled up and required telling somebody off. I’m still sifting through my mental wreckage.
“If Obama wins, we will need to fight him at every turn.”
But Stephen, it is not a fair fight. It has become a classic case of persecution of a minority by the majority in direct violation of so many key concepts in our Constitution.
What do you do when the ruling party states that they do not like you, that they do not believe that your viewpoints are valid, that they are entitled to take things from you because they decide someone else deserves it more, that they have a right to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own property because of the way they define the “common good”? . . and when they act overall in such a way to greatly diminish your homestead and your potential to make a living there? There is no compromising and no possibility of a move to the center when these are the guiding principles.
This election shows that our arms are officially too short to box in the political arena and I believe that the fight has to be carried to the Progressives in the form of civil disobedience by the rest of us. Don’t pay, don’t obey. Let them try to throw 100 million of us in jail. If there is someone out there willing to start such an organization, I am down for a charter membership.
“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
But for right now I’m going to sniffle a bit.
I had projected Romney at 52%. 300 Electoral votes.
My kids will have to live in a much poorer world than we do, all to pay for the free stuff the majority is voting themselves.
God help us if this holds.
Perhaps we could pass a marginal tax rate of 100% on retired politicians, and people who owned stock in failed energy companies?
I would like to see a windfall profits tax on the motion picture industry.
Not long ago, before Maryland went deep blue, they extended the sales tax to newspapers. After all, didn’t the Baltimore Sun editorialize in favor of taxation? Still gives me a warm feeling.
I want very much to soldier on … but I fear we’ve passed the point of no return. I’m very serious. The only thing that will shake this country out of its lethargy of denial will be complete ruin. And it is coming. And it will be brutal. And it will be bloody.
God help us. Only he can.
If the country I grew up in and have loved and defended my entire life has become a country that can vote Obama in twice, my decision to retire to a vineyard in Argentina appears a good one.
Argentina has a socialist government at the moment.
I’ve heard Costa Rica is quite nice. Capitalist friendly, too.
I fear we have passed the point of no return as well.
The Obamacare train has left the station and is going to start sucking money from our pockets as it goes, and once the money sucking begins it isn’t going to stop.
No consolation here, but economists say that the Point of No Return for an economy in a fiscal death spiral is when debt is 90% or GDP, a point we passed several years ago.
So this election establishes two things. First, we’re in the death spiral and the people have put their stamp of approval on it. In the 90′s, we could have gotten back on track simply by growing government slightly more slowly than we were. We didn’t. To have arrested this now would have required massive spending cuts– real cuts, of the “spend less next year than you did last year” variety. Almost impossible politically. The people, having already run off the cliff, voted to stomp on the accelerator.
The other thing that’s been established is that Obama will probably be President when the wheels come off altogether. There’s your silver lining, for what it’s worth. History may ultimately blame Obama, but if voters paid attention to history, they wouldn’t have elected him in the first place.
The Cloward-Pivenses of the right should be aware that countries that go through these death spirals never shrink their governments. Right or left, the desperation of hyperinflation, taxation, and austerity drives governments to become more authoritarian. Ultimately, regardless of party or ideology, these kinds of governments have a certain deadly sameness to them. The battle stops being elites vs liberty, it becomes simply deciding which set of elites get to entrench themselves as the nomenclatura. That’s a battle the Left probably already won decades ago, and I’m not sure I care which way that goes anyway.
Bush has an out. Wartime is the one time you can deficit spend.
Yeah, sorry Mr Green, I quit.
Im done, i got nothing left to fight for a country than can even choose between a pathological liar, incompetent, angry, socialist, and a successful business man with impeccable character.
We have lost America, there is no coming back from this…..
I agree, Alec. I’m 66 years old and I’m tired. I’m tired of being called names because I disagree, tired of watching all these kids with I phones paying for their crap with an EBT card (stuff I can’t afford)..I’m just tired. I have a big box in the garage the grandkids call my Armageddon box and laugh. I’m adding bandage, medicine and walter filtration to it tomorrow. That’s how discouraged I am.
Maybe I’ll feel different in the morning but I’m done caring about this country. I had skin in the game, a bronze star and a Combat Infantryman’s Batch. I love my children and grandchild, but this sucker’s heading off the cliff. Screw it, particularly the youth vote. You dumbass little tatted out lames just signed your economic death warrant. Read it and weep when it’s 1929 all over again.
Agreed. I think it may be a semi passive 1917 again. The US French Revolution? Chavez in English? God help the protectors of liberty.
This is 1936, not 1929. We have a depression coming, but this time it will have riots and social unrest.
Agreed, Alec. This is an embarrassment.
…And they will live in a hell of their own making. I am now going to try to do everything I can to (legally) prevent the government from getting any more of my money.
Like Europe, the gravy train will someday stop. The hell they will live in will amaze and disappoint them (see: Greece, Spain, Italy, etc) and when it happens here, they will demand their freebies continue, but alas, the golden goose will have been dead for some time.
I wish I didn’t have to live in it but I’ve been saying for years, ever since I was a kid, the generation just ahead of me, specifically the hippie-ass twits, always thought they were so much brighter than anyone else. Okay…so here we are. Hope you love it cuz I’m gonna fight you every step of the way.
We’re broke, worse than broke and we will also be defenseless in a very short time. All by design and to the joy of the popinjay prima-donna magic negro and his socialist pals.
I weep for the nation that was. While we now descend into hell, I take one last look around at what was once good. When my employer cancels my healthcare plan, and I don’t pay the fine, I will at least get my insulin in prison. Or, they’ll just garnish my wages and I STILL won’t buy healthcare.
Hello 1933 Germany. United Soviet Socialist America…it’s here.
I may have to move for I will not put up with the next four years of bullshit.
Where is there to go?
Unfortunately, we didn’t recognize that those “hippies” became college profs and have been indoctrinating our children who voted against their own best interests because they have not been well educated.
I’m afraid this is where I am too. I just can’t fathom how anyone, much less 50% would vote for an angry, narcissist with absolutely no qualifications over a truly decent and capable man. I have 3 step kids, all of them voted for Obama and I just don’t understand it. As one poster said, they have signed their economic death warrant.
Maybe I’ll feel better in the morning, but right now, I’m done, done voting, done caring. I’ll ride my motorcycle, make my sawdust and just run out the clock.
I don’t think nominating an honorable/decent person is enough. Bob Dole couldn’t beat Bill Clinton, for example.
Romney’s entire argument was “electability”. Actually, it really boiled down to “I’m going to win anyway, so why not just accept it?”.
With McCain, there was the economic crisis. He had his faults, but ultimately the economy was in freefall and people blame the incumbent for that. Romney campaigned under the best possible conditions for a challenger and managed not to be anointed. So what’s his excuse? Where was the Romney who ruthlessly tore apart anything and anyone standing in the way of the nomination?
Don’t think for a minute that “electability” (as defined by the statist wing of the party) won’t be trotted out again in four years.
Our setbacks in the Senate should be even more concerning. Even if Romney had won, losing that many seats would have made budget reform and repealing ObamaCare impossible. Lots of reasons for that, but I do want to call out Akin for not stepping down, and Lugar for not being a gentleman and endorsing Mourdark.
The only tangible outcome of this election, other than the missed opportunity, is the change to the GOP nomination process that locks out the Tea Parties. Lugar 2016, anyone? Or Charlie Crist or Lisa Murkowski? Hell, maybe we’ll nominate David Frum.
For the Tea Parties, this is a massive defeat. We gritted our teeth and put everything behind this one, and lost anyway. That’s a lot of wind out of our sails. For our “frenemy” Rence Priebus, there’s got to have put a bit of a smirk on his face. With the barbarians out of the game, he can get back to business.
Both Akin and Mourdouk (sp?) made asnine anti-abortion statements and fell right into the hands of the MSM. They obviously did not say what they were purported to say but both should have kept their mouths shut. Akin could have won that race had he done so.
Same here, I have had enough the soldier on BS.
You are delusional if you think that Obama will not crank up the printing presses, open the borders, and institute and codify the kind of corruption that he has only played with around the edges.
Get out while you can and before it’s too late, his second term is going to make you think of the last four years as the good old days.
Alec, I am with you. I don’t think I love this country anymore. It is not the country I thought it was. I’m done. I’m going to start watching Honey Boo Boo, get to know the Kardashians, maybe get an Obamaphone, and ignore politics.
That’s exactly how I feel. Maybe time strengthens my resolve, but I feel we just stepped through the door to permanent lunacy, at least permanent for me at my age.
Beautifully written. I’m keeping it in my armory against the flood of ugly gloating on Twitter (from which I am keeping my distance). People don’t seem to understand it isn’t about winning or losing, it’s about recovering. But hey, this is a world of competition.
Your words soothe and I thank you for them. (gotta ask what you’re drinking… ☺)
You get whatcha pay for… And this country now runs on freebies. =-[.]-=
Buy guns, gold/silver and canned food, while our dollar is still worth something.
Told the wife that if Obama won, we would go out and get her a handgun. The day after the election, her scheduled operation ended up costing a whole bunch more than expected and ended required an over night stay.
I just hope we can get back on track soon enough to prepare ourselves before everything starts falling down around us.
Deadlock, for lack of a better word, is good. Contingency budgets forever. Congressional approval ratings will drop from the high single digits to the low single digits.
First things first: I for one welcome our new polling overlords. The polls haven’t been great-Romney is doing better than expected, for now, but a Republican blowout…un, nah. Expanding the map? Lol, jk. It’s time for some real mea culpas from the Nate Silver truther team.
As for coal, get real. Libertarianism means the right to not be interfered with, and I kinda feel having sulfur compounds shoved down my throat runs contrary to that. Google ‘China windfarms’ and realise that the US has nothing comparable outside Texas, and therefore will be buying in Chinese and German expertise if it wants to reduce pollution. Win? Don’t think so.
Sorry, in case I sound like I’m calling this thing already: that’s still true even if Romney wins. If he does it won’t be by much.
We’ve been functionally bankrupt for quite some time now. The question was, how we would deal with it.
Same way Greece does (and by proxy the EU): “tax the rich” and “fair redistribution of wealth”, iow drain the resources of the only people who’re still somewhat productive to the point where they no longer are productive either because they’re out of money to invest or come to the realisation that it’s pointless because everything they invest will be taken away from them doubly shortly after.
Of course for the looters and moochers it’s only a short term solution, but they’re not worried about that (if they even realise it), they’ve got their bugout options ready with numbered bank accounts in the Bahamas and Switzerland.
And the answer is we don’t.
Obama and his supporters don’t even acknowledge this. The reality based community just chooses to ignore the problem. Unfortunately gridlock is not an option as the problem must be solved. Obviously we’re all still processing this, but can you buy off that many people?
Stephen, the fiscal point of no return was two years ago. America knows it’s in trouble, but when that credit card bill shows up once a month, they let it sit on their kitchen table, unopened. Because to open it is just too much. Better to toss out the minimum payment and rage when they hit their credit limit.
Obama won with Virginia and Ohio. (Florida was close, but it’s always close.) Both are temperamentally conservative, but both are filled with beneficiaries of government largesse. The auto worker (due for another bailout in the next month or two) and the government executive may look down on that woman with her EBT and her ObamaPhone, but they’re all feeding at the same trough, voting the same way for the same reason. Whoever is going to pay for all this, it’s going to have to be Someone Else.
Every country, every single one, handles this the same way. This crisis hits when Someone Else is a small enough minority and can’t be squeezed any further. Corruption increases as the stakes of winning get higher, and elections become more explicitly about bribes for interest groups (whether they’re defined by class, wealth, ethnicity, or religion depends on the country).
Countries spend right up to their credit limits, and make up the rest of the difference by running the printing presses. As the rewards of winning get bigger and the punishments of losing get sharper, the political and social unity of the country falls apart. The stakes get bigger, and people win by any means necessary. It takes generations to sort itself out, and leaves a legacy of recriminations and class/racial/religious hatred that never goes away.
Honestly, Romney probably couldn’t have put this off. Our last chance was probably 2008, or maybe even in the early 2000′s when the GOP house rolled over and went along with Compassionate Conservatism (TM). Romney’s 47% comment illustrated the reality that at this point, the majority of the electorate is on the gravy train and will fight to stay on it to the bitter end. Would these people lay themselves off, or even take a pay cut, for the long-term national interest? Don’t be silly, the ones who would aren’t on the gravy train in the first place.
Since when do windmills reduce pollution? Nuclear reduces pollution; windmills look pretty.
Except when you look under them and see all the chopped up birds, if you can stand the noise to get that close.
I’ve lived in amongst hundreds of the darn things for the last decade or more here, and they definitely don’t “look pretty”.
They’re eyesores, they’re noisy, they have to be shut down during bird migration or there’s carnage (and that includes the daily treks of flocks between nesting and feeding grounds).
Ah, i hear the summer soldiers and sunshine patriots talking.
Here’s my take, like it or not. A majority of the public blames Bush for the economy, and that Obama needs more time to fix it.
Not all of them. AP gives it a slight majority, but it’s enough to win re-election.
And in those polls, the idea that Romney’s policies would help the rich more than the poor took hold as well. And that finished him.
And the next four years will see us get used to 8% (+ or -) unemployment, $6-$12 a gallon gas, other energy costs “necessarily skyrocketing”, executive order hell, Congress being flatly ignored and tyranny reigning supreme.
The inability of people to gauge possible results is astounding.
I work with idiots from Pittsburgh who think Obama is great. Their conversations sound like science-fiction episodes but it’s just clear they have their parents’ DNA and think the government owes everyone a job, a house and a car, along with some “walkin’ around money”.
So, the past four years has seen us descend into ridiculous levels of crap. Thought we had reached the basement but no…we’re going to the sub-basement now and the sad comedy will continue.
However, with less accountability, the WON will now show us the true little effing nazi that he is. He will stand up there and spout some heavy, nasty s***. The national socialists will say “right on right on”, the news will call him “dynamic”, “forceful”, “The living embodiment of power” even.
Then, it will suddenly dawn on people that it sucks to live here now. Brian Williams will be called to the white house and chewed out for commenting on napoleon’s clothing. He will be shocked.
And napoleon will be signing executive orders like their laundry tickets. And he’ll be dead-set at a plan to shut down Rush Limbaugh. You watch. His anger and intolerance will be on full display.
He’ll be very ugly, even compared to last week. And the American people who voted for him will be amazed. It takes a long time for people to realize they made a mistake and they will often repeat that mistake until they find their d*ck in the meat-grinder with no one to help them get it out. Then they say, “Oh…so that’s what you were talking about.”
And my answer has always been, “So…you couldn’t see this coming? You laughed at me, remember? Said I was nuts. Said I was imagining things. Well, here we are and no, I’m not going to help you because I think I owe you that. You live in the mess you created. It’s yours, not mine. I have to put up with it. You wanted it and there lies the difference. This is what I call justice and maybe, if you survive, you’ll learn from it.”
I blame the United States Council of Catholic Bishops. They were not truthful with their congregations. They did not tell them who would be paying for the lawsuits, and what the outcome of those lawsuits would be if they lost. They learned nothing from the cover-up of the sexual abuse within the church. They have forgotten what it means to be a Catholic shepherd. Despite two church dogmas referring to conception, they allowed public Catholics to wrongful state Church’s position on life. And then they wonder why Catholics are leaving the church.
Sorry, That boat sailed along time ago.
When the vast majority of both lay and religious ignored Humanae Vitae Moderism took over here and Europe. Thank Vatican II for further (what was it again? “Letting the air in to the Church” erosion.
The vast vast majority of Roman Catholics no longer follow the teachings of the Church. Abortion? Homosex? Pre marital sex? Contraception? meh….
I still wince when I see the laughing Cardinal Dolan with Obama.
Oh well, honor for all
Of the big and the small
Well, the taller they stand
Well, the harder they fall
We live for today but we die for the next
with blood in our veins and the air in our chest
Oh, we step into war with our hearts on the line
Dirt on our boots, it shakes free over time
You make some good points, but even if Romney miraculously pulls this out, I’m discouraged. In my lifetime I’ve never seen a more clear case of incompetence than Obama. That he was even in contention disgusts me.
This is a man than killed Mexicans through fast and furious without consequence. He looked into the mouth of a depression and decided to borrow more money than anyone has in history, which he proceeded to simply waste. He has saddled us with a medical entitlement we can never hope to afford which will likely kill the best medical system in the world. He’s made the entire world less safe. He lied to our faces about Bengazi. He spent much of the stimulus on cronies.
Facts don’t matter. Truth is what the Daily Show and SNL tell us it is.
In a sane world, this is no contest.
It’s not a sane world.
Sorry, I just don’t see the use in caring anymore. I’m taking time off from working (why bother?) to enjoy things before total implosion occurs. Good night, America.
The last time that our nation failed to address major political challenges that we all knew were there, we slow walked into a Civil War, which today remains the deadliest war in our history. Look at the electoral college map. We may indeed be running towards that destiny.
Indeed the parties have switched geographically but it is definately North vs. South.
Gah! It was not a “Civil War”, a civil war is defined as “a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country”. When the southern states seceded from the Union they were no longer part of the USA. Lincoln is hailed as a “great” president but the truth is he stomped all over the Constitution. The states voluntarily signed the Constitution, the southern states decided that they no longer wished to be bound by that voluntary contract. Lincoln then went and conquered them demonstrating that the Federal Govenrment could ignore the voluntary nature of the Constitution and contract law itself.
Sorry, but your country is screwed. It’s been coming since Wilson/FDR, and accelerated under LBJ, but with a second term for Him (PBUHN) your national bankruptcy is now a certainty.
First, this thing is far from over. OH is too close, so we will have to wait until the 17th to get the absentee ballots counted. FL is also to close, and the panhandle results always come in late, since they are in a later time-zone. Go here for real-time updates:
http://townhall.com/election/
This is going deep into the night.
Beautiful post…..but I don’t see this as something worth fighting anymore. We have to hit bottom first, and its coming. I’m going to go bug and kiss my 2 young sleeping daughters and apologize for the world they are walking into. Maybe in a week or so the fight will come back, but tonight I’m done. I can’t believe what I saw tonight.
I don’t want to hit bottom. My parents and grandparents came here as refugees after WWII. They already hit bottom. I also have friends and relatives who lived (and died) in the Soviet nightmare. I don’t want to lose my savings and retirement to inflation and live in the moral and physical squalor that’s coming at us. I’m so sad to think about the suffering that will take place around the world in the absence of American leadership.
Last week I rediscovered The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder–there’s a great 1983 production available on DVD. My dad saw this play, which Wilder wrote in 1942, in the rubble of Vienna after the war. It’s about mankind destroying itself and starting over, again and again. I suppose that’s our only real choice.
We ARE going to hit bottom. Nothing can stop that now.
If the imposter-in-chief stays in office, we will have war in the MENA. expect a nuclear exchange. A war on Europe as Turkey becomes Islamist. a war, where Egypt absorbs Libya – as the only way to pay for their living costs [see Spengler's posts]. and these are are the ‘good’ outcomes, i shudder at the bad ones.
The people have spoken and they have chosen serfdom and darkness. I harbored little hope that electing Romney and taking the Senate weren’t too little too late and I’m not convinced he won’t be president. There are still many votes left to be counted according to RCP. None the less we and this once great land are ready to be buttered.
I AM quitting. We are just simply outnumbered. I’m moving to rural parts and living out the rest of my life quietly
Me, too. In five years, my youngest will be out of high school and then we can move to a nice little town in Wyoming, the state where I was born. So it won’t be a huge culture shock for me, which it would be for most people.
Ironically, it’s Obamacare that’s going to allow me to opt out, since I have an expensive medical condition and my spouse was just working for benefits, basically. Unfortunately for Obamacare, he’s a doctor.
The country is going to have to hit bottom before it can recover, if it can. The ones I really feel sad for are my children.
That’s what I wanted to do, and what I planned for. Then the bottom dropped out of the economy, I lost 40% of my net worth, and decided to head for the hills anyway out of sheer economic survival when my livelihood ended. But I live now in a region where I have almost no chance of ever finding gainful employment; I can’t realize the equity in my real estate which was to be my nest egg and restart capital, and due to His Imperial Majesty’s redistributionist policies, I worry that there will be edicts issued to seize second homes and “excess” assets for the benefit of the havenots.
Ah well, at least I know that my unemployment benefits will be continued because that allegedly generates growth in the economy, right?
unfortunately – you may want to quietly live out the rest of your life in the peace and tranquility of rural America – but do you really think they will let you ??
One must wonder how bad a president has to be before the emotional attachent can be over-ridden. Lots of intelligent people have decided these things we worry so much about are not that important.
There are many lessons here. Least of which, but obvious and important, is take the polls more seriously.
So what next for Benghazi? Now that Obama’s a lame duck (term limited), will the media get around to caring?
If Obama wins, we will need to fight him at every turn.
It would be a good idea not to count on help from the largely spineless Republican Party…
I think there’s some wisdom in Bill’s 8:53. The right let the media fry Bush for his failures. All politicians fail to some extent, but the right turned on it’s own. Obama screwed the pooch over the last four years and the left still puts on the pom poms for Obama. The left keeps their team on the reservation. The right wants to play a different game, but they can’t win unless they play the same game the left is playing.
Unfortunately, the fight will have to be with real weapons and real spilt blood. As has happened multiple times to the Israelites, God has abandoned us for our wickedness.
Looks like Thomas Sowell was right: FDR got reelected three times, so Obama might get his second term too.
4x 4 FDR.
Re-elected 3 times. Elected four times, total.
Being elected once for either FDR or Obama was one too many times. Likewise with Hoover, LBJ, and Wilson.
We need to find a Silent Cal out there. Mitt would have been decent, but it looks like nearly 50% of the country needs a lesson on hard knocks right now, and they’re going to get it, regrettably.
When schools give gold stars for being “special,” HS diplomas for fogging a mirror, and sheepskins just for showing up, then the School of Hard Knocks is the only thing left to give a real education.
I don’t know, I really do not know. Soldier on… how? The last 4 years have been a nightmare; another 4 years of Obama will be worse. If this abomination of a presidency hasn’t gotten through to people, what will? There has been no leadership in Washington; no one has been minding the store.
I see 2 scenarios if Obama wins. Everyone stop producing and just hop on the gravy train, getting Obamaphones and Obama free mortgages and gas, and crash and burn that much faster.
Or leave for Canada for 4 years.
Sorry – that’s it for me. I quit. All is lost.
come on people — dont quit !!
How could you talk about quitting ??!!!??
What if George Washington had quit ?
President Washington had every right and reason to quit -
yet – he did not quit – George Washington persevered –
and led his Army to victory – against ALL odds.
Think about what they suffered thru – to win.
What was it they won ? Liberty !!
Have we suffered even 1% of what they had to endure ??
NO !!
So come on — things are bad – they will get worse
we will get stronger.
I listen to an Ex-Navy Seal on the Radio here in Houston –
I like his motto: NOT DEAD – CANT QUIT.
President John F. Kennedy said:
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
George Washington did quit. He quit playing it their way, picked up a sword and helped kick off a revolution.
If it was only as easy to do that now.
So going against Dick Morris once again proves to be where the money was.
Damn! I hate when someone can read my mind!!!
Sorry, but if we couldn’t win this time, we can’t win, period.
Obama will quickly issue an executive order giving amnesty to illegals – millions of new voters beholden to the Democrats. You think the Supreme Court will do anything about it?
Obama will just issue executive orders, and dispense with Congress.
The New York Times and the rest of the legacy media will start getting government subsidies to keep them afloat, so they no longer have to worry about the marketplace.
Leftists have been salivating at punitively taxing 401(k)’s – after all, all retirement income should come from the government, right? And you are an economic traitor if you object.
And on, and on, and on, and on…
I think people will much more develop an Eastern/Southern European attitude towards government – the government is simply a bunch of thieves who want to steal money from you, and give your money to the more politically connected, so you do your best to hide your assets/income. Not much productive investment happens then, but we’ll have a lot more fairness/equity.
The government, of course, is expecting this, which is why proposals are being floated to let the IRS administratively confiscate your passport if they have a dispute with you. Just another executive order. Another thing that the government is looking at is requiring people to clear immigration to **leave** the US – the government needs to approve every time you want to leave the country. They are already preparing for the reaction to Obama’s second term.
Withdraw into private life, and be as small a target for the government as possible – I think the O has succeeded in his dream of permanently moving the US to the Left, given the changes that are coming. Many things will change in the next four years, and not for the better.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the upcoming huge Federal bailouts for California, New York, Illinois, etc. Got to keep those six-figure government pensions coming…
Maybe Christie was told New Jersey would be left off the gravy train if he didn’t play ball…
That would have been bad for Christie. He needs A LOT of gravy to keep going. No wonder he was sucking up to Bruce Springsteen, he saw the internal polling, so he jumped ship like the giant, fat, wharf rat he is.
It’s small consolation that the Left will finally have to completely own the economy.
But giving up the Constitution, rule-of-law, personal freedom, economic prosperity, a middling safe world … nah, not worth the tradeoff.
And I weep for Israel.
John Galt on line one….
“…democrats will finally have to own the economy”. You’ve got to be kidding right?! In four more years you’ll still be getting “it’s all Bush’s fault”. Especially since you’ll have another democrat indoctrinated generation finished school and be eligible to vote by then.
I think the biggest lesson from this election is that the MSM still own the narrative. The new media have vastly over-estimated their balancing power. Between the handouts, educational indoctrination and the MSM as gate keepers, the Democrats have control of the USA in all the ways that matter.
My dad always tells me, “You know boy, you are lucky to be born in the greatest country in history”. He should know, coming here after a life of great struggle in India. I always believed him – until now. I dont think I would be able to say the same to my kid when I have one. My fellow countrymen have sold our country short. This day – remember this day – November 6th, 2012 – this day shall be remembered in history as the day when Americans decided they didn’t want to be the greatest, richest and the most powerful country in the world. This shall be the day Americans decided they wanted to be a middling, mediocre country. This shall be the day that will be remembered as the day Americans decided they had enough of this “superpower” thing and would rather have food stamps. This shall be remembered as the most glorious day in Chinese history.
Actually when we go down we are taking the Chinese with us.
Come to think when we go down we are taking the whole world with us.
Agreed. The rest of the world would be affected by America’s downfall more than most Americans realize. It’s not just about the production capability, the IT infrastructure, the medical and scientific developments, the investment and so on, but the promise of our nation. The greatest assest America exports is hope.
Sorry Stephen. Realize that you’re trying to rally a bit here. But I sincerely think this time it’s lights out. Our country will be ruined within my lifetime. So, I’m quitting work, taking my meager savings, and moving somewhere to live out my days as best I can while the final collapse approaches.
Never been this pessimistic in my whole life. I think we’re really screwed this time. Even if Mitt pulls it out [and he might], we’re still screwed based on the voting preferences expressed today.
Good luck everybody and God bless.
Okay, NC is in the bag. 2% left to count and Romney has a 2 point lead. Romney holding steadily to a narrow lead in VA with 12% to go. Romney narrowing the gap in FL, as I expected.
Should Romney have emphasized issues more? Do people realize there is a debt problem? Ryan seemed muzzled for the entire campaign.
I don’t think I agree that Mitt ran a great campaign. He played it very safe and didn’t make mistakes, but there wasn’t much beyond that. Bob Dole ran on his record as a person who was more decent and had more integrity than Bill Clinton, but it wasn’t enough to win.
It’s not the issues, dude. You should have seen all the FB stuff. They painted Romney as a liar, and it is valid. I told folks this was his problem, that he is yet another lying politician, another establishment Republican. Like McCain, Romney did not go after Obama on character. “He’s a nice guy” was BS. You have to go after him as a liar, too. Romney did not, so he is struggling, and he has no coattails. Romney got painted as a bad guy, but he did not do the same to Obama. Spineless establishment Republican.
Still, this one is just too close to call. We will not know until OH is done later in the month. There will also be legal challenges.
Romney was trying to win without making anybody mad at him. That’s theoretically possible, but very difficult. The problem is that he comes out of the same social class as the people who love Obama. He may well be a more honorable man than Obama, but that’s not really the point.
For years, the GOP has had a fantasy that some core faction of the Dems will cross over to them and let them avoid having to appeal to the ‘hicks’ in their social conservative and nationalist factions, and it’s just not going to happen. In 2006, after the Dems retook Congress, the GOP power elite immediately began pressing 3 people as ‘legitimate’ contenders, Romney, McCain, and Rudy. _None_ of them were good choices, because none of them were really appealing or acceptable to the base, and the pushback began immediately.
The thinking was that Rudy would be appealing enough to overcome the social issue deficit, and that he could be competitive in the Northeast to make up for the southern States he’d lose. Fantasy world thinking. McCain was supposed to have cross-over appeal, but we saw how well that worked out.
Romney was the least bad of the 3, but all 3 were bad choices based on wishful thinking.
what happens to the economy when most small businesspeople go ‘galt’?
Nobody is going Galt. That is a good example of precisely the kind of self-deceptive wishful thinking that got us into this mess. Ayn Rand was writing _fiction_, the real world does not work like _Atlas Shrugged_.
Folks, the sun will still rise in the morning. The United States is not dead, not yet, anyway. Just because Romney did a rotten job of rallying opposition does not mean the opposition isn’t there. It was there in 2008 and McCain refused to tap into it. It was there in 2010 and handed the Dems a defeat on a historic scale. The 2014 election begins tommorrow. Pressure can still be applied to Congress, Republicans can still be primaried, funds can still be raised, or not raised, as seems prudent.
Ask Dick Lugar.
We need to face up to the fact that the business world is not our ally. This is a mistake conservatives and libertarians have made over and over, the Chamber of Commerce is not on our side. We need to figure out how to appeal to the groups the Dems have dropped from their coalition. We need to recognize that there are millions and millions of people in America who share our legal nationality but are part of a totally different _culture_, and that culture is hostile to everything we believe in.
But we can not, and will not, go Galt, and we need to quit pretending to ourselves that it’s an option.
I agree very if any will go Galt. But you need to face the fact that the masses have already returned to whatever moves them emotinally.
This election, this country, this society is all about style. Thinkers and planners are in the minority now.
I fear that 2014 will be worse considering the change in the electorate we are seeing.
What happens?
Just look at the European Union for your answer.
Their grand Union is fracturing back into individual countries as each watches their economies crash and burn.
And the final straw will be when Obama decides to bail out California, Illinois, and New York and passes the bill along to all the rest of the states to pay for with higher taxes. Go Galt? That’s just passive resistance. What about all those who will chose active resistance?
I weep for my grandchildren.
Well said Mr. Green.
It is sad….
Sorry Stephen, I’m done. Invested way too much time telling myself that the American people would FINALLY see the naked emperor for what he was. I actually thought this would not be close, that Obama would go down in defeat repudiated by a clear-eyed, no-longer-duped populace. Nope. The takers have won, The makers are screwed. I’m done. I’ve got my life, I’ve got my Catholic faith, I’ve got a gun should they come for what’s mine. I’m going to spend MUCH less time on the Internet and more time trying to do something constructive for me and my family. The country has tipped and is now lost. It may not seem it to most yet but I believe it is now inexorably on a path to ruin. We are lost—just another failed state in waiting. What a shame.
Yes, we _can_ lay a lot of the blame at Romnney’s feet, but not in the usual sense. Even if he pulls out a last-minute win, this should have been a landslide for the GOP, but the GOP _threw it away_.
There are certain cold facts of life that have to be faced if we are to undertand national politics. One is that FDR’s coalition was not destroyed by libertarians, it was not wiped out by a desire for economic liberty, it was broken by the three A, Abortion, Acid, and Amnesty. That is, the Democratic Party embraced a vast agenda of _social_ liberalism in the 1960s and 1970s that drove a huge swath of formerly loyal voters out, and they went over to the GOP and ended the Republican Party’s decades-long exile in the wilderness.
That did not mean they embraced laissez-faire, or that they had become libertarians, they had not. They still approved of Social Security and Medicare, but they didn’t necessarily like the rest of the welfare state. They are nationalists, not entirely averse to protectionism if it preserves job (though they don’t go as far as the Dems would), and they still detest the social liberalism that permeates the Democratic Party, the press, and parts of the GOP.
In short, America is still pretty much in favor of the New Deal. It’s the Great Society that is controversial, and the GOP tends to trip over that basic distinction over and over.
The 2010 election was impelled by several issues of which Obamacare was the biggest. Yet as soon as it was over, the GOP stopped talking about Obamacare and started talking about breaking the public employees unions and ‘entitlement reform’, and acting as if the 2010 election had been a mandate for those things, which it manifestly was not. Their momentum almost immediately began to dissipate. The GOP did after 2010 precisely what the Dems did after 2008, they read a rejection of the other party as an endorsement of their own long-held desires, and let wishful thinking carry them away.
Romney? His health care plan in Masschusetts was used as a partial basis of Obamacare. He was pro-abortion until just a few years ago, and don’t think the GOP voters didn’t notice. Military and defense issues? Romney seemed reluctant to even talk about the Libyan fiasco. Gay marriage? Didn’t want to talk about it. Border security? Didn’t want to talk about it.
All that left was economics, and the public doesn’t necessarily want to hear the GOP’s message on that, they haven’t liked it since the 1930s. It’s no use gettng mad that people don’t like it, if you want them to eat the spinach you have to give them something they like along with it, and Romney didn’t.
There’s some merit to what you’re saying, but for the most part, this wasn’t an election based on ideas at all. It is probably the most issue-free election of my lifetime.
Obama successfully made it a referendum about Romney. With no record to run on, Obama focused on personal attacks. What were the main issues? Bain Capital? Romney, for his part, assumed that people would put two and two together and the economy would propel him painlessly into office. In that interpretation, his main job was Don’t Screw Up. Hence avoiding talking too much about pesky issues that might prove controversial.
Paul Ryan made a good case for entitlement reform, but you’re right, it was mostly kept quiet. You can’t outsource substance to your VP. Even if the incumbent is avoiding specifics, too.
The big looming issue is that mainstream America is now dependent on government. That autoworker in Ohio will need another bailout soon, or he’s out on the street. The government worker in Virginia (defense or civil or contractor) will lose their job is sequestration happens. Forget where the money comes from. Forget how they got into this dependent position in the first place. They have kids to feed.
One candidate will throw them back out into the cruel world, spouting some nonsense about economics and “the future” and national debt. The other will let them keep their jobs and get the money from Somewhere. In that position, people stop looking too closely at the promises and vote their pocketbooks.
That right there is Virginia and Ohio, and Obama’s margin of victory. These people don’t like to think of themselves as dependents. They have nice houses, get their money as a paycheck rather than an EBT card, and even pay some of their government money back as “taxes”. Many aren’t even government employees; they’re contractors and vendors and lawyers and consultants. Some even consider themselves conservative in some distant theoretical way. But they’re utterly dependent on government for their daily survival. No ideology is going to sway them.
All I can say is I am stunned, shell shocked actually, having felt nothing but giddy optimism since the first debate; actually since the Chik Fillet act of spontaneous capitalism, I can not believe what has happened. I think I’m done with listening to talk radio at work, done with searching out info on the web, I really feel like I’m gonna hunker down and watch the world decline into chaos. For weeks now the liberals at work have been silent and pouting, knowing in their hearts Obama was a loser. I cannot believe this stunning turn around of fortune for the ONE. Amerika may never rid itself of this hateful parasite.
The Chik-Fil-A incident was not about capitalism. It was not a liberatarian demonstration about free speech, not primarily. It was about a social conservative statement of opposition to the ‘gay agenda’. They were saying that they _agreed with the owner’s position on marriage_.
That’s a huge difference, and a lot of the Right completely misread it, trying to take it as a libertarian moment, a statement about free speech. That was in the mix too, but it was a secondary element, the primarily element was an expression of a deep public hostility to the idea of gay marriage.
The first step back from defeat is to recognize the cold reality of who the GOP voters are, and what they do and do not stand for. Self-deception may be comfortable, but it doesn’t win elections, and the GOP voting base is not primarily made up of liberatarians.
At a loss why again the GOP pulled it’s punches. After the first debate-nothing.
It’s done. America was an ideal. Now it’s merely another place people live were the government is a scam, a game, an angle.
Emotions and those who want to rest in dependence trump the causal thinkers who labor to create. Tribalism is on the rise. E pluribus unum is now a mere tribe, the content of their character a mere special interest, and history a fairytale not shared with the precious children.
The new creeds: if at first you don’t succeed, quit. When in doubt, vacillate. My need is your obligation.
E. pluribus unum has been replaced with E. pluribus pluribus. We are a Balkanized nation, not a melting pot. A mosaic as someone wiser than me once said.
I can’t believe this! I hate my countrymen! We ARE scum!
Four more years for Obama to save American by making sure we’ll never elect another Progressive again! We’ll learn that respect and religious freedom are worth more than birth control. We’ll start believing that we should reward success and not incentivize and enable failure. We can do it! After four more years of Obama, America will be ready for change.
How do you expect change? Do you think there will be elections in 4 years? If they are, they’ll be a complete sham.
You’d think, but we were there this time, and he’s likely back in, or at least close enough to fail the theory.
Maybe if they are dumb enough to nominate Biden, otherwise, I can’t see us winning again in my lifetime.
And what exactly makes you think he won’t pull a Bloomberg and come up with a way to get around the 22nd Amendment? After all, in four more years if things haven’t gotten any better he’ll have a host of reasons why if we just give him another chance he can make it all better.
The constitution has become a religious relic – like the Shroud of Turin. When you have the best judges money can buy… who needs a constitution? It makes a cool tourist attraction for grade schoolers and history buffs. Obama could still be President in 25 years if he doesn’t get in the way of a bullet.
Dear Ohio – I hate you with the white hot burning hatred of 15 trillion suns. May you go down in history as the state that destroyed the finestest country that ever existed in the entire history of mankind.
Lolly, It is not Ohio, they are just one state, and that state like most is a sea of red tonight. We are outnumered by the likes of Detroit, Philadelphia, Newark, San Francisco, New York City and LA. The inner city dwellers have nothing to do with the America that I know, except they are so numerous now they control it. We are outnumered now. They are stupid, ignorant freeloaders who do not deserve a free country, and they are pissing it away for all of us. They are the creation of Democrat Party policy for the last six decades in education, welfare, immigration, and socialist statism. Outside those cities, America is still a good place. But we are outnumered and I am afraid we will never get it back. I live a long way from Ohio, but the people in the small towns and the countryside of that state are still as good as anybody in America. Outnumbered by the millions in the insane asylums we call our cities. Getting ready for bad times includes not hating your neighbors. But I understand how it feels.
Nail on the head, driven home solid.
I hear you – and as we’ve seen with Sandy, mega-cities can’t survive without dumpsters diving if they lose power for a few hours. My only consolation is that WHEN (not if) we go down they will truly reap what they have sown.
As an after thought nothing made me madder tonight than Speaker Boehner’s glowing face thanking the American people for retaining a Republican house and promising to work with whomever prevailed as Exec.
I’ve got a string of expletives for John Boehner that cannot be uttered on a family friendly site.
So, I’m confused. Do I have to make out a separate check payable to “The Fund for Free Sh*t” or will this be a more automatic thing? Just trying to comply with the new norm.
In the interest of efficient processing, your contribution will be automatically deducted from your paycheck.
I always knew in 2014 I planned to leave California for a state that wasn’t insane.
Now it looks like I will have to leave the while country.
Oh America, I love you, I have ALWAYS loved you, and believed in you. It’s been a bedrock. But that bedrock has cracks…because I think we can’t come back from this.
Now you know why Obama sued AZ and why libs radicalize everyone that either bleeds for failure or is a failure. It’s a giant con game of entitlement and payback and blame and excuses. The lib narrative is and has been effectively distributed throughout America. When 99% of donations at Princeton go to Obama, you know there is a propaganda factory.
It’s over:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa
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You cannot blame the entire nation.
A 5% change in voting would have ensured victory over the Dems.
What desperately calls out for attention is the dealing with the media. Too many people write off the power of the press, simply because it’s numbers are declining. But the media’s power is still quite capable of pulling miserable candidates over the finish line.
We need to start a long term campaign to take over or buy out the press, or decimate its power to conceal and rewrite the truth. One of the major network news companies must be taken over, so that the truth can be heard by the millions and millions of people who never watch Fox News, or listen to talk radio.
Only then will true democracy return to our country.
NO! The problem is the SCHOOLS!!!! Indoctrinating our youth! Take BACK our children and that’s how we win our country back!
Do you really think fox news or talk radio are going to exist as a viable entities after 4 years of unlimited “flexibility”?
looking at fox news fed – Romney has over a million more in popular vote
Barack Obama Popular Vote 38,951,081
Mitt Romney Popular Vote 39,981,383
The West Coast isn’t in yet – that will give Obama the popular vote as well.
Only God can save us now.
I don’t want to be saved (already saved) I just want to be “taken”!
Since Ryan’s pick, I thought of this election as a choice election. I honestly thought the American people would have the sense to choose intelligently. But what do I know. It turns out that free contraceptives and abortion on demand trump economic and personal freedom.
My disappointment is overwhelming, but the country has chosen. Nothing more I can do about it. We’ve sold our business, and we’re hunkering down. Not sure if the country can survive another four years of the status quo.
From north of your country: Canada’s emphasis is now, even more now, to look to the Pacific, and specifically, China.
This is a comment on the American international position,…
Protect yourselves! We are evil! Obviously, we are an evil nation. If you value yourselves, PROTECT yourselves! Know that you have friends here, but my government will do all in it’s power to destroy you. May God Bless and Protect you!
New media overcomes MSM? Not in our lifetimes. We’ve been in the echo chamber here on PJM, HotAir,NRO, Townhall. There is no rationality outside the chamber, only the incessant drumbeat of the popular culture. Responsibility, accountability, honor, country, God, these are all no longer part of that culture. Catholics don’t believe in their own theology, they’ve sold out to the culture, like RINOs. Coal is just another special interest group, looking for protection. We can’t make enough noise in here to overcome the drumbeat, which starts early and pounds incessantly around our children from the moment they enter “school”. We were still too long, enabling and allowing the rot of education, the church, our businesses and communities. There’s nothing left to fight for, it’s all diseased and decaying, rotting from within. There is no party of conservatism, it’s just the party of a different set of special interests, looking for their own set-asides and favors. No one outside the chamber sees any material difference, and the Repubs can’t market, can’t sell and certainly can’t close.
Now, I did say Romney could win WA. He is currently ahead here in my State by 237 votes with 38% reported. lol
I will make the prediction that we will never see a Republican President again. Losing Ohio like we did twice in a row means there is no hope for the future.
Jettboy speaks the truth.
It’s over. Don’t you understand. I’m not being hyperbolic. If the current state of the economy is not enough to convince people to eject Obama, then nothing is. Americans, after nearly 100 years of directed attacks against our institutions, the pillars of the Republic are crumbling, and there is nothing any of us can do about it.
We have become just like France, who threw out their prime minister who was trying to get France back on the right track, in favor of an outright socialist who promised to double-down on the spending in order to keep French citizens in the lifestyle for which they are accustomed.
It isn’t going to change until the Fed finally breaks and housing interest rates are 20% and gas is $10, then these schmucks will still find a way to blame Republicans, and the idiot populace will believe them.
The only hope for Western Civilization right now is to teach our children to secretly infiltrate the public school system and take it over from the inside they way the left has done to us. That won’t happen though. It requires too much work, and as we can clearly see, people in the United States (because there is no American anymore) are not in favoring of working hard, they are in favor of handouts.
No – you are right. Teaching our children is the only course to save the future union – because this one is gone.
Ooorrrr – secession! I might be open to that one!
There’s absolutely no chance this regime will permit the next four years to go by without cementing a permanent majority. Regulatory fiats, blatant unconstitutional overreaches … it’s over.
And any chance for a cohesive opposition party fragments. The social conservatives will go one way, fiscal conservatives another, and Libertarians a third.
Like I said, it’s permanent majority … permanent ruling elite … ultimately leading to a collapse of the economy, a collapse of the social order, and bloody civil war.
I mean every word I just wrote. Every. Single. Word.
I agree with every word you just said.
Odd isn’t it. We all know what Obama’s re-election signifies. I wonder how many others do and whether they will say so out loud.
I wonder what America will look like in 2016? Actually I do know, Argentina.
Interestingly my Argentine wife predicted Obama’s re-election. She recognizes a stupid electorate when she sees one. And with an expanding bureaucracy it will be impossible for America to revive. America did die tonight.
It’s over. Hunker down, stock up on the essentials. Stay frosty
I feel like I did everything I could do to turn the ship. Didn’t happen. If America really feels spending $4.1 billion more a day than we take in, Obamacare, and raising taxes on the rich which won’t scratch the surface of reducing the deficit is the right path, let them learn the hard way.
50% of this country is living totally in denial. The price will be paid – and they are not going to escape that wrath.
With two kids, I hate to have to do this, but I am willing to let the ramifications of this election play out and protect my own best I can.
One thing I will not do is blame Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. I feel they ran a great campaign.
Agreed–Romney and Ryan ran a great, even a heroic campaign. I won’t be blaming them either.
Agree 100% In fact Romney was my least favored during primaries. But he changed me with his attitude after the convention.
Because the choice was so clear and obvious, the loss is so disheartening.
Why the heck do so many of my comments not post, dammit?!?
Okay, Romney dead tie here in WA with 18% reporting. Craziness.
If the lines had not been so long, I would suspect the Dems having voted for all their people who had not actually voted, but the turnout really was huge.
There’s no way to fight Obama when he has control of our health care. We’re a nation of the rulers, with a population of serfs. I’m glad I don’t have children. It would be awful to know they had to live in the mess that America will become.
BULL! I quit….the electorate has changed. When Colin Powell supported Obama back in 2008 I said to myself, “heck, it’s a once in a life time chance to see a black guy become president. I understand Colin”. But when I saw that he supported Obama this time around, despite all of the evidence of Obama’s ineptitude, I knew something is in the air that I didn’t smell. The nation is getting “browner”, and that’s not a bad thing. But they’re much more likely to just look at the surface. And Obama looks like them. Oh, and I should know…..I’m black.
Ah! My LovelyEarth! It’s not that the “complexion” of the electorate has changed – it’s our character! There is a[[arantly so many people on the dole that they LOVE the prospect that the rest of us are their “slaves!” We are their WAGE slaves now!
My only advice is to MOVE to a state that resists!
Obama won because of his two most off the wall themes.
1. Tax cuts made people not pay their mortgages, not the government enabling banks to lend to people who couldn’t pay.
2. Romney would take us back to the 1950s on women’s rights and race relations.
The 2nd one really gets my goat. It was always presented without explanation. No policies were mentioned, no quotes given. We’re just supposed to know that’s what Republicans want.
Oh, and “The Tea Party is Racist, backwards, uneducated” theme. Not really started by him, but plugged for so long it set in.
People wanting to keep more of their money equals homophobe and racist.
Plus, fully half this country wants free (read: on your and my back) STUFF!
I don’t know how you get past that without sesseding (sp) from the oligarchy and letting them fend for themselves.
Keep fighting for what? In an election cycle with 2010 winds at our backs with the economy in the crapper, unemployment over 8% for 43 straight months, right track/wrong track huge against, a devastating first debate performance, the perfect businessman candidate at a time when everybody knows this country needs a businessman and on and on and we got crushed. Nothing flipped, no big gains or surprises. Everywhere we look we lost devastating battles. What now stops us from sliding down the path to the UK or France? Nothing? The House of Reps can do what they want the Senate will sit on its hands and Obama will regulate us into penury. Wrapping it all in the warm embrace of mommy-like socialism. We can rage and fight here on the web and the MSM that we keep saying is dying will keep ignoring us and dragging D’s across the line and refusing to report anything that may hurt their causes. And while we rage the bureaucracy will continue to kill our industry and freedom under the weight of the regulatory state. We all love Nigel Farage’s speeches and pass the links around, but it’s become clear that he’ll never get the England he loves back. Just as we will no longer get back the America we love.
They will in the words of Valerie Jarrett punish those who opposed them. They’re coming after guns, evangelicals, talk radio, internet sites that aren’t singing the praises of Dear Leader….adios amigos.
It’s small consolation that the Left will finally have to completely own the economy.
Please. Four years after Obie “inherited” a mess and instituted his ideas of how to fix the problem (without much success, I might add), there is a fair amount of idio, er, um, people that are still blaming Bush.
Exactly…..FOUR MORE YEARS, OF BLAMING GEORGE BUSH!!!
Somebody, anybody, give me one good reason — even ONE — not to end it all tonight.
I would rather spend the rest of eternity in hell than the next four years in America.
The House will be soldiering on and will need our support. That’s one thing.
I don’t share suicidal thoughts but confidence in the House is stupid. They’ll be ground under the bootheel of the liberal/media screaming meemies as obstructionists until they cave.
I’ve posted this once and here I post again, nothing made me madder than Boehner’s glowing face thanking the American people for retaining his speakership and promising to work (compromise) with whomever the exec might be. The last congress, same as the new congress are armed with wet noodles against broadswords. Issa will get nothing on F&F, nothing will come of the Green boondoggles, nothing will become of Benghazi, not one cut program, no reforms on entitlements. Instead we will see a return to go along to get along me too! Rinoism. How happy I am Ryan kept his seat, NOT!
I’m afraid you’re right. I do wish they would at least get rid of Boehner. Wish we had some kind of Republican version of LBJ as Speaker, a street fighter.
OK, I’ll try: turn off your TV and computer.
Move.
On North, to Canada, with whatever funds you have.
And vote for Stephen Harper.
Because, as Mr. Romney said a few weeks ago, there is more to life than politics. Get a grip. No matter what happens, you’ll be better off than some poor bastard and his family on the Oregon Trail 170 years ago, starving, no water, cold, with a storm on the horizon. Some of them made it, because they were too go**amned stubborn to quit. You should endeavor to do the same.
I’m the product of a softer society, a more naive world. I don’t have it in me even to aspire to the kind of toughness the pioneers had.
I suspect that some time in the next five years I’ll wind up committed. Why not? Enough of my life is already out of my hands as it is.
Jake, please put the drink down and make some phone calls, Mom, Dad, a friend, a hotline, someone. Get some help cuz it ain’t that bad. I’m disappointed as hell, but I take solace in the fact that 50% of my country agrees with me, we aren’t alone. Just depressed and frustrated.
I’m not even drinking. This is just the way I feel. I had a very long talk with my wife, though, and I think I’ll live.
F__k you, Barry Hussein. No matter how small a box you and your cohorts may try to put it in, life goes on… and when it breaks out of the box and explodes in your face, everyone with half an eye will be able to see that you’re to blame.
Jake we no longer have the luxury to choose a hard scrabble life like our pioneer forbears could chose or not, for the sake of opportunity and manifest destiny. Sorry, EPA regs won’t allow that. Having grown up on a little farm, 4H, all that was precious is long gone before tonight. That little family 15 acre farm is a subdivision in Middle TN.
You just described New York and New Jersey in the Sandy aftermath. Now both states are about to find out there is not enough FEMA dollars big enough to repalce their stuff.
1) Don’t let them win that way.
2) Enjoy your life. Live it as best you can. The mistake 40M Americans made isn’t your mistake.
How about…..don’t give your enemies a reason to celebrate?
No need to damn yourself to Hell. You did nothing wrong by voting the way you did, or trying to live a decent life.
Have a strong, stiff drink. Or two. Take some time off to think. Step back from that ledge.
I’m pissed off, too. But damn if I would let those bastards have yet another victory tonight. (Besides, if you go…..you’ll miss the “entertainment” as the Reality Based Community encounters reality for the first time evah.)
How do we keep the bastards honest?
We don’t. Period. End. Of. Discussion.
Obama has plenty of mandate. The people love him. They don’t care about Benghazi, or Fast and Furious, or the economy. They want free money, a big bird in every pot and lots of goodies. They think teh Won will give them that. They lurve him.
The problem isn’t Obama. The problem is America.
Some of you are on the right track here. As counter-intuitive as it seems, we need to focus less on politics and more on fundamental things, such as education. The politics will then largely take care of itself. Read Ayn Rand to learn more about the fundamental things that we need to change.
Sorry. I quit. There is no fight left in me. The moochers have won – I hope they enjoy what they inherit. Thank the gods I have no children, and now, I have no future.
I’m with you Bro! I’m done! My country sucks!
I’m going to unplug and move to a really rural place! See you at the rapture!
What’s more fundamental than education and economics?
Demographics. Even if you can win now via some miracle, do you think the demographic trends are in your favor four years, ten years, twenty years down the road?
Demographics is destiny. Say bye bye to your country.
I would wish you all well, and the best in weathering the coming storm.
I have been praying, quite literally, for Obama’s defeat and failure. But in all things, God’s will be done. I fear that America has many sins to pay for, and another Obama term will be a part of that payment. I’ll go back to reading the Old Testament some more.
Try Ezekiel.
The pslams on a warm sunny Texas morning, almost heaven.
Its pretty simple ; get rid of Norquist/Rove and Company. The hijacking of the core to suit their ego’s will destroy the GOP. It already cost the 2012 election and it will tear out the nation’s heart and Soul in the end.
Get rid of the egomaniacs dictating the Republican Core before its too late.
I certainly agree with you about Rove. He is one man who should shut up & retire. He represents almost everything negative about the Republican party.
Dude, it’s not the spokesmen, it’s the free prize everybody expects.
Cracker Jacks sales went down when they started giving away cheap surprises. ( Although Rove bugs me to no end )
A country that is facinated with something called Snooki is beyond hope. Really!
More than ever I am in agreement with Ann Coulter, women should not vote.
I was just thinking I would gladly sacrifice my vote as a woman to repair this country by not letting women vote at all.
Hell, I’d be tempted to ask for my “free” sex change operation if I didn’t have a husband who would strenuously object.
My own gender disgusts me.
So long, America. The country I once knew is long gone. Time to watch out for my family and a few friends.
In December 2005 I was looking at a pile of dirty dishes in my sink thinking of how Bush had tried to fight the jihadis but was definitely getting mixed results while the Democrats were doing worse and I found myself saying of the American left that “they have an election or two left in them, but they are done.” Well, this is their second election and it looks like they have won it. What I did not see coming in 2005 was the Bush deficit combined with the housing bubble and the Obama deficit. Today, I see what we are doing is buying 1.5% GDP growth with trillions in deficit spending and I don’t think that is sustainable. I voted for Romney because I thought he could give us more time to back off Walter Russell Meade’s Blue Social Model and encourage the invention the real new business we need to recover. I don’t think Romney could have backed off enough on the spending just because you can’t throw large portions of the public sector out of work and expect to not have serious social unrest. But I believe he would have gotten the private sector going better than Obama will. That said I think what is happening over all is that the US has been too rich, too long and its institutions public and private have grown too fat. Not just government. The US spends 16% on healthcare, Australia 8.5% and Australia covers everybody and has both a public and optional private system plus the health outcomes are better. That means the US is paying about double. Obamacare caps spending to 16.5% of GDP by 2017. How is that going to work out? Look at higher education. It may well be worse in terms of value for money. I notice that there are 5 different police departments on I95 in Florida where my son drives the kids to school. In Western Australia we have one department. There is fat in our government for sure, but there is also fat in our private sector. In Australia I pay $10 a month for all the calls and data I need. Last visit, the cheapest plan in the US I could find was $40 a month from T Mobile – I went without. My CPAP mask is $411.00 through US Medicare with a $50 co-pay. I can buy it from the specialist US CPAP suppliers on the net for $125 any time. $50-$75 on Amazon when it is available.(Those last ones are what I think of as real businesses!) So – my point is that the US is so overweight economically in so many areas that it seems to me that some kind of failure is the only way to end our unsustainable way of doing things. The defined benefit state and local government pensions have caught the attention of both Democratic and Republican politicians. That is the kind of start we need – recognition of the problem. Washington hasn’t really recognized it yet and neither, evidently, have the American public. But remember we are not orderly people like Germans or Chinese – we muddle through. And to paraphrase John Paul Jones – we have not yet begun to muddle.
I can appreciate what you are saying. Yet the major #1 reason for the items you stated that are expensive compared to Australia is government-imposed regulations. Many people realize this but the politicians don’t have the guts to tackle the problem, probably because their hands are in the till.
As much as I felt Bush was a decent man he was not a good president, his spending was prolific, his efforts at Compassionate Conservatism a misguided attempt to recapture the Regan Dems and Blue Dog center, his Iraqi gambit more of a tribute to his father’s legacy than a real American threat, his leadership during the melt down was awful. Bush did try to rein in the Housing mess before is collapsed but could not get cooperation from Republicans or Dems. As bad as Bush was he set the wheels in motion for the horror we have now.
Bush I think will be rated as better than average after several decades are past. He should have only voucherized and not expanded Medicare, and he should have considered no bank as to big to fail.
I just want to know, what’s the percentage of precincts reporting? Why are we giving up now? Has Mitt conceded? I’m not giving up!!!
Ohio Secretary of State is reporting 77% with a dead heat, while the news is saying 74% with Obama by 20,000+.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if the Ohio call is wrong if Obama wins more states.
I wonder what the deal is with military ballots.
Media. I’m done with Fox, by the way. That phone-hacking something-or-other has scared them into collaborating with the Dark Powers.
Yes, FOX even announced their intent to go “main stream” at the beginning of the year. I’m done with them as well.
Who is John Galt? Well, it’s easy to say “I am” when you have the wherewithal to stop and become a hermit.
It’s a different story when you have been on unemployment so long you can no longer debate about food vs. mortgage because there just isn’t anything left to spend. And that’s where I’ll be in another month or two.
I’m not ready to pick up a gun and start blazing away (too old, too fat, no guns); but I sure wish I still lived in the same country I grew up in…
Yes, that’s the part that sucks. Like I keep telling my young adult/teen kids, I’m set (unless the financial world comes to a complete and total end in which case it doesn’t really matter). This election was about them- the son who will be out of college in a year and a half and the daughter who just started, and the teenager. They need work. They have to play this game.
What will their future be? I can go Galt tomorrow (thanks to Obamacare, LOL), but they can’t. And that’s what keeps me in the game.
Thank you for this. I am printing it and placing it on my fridge. We will not stop fighting. And Chris Christie, I pray with all my heart that your career in the Republican party is FINISHED. You are a traitor to the country. You sold your sole to the devil.
Meant “soul” not “sole.” I am sad and frustrated and didn’t catch my typo.
Oor you were at your refridgerator and thinking of dinner?
I will never surrender my mind to these thugs. Eff them and all they stand for. I refuse to love Big Brother.
Hiding in a corner, writing out in long hand “Down with BB!”, away from the watchful eye of my web cam.
Room 101 awaits us Thought Criminals, comrade. See you there.
The West has turned its back on God and has thoroughly betrayed our Judeo-Christian foundations.
“Turn back, O man . . .” but we don’t know the way and we’re blind too.
Kyrie eleison.
For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Lord, if it is possible, let this cup pass from us, but not our will but thine be done.
Amen.
Romney. Meh.
The American people have just bought themselves a ride with Thelma and Louise.
Well thank god(Obama) for the free abortions and birth control. I wouldn’t inflict this world on a child if you paid me.
Vodkapundit writes: “That means people like me — people like you — failed our country. We had years to make the case, and we didn’t. We worked our bottoms off, but it wasn’t enough.”
Pardon me sir, but this is absolute bullshit. It’s not your fault. It’s not my fault. No matter how hard we worked or will work in the future means jack shit. The fact of the matter is that ~50% of this once great country are complete mind-numb, brainwashed zombies. They are lost forever.
I for one am looking forward to a harsh and total collapse of our country – and soon – to wipe those fucking facebook smiles of their smug faces.
I really can’t believe how far we have sunk. This country is a joke. We’re finished. You can bet on that.
Sorry, can’t do it. I went and volunteered today for Mitt to keep the voting honest. And I guess this is honestly what my countrymen want. Lots of “free” crap that somehow, someone else is gonna pay for.
Message received.
The business I have, and was going to put into a new direction in 2013? Don’t think so. Looks like I am gonna shut that mutha down. Hell if I’m gonna work my tail off so that Oblah-blah’s fan club can tax the daylights out of it.
If I do travel outside the US with my family….the kids are traveling under their foreign-born Daddy’s passport. Sorry, but my kids deserve better security than what our government provides our ambassadors. I’ll take my chances with my US passport, but I have to protect my children.
My kids will suddenly develop asthma and maybe ADHD. Flat feet, too. I’ll see if that doctor I know who said he’s gonna quit if the president got another term will help me make my boy draft proof. Maybe Oblah-blah will just have to find some kids from Chicago or some other blue-state hellhole to fight his next “kinetic military action.”
And that’s just for starters.
Can’t become a taker, yet. Still have some pride. But hell if I’m gonna go support any more parasites than I absolutely, positively have to.
The Republic is over. I give up. I’m going Galt. I’m cashing out – in every sense of the word. The America I knew and loved is gone. The 47% has won. But me and the other 53% refuse to be tapped. I’m calling Elon tomorrow to ask to pre-book a ticket to Mars.
Same here, screw it, not one more dime goes into the coffers of the corrupt.
I give it about 30 – 36 months before total economic collapse
1. What the fuck is wrong with your compatriots?
2. I fear this is the start of a new dark age (insofar as the values of the Enlightenment are codified in the Iling U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights).
3. Move to Canada while you still can. Our Constitution, while not as good as yours was, is still in one piece and we have a conservative government that is attempting to keep the Enlightenment alive.
4. I am so sorry.
Maybe after the shock wears off I won’t be so pessimistic and will live up to Vodkapundit’s advice.
Or Australia. It’s warmer.
The people have chosen the path of death: abortion and contraception mean more to them than anything else.
Sweet lord! Now what?
I’m trying really, really hard not to hate-hate-hate the people who voted for that incompetent, lazy, narcissistic scuzzball 0bama again.
F-U, Commie bastids.
Yesterday, I was like you and hated the liberals because I thought they were stupid. After tonight, I am convinced that those liberals are even more stupid than I thought.
I will now spend more time at church and volunteer more. When I meet up with a democrat or a Obama supporter, I will then attempt to be more stupid than them by being more like them, if that is possible.
We all seem to understand what our delusional countrymen seem unable to. Earlier I attributed Obama’s success to an immature population who thinks prosperity and security are historical norms. People get their worldview early in life so I doubt any amount of economic turmoil will enlighten them, they will just look for another savior who looks pretty and can promise fantastic things when things don’t go as good as they think they should.
America did die tonight. One Obama election may have been a fluke. Now it’s official, we’re Argentina, a rich country where the people have sh*t for brains.
To think, a neurotic crackpot, who screwed everything he touched, caught on tape betraying the interests of his country, betrayed our allies, wrecked the economy, revealed himself as small, mean and dishonest was able to pull this off. The American people deserves what it will get.
I hope it hurts real bad.
As I write, Obama has stole the election and won the Presidency for another four to I don’t know how many years. The nation is lost.
When I use the term, “nation”, I don’t mean the country we used to call the United States of America because as of three minutes ago, when Ohio fell, the United States of America existed only in memories.
It now is ruled by criminals; not just Barack Obama, Eric Holder and the rest, but the people; the citizens who sullied the concept of the free election; the citizenry who served as election judges; who criminally and intentionally turned Romney votes into acts of corruption. They shoulder as much blame as Obama. The citizenry has spoken. The flag some of us revere they spit on.
The American government gets it power from the people, and enough Americans are corrupt to the core that the corruption doesn’t just travel from the top down, but nowadays from the bottom up, too.
Where it meets is no place I want to be.
Where there is so much corruption in the citizenry, there is no United States of America, no U.S. that stands for what is good, honest and just. The nation that saved the world from Hitler now is Nazi Germany in its infancy.
This nation is corrupt inside and out.
I hereby denounce my citizenship.
For as I define the United States of America, there is no United States of America to be a citizen of. The nation has lost it moral compass. Its direction is decidedly evil.
It will sit by idly as Israel is nuked. In fear, the people will sense they are next. In reality, they will be right. Obama will take a European vacation when the vaporizing of this once proud nation begins.
Sad to say, but evil did overcome good.
Yogi said, “it ain’t over till it’s over.” Well, number 8, it’s over. The fat lady sung. Goodbye.
Israel is hung out to dry. Thanks liberal American Jews. You just torched the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You traded Jehovah for Marx a long time ago anyway.
If all this is true, America has had its last chance, failed it, and is now finished in every sense of the word. Obama will declare himself dictator, the constitution will be scrapped, there will be no more elections, all of George Orwell’s foresights will now come to pass, and the great experiment in free republican government envisioned by the Founders has finally reached an ignominious and disgraceful end. Lincoln’s “last, best hope of Earth” will now become nothing more than a European socialist basket case like Greece. Islamism and sharia will now be free to dominate the entire world, just as they have been predicting. The only emotion one can now feel for this wretched, miserable nation is shame and embarrassment and for the first time in my 76 years of life, I am ashamed to be an American. You are wrong, Mr. Green. It is indeed time to quit because we have just proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is nothing left to fight for.
Stephen. Thanks for your thoughts. It helps to read/re-read what you wrote. I am calmer now.
I will not give up. I will fight even harder to get my perspective across. I will fight for what I feel is the right direction for America and what I think is right for my children….Or I will die trying.
Conservatives and Republicans are resilient. We will walk this off and get back in the game. Probably just need some time away from the battle to get a better perspective
Hi from Paris, France, where it’s 6 AM.
I belong to the few Romney supporters in my country and I feel really sorry and sad at the moment.
If Stephen is right in it’s “pre post-mortem” article (and I think he is), and as kind of said Rik, there may actually be something in common in the understanding of Obama’s reelection and Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat last may. A sort of deny of reality.
The problem is that if in France this kind of bad political choice is something usual, I really thought that Americans would not, or could not, do the same. Precisely because they’re Americans… I feel like something is broken tonight.
Anyway, cheers & good luck !
Thank you for you kind wishes. I’m afraid we’ll need them.
It certainly looks like Obama is the return of Bush. I didn’t think Bush had a chance in 04, but his base came out for him.
I suppose the silver lining is that the a couple states might flip back to red, and Romney might even win the popular vote. Obama will be lame duck in 2 years (just like Bush), or maybe sooner depending on how Obamacare fares.
I think we can officially put to rest all the scrutinizing over the polls. They were right in 2010, and they were right in 2012 – although it was a bit closer than expected.
I remember a study done within the last 5 years that indicated that about 20% of the electorate really knows what the issues are. The other 80% are basically one issue voters and about how the system can benefit them. If this is correct we are indeed getting the government we deserve. I think the conclusion to all of this cannot be escaped. The populace will tap the treasury until there is nothing left….like greece, france, portugal, et. al. We are indeed like other countries. I think its just human nature that if you are getting something for what seems nothing you want more of it. It is also the most effective way to get votes.
My sister totally bought the war on women meme, her main issues of course Romney would take away her right to an abortion (at her age?) and the second income equality for women, never mind she makes more than me or her husband.
Bob Schieffer had the most interesting comment of the evening IMHO. Basically, this election cost about $6 billion when you add up all the Congressional races and add them to the Presidential total. And the needle barely moved; we have essentially the same cast of characters we had before.
We The People like things as they are right now. We know what we want and deserve to get it good and hard!
I am also giving Vox Day’s blog a new, more serious read.
Sadness and disgust.
So, go on a bender tonight, or a few benders this week. I will.
Then get your shit together and understand that we do not have a choice and failure is not an option. Where are you GOING, folks? Canada? South America?
Where are you going to go that recognizes your right to own a gun? And, let’s face it, without that right the others are a joke. And what about your right to free speech. Exercise it, Goddamnit!
Drink. Drink til you’ve had your fill. Drink til you’re falling down and puking. But understand this. You are AMERICANS and AMERICANS DO NOT SUBMIT.
AMERICANS ARE EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE and WE DO NOT QUIT OUR FREEDOM.
I have 2 young sons and a wife and I am not quitting. If you see it differently, go piss off. You’re toxic to me.
WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THAT THE RIGHT AND NECESSARY AND GOOD THING IS GOING TO BE THE EASY THING? Own your life, folks. Don’t let these idiots piss it away for you because you’re TIRED. Get used to TIRED. Get used to the idea that you may fight all of your life and not be able to claim a victory, but at least you’ll be able to claim your own life.
Your back and my back are up against it. That’s a nasty reality right now and I hate it. I hate thinking about what my boys are going to have to deal with in every sphere. I hate thinking about four more f–king years of this.
Plenty of people overcome cancer. We can damn well beat this.
Sorry, but your speech sounded better in the origional Animal House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
But, recall, at the end of the day the Delta house still got kicked off campus….
Don’t let the door hit your sorry ass on the way out.
Now do you plan to fight what the majority consider the new norm? By 2016 we will have a dictatorship of the bureaucracy like they do in Europe, then another Obama will promise a 35 hour work week. How will you fight that when you have a hedonistic population? Are you going to promise the people a better business environment, or perhaps better alliances to protect our freedoms?
Circumstances that are beyond our ability to control dictate realities. If the US is to be saved it will not be due to our planning or intentions, but to something unforeseen, at least by me. As of tonight, the last best hope for mankind, the defender of freedom in the world, is a memory.
The president is not a king and people have the right and obligation to lay claim to their own lives. The reach of this despicable administration is not infinite. As to the unforeseen event that may cause the displacement of something we thought inevitable, that event is always a possibility and you are beyond wise to keep it in your considerations. We just don’t know what the future holds. But I’m going to do my best to endure it.
To offer a little perspective, my family is going to a speaker event at a Jewish Temple and hear a presentation about…European death camps of WW2.
Get a grip, people. We aren’t anywhere NEAR to dire straites.
I agree, all this moping does us no good.
The economy will be affected by Sandy and the coming Obamacare. With the House still in control, Obama won’t be able to do whatever he wants. No president can.
Obama is a personally popular candidate, that’s been established. But his individual policies are not.
We hold the line. We stop what we can and endure what we have to.
With you all the way, Terence. “The north wind made the Vikings.”
A while ago, a tiny creature—I think probably a mole or vole—was trapped at the bottom of the outside stairs to my basement. They are steep and curved, ending in a tiny landing at their base.
Armed with a very soft, short-handled broom and small plastic bucket, I crept down hoping to corral him and set him free elsewhere on the property. Between my size ten feet and his speed, I turned round and round dizzingly.
Just as I thought I had him successfully cornered, he turned to face me, reared up on his tiny hind legs, and “roared” for all he was worth. If I could have swept him into my arms, given him a soothing stroke, and outfitted him in a tiny T-shirt with a big yellow ‘S’ on it, I would have. Then he took off yet again.
Armed with renewed determination to persist as gently as I could for as long as it took, I soon had him in the bucket, miraculously unharmed, and released him in a secluded, woody area where I hoped he would be safe to fight another day.
I have thought of this tiny creature’s bravery countless time since. I believe strength of character is the greatest of all human qualities, and find defeatism and impotent passivity repulsive. I also believe it is against nature—all part of what I call this culture of death we seem to have spawned.
If this spectacular country and the free lives we live here aren’t worth fighting for, then nothing is. So for me, there is simply no other option than to redouble our efforts. All else is death.
You’ve got soul.
For whatever reason my wife and I have been reading, first, A WRINKLE IN TIME, and now A WIND IN THE DOOR, to the boys. Edifying and eerie.
Love the story of the mole. Bet you’re a helluva mom.
Thanks. Terry
Thanks for your kind words, Terry. They mean more than you might imagine.
Perhaps if I had had the courage, I might have made a good mom, but I feared it would come at the price of my sanity (a fate that befell my Mother, a musician whose “hypersensitive wiring,” as Kay Redfield Jamison calls it, I inherited) and was too terrified of that possibility to take the chance. By the time I grew enough self-confidence to hazard the risk, it was too late in the game. But the Almighty in His infinite wisdom knows what He’s doing and I’m OK with it.
(Hope all that wasn’t off-putting as TMI from a complete stranger in an inappropriate setting. It seems with age I’m feeling more strongly about letting someone know the impact a simple kindness of theirs may have had. Yours has made my day.)
@MayberryLady
I tried unsuccessfully to reply to your last post a couple of days ago. Don’t know what it is about servers.
So, now a different set of thoughts days later. Thank you for your kind words as well. A person of substance lives with regrets, sometimes terrible ones. It’s only “Too Much Info” when someone talks and says nothing. Aristotle said that we become courageous by doing courageous things. Facing the whole of one’s life in an effort to progress beyond it is no small effort; all of reality comes to bear in the task. You sound like a person on good terms with reality.
Now, that story of the mole. DULCE DOMUM in THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS comes to mind (courtesy of my family), especially this time of year. A Vintage Port for cooler weather and a tonic when we forget the friendships that we have. Look forward to reading more of you. Best, T
@Terence57
Bless you! I just ordered a copy of “Wind in the Willows,” and look forward to reading it by the fire, where my thoughts will doubtless turn to you and your family…and “my” Mole!
I think you’re on to something there, Bob. It’s the consumerist society. The US population just cares about the latest, next cool thing. Comfort and entertainment. It’s like having the BMW parked outside one’s tiny little apartment. You can’t have the big things- a great career, a family, a home. So the focus is on what you can have. Goals are hard, and the job market is stacked against people anyway, so why try?
So, it is down to 4 States, and Romney must win them all, FL, VA, OH, & CO… and CO is going for Obama. Romney keeps getting 47% in the expanded battleground States, and he is getting that in CO. So, what’s the damned deal in CO? Even the skewed polls had Romney up.
Well this is a time to try men’s souls. I see the pain in all these notes above, and ask you to be gentle with yourselves. The short game is lost, now we have to work on the long game. We did a good job in winning back the house in 2010, and looks like we got even more seats this year, so we still control the purse strings.
The next step is to ask as citizens how we can affect change from the bottom up.
Please think about this.
Yep. Seek out the people that offer intelligent optimism. And humor, lots of it.
I am amazed and sickened by the whole thing- my faith in the “American people” is gone. The teat of Big Gubmint is way too attractive to the spineless MTV Facebook crowd. As long as they have endless sports and unreality TV to watch, at least half of the public is happy.
I will continue to prepare for the shitstorm approaching-I urge all to do the same. May GOD have mercy on us , though we sure don’t deserve it. . . . .Chris Christie- I hope there is a special place in hell for you and your buddy barry. . . . .
That would be the 8th circle if I recall Dante correctly
Thank you for your level headed message, Stephen.
I have been lurking in your blogs for about ten years and have thoroughly enjoyed your posts.
Hard to believe it’s been that long.
We gave it our best shot and our country still made this choice. It’s time to take stock of our situation:
This is not the country we grew up in and it is about make an irrevocable transformation to something ugly.
Anyhow, you take care as you are about to become an enemy of the state.
I’m reading elsewhere that OH, VA, and FL should be close enough to trigger a recount. Not that Democrats with polling machines in their trunks aren’t totally prepared for that, but so, I think, are Romney’s lawyers. I know it’s like grasping at straws, but I don’t like to give up without scrutinizing this bizarre result.
I am seriously depressed right now, but if Romney wants to fight this — given the amount of blatant fraud by Democrats reported today — then I think we should be willing to fight alongside him.
Agreed. And what about the military ballots that never got there?
You’d be amazed at how difficult it was to even get a military ballot this year. At least from my state. I’d bet a majority of us are voting in Texas, Florida, or California anyway. Not much help there, no matter how you slice it. It’s still a terrible shame.
What the hell is taking FL and VA so long to report their damned totals? Geez! They have been stuck at about 96-97% for some damned time, now, inching slowly forward.
Anyway, it looks like they will not matter, because CO is going to put Obama over the top, it seems.
After the OJ trial I never recovered my faith in the legal system. In my political lifetime this was one of two hinge elections. (1980 was the other.) So now the choice is to take Stephen’s advice and still try to shovel sand against the tide, or to implement a variation of Going Galt — perhaps with the help of an LDS style food bank and consultation with Smith, Wesson, and Colt. Maybe moving from a blue state to a red state will delay the effects on us, for those who are able to relocate. Those with a client base and deep roots and friends/family will find that difficult, but I suppose the same applied to those wise enough to leave Germany in the ’30′s.
It is very hard not to be gloomy. How many Executive Orders will be issues in the next four years? How many SCOTUS Justices will he seat? What will happen to health care? (Doctors WILL be going Galt.) Will the Islamists prevail throughout the Arab world? (This one seems certain.) What will happen when Europe collapses? Four years from now what will our military strength be? And what will happen with Israel? Or Iran? Will we have permanent unemployment over 7% and gasoline over $4? When will the inflation hit?
Most important: have we forfeited our Western Civilization’s inheritance and taken our decisive steps toward the next Dark Ages? I cringe at the thought of what our children and grandchildren will face. My faith in the American voter has taken a severe hit. Have we already passed the point of no return in which those receiving benefits from the government exceed those who are supporting the government? I thought we were still one cycle away from that. I was wrong.
I brought my wife from overseas to come live in the US (where I grew up) six years ago. I have worked hard in my life, and have a small nest egg. I wanted to give her the best possible life. Since then, I have been taxed right and left, and am on constant guard from being swindled. I have been told that I am “greedy” for wanting to keep more than half of what I work for. I have been informed by people that don’t even know me that I need to “give back” (to them, invariably). I have been told that, despite 60-hour weeks, I am the problem. With this election, I am actually ashamed of many of my countrymen.
I was proud of the 2010 elections, but now know that we have reached a tipping point and that it isn’t “47% dependent” on the producers, but well over 50%, and now they know to vote. This election terrifies me, because we had a chance to recover (not a guarantee, but a chance), but instead chose “more pie!” We had a chance, if we bit the bullet and sacrificed (and it would have hurt), but the continuation of the status quo means it is a near mathematical certainty that the crash is going to come, and come hard. Tend your gardens and keep your generators clean, my friends. There is no recovery from the spending spree we are on, and the repercussions are building daily. When it hits, it is going to be fast…and harsh.
Mr. Green’s words of exhortation are honorable, but I fear futile. A majority of people in this country have chosen taking rather than making; how do you combat generational theft and lethargy? There is no managing this; there will only be surviving it. I wish you and yours all the best. Brace yourselves. As horrible as this sounds, for the sake of my family, I’m thinking now of taking my wife back to her homeland, where hard work is still considered a positive, and those who demand “free” stuff are scorned rather than celebrated.
Completely stunned. I had convinced myself that the last four years would be an anomaly and we would be back on track again. Almost as stunning is the Senate where Democrats had an overwhelming number of seats to defend compared to Republicans and looks in the end to be little changed.
It’s hard to think that it’s been 32 years already since the last incompetent was voted out of office and Reagan was a bright light for 8 years. Is all that lost now?
I can’t freaking believe all the quitters here. I come from your future — Brezhnev’s USSR — where free-thinking and intelligent people have been culled for generations until crude slaves dominated all. And people still braved the KGB nutrackers to speak truth to power. Of course without the US pressure on the Reds the dissidents would not have gotten far and now we are here and there’s no other place to go. To the secessionists among you — this revolution will come after you, just like Islam will. The stand to take is here, not behind another retreat.
Do you guys at PJMedia really feel a photo op and a few nice words from Chris Christie really might have turned this election? There is no right or wrong answer. I’m just curious.
Hear me out.
Who the heck are we fooling? I feel terrible tonight for Mitt Romney. Clearly, he is the more qualified candidate. Who wouldn’t be?
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New York has been handled no better than New Orleans and possibly much worse. New Jersey may never ever fully recover unless billions of dollars are poured into it and I have no idea where that would come from. And Barack Obama is to be congratulated for his Presidential management? It that some kind of sick joke?
I’ve watched Elizabeth Warren get away with lies that would make Baghdad Bob blush and be elected. I’ve watched two men be handily defeated for Senator because they clumsily once misspoke about rape?
I’ve witnessed a crime a thousand times worse than Watergate be covered up without penalty or much coverage.
If over 50% of our citizens so corrupt, so shallow, so fickle, so unteachable, and dare I say so stupid, with double standards so glaring themselves completely amoral, perhaps we shouldn’t be planning a new path to an election win, but a path of separation.
Why are we not starving the beast starting tomorrow? Why are we not building our own universities, at the very least stopping the donations? Why are we conducting business with those who vote against us? Why are buying one GM or Chrysler car? Are we so hard up that we can’t do without Broadway or a Hollywood movie?
There are a million ways more effective to fight this war against a populace that has figured out they can suck at the teat without payment or penalty. And that is really what this election is all about. That and aborting their babies, as if that some virtue.
Why don’t we band together and perform a little Saul Alinsky in reverse starting tonight? Why can’t we overload the system ourselves? Why can’t we hire only Republicans? Why can’t we drag our feet in arrears or slice a little on the taxes? Hmmm… I might enjoy slacking for a time and watching some of these feckless bastards scramble.
We don’t have to advertise it. Just do it tacitly, quietly. You find out somebody is an Obama supporter, you make them first on the list out the door when the business slows. That kind of stuff.
But I can’t do it myself.
I totally agree. We have to understand that we are the new minorities and we need to use the same tactics the progressives started decades ago to make themselves the majority.
I don’t mean to sound bitter and crazy, but what is the real possibility of secession?
Man, you are so on it.
ExACTly. Our house does not feed the beast. We almost took the boys to the movies once, but it was so loud they asked to leave. No kidding. We pick out good stuff at the library.
The thing is, you are absolutely right. Every time you get a chance, starve the cancer. And it is…cancer. A lot of survivors owe their existence to hanging on long enough until a treatment materialized that worked for them.
We hang on and quietly antagonize, obfuscate, muddle and irritate our adversary. Mostly, we are tenacious and play the long game. We have to survive before we can thrive.
Thanks for your realistic and creative assessment.
That isn’t going to work.
As long as you have so-called conservatives who praise the goodness of the latest excrement from a company who hired a misogynist who donated $1 million to Obama, people will follow the status quo.
As long as you have so-called conservatives who gush all over some dinky movie made by an anti-American pro-Obama actor, people will follow the status quo.
AS long as you have squishy so-called conservatives who bend over and allow the LSM to continue spreading lies and misinformation, instead of, you know, actually FIGHTING them as the enemy they obviously are, people will follow the status quo.
Forget it. Hope you so-called conservatives enjoyed your whining about Ron Paul and the Libertarian party.
IMO there was much more than money for NJ behind all that back-slapping and conviviality.
If it hadn’t been for the GOP’s relentless efforts to screw us over, we might have been more willing to vote for them.
The Republican Party is not automatically entitled to the votes of whichever groups it has decided belong to it.
95 years.
That is all it took. Nov 7 1917 when Russia was overtaken by Communists.
Nov 6, 2012 when USA embarked on the same route.
I have nothing more to say.
God bless you all.
Andy
I’m waiting to see what the Romney/Ryan camp and attorneys do. In the meantime, I’m going to get some sleep, and and putting my trust in God. But this I will not do— I will not give up.
Oaksmiles, where is your wife from, because I have been wondering what the most free and conservative nation is now that the U.S. has elected its first tyrant?
So, the great American experiment with individual freedom is ending. We will now shackle ourselves with the yoke of serfdom. Our children elected this monster and now they have re-elected him. We are getting old but we have to remember that it was us who raised these kids to be do nothing imbeciles and we will carry that burden with us to our graves. Things will not get better before they get a lot worse, our children will live in hellish times, and I can only thank God that I won’t. What a generation we have been. We have exterminated the shining light on the hill. Sheesh.
With regard to Akin and Mourdoch, next time around can we please get candidates–who if they are against any abortion for any reason, by any means, at any time–can at least stick to reciting the platform plank without embellishment?
That’s two Senate pickups lost to diarrhea of the mouth.
And if it played any part in Romney’s loss, Goddamn Akin to hell.
I think Ben Bernanke saved the election for Obama. Without the pumping, things would have been worse. Because of the pumping, things will be even worse in the future, but it delayed the pain long enough for people to be comfortable re-electing Obama.
It’s OK to feel despair, as long as you push through it and reach the other side.
Here’s an article on a similar situation. Hopefully ours does not turn out the same:
http://www.themodernsurvivalist.com/archives/2451
The stupidest way to fight is to say that we will try harder in 2016 to do the same thing we failed to do in 2012. Einstein’s definition of insanity… The answer is to do something different. For example:
1) Nominate an actual eloquent conservative for a change
2) Have every elected conservative ‘go nuclear’ on every procedural action in every level of government in order to stymie any progressive initiatives
3) Attack Democrat a$$holes explicitly at every opportunity
4) State nullification
5) Secession
6) Declare war
7) something else different, etc.
How about we stop nominating Republican candidates because the establishment feels like it is their turn! I liked Romney, but was never excited by him altogether. So far in my lifetime I have been subjected to the likes of Dole, McCain, Romney and W. that is not a crowd of people one gets enthused about.
Apparently, the American electorate agrees with you.
I’m with you. We need to stop thinking that its all about “we didn’t have the right guy” or “next time we are going to have a real conservative.” Folks- 50+% voted for a socialist, what the hell makes you think the issue was Romney was too moderate?
We need to get outside the box, we’re getting the shit beat out of us inside it. I’m with CP, I’m thinking crazy, revolutionary stuff, like;
1.Republican states nullifying Fed law.
2.Red states with large Blue urban centers, talk about splitting into two states (changing electoral college and Senate representation.)
3.Secession
Face it, we can’t win in the current setup and rules, we need to change them at the state level wherever we can.
So far, I see a couple of things to blame for tonight’s fiasco.
1. Ballot initiatives: when your own platform won’t do the trick in swing states, entice the voters to turnout with issues like same-sex marriage, legalized marijuana, and constitutionally guaranteed collective bargaining; these are issues guaranteed to attract the liberals aka Democrats and young/naive voters.
2. Early voting. As I have said before, there’s a reason it’s called Election Day, and when voting starts in some places six weeks before the day set by law to vote for the President, too much can happen, both to change the critical issues that might determine voting patterns, and the cast ballots themselves, especially in critical states like Ohio, with its loosey-goosey voter registration and electoral integrity rules to begin with; and there is really no excuse for 30-40% of the election to be a done deal so far ahead of time. In a state that won’t even require voter ID, will permit the same-day registration and voting of people who claim a park bench as their address, is it so far fetched to consider huge numbers of fabricated or destroyed ballots? Voting in advance of an election, or outside of the designated venues, should be the exception rather than the rule, a rare and unavoidable circumstance due to travel, legal commitments, illness or infirmity, or military service. At the very least, the practice appears to distort the polls we increasingly use as barometers to gauge the mood of the electorate.
There still seems to be a real disconnect between the rage in the country pre-election and tonight’s results. Perhaps the next few days’ worth of demographic analysis will shed some light. As for me, I am just trying to get a handle on it to make some sense of knowing my country’s survival is truly endangered.
It’s nearly 0200 hours, EST, and I’m too depressed to try to get any sleep. I’m a 71-year-old woman who worked hard all her life, served her Nation as an Air Force officer during the Vietnam War, and for almost 30 years tried to teach important things to college students — students who over the years became less and less capable of thought because of the indoctrination they’d received in lower schools that supporting an idea with evidence was not only unnecessary but suspect.
Our Nation was once a true land of opportunity. My grandparents came here and worked hard so their children could rise from poverty and succeed — and they did. Then those children worked hard so THEIR children could do even better. And we did. However, I interrupt this inspiring story to add that my mother and one of her sisters, after having the benefit of all this opportunity, became socialists. Who knows why people reject freedom? (Can it be the old offer, “You shall be as gods”?) Ironically, both children of these socialists — my Navy cousin (who died this year) and I — turned back to freedom, and to its defense.
I look around — and yes, I now live in Ohio, one of the freedom-rejecting states — and I see opportunity buried under regulations, taxes, suppression of free speech, government and union thuggery, the fall of the rule of law. I’m 71 years old, and when Obamacare kicks in fully, I face a 25% reduction in my retirement income, increased costs of everything, and, of course, death panels. I have no family left except a (leftist) cousin in New York. Where do I go from here? I’m too old to leave the country, even if there were any place to go, with too few resources to start over anyway.
Sorry to go on like this. One thing Romney did for me during his campaign was remind me of how great this Nation once was, how much I loved her, enough to turn my back on my red-diaper upbringing and join the Air Force in the midst of the antiwar/anti-America uprisings of the late 1960s, and how much I love her still. I know there must be a way to save her again, as she’s been saved from self-destruction in the past. But I don’t know how … and I’m old now.
God save America and restore her greatness of heart.
God love you.
My pre-teen sons were pretty quiet today because they knew what their parents felt about the importance of this election. Well, we aren’t going to sell them on our point of view by offering long faces and an attitude. As I read some of these comments this morning I am filled with a combination of sympathy and disgust.
Here YOU are, my friend, having transcended your beginnings, having served during the period most antagonistic to the military in history, and you love this country for what it has been and what it can still be. And there THEY are, the commenters on this board, who have convinced themselves that their encounter with a political setback puts them on a par with THE 300.
All this election does is separate the wheat from the chaff. We haven’t yet learned our lessons, but reality is the most resilient and tenacious taskmaster. My dad was born in 1910, a much older father to me than those of my peers. He not only lived, but worked through the Depression. He enlisted, at 32, in 1942. He explained his success, and the success of his peers this way,”I didn’t have any choice. I HAD to succeed.”
Well, that’s what you did, and that is the land we are headed toward.
Thanks again.
Terry
We’re permanently past the tipping point.
No Republican will be elected President for decades, if ever.
It’s FDR II.
The American Constitution is dead.
The Supreme Court will be packed with the Constitution’s enemies.
Finally, it’s time for American states to secede.
Hear me, Texas?
sheesh, what a bunch of quitters in these comments.
Nothing’s over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! And it ain’t over now.
Maybe we got complacent and over confident because of the smack down we gave Dems in 2010. Well, we had a setback tonight, a big one, but as several posters said above, the Sun’s gonna rise tomorrow and it’s a new day. And we’ll set our sights on 2014 and figure out how to cripple Obama’s Luddite energy policies, and fight him tooth and nail on his Europeanization of America.
But on the flip side: Obama’s about to inherit a lousy economy, massive deficits, and a fractured electorate, all from himself.
And we should also remember Mitt Romney and his family in our prayers. He fought a valiant, honorable campaign. He is a kind and decent man. America lost the chance for a President that would fight to make this country great. And we should remember that. Thank you Mitt.
Thanks, Mike. Great message. I’m sure if any of us have the right to feel downright awful it’s the Romneys. But I know they’ll keep right on praying and won’t give up on America either.
Those of us who advocate secession or nullification are not quitters…we are fighters. Insane people who want to retry our failed 2012 fight in 2014 are not our future. The Republican Party is dead.
Sorry Mr.Green, but I’m worn-out and spent.
There’s no hope now, only change.
The Republican Party is Dead.
Conservatism might even be dead.
Unless someone can come along that knows how to frame elections as something OTHER than the “White Males vs. Everybody Else” paradigm that the Progressives ride to victory every time.
We’re going to have to find a way to convince all the “grievance groups” that the Progressive Gravy Train is not in their best interests.
This is what bothers me about all of this… I’m in my twenties, I’m just starting out in making a life for myself, and I want a family and kids and a real future. But instead I get a country in aggressive decline, where I’m too young to do anything much about it but more than old enough to suffer its consequences for the rest of my life. This last four years has cost both me and my brother our futures – both of us are in professions (REAL professions) that have been utterly gutted by this administration.
All because our friends voted based on a few fringe issues that were disgracefully dragged forward by both parties in this election. Birth control, abortion? I’ll be thrilled if I can afford to have children in the future. Same sex marriage? I’m LGBT, and while I think there are compromises on this that should be reached, why should that part of my life take precedent over my brother living month to month, my father’s business being destroyed by bad economic policies? Green energy? Great, until gas prices go up so high I can’t drive anywhere except work. F*ck the rich people? Poverty hardly imparts nobility on its adherents.
This generation is selfish and short-sighted and ignorant. We voted for a candidate who promised us all the cool things we wanted, and none of the hard realities we needed to face. We have no idea the kind of destruction we’ve unleashed on ourselves with this. My generation is deeply, deeply enamored with the idea that we can remake human nature into whatever we want it to be. Short of a catastrophic smackdown from the greater realities of civilization (economic collapse, civil war, a serious international conflict, nuclear terrorism) I just don’t know what’s going to prove to us how stupid that is.
I don’t want to give up and emigrate to Singapore, but I don’t know what I can do about it, either.
Singapore might not be willing to welcome you with open arms either. We’re undergoing a resurgence of xenophobia at the moment. But if you’re willing to put your back into it, to commit your sons to our military draft, then by all means come on board!
”I don’t want to give up and emigrate to Singapore, but I don’t know what I can do about it, either.”
Perhaps you could consider joining Toastmasters and start speaking in colleges and universities around the country. Not that I think your verbal skills need any polishing—it’s just a union card/gambit that could get you in the door. Or some other door. Just get out there someplace where un-likeminded younger people congregate and unleash your ideas with enthusiasm.
In order to make a sale or sell an idea, people need to be able to see themselves in you or relate to you in some way. An obvious illustration of this is the successful use of “staging” when selling houses. One of the obviously huge issues in play with the youth vote is that their ability to identify with older (looking) people is at its absolute nadir in the college-immediate post-college period. You are still within a cohort they can relate to, while at the same time having a much more level-headed view of the world.
We need to fight fire with fire and develop a youth vote that understands and is committed to these principles in sufficient numbers to combat the less-than-cerebral masses who are too easily swayed by Madison Avenue’s and Hollywood’s ideas of what’s “cool.” We need to make the case that character; independent, critical thinking; the self-reliant way of life; and personal responsibility are what’s really cool.
Just my two cents.
From Bill Whittle: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-stratosphere-lounge
My ultimate thoughts on the events of the day. Spread the link around if you like — makes no difference to me.
youtu.be/OQ81h2aNiW4
I wont lie I am disappointed, not at Romney, not at the effort of those hard working individuals. We were 12 years too late, too late to wake up, too late to hit the breaks, we got soft and we might not be able to pull out of the flat spin that we find our selves in. World War 3 is coming and America is weakening very fast, many will die either in proxy wars or attacks on our own soil. Many will find them selves fighting on some forsaken beach somewhere to rid the world of evil once again. America might come back, or we might just drop the torch for the next Stewart of freedom if there is anyone left to pick it up. Or yet perhaps the seeds of armagedon are about to sprout and we can all go home. We cant quit now, we cant give up hope, we must bide our time always offering our hope for a brighter future. one day we will rise again, until we forget again. We are damned fools we never seem to learn from history and always seem doomed to repeat it.
I’m with SoftGlo in post 120. Bill Whittle has nailed it I think, even at a “blue-sky” stage. I’m done with this nonsense.
My first election was 1980 at 18 and going into the Navy. This was my LAST election. I don’t care anymore, and frankly haven’t had much hope for the USS Titanic in the last 8-10 years or so. This election has shown that as far as the citizenry is concerned, we as a nation have devolved into a barely distinguishable offshoot of the E.U. We did our damnedest and it wasn’t enough.
Think I’m wrong? Warren of the FairyTaleIndian reservation won. Allen West got beat. And the pollsters nailed this thing.
If what I read In the comments above hold true and we just roll over, we are done.
I, for one, am not ready to give up. I am not willing to give up my freedom. Call
your representatives – gridlock is good! Encourage your representative to oppose
The Bamster at every turn. Tell them to go over every executive order with a
Fine tooth comb. Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct! We still have the house. We can be a thorn
in the lefts side. Your children are worth it.
My “representatives” are all on the wrong side. They’ll be helping Barry, not opposing. I’m in California, nothing I’ve voted for has won in a very long time.
Good luck with that. It is now proven; lie, lie, lie and you win big. Get ready for higher taxes, high medical costs, higher everything but expectations.
Mr. Green;
Your catch phrase has a typo. It should read; “How do we keep the bastard honest”.
Lotsa luck, anyway.
I’m curious as to what country will be the first to invade the continental U.S.? Where will the first missile strike?
We are on the path to third world status with Democrat control. The fools that voted for the Messiah are going to find out what it is like to live in REAL affliction under an more oppressive Democrat government.
Anarchy is guaranteed by this regime.
Dr. Hanson will have more similarities to the Roman Empire to write about than he can handle. And knowing the outcome may cause him to find a better afterlife.
My heirs will reminisce about my living in the zenith of a great America.
Bring on the socialism. I’m ready for it. I’m sick of this in-between station where I get no benefits but still have to work 60 hours a week. Let’s do it.
This is one case that I sincerely wish I didn’t have say “I told you so.” I wish I had been wrong. Just remember it wasn’t about the Tea Party or media bias or vote fraud. It was a tactical victory by team O. They know how to exploit low information voters and lock in their votes long before election day. There is no direct counter to this tactic.
This election was about free stuff. Way to many people make no contribution to the benefits they receive. You have to place blame for this on both Reagan and Bush II. They took too many people of the tax rolls. There is one thing I agree on with my new Senator Tim Kaine. Everybody should pay some income tax. Republicans should let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone. You want socialism then you pay for socialism.
Congratulations to Obama supporters. Be careful what you wish for. If the President governs the next four years like he did the last four you may find that you have voted in an American Pinochet with Obama in the role of Salvadore Allende. The alternative is Greece. In either case the American Republic will be finished.
It’s kind of strange to confess this at the start of a post, but I don’t know what to say. The truth is it’s kind of hard to pick your mandible up when it broke a hole in the slab on the way down.
I agree. Romney ran a good enough campaign to win and he should have. But too many people were manipulated with psychologist fashioned nonsense—the content not the result—into voting (or voting again) for what should have been a footnote four years ago.
I’ve never gaged and got a hoot at the same time, but when Stuart Varney said that Republicans now have no choice but to cooperate with O this is what happened and it kind of hurt. I’ll probably receive more and similar bruises over the next few days.
We were unable to save our country. Now it’s time to refocus on saving ourselves.
Start following the MSM and call them on every lie.
There aint enough energy drink or No Doz.
I’m tired and I can’t sustain the anger anymore. The Republicans are not the answer. They are just Democrat Lites. The only reasonable action I can see is to support the Pacific Legal Foundation and Judicial Watch. But that stops when the new communists are appointed to the Supreme Court. My State and my Country are doomed and I can’t stop it.And right now I don’t care.
Steve, you’re finish reminded me of Invictus (the poem by Henley, not the movie).
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Bummed for now, but not ready to roll over.
I, quite frankly, am so disgusted with half of the American population that I no longer want any part of them. They elected what they are: spiritually dead, shallow, materialistic, selfish, egotistical, narcissitic, childish, ignorant, boastful fools.I believe, like Paul said, that when the TRUTH will not be received, you brush the dust off your feet and abandon them to their fate. One. Word. SUCESSION! YES WE CAN!!!
I REFUSE to become a slave. They say, inaccurately, the Civil War was fought over slavery in revissionist history classes taught in our public indoctrination centers. Well, this time, it IS about slavery.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/secession.htm
I see the problem of the conservatives (of PJ media conservatives )that they see just one opponent-Dems that support Obama.If so Romney would win,but there are enemies in the whole sphears of social,political and economic views.The nerrowness of views puzzled me at the reaction on DSC`s charges here.
Wrong. The winds are blowing in the wrong direction. This is not your country anymore. Expatriate. I pray you all learn to do that before the option is taken from you. There are still free countries out there. This one won’t be for long.
They will not get their Peace in their Time, their Shangri La, it’s just a matter of time now.
You can not do anything with amoral people but stare. A perk in all of this insanity is that the amoral can be very entertaining. So we should do a Michelle O has done and get it while the gettins good.
Never forget that all Obama voters are your enemy.They may be friends or family, it does not matter. They have betrayed our founders and all the veterans who fought and died for them. Don’t give them an inch. Let them suffer all the consequences of what they have done.
I say we go Albert J. Nock.
Read it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jay_Nock
Build and nurture the Remnant.
Move to the Red States. Home school. Buy guns. Start churches, gun clubs, and small community colleges. Find a small town and blend in. Make friends. Convert friends and neighbors.
Do not associate with liberals – friends, family, employers, employees, etc.. NO ASSOCIATION WITH THESE PARASITES. If any Leftists move to your town – RUN THEM THE EFF OUT. Or if not, move and try again.
Not Galt’s Gulch.
But little “Nocksvilles” across the plains and in the mountains.
Protect your children most of all. Your kids ARE the Remnant.
Yes, going Nock means giving up your job in the city, your pensions, your suburbs…You have to give up the GOP, blogging, Twitter.
But if you want an “EASY FIX” you are as deceptive and dishonest of the Leftists you claim to hate.
Once the Remnant gets big enough…maybe we can talk about nullification at state level, or secession. Yes, it’s likely some Nocksvilles will be Ruby Ridged or Waco-ed. But if we build enough of them…and keep them small… the Remnant will survive.
But right now, we are not just losing our nation, but in danger of being CRUSHED and DESTROYED. This is about SURVIVAL …
So save what we can. Start or move to a Nocksville.
Panem et circenses …
The Catholic Church’s hierarchal leader Cardinal Dolan sent a letter in behalf of all the Bishops congratulating Obama on his successful campaign I surmise to keep the avenue for freebees open. The last minute warning from the Bishops prior to the election that any faithful Catholic who votes for a pro abortion candidate puts their immortal soul in danger went unheeded and may I suggest why: If the eminent Cardinal Dolan saw no problem in inviting the country’s infanticide leader to the Alfred E Smith gala dinner in NYC what would be wrong with voting for him. The “good” Cardinal shown laughing it up with evil by his side in photos and television shown country wide spoke volumes to cafeteria Catholics and juxtaposed to the warning letter it’s obvious which had the biggest impact on the election results.
While I’m waiting for my previous comment to reach moderation status I have another true story to relate:
In WW2 two of my older brothers both lieutenants in the army air force sacrificed their lives for their country. The younger 24 years old was killed in the Asian theatre,.
When his elder brother 26 years old heard about it he volunteered for extra missions over Europe despite already earning the maxim number of engagements necessary for a safe trip home. He consequently lost his life because of it. I have the silver star medal, the country’s second highest given for heroism he was awarded posthumously. They wouldn’t recognize today’s country as the one they made the ultimate sacrifice to protect. God help us!
What did you (and me) expect?
After 4 years of “read my lips”, after 8 years of riding on a “peace dividend”, after 8 years of “compassionate constervatism” and an idiotic “hearts and minds” while ignoring Clinton’s, Bawny and Schumer housing time bomb, and after 4 years of Pelosi+Reid+judicially placed payoffs+some invisible strings attached to the SCOTUS, and after Romney refusal to name thing as they are….
What can the GOP do? No, what will the GOP do? Business as usual, compromise, earmarks, corruption as usual. When the difference between the GOP proposed budget and the Democratic proposed budget is whether the federal spending ought to increase by 3-1/2% (GOP) or 4-1/2%(Dems) and the media and pressure groups scream that the GOP is going to take away all the free stuff, nothing is likely to happen … politically. Economically, we’re heading for a disaster. No? Item 1: $11 trillion of unrealized losses from the housing crash; 2: revenue at an historical maximum rate (about 20% of GDP compared to long-term average of about 18%)while borrowing equals about 40% of each year’s federal spending; 3: debt at $16.5 trillion(+) and climbing with China dumping dollars; 4: a new wave of taxes, fees, expensive rules & regulations which will add price inflation as well as business closures to the mix; 5: a consequent drop in energy production and further loss of manufacturing output; 6: another bout of financial ‘crisis’ as another chunk of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac purchased mortgages – and the associated bonds – explode since the process that created that mess is still operating …. just a quick half a dozen reasons to see an economic disaster coming. All ‘unexpectedly’ of course, since our super-intelligent ruling class is a collection of the world’s most ignorant ‘upper’ class ever seen …. well, perhaps the military command in the UK during the Crimean War might be worse, but this bunch knows no limits to their whimsies and so the rest of us will suck it up. Did you forget? “Vox populi, vox Dei” translates into “Oh, my God! How did we get into this mess??)