He lost because this is a hard left country, not a right of center country, as the mantra claimed.

And it only gets worse.

Buddahpundit on November 7, 2012 at 6:04 PM

Basically, yes. The only unknown is how far left-of-center the country is.

We’ve reached the socialist tipping point, socialist critical mass.

We have an electorate that cannot do basic math and that has been indoctrinated in what is basically Marx’s views on economics, history, and capitalism. An electorate that from public grade schools on into adulthood is subjected to a constant stream of leftist propaganda and subliminal political messages, including in movies, music, comedy routines, and television dramas and comedies.

This cannot and will not be fixed by the GOP trying to pander to this or that demographic, offering a lite version of Democratic proposals and policies. That is how we got here.

You can’t fix stupid be reasoning with it. It will probably only be fixed through hard lessons in reality, by the electorate learning the hard way that socialist big government policies do not and cannot work. The rest of us need to realize what is coming and prepare for it the best we can. The naive stupid lefties do not see it coming. We do.

Obama could be the most selfless man in the world and still the result will be the same. His one-day-at-a-time rationalism is the issue, not his personal virtue. He will create misery for millions with the best of intentions.

But it’s hard to tolerate a gang of aging nostalgists trying to recreate a past that never was. Romney was the candidate of the inaginary 50s, and we’ll become a stronger, smarter, more tolerant nation now that that illusion has been smashed.

You want to talk: let’s.

Your want to whine about how stupid, lazy and ignorant America is? I’ll be watching you in in the rearview.

urban elitist James Taggert on November 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM

KeninCT had a double digit IQ advantage over this moron.

But it’s hard to tolerate a gang of aging nostalgists trying to recreate a past that never was. Romney was the candidate of the inaginary 50s, and we’ll become a stronger, smarter, more tolerant nation now that that illusion has been smashed.

You want to talk: let’s.

Your want to whine about how stupid, lazy and ignorant America is? I’ll be watching you in in the rearview.

urban elitist on November 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM

Please, enlighten us more on this gauzy-edged utopia you’ve conceived of. We’re dying to know, since I’m sure you’ve also blotted out all stupidity, selfishness and evil? By what standard will that come about?

Blah blah blah blah.

Ronald Reagan, George Washington and Jesus Christ would have lost to Obama. That has become painfully clear in the last 18 hours. The candidate didn’t matter. It was the perception of what and who Obama is: the magic black man; santa claus in a suit, the politician who champions all the hip causes of the day that make people feel squishy about agreeing with him. Mainly because it’s “expected” of them. It was the sesame street generation, high on self-esteem fumes, and now with the power to vote themselves more money, who got this man re-elected; a generation of self-congratulatory narcissists whose sense of self-worth is only outdone by their inversely opposite lack of shame, generosity and sense of history. A facebook post I saw this morning was from a woman “full of joy” for giving Obama another 4 years, whereupon she asked–without irony–could she now have a job too?

This was an election of perception, not reality. It had everything to do with a populace that has ensconced itself in a pursuit of itself; a culture whose every heart inclination is only evil all the time. Obama is the supreme representation of that.

Which is why there will likely never again be a conservative candidate in the White House. What is conservatism anymore anyway? You’re as unlikely to find any sort of consensus on this blog–this thread–as anywhere. The disease is complete.

somewhatconcerned on November 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM

+ 1 million!!

But it’s hard to tolerate a gang of aging nostalgists trying to recreate a past that never was. Romney was the candidate of the inaginary 50s, and we’ll become a stronger, smarter, more tolerant nation now that that illusion has been smashed.

You want to talk: let’s.

Your want to whine about how stupid, lazy and ignorant America is? I’ll be watching you in in the rearview.

urban elitist on November 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM

What illusion? That hard work can actually pay off? That America can be a force for good in the world? That this country would be better if we weren’t mired in a ridiculous amount of debt?

Yeah, I know, those are all illusions to liberals. That’s why you guys are impossible to deal with. You demonstrably do not operate in reality.

You’re leaving your socially liberal, fiscally moderate affluent suburbanite behind.

urban elitist on November 7, 2012 at 7:11 PM

Socially liberal, fiscally moderate voters in the NE are never going to vote GOP. It’s a trap, just like “Hispanic outreach.”

What you want is for the GOP to become a better platonic friend to these groups. Oh sure, they’ll say nice things about the GOP, they’ll talk about how sweet the GOP is, how the GOP is a really swell guy, but when it counts, they’ll go home and spread their legs for Big Daddy Democrat.

I’ll be watching you in in the rearview.

urban elitist on November 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM

No, you won’t. You’ll be more miserable than you and your cohorts think right now.