Why 2012 election was a message election

Sweet revenge. I will deliver sweet revenge….

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Excellent post election analysis…thanks

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The GOP cannot win the Hispanic vote

Once lost, always lost. It will likely end up like the black vote.

So we will have democrat presidents for the foreseeable future.

Plan accordingly.

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Off topic:

Meanwhile, there is going to be some seriously down-and-dirty politicking during the lame duck period to hammer out a budget deal. I assume that a lot of superPAC money will be thrown at purplish Congressional districts to get House members to go one way or another.

I honestly don’t see how Obama, Reid and Pelosi can do anything but not just play along but actively manage it to get a decent piece of legislation passed that doesn’t sell out the legacies of FDR (Social Security) and LBJ (Medicare).

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Now thta the Republicans have failed MISERABLY in their main stated goal, to make Obama a one term President, will they actually sit down and do their jobs and fulfill their sacred obligation to this Country?

Does ANYONE hold out hope in the Republicans doing anything other than remaining traitors?

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Time to end the filibuster.

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“t’s going to take leadership. It’s going to take people such as Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal and Jeb Bush and Chris Christie telling hard truths to a base that has found often ingenious ways to avoid hard truths. It’s going to take a willingness to compromise and a willingness to change and a willingness to confront the talk-radio hosts and special interest groups who see no personal benefit to such change.”

Especially well said, Jay, but until more of my generation dies off, I don’t believe there will be any compromise. I just hope the GOP remembers that 2014 is just around the corner and if they don’t play ball now, there may be no game left come ‘14.

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Message to Sheldon Adelson:

mwuahahahahahahahahaa

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Foxy lady, keepin it classy

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Glenn Beck is crying again

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Republican pundits lamenting the fact that their candidate was not conservative enough. Tea Party II, coming soon to a theater near you.

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The reason Obama was re-elected was, A, the storm hit, and B, the media refused to cover the bad economy accurately (can be clearly demonstrated by comparison’s to the Bush economy) and virtually no coverage of Fast and Furious or the Benghazi scandal. The scandals won’t be going away, folks, just because the election is over, and it won’t look good for Obama.

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“The country has changed; the GOP has not. Republicans lost badly among Latino voters, black voters, gay voters, Jewish voters and women. They once again did quite well among white voters, who comprised 72 percent of the electorate. But that’s down from 74 percent in 2008, which was down from 77 percent in 2004, which was down from 80 percent in 2000.”

AND WOMEN. AND WOMEN. Ignore those words at your peril, GOP.

you voted against us, against our equality … hell, against our autonomy … and you’ve paid the price. You pretended that the war on women was just a figment of our imagination – it was not. we can smell BS a mile away – and we smelled it on you.

The righties’ reaction on the blog today reminds me of the guys who are shot down when they ask a girl for a date, who then say “bet she’s a lesbian.” Guys – it’s not your country that’s the problem. It’s your party. We’re just not that into extremism or in taking the country back 50 years where civil rights are concerned. Clean your house then we’ll talk.

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“The reason Obama was re-elected was, A, the storm hit”

LMAO!

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Right on the mark, Jay.

The Republican Party needs an intervention.

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Aquagirl, keep dreaming

GOP won’t sign on for Amnesty, democrats will insist on amnesty

Illegals will be the punching bag and democrats will win the Latino vote in large part like they did this time

When amnesty happens, 12 million new voters will swing the tide even further

It’s over for the near and intermediate future

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If they had not run their Teapublicans or as some say the rapepublicans in many of the races they might have won the senate. On social issues they lose every time when their soft sell gets exposed for what it really is. As for the economy, economic conservatism in practice has never worked. It sounds good but when it keeps being taken to it’s extremes and it faces reality it fails every time. Look on the bright side GOP, you no longer have to pretend to like Willard though!

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Question: should the GOP go ahead and rename its moniker as OWP (Old White People)… whaddya think Cons???

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Jay

Mitch McConnell has not gotten the message and he’s up for re-election in 2014 to say nothing about Boehner….this will be a fun ride over the next 90 days

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Anybody know what Obama plans to achieve in the next four years other than raising taxes on the wealthy?

It’s pretty clear that’s his only open objective….

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“The reason Obama was re-elected was, A, the storm hit, and B, the media refused to cover the bad economy accurately (can be clearly demonstrated by comparison’s to the Bush economy) and virtually no coverage of Fast and Furious or the Benghazi scandal. The scandals won’t be going away, folks, just because the election is over, and it won’t look good for Obama.”

DENIAL is part of the grieving process.

Btw “Scrivener”, new name?

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Mitt the liar lost where he worked(Mass) where he was born(Mich) hey southerner white males, dont you think they knew him better?

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The President and Harry Reid should now point out every day how the GOP house is obstructing, blocking Judge appointments, blocking the Jobs bill, etc.. make the people see how they will continue to try and sabotage this country for their partisan extreme agenda. Then in 2014 things may really get interesting for the GOP out in the wilderness.

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I would not be surprised if Rush, boortz, hannity et al voted for Obama so they would have something to b itch about.

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The “base” of the Republican party needs to be recentered. It left us and swung into angry, teasoaked talk radio land. There is a willing right-middle for the taking, but the alienating social issues are muddling the long standing fiscal message of the party. This doesn’t mean the Ryan/Rand fiscal message, but a message that Richard Lugar and an unchained Mitt Romney can and should help the upcoming leaders sell back to the faithful.
It will be a painful and probably nasty break to leave the far right, but the coalition has failed.

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This election shows you can tell a bunch of southerners conservatives white male anything, these gomers continue to live in the 20th century, while the world and nation moved on.

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Largest re-election margin since Reagan.

Elections have consequenses.

Let the House take the heat for taxes going up and sequestration.

Keep your feet on the gas Dems!

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Mike @ 8:42 — great assessment… it will be very interesting to see who rises to the top of the GOP slate in 2 more years!

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Reading the CONservative media, I see them making excuses. Boortz whinning about the parasites, National Review stating Ohio was going to be tough, yet all before Rush, Beck and the other rightwing nuts were talking about how the dems votes would be depressed. Rush stating how he could not imaging how Obama could get anywhere near the vote turnout from 2008.
Cognitive dissonance is rampant on the right. It is always someone elses fault, nothing of what they are doing or saying. They are incapable of self reflection, and are doomed to failure for a generation unless something changes.

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Wait, wait….NOW the msm is saying the polls were actually correct the whole time?

That means that Ron Paul who was beating Obama in a one on one situation in many polls was actually electable. Sucks to be part of the GOP right now.

oh well congrats to mr. obama, would rather have 4 more yrs of him than 8 more years of his white clone.

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Republicans should not waste de feet on de nile.

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Fat Old Angry White American – But at least you still had the choice.

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I disagree Jay, the Republican party needs to continue doing exactly what they are doing. This at least goes a long way to insuring that we maintain at least a two party system. They need to continue to let the ultra conservatives retain control and make their decision of how they present themselves to the voting public. Heck, I am hoping the will give even more control to the tea party people, ultra right wing religious and the rich white guys. The last thing we need is to have them cloak themselves in sheep’s clothing and rhetoric that people want to hear and perhaps actually believe. We need them to continue to show their true colors of being of the fascist totalitarian’s that want the the top few percent to control everything in the country based on what they think and believe. I am hoping they take this as a warning they need to strengthen the ties to those type of groups, not weaken them!

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…and Danny.
The claim that the media didn’t cover the issues correctly is weak. Fox is the most watched of all the news channels. If you browse the internet for news articles at any time over the last four years there are articles bemoaning the slow return from the abyss. Of course, rational thinkers understand that some injuries take longer to heal than others.

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“How do you convince that 74 percent of Republicans that their party has to change and change pretty dramatically if it’s to compete in the emerging America? How do you convince them that they have to break out of the lily-white political ghetto in which they’ve confined themselves?”

Stated more succinctly, how do you open the minds of closed-minded people?

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“Would Newt Gingrich have done better? Rick Santorum? Bachmann? Herman Cain? Rick Perry? Please. The blowout would have been epic.”

Ummm… What about Ron Paul?

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Hey, where’s RB, Kayaker, USMC, Mighty Righty, Scout, Donovan , etc… to tell us how awesome Romney is and how “Obozo” doesn’t stand a chance?

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The night is darkest before the dawn…

After Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schummer destroy the American economy, the GOP will reign for the following decade. Unfortunately it may be to late by the time this train wreck is finished.

Italy and Greece are perfect examples of spineless leaders who over promise things that eventually have to be paid for. The situation in those countries is getting worse and reports are they are taking it out on immigrants because they are sucking up financial resources. Its only going to get worse there. The US is about 4-5 years behind.

Just look at Clayton County, they just reelected a man that has 34 pending felonies against him…Of course this county also voted heavily for Obama. That tells you a lot about the Obama electorate.

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Would Newt Gingrich have done better? Rick Santorum? Bachmann? Herman Cain? Rick Perry? Please.

*COUGH*Huntsman*COUGH*

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I am a young educated professional and am economically conservative but socially liberal more in line with liberterian beliefs than republican. I dont have any stats to back myself up but I believe there is a large portion of my generation that are the same way. I choose to vote republican because I rate the economic issues more prevalent than the social ones but how many people like me vote democrate because they have a different priority of issues. Im pro choice, pro marijuana if that floats your boat, and I believe immigration reform is needed but the immigration history of America should be embraced. The republicans choose to be the personal freedoms party for the economy but abandon it with social issues that affect many peoples vote.

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It’s over you can spew your liberal crap as long as you like but the Republic lost and the moochers parasites and looters won.
When the masses learn they can vote themselves largess from the treasury it’s over.

I can’t deal with stupidity!

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Jm

November 7th, 2012
8:49 am

Apparently the liberals on here don’t know obama’s plans.

Figures

Tax the rich! Best platform ever, if you’re a socialist country.
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Poor JM is lost. his talk radio puppet masters haven’t told him what to think yet so all he can do is double down on the stupid, repeat and recycle the old bumper sticker lies……….

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#1 Foxy Lady is the Reason for the Season!

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jm,
here you go:

http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-plan-second-term-economy-jobs-election-2012-10?op=1

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“Great Day to be an American. ”

G’morning Jerome!

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real john – “That tells you a lot about the Obama electorate.”

Like what, that their candidate won?

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Obama wins Florida, hey right wing nut jobs anymore ideas to suppress the vote?

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Jm, do you need us to call 9-1-1. You are trapped in a paper bag and can’t find your way out?

Jm is still searching for Obama’s plan…… the one that was posted on Obama’s website? No wonder he has not found those flights to Singapore yet.

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Butch Cassidy (I)

November 7th, 2012
8:52 am

Hey, where’s RB, Kayaker, USMC, Mighty Righty, Scout, Donovan , etc… to tell us how awesome Romney is and how “Obozo” doesn’t stand a chance?
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They are here Butch, they just lack the balls to post under their regular names.

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rc – “I can’t deal with stupidity!”

Neither could half the country, that’s why Mitt lost.

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“hey right wing nut jobs anymore ideas to suppress the vote?”

gm — ain’t America great???

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Well done article. I am a Republican voter, but I do not like the ultra-conservative views of some of the Party. What is really the deeper problem is on both sides. I read comments like “Suck It” and others that are indicative of the division of this country. Instead of gloating over the victory and trying to rub each other’s face in it or bemoan why Romney lost and blame it fake polls and loaded voting, lets look at the things that divided us. On both sides it was extreme views that made us choose the other. On both sides it was “my way or the highway”. This is a chance to listen to what the other side and improve this country for all of us. We have become a very selfish and entitled nation. It is killing this great country. Stop bashing and start working together.

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Jay, here is my take on the election.

1. African American’s will vote Democrate NO Matter what..Black unemployment is through the roof. Blacks are far worse off financially than four years ago, but they will vote for “their” candidate no matter what he did or said.

2. Latinos will vote for the Dems because the Repubs are the only ones trying to do something about our rampant illegal immigration problem. Of course the Dems don’t want to do anything about it, they just want their votes.

3. Jews..I have no idea why they vote for this man. He has not had anything nice to say about Isreal.

I guess since I’m a white, heterosexual male I’m considered the enemy by the Democratic party.

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just put it down………..

Heck, maybe I need some of that punch

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bozzman

November 7th, 2012
8:57 am

On both sides it was extreme views that made us choose the other. On both sides it was “my way or the highway”.
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No it wasn’t. The Republicans are on record MANY TIMES saying that their main goal was to make Obama a one term President. They refused to negotiate on ANY issue.

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>>We have become a greedy mob without a brain believing the gravy train will never end.

If we were really that greedy, we would have voted for Romney. He was the one promising big tax cuts for everyone.

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A little bit of a repudiation of “government of older white men, by older white men, for older white men” by the portion of the electorate” that’s younger, darker, and less likely to think “legitimate” and “rape” belong in the same sentence.

Also, GM is still alive and OBL is now dead. Results matter.

But let’s not kid ourselves. There’s also the power of incumbency and the advantage of not having to go through a bruising primary season.

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“I guess since I’m a white, heterosexual male I’m considered the enemy by the Democratic party.”

Unreal John — you forgot to insert “with his eyes closed” after the word male.

You’re welcome!

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Funny how He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is still not named even after this election. And the reason is precisely what this article refers to: The Republican old guard must realize that the platform W ran on no longer resonates. And the reason this writer doesn’t include Ron Paul in his list of those he thinks the public could not imagine as president is because Ron Paul’s unifying message of liberty is the very winning message the Republican party should embrace. Status quo politics (R and D) is about personalities seeking power, taxpayer-funded special interests, and government control wherever possible. The message of liberty will end that cycle. While Dr. Paul is retiring, there’s an inspired groundswell of young, intelligent, future-minded Americans ready to defend the cause, and a few in the electorate to take the challenge.

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Lets show some compassion for our Republican friends. They are grieving right now, and the Republican way of dealing with grief is very difficult.

The 7 stages of Republican grief are…

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Negotiation
4. Anger
5. Fox News marathon
6. Denial
7. Finally, 4 years of Anger

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@jm

Hey buddy if you’re not happy here in what you term this socialist country last time I checked there were other country’s for you to live in.

Like the say, “Don’t go away mad just go away.”

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Yes, I watched Karl Rove last night. So funny. I never watch Fox “News” unless the Republicans have lost a national election. And it was so worth it last night. Watching them being forced to accept reality and watching Rove struggle to prevent it was great. And very satisfying.

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Hety CONS you can all thank Bushie no one wanted to go back to that. ..LOL

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Last night Karl Rove was like Randolph Duke at the end of Trading Places when he lost all of his money yelling to turn the machines back on as they wheeled out his brother on a stretcher.

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DannyX @ 9:03 —

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“Clinton’s advice and be willing to work with the opposition to find common ground”

Compromise is a 2-way street. Hopefully the Republicans are able to work w/ Obama as well.

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The GOP lost because they tried to change Mitt Romney, they had this man so confused he didn’t know his own name at times, If he would have been the Governor of the past and not trying to please the Hardcore GOP and Tea Party, He might have won! GOP needs to stop looking like visiting day at the nursing home and more like the real america.

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Deport Grover and the Koch Bros.

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Lifelong blue voting person here who would vote for a Huntsman.

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On foreign policy. Bibi go suck an egg. Obama will bring the runts in Iran to their miserable knees. They are already halfway there. And rich folks I hope your tax rates go up.

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Jm

You picked GA and FL for Romney. You are one down and one to go. Hold on, man. You never know.

Keep track of the local news down there for the latest updates

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“telling hard truths to a base that has found often ingenious ways to avoid hard truths”

I think that’s the key, Jay. That the base does not want to hear the truth and they’ve plenty of people telling them what they want to hear (whole those people continue to get rich by doing so).

Congrats, Jm. You are here, about the only regular from the conservative end of the spectrum, making your case.

What happened? Didn’t hear 0311 yell “Retreat!!!”?

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straitroad

November 7th, 2012
9:04 am

Stop it! The president has nothing to do with gas prices. and who doesn’t know about the debt? And thirdly, what is the time frame for having all the information about an attack in a non governed foreign land?

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Peter

November 7th, 2012
White Republican males are the same demographic that are the Boy Scout leaders under fire, the one’s responsible for the under age sex trade…….. all at the same time wanting to tell women if they get rapped it is a blessing from God
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great argument. . . . . .

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Well Mr. Bookman congratulations. You and you media buddies did it again. You got your man in for a 2nd term. What a choice we had, Morman Mitt, and O,bama. A man no one seems to know alot about. Most people looked at Romney as another rich republican. (and thats what he is) O,bama is someone who we can connect with. One on our level.Just a common man. Nothing could be futher from the truth.. I wonder where all these “experts” are? The ones who said it would be a Romney landslide.I enjoy reading about politics. But I’m never goin to proclaim I,m an expert. As old and senile as I am I could see it was going to be close. There are so many people that depend on the government to get them through life. They want someone they think will not take the freebies from them. If one is well educated and has made his own success and wealthy, they just can’t relate. I hope the so-called experts that claim if O,bama was re-elected we would have a financial disaster. I pray they are wrong. God help us.

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Karl Rove…. We haven’t counted Cats and Dogs as of yet !

WOW… will the Tabby’s and Chihuahua be part of it ?

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Lost MA, MI & WI. What a loooooooser.

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Capitalism doesn’t like the result

Dow futures down 120 as of now

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jay,
continues speaking in half-truths and inuendo. would not expect anything else.

what about foreign money dumped into BHO campaign. oh that is ok, because that is the side i (jay) support and anything goes and is ok when it is the side i (jay) support.

the message is, there is alot of people on the public dole and they want to continue there and the message is if you spin falseness enough, the foolish people will believe.

and you sir jay and your cohort are just plain better at it and have a few more foolish and simpleton people to work with.

i will help you out now, and say that if the economy still stinks in 4 years from now and the deficit is 25 trillion or more … it is Bush’s fault. you’re welcome!!!

i hope i’m wrong … time will tell …

lastly, what is truly disconcerting is the posts and ideology from the “tolerant/enlightened” that basically say the hell with everyone else, what’s in it for me, ….

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real john

November 7th, 2012
8:58 am
“Jay, here is my take on the election.”

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Then you reduced everybody to a stereotype, and express your confusion as to why things did not work out as you expected.

Until you realize people are real individuals, you will continue to be confused. Try reality; it’s liberating!

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I still want to see Lord High Hair Gel’s (thanks St. Simons for that name) taxes.

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As the GOP thinks up new ideas on how to fix problems, perhaps they will drop the abortion issue. It is not a winning issue.

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USinUK

“300+ electoral college votes my fuzzy white butt!!”

http://tinyurl.com/c6blz72

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Tax the rich! Best platform ever, if you’re a socialist country.

Do you know what the tax rate was for the rich under JFK

77 percent.

Taxes on the rich are at historically low levels. Some pay little if any tax at all.

Heck Romney only pays 14 percent.

So spare me will ya.

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A Moderate Independent

November 7th, 2012
9:11 am
The GOP went off and left me a long, long time ago. I think the Tea Party is the worst thing to ever happen to the GOP.
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I think the Tea Party, in the beginning, was a great idea. The idea of actually holding representatives accountable for financial decisions and shrinking government. . . but then they lost their minds. the idea of signing something pledging to never raise taxes. . . .

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“Fred”

I’m about to go speak to the crowd here in Chicago, but I wanted to thank you first.

I want you to know that this wasn’t fate, and it wasn’t an accident. You made this happen.

You organized yourselves block by block. You took ownership of this campaign five and ten dollars at a time. And when it wasn’t easy, you pressed forward.

I will spend the rest of my presidency honoring your support, and doing what I can to finish what we started.

But I want you to take real pride, as I do, in how we got the chance in the first place.

Today is the clearest proof yet that, against the odds, ordinary Americans can overcome powerful interests.

There’s a lot more work to do.

But for right now: Thank you.

Barack

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First up: debt ceiling

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“Capitalism doesn’t like the result

Dow futures down 120 as of now”

(shhhhhh … don’t anyone tell him about the fiscal cliff)

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Regnad Kcin:

Please dispute one thing I said. Obama overwhelmingly won the black, latino, and Jewish vote by HUGE margins. Even Jay mentioned it in his article. Those are ACTUAL, INDISPUTABLE FACTS.

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Boortz is losing it right now…

Hilarious!

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Looks like the “southern strategy” with it’s attack on black citizens first then gay citizens then “illegals” has come full circle. Yes, GOP, it won you the South. But it lost you America.

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Anyone heard from Redneck Convert? Is he sleeping off a monster bender?

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Where is Ben Shockley???? hahahhahahahahahahahahha

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bookman parrot – “what is truly disconcerting is the posts and ideology from the “tolerant/enlightened” that basically say the hell with everyone else, what’s in it for me, ….”

Agreed, if the GOP and it’s supporters have any hope of winning in 2016, they will really need to change that message.

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Hey bigot Neal B. how you like the thug from Chicago now?

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“Obama overwhelmingly won the black, latino, and Jewish vote by HUGE margins. Even Jay mentioned it in his article. Those are ACTUAL, INDISPUTABLE FACTS.”

yes. AND WOMEN.

if I was the GOP, I’d be taking a long, hard look at my platform and trying to figure out how long I can survive when I alienate so many people .

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Peter 9:15 hilarious

Alright, talking to the dim is a waste of time

Democrats will probably rule for decades

Out

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Karl Rove…. We haven’t counted Cats and Dogs as of yet !

and the BungWazi vote ain’t in yet….

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Funny to see libs gloating about their victory and the “end of the GOP”. The GOP will bounce back once a viable candidate is found. Electoral votes will continue to leave the blue states. Pelosi said herself that the dems would take back the house.

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Republicans lost badly among … Jewish voters…

Right on, MOTs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFtv5qe5o3c.

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The challenge always facing all of us has to with creating the changes we want to see happen no matter what your political leanings are. Republicans have little tolerance for change and they actually value being rigid and immovable. Their reliance on violence and fear to achieve their ends hurts us all. As an older white man the changes have been liberating. May my white brothers and sisters who are willing to change step Forward!

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E. L. Ira — “Boortz is losing it right now… Hilarious!”

Hey, Neal!

Big Bird wants you to know that this election was brought to you by the letters F and U.

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the cat – “Where is Ben Shockley????”

Where is Joseph?

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Oh look up above, I have a wannabe……

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Ann Marie Buerkle lost to Dan Maffei and Nan Hayworth was shut out by Sean Patrick Maloney.

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I identify myself as a conservative but not a republican. The republicans don’t seem to want to include people such as myself so I am forced to vote democratic. Republicans have four years to get it together and realize that must of us live in the middle and if they don’t adapt they are done. Stop being decisive. We want so badly to vote republican but you seem to give us every reason not to.

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Joe. . . .”So drop the rhetoric and the demonizing, and let’s talk turkey”

Is this addressed to me?

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THE FALLEN:

Here lies the dead predictions of many on the right, who were just so far in the right wing bubble that they thought Obama would lose.

Jm
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/09/22/government-shutdown-again-looms-as-possibility/?cp=1#comment-731493
Granny 8:37 that’s fine. Continue.

And see the results in 2012
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/10/25/why-did-romney-react-so-harshly-to-news-of-iraqi-withdrawal/?cp=3#comment-763526
Obama is going to lose

Get used to it libs
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/04/04/what-the-georgia-legislature-got-right-in-2012/?cp=1#comment-915453
Game set match

Romney going to pummel Obama next

kayaker:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/02/03/jobless-data-critical-in-2012-political-campaign/?cp=1#comment-852297
Before you liberals start counting the votes in November, a few pesky statistics might help to explain the spin that Bozo and his gang hang on this all important parameter. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, the following states still have unemployment above 8.5%….. IN,NJ,KY, MI, SC, GA, IL, FL, NC, DC (not a state),RI,CA,NV,WA,AZ,TN and OR. That’s 36% of the states that still are under water, according to Bozo. The new spin is 8.3% but has ignored all of those who have quit looking, They are conveniently removed from the roles of the unemployed after an extended period to massage the numbers. Real unemployment, if you crank in all of the parameters, could reach as much as 12-14%. Blacks still are the highest with black youth running about 40% in some parts of the country.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/09/08/gallup-documents-good-post-convention-jump-for-obama/?cp=3#comment-1068014
Romney 320 electoral votes. He will take all of the “swing states”. America is not that stupid.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/09/08/gallup-documents-good-post-convention-jump-for-obama/?cp=10#comment-1068703
Romney….. 320 electoral votes. America will wake up in the voting booth. They did for Reagan, they will for Romney as well.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/10/30/jeep-were-staying-in-u-s-and-romney-is-wrong/?cp=1#comment-1131580
Romney…. 320. Bozo…. 218. Count on it.

Donovan:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/02/13/surprise-wall-street-casts-its-lot-with-the-gop/?cp=4#comment-862464
Anyone who voted for Obama and continues to believe in his cause speaks for itself. You will never be taken serious nor will your ideas become real.

All this nonsense you spill out on this left wing site is typical elitist double talk for stupidity. I rather enjoy rubbing your faces in reality each day only because you need it.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/28/will-the-supremes-be-obamacares-real-death-panel/?cp=2#comment-995115
Yeah, the decision is not even out yet and this blog today is a liberal rant against Republicans, big business and middle class suppression.

Lord knows how you all will react to Obama’s defeat in November.

Day counter (It’s 1535 days, b**ch!):
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/03/02/romney-tax-plan-soaring-debt-huge-breaks-for-rich/?cp=3#comment-884905
Thanks to all you Democrats/liberal/progressives out there.
Over ther past three years, you guys have set up the rules for the future, such as DEFLECTION, BLAME IT ON BUSH (O’Bama in 324 days), LYING, NOT TAKING ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS, STUPID STATEMENTS, PERSONAL ATTACKS, HOLYIER THAN THOU ATTITUDES and HATEFUL MEANT SPIRITED.COMMENTS

Thulsa Doom (I am really disappointed I didn’t save more from you ):
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/03/23/developer-bailout-bill-a-sordid-case-study/?cp=6#comment-904522
Contrarian,

303 days? The math depends on whether you are looking to early November when the community organizer will be soundly defeated or later on in January when the lame duck actually leaves the white house with his tail between his legs.

JohnnyReb:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/04/17/starters-gun-fires-in-great-race-of-2012/?cp=1#comment-927809
A month ago the Left was crowing how the primaries were damaging Romney. A week after Santorum withdraws Romney is at a minimum even with Obama. Yet, the Left projects Obama to win. Bless their loyal, optimistic bleeding hearts.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/08/barack-obamas-war-on-free-enterprise/?cp=3#comment-947068
All you Moonbats who keep disparaging Republicans, I’m coming after you as we get closer to November and it has become obvious Obama will not win. When? When you are down to having nothing left but the race card.

Billybob:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/07/states-compete-to-buy-jobs-with-taxpayer-money/?cp=3#comment-946149
i love to see the leftists trying to project obama’s socialist/marxist mindset and his central gov’t planning policies on people who are screaming to limit gov’t and get gov’t out of the way and are screaming for our elected officials to actually follow the constitution/cut debt/cut deficits……that’s why leftists are on the way out this fall b/c people see their lies more and more every day……keep talking libs, you are creating the landslide that will hit the dem party on nov 7th

Recon/Del:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/08/the-other-half-of-the-real-estate-collapse/?cp=2#comment-947407
It appears by the polls that the Obama campaign that really began in September of last year isn’t resonating very well with voters. Now with an existing weak economy that appears to be going into further decline it’s hard to see what more Obama can blame.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/09/the-trouncing-of-dick-lugar-is-a-cry-for-war/?cp=1#comment-948052
It’s looking like it might be getting time for Obama to get ready for the shellac.

Joseph:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/11/wall-street-oops-we-did-it-again/?cp=1#comment-951545
Is it true that Dan Savage will be a keynote speaker at the Dem Convention? Wow they are taking this homo marriage thing seriously…. To their own peril…. LOL…
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/31/the-race-for-the-white-house-what-the-numbers-say/?cp=2#comment-967378
I do understand that your trying your best to keep a straight face and sugarcoat the fact that Obama is about to go down to a resounding defeat. As it stands he’s not even close to the mid 50 approval that Bush enjoyed before the election of 04′. You know that Jay. Assuring your most avid foaming at the mouth far left readers is all you got I guess. No sitting President has been in a position like this in recent memory. Get ready for it libs…
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/09/07/no-president-could-fully-repair-the-damage-in-just-four-years/?cp=2#comment-1067223
Absolutely not Paul. Obama’s debt when all is said and done will be will be closer to $6 trillion by the time he leaves office Jan. 20th….

EJ Moosa (by the way, what happened to this fella when the jobs numbers started showing GOOD NEWS?):
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/31/the-race-for-the-white-house-what-the-numbers-say/?cp=3#comment-967369
The economic numbers (forget the poll numbers) point to a resounding defeat for an administration that spent trillions with nothing but debt to show for it.

USMC:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/01/gwinnett-county-and-its-culture-of-corruption/?cp=3#comment-969455
This President is a complete disaster!

Romney by 3%

Common Sense:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/15/obama-offers-temporary-reprieve-to-young-illegal-immigrants/?cp=3#comment-984048
Obama’s 1 term predicition if he did not get the job done in 3 years was the only honest statement he has made during the last 4 years.

Mighty Righty:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/21/a-lot-of-baloney-flying-fast-and-furious/?cp=4#comment-988108
The day after the election, the very media that is now claiming fast and furious is no big deal and praising the the illegal executive order last week making the “dream act” law without the legal process, will be citing these among others as the reason Obama was defeated.

Zap:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/08/31/hugely-profitable-companies-pay-more-to-ceos-than-to-uncle-sam/?cp=9#comment-706998
Uh huh, 2012 is gonna be a bad year for the rats.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/08/31/hugely-profitable-companies-pay-more-to-ceos-than-to-uncle-sam/?cp=9#comment-707012
Oh, and your beloved Obama is done. Over with.

Other Fallen:
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/16/lets-unleash-the-true-power-of-the-job-creators/?cp=5#comment-956110
Bad news for the true Obama believers on here. The guy is losing. The campaign has really got started yet….and he’s losing…….against a Mormon. A former governor of the liberal state of Mass. A the NY Times/CBS poll is telling us that………………Only surprise I have, it’s not by more……But it will be. And no, it’s not a love affair with Mitt………………It’s anybody but Obama driving this. I know most of regulars on here will go into a depression and turn to heavier pot use in November.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/29/debt-ceiling-standoff-is-an-act-of-economic-sabotage/?cp=8#comment-967084
Don’t matter what you libs say, Obamab is out, Repubs take senate as well, the makers inthis country get confidence back, and this economy will tke off. Get ready for 8 years opf Romney.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/01/latest-jobs-data-say/?cp=2#comment-968969
Adam:

There is nothing positive to say about the current president. We will have a new one in January.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/28/most-of-obamacare-including-mandate-upheld/?cp=1#comment-995378
The Tea Party is not dead. This was the last straw, and Obama will be voted out in November, along with the rest of the Dem goons.
h ttp:// blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/07/03/romney-puts-that-sleeping-giant-back-to-sleep/?cp=7#comment-1002299
Dear Adam,

Obama will lose by a wide margin in November. His numbers trail Jimmy Carter’s at this point and will go into free fall by September. Obama is the laziest, least intelligent, and most poorly qualified person that has EVER held the office. Obama could not run a corner convenience store…

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“The GOP will bounce back once a viable candidate is found. ”

Oooh, here we go with the “the candidate was the problem” theme!

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PartyTime… dream on. good times ahead peeps!

PartyTime, you enjoy the SUCKING IT, LOSER!!!

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Cons can’t run a campaign, how could they run a country?

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@Scrivener

November 7th, 2012
8:33 am
The reason Obama was re-elected was, A, the storm hit, and B, the media refused to cover the bad economy accurately (can be clearly demonstrated by comparison’s to the Bush economy) and virtually no coverage of Fast and Furious or the Benghazi scandal. The scandals won’t be going away, folks, just because the election is over, and it won’t look good for Obama.

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The REASON CONS lost:

A. God don’t like UGLY.

B. You reap what you sow.

C. Don’t mess with the 47%, minorities, hispanics and women

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Heres some great news in 4 year Ms Obama can run for prez and serve 2 terms and then Oblama can run again and win. We have lost America there ain’t no turning us around.

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A message…The country is still split – 50/50. But I guess the moochers vs the producers voted more. I know Jay and all his media hypes are just getty…but wait until the Annoited one pushed his agenda of marxism to the brionk – ignores the constitution, breakd the law even more than he has, ignores congress and continue to do anything he wants. I’m not sour, but I do feel for all the stupidity in the USA who have no clue where we are now headed, but then perhpas we have become a nation of servants to the Big Government in DC.. Look for higher energy prices, dictation as to what kind of vehicle you drive, how far you can drive it, how much your job is worth ( how much you will be paid), look for your medical care to be dictated by the un elected panel, look for doctors to leave the practice and for get about research and development in the health field. Look for a weak military and the continued rise of Islamic movement, look for a Nuclear Iran and North Korea. but then I have no answer for stupidity and am ashamed of America, but then I guess when most think American Idal is the greatest thing ever, this is what you get. I feel for the young people in this country that will never know freedom, personal responsibility, feeling of acompolishments. Sour, not in the least, just feel sorry for the dumb masses and what awaits them, but then a true republic historically only last 200 years and The USA outlived that expectation. I guess when people feel they can vote themselves confiscation of other peoples money, dictoral government takes over. A sad, very sad day in the USA..May god have mercey on the soul of the USA.

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Flagboy — “Is this addressed to me?:”

It was intended to be more the amorphous and indefinite ‘you,’ but I’ll certainly discuss it with you (specifically) if you like.

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MiltonMan – “The GOP will bounce back once a viable candidate is found.”

Too bad you didn’t think of that before the election.

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Bloomberg headlines:

Dollar falls on Obama re-election

US stock futures decline as Obama wins re-election

Keep whistling past the graveyard

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The next “big” steps for the GOP:

Step one: Blame the “Lame-Stream” Media for the Obama win.
Step two: Claim voter fraud or intimidation.
Step three: Lament the choice of a RINO candidate.
Step four: Blame Blacks and Hispanics.
Step five: Drag feet on Obama-initiated legislation
Step six: Begin House Impeachment proceedings on Fast and Furious or Benghazi “cover-up”.

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“The GOP will bounce back once a viable candidate is found”

that’s the POINT, Captain Observant.

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Goldie

November 7th, 2012
8:56 am
“I will be writing a letter to my two Georgia GOP Senators and my GOP member of Congress and implore them to work with the President for the betterment of our great country. I invite others to join me.”

Woo-hoo, H.E.P. — now we’re talkin’! “)

COUNT ME IN on this!!!

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Electoral votes will continue to leave the blue states

And red states will start turning blue with them.

See Virginia.

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como se dice “pendejo” in ingles? No comprendo… gracias

keine Obszönitäten auf diesem Blog erlaubt

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“I know Jay and all his media hypes are just getty…but wait until the Annoited one pushed his agenda of marxism to the brionk – ignores the constitution, ”

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.

And on it goes!

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MiltonMan

November 7th, 2012
9:27 am

Maybe they just weren’t the right party.

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Good article, Jay. BUT, BOTH “sides” need to learn to work together. BOTH “sides” need to realize they cannot have it all, and need to make concessions. BOTH need to stop worrying about the D and the R, who “wins” or “loses”, or who “one ups” the other guy. If not, we’re in for another long four years of bitter partisanship.

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The Republican Party should split. The moderates should retain the Republican name. The rascist, rabid radicals should be called Dixiecrats, which they have been all along, or intransigent old white men (OWM).

Did you notice that, for the first time, the wacky electoral college scheme favored the good guy? In the past, the western flyover states and third-world southern states were able to distort the votes of the American people.

But, the persistent political division of the states, roughly along the lines of the Union/Confederacy split in the 1860, is troubling. A massive influx of Latinos should solve that problem.

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“Regnad Kcin:

Please dispute one thing I said. Obama overwhelmingly won the black, latino, and Jewish vote by HUGE margins. Even Jay mentioned it in his article. Those are ACTUAL, INDISPUTABLE FACTS.”

RJohn – if you re-read my post, you will find that I never disputed those facts – I commented on your self-admitted confusion as to why these groups of individuals (who, in your post, you converted into monolithic, stereotypical blocs), did not act in a way you expected. I advised you to view people as real individual people, as this may help dispel some of the confusion your you were bemoaning.

Always glad to help!

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Foxy lady is beyond annoying

Butch isn’t even a con you twit

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The Tea Party, Hannity, Limbaugh, Fox News, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin etc….. have been 100% detrimental to the Republican Party, the party can no longer be the party of Angry Middle Age White Men, The Religious Right and Confederate States, the United States is changing and republicans had better get on board!!!!!!!!!

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home&home — “I suppose there were no rich liberals dumping as much money as they could into the process. yeah, right…”

And here y’all though Romney was good at managing other people’s money, yet he managed to waste $3 billion.

I heard a good one on Morning Joe this morning; it was pointed out that Linda McMahon has now spent ~$100 million of her own money trying to win a Senate seat in Connecticut — so Willie Geist said that in six years, she will just cut out the middleman by putting $42 million in a dumpster in New Haven, CT and lighting it on fire.

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Yes, when you cannot win your home state of MA (not expected to win) or a state you had close ties with (MI) & your VP candidate cannot win his home state (WI) you are not the right candidate.

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but MANY Repubs felt as if Romney would win by a landslide. They were against the polls that stated that President Obama was holding a small but constant lead.

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KARMA KARMA KARMA and Cosby – SO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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here kitty kitty……

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Cosby — “Look for a weak military and the continued rise of Islamic movement, look for a Nuclear Iran and North Korea.”

North Korea is ALREADY nuclear, you clueless nit. They tested a bomb during Bush’s adminstration, while we were busy jerking around in Iraq.

Catch up to the rest of the class.

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You are right-the people who want the handouts outnumber the people who actually work. Democrats/Liberals only vote for their special interest, not the general good.

Of course, it had absolutely nothing to do with the GOP’s agenda or policy positions. Nothing at all. You forgot to blame the main stream media too, LOSER.

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Tax increases targeting the “rich” is smokescreen nonsense; taxes will rise for everybody, directly or indirectly. This election was lost to the GOP because Blue States are beholden to big government and entitlement programs and . . . debt, and we’ve crossed the threshhold as a country where there is no recourse. They’ll be knocking at your door, Georgians, to fund their bailout. The mandates will come down harder, billions for this, billions for that. Somewhere down the line the debt will be called.

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Jm Do you day trading based on a hope and a prayer ? Or are you an investor looking at the market, doing your home work, and finding great picks, the next up and coming ideas that will grow into the new business of the future ?

Gee Under Bush didn’t the stock market implode ?

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OK….I’m going to bring this out this way:

When you attempt to run a demographic campaign and alienate the largest-growing segment of the populace…when your party does everything possible to marginalize and dissuade that changing demographic from exercising their right to vote….when your policies find themselves being anathematic to that growing segment….is there any wonder that a new coalition is formed to defeat you??

Romney galvanized the white vote….scoring 60%…but that demographic is FALLING! With 70% of the Hispanic vote and over 90% of the African-American vote…and Romney’s admission that 47% of the American populace doesn’t matter to him….is there any wonder that he lost??

The GOP needs to wake up….the “ol’ Confederacy” is unsustainable!!

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H L Mencken was right.

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“but MANY Repubs felt as if Romney would win by a landslide. They were against the polls that stated that President Obama was holding a small but constant lead.”

Nothing more than wishful thinking.

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Congrats. signing off for good.The moniker is dead. Wish all of you good health and good luck.Been fun.

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thank you Clydesdale for letting us know for sure that your are a bigot. thanks for clearing that up.

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“Turns out Rasmussen was the skewed poll! Rasmussen was horrible, turns out they were nothing but a Republican puppet poll.”

not that we didn’t already know this.

NATE RULES!!!

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“They are just following the example YOU have set for the last year or so…….”

That I have set??? I guess you conveniently forgot about all the name calling directed my way??? Your man won – congratulations.

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DawgDad

November 7th, 2012
9:35 am
“This election was lost to the GOP because RED States are beholden to big government and entitlement programs and . . . debt, and we’ve crossed the threshhold as a country where there is no recourse. They’ll be knocking at your door, Georgians, to fund their bailout.”

There…fixed your statement!1

It’s known that the RED states take more funding fro the government…for every dollar in taxes, the RED states get about $1.40 back…..

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“80% of the map turns red on election night but only draws 48% of the vote”

Clydesdale – Obama won more states than Romnry – figure it out…

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what a disaster…

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I can’t stand Ann Coulter but she accurately called this race months ago when she said that if the party picks Romney, Obama will be re-elected.

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Clydesdale – Obama won more states than Romnry – figure it out…

Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire . . . figured it out.

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“When does your flight leave?”

good luck finding an industrial country without socialized medicine!!!

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Just as a point of interest, I followed the 11/6/2012 map on electoralvote.com last night. It was amazingly accurate when compared to the actual state EC votes from last night. I only say this, becuase more than once i posted the link to the site and was told that I needed to get “more accurate information”. Check for yourself: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Maps/Nov06.html

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Dawgdad you could say the same thing about Montana, Idaho, Wyoming too. I’m glad we have 4 more years of Luther the angry Obama translator.

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Good morning, getalife – yes, it’s a beatiful day indeed…

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Donald Trump: Election Is ‘Total Sham And A Travesty,’ and suggests ‘Revolution’ Is Necessary.

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Where is that race baiting lying ass clown? I looked for him all night!

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Hey Jm. pick up some Silver Wheaton, and if you haven’t owned Sprint during the run up, you still can..they just purchased more cellular markets.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Sprint is buying U.S. Cellular markets in the Midwest for $480 million to boost its network capacity in that region.

Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. cellphone carrier, said Wednesday that it is buying spectrum and 585,000 customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. That covers about 10 percent of U.S. Cellular’s customer base and includes its key Chicago and St. Louis markets.

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I never saw so many people so excited over their taxes going up. Oh wait, those who are excited probably don’t have to pay any taxes, they let the working people pay their taxes while they sit on the couch and watch “reality” TV.

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MiltonMan

November 7th, 2012
9:39 am

Your man won – congratulations.
+++++++++++++++++++++++

Thank you. Maybe you can convince YOUR folks to grow up and start working with him now that they failed in their main goal of making him a one term President. It would be nice if the Republicans would actually start working FOR America rather than for China……….

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY

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— “keine Obszönitäten auf diesem Blog erlaubt”

Wirklich?

Was just guessin’…kinda looked like naughty words..

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DawgDad – the blue states, by and large, are subsidizing the red states as far as taxes to and from the Federal government. Those people voting for Obama in the industrial heartland were working people. People in New York and New Jersey work and they’ve started a few businesses over the years. Some have even done it without going bankrupt over and over (see Trump). The GOP framed this as a “producer” vs. “moocher” election, but most people saw through that c$ap.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwhfhncPfM

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Two things…as is if anybody cared…white folks, particularly older white men, have desperately been trying to hold onto the reins – and whip – in the belief/fear that once the black and brown minorities become the majority they’ll treat the ‘new’ white male minority the way they’ve been treated all these centuries…and who could blame em? The other thing is that ‘thinking off’ about how great it feels to realize that the Kochs, Adelsen, Rove, and all those other a-hole billionaires have awakened today to the realization that they’ve ‘pi$$ed it all away’. That they’ve squandered hundreds and hundreds of millions of non-deductible dollars with nothing to show for it but the hatred of a good portion of the American people. Can’t wait to hear that the DOJ has indicted Adelsen for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. As for the Kochs, I don’t know what it’s gonna take to make their lives miserable, but I’m all for it…guess I’ll have to settle for continuing to boycott Georgia Pacific products until they get the tar and feathers ready. As for those companies that promised to layoff their folks if Obama won…we’ve got our eyes on you and if there ain’t a law against what you’re planning, we’ll make one.

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Excellent article and very much on point but good luck with the GOP ever owning up to their real reality.

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Yes, American is a “center right” nation, which is why the center-right party — the DEMOCRATIC party — is winning — Peter Beinart

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“then Oblama can run again and win”

No, he can’t

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@Nunna >>I never saw so many people so excited over their taxes going up. Oh wait, those who are excited probably don’t have to pay any taxes, they let the working people pay their taxes while they sit on the couch and watch “reality” TV.

I’m happy to pay my fair share of taxes so that I can live in the world’s best country.

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Jay, I think it’s time for some early travelin music for the cons on here. Don Meridith is ringing in my ears.

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USinUK — “not that we didn’t already know this. NATE RULES!!!”

FWIW, Dean Chambers, the “Unskewed Polls” guy, tried to rewrite some history last night. He updated his site somewhere around 1-3 AM to make it match the election results, but someone posted on his website and berated him for doing it. Seems that Chambers didn’t realize that people were caching old versions of his site for future reference, conservabloggers like him having tried to pull this sort of thing in the past.

So Mr. Shirt-Buttoned-Up-To-His-Three-Chins changed his site back the way it was, with all his bullspit intact.

Romney 400+ EVs, my butt.

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When as a nation we collectively turn our back on God it is possible His protective hand may be withdrawn.

Gosh . I had no idea you were into Voodoo ? Do you really beleive that stuff you typed ?

Perhaps all ought to join the catholic Church, and do as the priest do and molest little boys…or do as the Vatican does, and launder money for the Mafia ?

Will that makes us great again ?

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When you build your party platform around “you lie” you have a problem. The cons are still stuck in the mindset that they will never compromise. I’ll bet they hate Christie for not being like Jindal.

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Stay classy Mississippi…

http://www.wmctv.com/story/20025451/riots-on-ole-miss-campus-after-election-results-announced

The south will always be a century or two behind the rest of the country.

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*Football spike*

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As a gay man I can’t vote Republican even though I am a fiscal conservative having come from a family of small business owners. The GOP needs to divorce itself from the religious right, drop all social and family issue and concentrate on promoting conservative, pro-business tax and fiscal policies. Otherwise, they are doomed. I hope I get to vote “conservative” before I pass this earth, but the GOP just won’t let me. I can’t vote for people who openly despise me even if I go bankrupt.

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Clydesdale — “We need to sell the American dream to urban people of all colors including single white women.”

No, you need to stop selling and START LISTENING.

Most Americans have heard your message and don’t want any part of it.

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Jay – “This race was close at the end only because he ditched conservatism and embraced moderation.”

Correct. Romney was being buried and moved to the Left and made a race out of it.

But that is bad news for we conservatives. Only after Romney moved to the Left did the race become competitive. That means, to me at least, that the country is getting more Liberal, not more Conservative, as we conservatives have preached for the past 60 years.

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Scout – 9:43

1. Neither you or I or anyone else can possibly predict what
historians, 100 years from now, will say.

2. There’s not one shred of evidence that any God exists. How is it you can’t understand this?

3. Calling Obama a “thug” is foolish and makes you look very lame.

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foxy lady-the facts are the facts. The “47 percent” is the Democratic base-what are they going to do-vote away their entitlements and go back to work?

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I think USMC, Scout and Del are all at a Tea Party with Allen West

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Aquagirl — “We need a constitutional amendment. All those disenfranchised prairie dogs, cattle, and huge tracts ‘o empty land are a travesty.”

No doubt the Limbaugh crew will trot out a map showing all the districts that went for Romney, as if acreage somehow is entitled to suffrage.

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Michelle Malkin.

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saywhat? @ 9:45 —

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“The Repubs first announcement will be to make Obama a Two Term President!”

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FOUR MORE YEARS FOR THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT : WINNERS? Vlad Putin – Iran LOSERS? democracy and the USA

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president’s first term,” McConnell said. “They have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together” with a balanced Congress.

Sound familiar?

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message.. the biggest liar won this one. the other message.. sadly.. is that the party of “give me” now outnumbers the people that actually produce something in this country..

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Morality – “FOUR MORE YEARS FOR THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT”

Don’t wait too long to book your flight.

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There is some light in the darkness today.

The House remains in Republican hands.

At least for the next two years Obama’s policies can be restrained if not totally thwarted.

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Scout

You must have had the names transposed, when you were posting about Reagan and Carter in 1980.

But in the end, it wasn’t as bad.

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“Hey Mitt and Anne- join Michelle and Jill Biden on a visit to wounded veterans- those 47% moochers you detest and never mentioned once.”

fair and balanced — more good advice for the Cons (like they really care)!

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“No doubt the Limbaugh crew will trot out a map showing all the districts that went for Romney, as if acreage somehow is entitled to suffrage.”

Yep JHM, they will spin, spin, spin. They’ll try to turn us into ‘geocracy’

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midtownguy @ 9:52 — more good advice for the Cons (like they really care)!

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Their main objective for the last four years was to make Obama a one term president. They should have kept that to themselves. America disagreed that’s the message. Go USA!!!!!!

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That means, to me at least, that the country is getting more Liberal, not more Conservative, as we conservatives have preached for the past 60 years.

Define conservatism for us please…… Is it telling women what to do ?

Is it invading other countries ? Is it saying deficits don’t matter ? Is it creating a larger government, as with Bush ? Is it bilking the US Treasury with cost plus contracts ?

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“1) Sure the demographics are changing but I believe historians 100 years from now will mark yesterday as the “point of no return” for what was once a great Republic. As Caesar said when he crossed the Rubicon, “Alea iacta est” (the die is cast).”

Scout, I say to you and your ilks that now is the time to get onboard and become part of the solution and no longer part of the problem before “Murum aries attigit” because once the assault has begun there is no quarter given…

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flagboy?

November 7th, 2012
9:46 am

Interesting point. They scrambled to put Michael Steele in as RNC chair then had the largest gains in 30 years but their base wasn’t comfortable with “one of them” in such high position. They force Steele out and put in that clown Priebus and look what they got.

As much as many may not like it Obama offered the country something it needed in’08, hope and change and this re-election says most people understand you need time to make this happen. To select Marco Rubio simply because he represents a minority block is like putting Clarence Thomas on the supreme court. Most people know pandering when they see it that’s why Romney/Ryan lost.

Rubio, Jindal, why? What will they represent in 2016? If they represent the same tired nonsense they’ve always brought they’ll get shot down too.

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The shameful performance of the Florida voting system and other states should not be tolerated. NO one should have to wait in lines for hours to cast a vote, ever.

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Bush destroyed this country? Not as bad as Obama is doing it. LOL you Liberals are clueless. Don’t you know he will over tax you as well. No one is immune to socialism. Morons.

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“Boortz was just bragging about a guy who told him he called in 5 people that he employs who have Obama bumper stickers and fired them to get below 300 employees………..”

Well this is How Republican’s create jobs isn’t it ?

Since Republican’s are for American’s ….. and being an American means you can voice your opinion, unlike backward countries ?

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Huntsman could’ve won this.

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Congrat’s to those who are Obama supporters, your guy won.

As for JB’s comment that the GOP must change (conform) to the Democrat agenda, when negotiating a deal both sides have to compromise to achieve a win-win situation (politics, business, marriage, etc.). Let’s hope progress is made for the country, not one side or the other.

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Joe, it looks like PPP had the most accurate model in the
history of polling, of those entities that actually do polling.

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I now see how clear this is not the country it once was. God help us. Obama will destroy this county

Ahhh… didn’t you already tell us how Obama already destroyed the country….. you are still not seeing clearly. Perhaps it could be constipation that has backed up so badly your vision is impaired.

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Regan forever

November 7th, 2012
10:04 am

Ok Liberals. You guys asked for him, you got him. I now see how clear this is not the country it once was. God help us. Obama will destroy this county.
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No Republican traitors like you ARE destroying this Country.

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How can anybody vote for someone who calls terrorists ‘folks he will bring to justice?’ Very disappointed in my country today.

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So pretty on the outside, but so horribly ugly on the inside.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone.

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JHM, thanks. I had forgotten about that.

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And best of all … Mr. Steve Martin:

To commemorate Obama’s victory, I’m having a tea party.

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Well theres a big selloff going right now.

1.6% is “big”?

Oooooooooookay.

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what this comes down to is the fact that you cant just get up there and say anything depending on who is listening and expect people to accept it. Even with high unemployment and everything else, the moderates among us who actually decide these elections are too smart to fall for that stuff. at the very least we know what Obama stands for and believes. After all this attention i still have no idea what Mitt Romney really believes and how he would’ve governed. that is scary. if the GOP had found a good, truly moderate candidate they would’ve (or should’ve) won easily. problem for GOP is because of declining numbers they’ve had to jump in bed with anyone willing to have them (tea party, religious zealots, etc) and now they have to play along with them during elections. by humoring these groups they turn away the folks that are on the fence. for me, i see the way those groups act and think and do the opposite. Obama stepped in to a mess 4 years ago, it is now 100% his mess. Lets hope he can get it turned around quick or it will truly get ugly around these parts.

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Wow! Just WOW!

So much hate spewed from the left here.

You would think they had lost or something?

Good thing they didn’t…

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Checking the obituaries this morning… no Ted Nugent. Has amyone seen todays arrest report?

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moonbat,

The destruction of our country argument from the right is just plain silly.

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Four more years.

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UsinUK – off topic, but I just wanted to let you know that I had to have one of my dogs euthanized on Monday. He had a massive respiratory infection we just couldn’t defeat.

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Yep JHM, they will spin, spin, spin. They’ll try to turn us into ‘geocracy’

Bigot! Cows are 3/5ths of a person!

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“Obama will destroy this county.”

Regan — do you mean Cobb county or Walton county? I’m confused.

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Yes, it was a message election but they won’t really “get” the message
till the 2014 mid-terms.

The GOTV effort in two years will be modeled on what we accomplished
last night. The democrats will not sit out another mid-term. There is already a movement to sweep out the House in 2014.

Oh, and it appears with President Obamas “We got to fix that” comment on voting issues there will be some tidying up of the really messy
way we vote.

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“Very disappointed in my country today.”

Chris — you might look a little longer in that mirror and ask why.

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Goldie…”Regan — do you mean Cobb county or Walton county? I’m confused.”

LOL!!!

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K’Chak — “Schat-their-pantzen-freude”

I prefer “Blogenfreude.”

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The “message” that I GOT FROM THIS ELECTION IS THAT WE ARE A VERY POLARIZED COUNTRY. We hate each other and want everyone that thinks differently from us to all DIE. We can’t get along and we would rather take the entire USA down the tubes than compromise with the “enemy”.

Partisanship is killing this country. It isn’t the Democrats or the Republicans, IT IS BOTH.

Now y’all get together, compromise and do what we elected you to do: run this country, TOGETHER.

We should make the Senators and Representatives be handcuffed to a person of the other party for an indefinite time.

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Well finally Bush is off the hook! Now the bias media has four more years to report on conservatives and not mention anything about those they gave power. This is WillieBKind turning out until 2015. The ball is in your hand now liberals, let’s see how long it takes you to turn us into a European type country.

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If the country is this divided, squarely down the middle, then, the country should be literally divided. Liberals to the north, Conservatives to the south, and be done with it. We’d all live happily ever after, right?

Here we have another Republican traitor. Since he can’t have his way he wants armed revolution…………….

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No collapse, no more losing wars, no scandals and no attacks on our homeland.

Time to focus on our country and our middle class.

This is not destroying our country.

It is making it better.

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Georgia and Texas will be Democratic in 2016…!!!!!

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its a great day in America – just look at how the Dow is reacting to this fantastic Obama win.

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The GOP has already trotted out Jeb Bush for 2016. God help us all.

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Goldie — “Regan — do you mean Cobb county or Walton county? I’m confused.”

Bwaaaaaaah!

Well spotted, ma’am!

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Maybe a couple of months will pass before they fire up the impeachment rhetoric.
Oh wait, they already have started.
Any pretense to thwart a duly elected president.

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JAY

I disagree about GOP not changing…the country has changed a lot less than the GOP…unfortunately for the conservatives, they have changed in an incredibly adverse way…they have become much, much more vehement against gay marriage, womens rights and the like which are really of no consequence to those on the right except some BS divine arrogance..some things haven’t changed in terms of big vs small FED government…even that has changed a bit as FED has grown no matter who was in office..

Nothing will change, the best deal that we can hope for re the cliff is $80 billion a year from those making over $500K which is already spent..and cuts that will be punted into the next administration..

The vote wasn’t for blue or red, both were votes for the status quo disguised as change…rubbish

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Several took me on regarding 80% of the map being red and only 48% of the vote. Your guy got 49%. Don’t think this is a beatdown. The population is divided. Interesting, nobody took me on regarding my final point. The very people who have elected this president twice (blacks, latinos, single women) are the taking the brunt of the “worse off”. Look it up yourself. What has happened to black unemployment in the last 4 years? The Governement will not fix this awful discrepency. Restoring the American dream will!

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The GOP contends that they (and they alone) know what’s good for business, the economy and, hence, the American people. They don’t really care what the American people actually think….or want.

A simple observation. Conservatives talk about dealing with illegal immigrants by sending them home, yet at the same time Vidalia onion farmers and Alabama tomato farmers and Florida produce growers scream, plead, beg for cheap, hard-working laborers. Capitalism requires two key ingredients: Economic expansion/growth and cheap labor. When both are in short supply in the USA, they look for them overseas. In the meantime we export weapons and war in order to support the military industrial complex. Eisenhower’s speech bears re-reading: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

I think he represented the Republican Party much better than those calling themselves Republicans today. So did Reagan. They were true Americans, not ultra-nationalist ideologues. We can only imagine how they would view Limbaugh, Hannity and the rest of them…not very kindly I would think.

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The politics of the next few months is set in stone. The Sequestration is law and will take place, unless………..! The question on the table is who will compromise or not compromise. No compromise and Sequestration goes into effect. Compromise and it does not.

The Bush/Obama tax cuts are set to expire 1/1/2013. Will there be a compromise or will they expire?

Would combining the two into one deal lead to a compromise? What if Republicans gave the Dream Act to Democrats to sweeten the pot in exchange for a better deal on taxes?

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I’m confused. The republicans keep talking about Fiscal responsibility, socialism, and morals that the country was founded on. Does anyone here know what these things mean? Go ahead and bash me but just remember what you say when China calls in the debt.

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In Fox News’ election coverage Tuesday night, there was little pretense of fairness or balance. What there was, from the start, was a glum tone that turned downright funereal by the time Mitt Romney finally conceded, near 1 a.m. To watch the network’s anchors and guests work through the dawning realization that their candidate was doomed was to witness a textbook case of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief.

Denial: With the early returns breaking badly for Romney, Karl Rove points to an exit poll suggesting that Democratic turnout was low in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County. Everyone basks in the critical importance of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County. Anchor Megyn Kelly asks, “Is this just math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?” Rove assures her it’s real.

Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, is counting on rural voters to turn things around: “I still think Mitt Romney wins when it is all over.”

Anger: Shortly before the race is called, Sarah Palin says an Obama victory would be a “catastrophic setback to our economy” and lashes out at the public: “I just cannot believe, though, that the majority of Americans would believe that incurring more debt is good for our economy. … I cannot believe the majority of Americans would believe it’s OK not to follow the Constitution and not have a budget.”

As midnight nears and reality sinks in, Megyn Kelly takes out her frustration on liberal colleague Susan Estrich: “You, having managed the Michael Dukakis campaign, are familiar with the losing feeling.”

Bargaining: With all of the networks calling the race for Obama, including Fox News, Karl Rove pleads for his fellow hosts to un-call Ohio, promising that forthcoming returns in the state will be favorable to Romney.

Kelly, followed by the cameras, heads back through the bowels of the building to grill Fox News’ decision desk and see if the network’s analysts will change their minds. They won’t.

Depression: Ed Henry, reporting stone-faced from Obama headquarters as it erupts in jubiliation: “The crowd is near pandemonium now, despite the fact that unemployment is hovering near 8 percent.”

Charles Krauthammer: “As a psychiatrist, I will offer to write prescriptions for anyone who needs them right now.”

Acceptance: Still waiting on this one.

http://slate.me/TKNQIR

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@king >>its a great day in America – just look at how the Dow is reacting to this fantastic Obama win.

You mean the same Dow that nearly doubled during his first term?

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“Except for when the left said it at the start of GWB’s 2nd term. Turned out it was a pretty accurate prediction”

No, it wasn’t. The country is still here, still strong. Economic bumps, even BIG ones, don’t equal desctruction of the country. Rome is gone. We are not.

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Peter, as to your request for a definition of conservatism, it’s quite simple. Personal responsibility. Don’t expect the taxes that others pay to fund your lifelong paid vacation. Stop looking for the gub-ment to do everything for you.

Hope that helps you.

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Tom — “Ok libs/Dems, your guy won, congrats! Now promise me, stop saying its Bush’s fault, during the next four years.”

Just as soon as cons stop bleating about Clinton and Carter. Carter’s been out of office for THIRTY YEARS, for crying out loud.

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And now all of the lunatic fringe know why we do not take them seriously and view them as PROPAGANDIZED, LOW-INFORMATION (but “rugged”) individuals.

They willingly come out here and perpetuate the propaganda and talking points, they LIVE in a conspiracy theory world and rely HEAVILY on hack websites of people who are DEAD to instill and govern their socio-political pholosphy. I reeled whenever i would read things like “landslide” and “poll skewing due to oversampling Democrats”, declare “apocalypse”, etc. NEVER ONCE doing their own research or expanding it. They just happily regurgitate what is implanted into them by HACKS who exploit them to make a dollar – blowing the walls off the echo chamber. To a sane person this appears as INSANE, which is why we laugh and poke fun. We have to laugh in order to keep from CRYING…and it’s sad, because unlike many of THEM we actually view our fellow man (and woman) as such. Amazing.

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“Hope that helps you”

It shouldn’t…because you have not described conservatism…you’ve described social Darwinism

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Jm — “Dow down 222″

Traders are just trying to draw attention to themselves so they get thrown another fish, uh, round of quantitative easing.

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Everybody knows that the US is full of stupid people. As the sheep are led to their slaughter, I marvel at the arrogance of the enlightened. Of course you are not one of the stupid people. Look at how blacks flocked to a man that has never been down for the struggle with them because he is in fact an elitist. In fact, he has created policy that has worsened his peoples plight, yet they seem more willing to accept a handout than hand up.

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“doing the right thing can sure feel awful”

It can indeed…but when the Vet called me after the necropsy to tell me how bad it really was, it helped a lot to know I made the right decision.

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“But what about the Democrats who got trounced in 2010? ”

Occupation– it’s a typical scenario that the White House gets “trounced” in off-year elections and then it reverts back the other way 2 years later… a la 1992 Clinton wins, 1994 Repubs win Congressional majority, then 1996 another Clinton term. Usually the off-year elections produce over-reaching by the loonies who think they have “a mandate” and start creating crazy bills in Congress that never get passed, etc. Just like 2010… you’re welcome!

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“Everybody knows that the US is full of stupid people. As the sheep are led to their slaughter, ”

And TBone thinks that insulting 50% of the American people will win his Party the votes in 2 more years… keep it comin’ TBone!

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The GOP message on jobs, the economy/fiscal responsibility is a good one.

Based on his first term, these issues are clearly not President Obama’s strengths. And he hasn’t shown the slightest interest in remediating his breathtaking ignorance about business and the economy, so I don’t expect him to get religion during his second term.

He certainly has the capacity to acquire the knowledge, but it’s not where his passions lie. He’s an uncompromising social reformer. Health Care reform trumped economic recovery during his first term.

Bipartisanship is as foreign to him as paying income taxes are to his base constituency.

But the extreme stance the GOP takes on gay marriage, abortion and immigration killed Romney yesterday with LGBT, women and hispanic voters.

There is no doubt Republicans need to tweak their message if they aspire to appeal to these groups.

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“But what about the Democrats who got trounced in 2010? Weren’t they also facing a ‘change’ of sorts?”

um. yeah. did you notice the votes last night??? you might want to peruse Jay’s analysis above for a refresher.

as the song goes … it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life.
and I’m feeeeeelin’ gooooood …

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Good Morning Izzy? Its a great day now that oblunder as you say, was re-elected. I hope you have your crying towel because last at 8:41pm you had Romnesia and claim Mitt would win VA, FLA ,Ohio, etc. Just goes to show when you are the party of liars, lying to your base and media comes naturally. You been had, hoodwinked, led astray, bamboozled…Now take that crying towel you stuck up your @$$ after the first debate and wipe your face with it!!

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