True to some extent....the Tea Party took a whoopin'....as they deserved. Let this be a warning to the left as well.....get to far off-center, and we'll vote you out. America is centrist.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > Seems to me that the party that died was the part of the extreme > right, not the fiscally conservative and socially moderate Republican > party of most of the late 20th century. > > >The last chance to let a > > Republican president advocate the conservative, constitutional principles > > upon which American society was built. > > American Society was never built on the slavish worship of ignorance, > hatred, wealth and privilege that the current party worshiped. > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:22 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't buy any of that. Every single time there's an election, a story > > like this comes out about the losers...and how this loss spells the end > of > > that party "as we know it". > > > > Well...duh...EVERY day spells the end of the party as we know it..the > > parties are always changing slightly. But just as the democrats didn't > > cease to exist after 2000 or 2004....the republicans aren't going > anywhere > > either. > > > > The election is over, and yet, the hyperbole continues! Ugh. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > >> This about sums up what I was saying earlier: > >> > >> The Republican Party died last night. > >> > >> Somewhere in the suburbs of Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie, in the > >> decisions of some suburban voters, the Republican Party stopped being a > >> nationally viable political organization. > >> > >> Oh, it will continue to exist. > >> > >> But it will likely never again truly contest for the presidency. The > nation > >> has changed, the values have been replaced, the demographics are > different. > >> > >> The demographics are insurmountable. > >> > >> Last night was a tipping point, a dance on a razors edge, and it went > the > >> other way. What was undoable last night will become increasingly > impossible > >> with each passing year. The margins will grow, the base will shrink, the > >> tide will turn and the day will pass. > >> > >> The Republican Party died last night. > >> > >> Oh, it will continue to exist. > >> > >> There will be the name and the elephants, but nationally, conservatism > is > >> playing against an impossibly stacked deck. > >> > >> The nation had a clear choice. Each party ran candidates who were true > to > >> type. The Republicans ran conservatives and the Democrats ran liberals > and > >> it was a rout. Nothing changed except that Republicans got rebuffed > across > >> the board. > >> > >> America wants Democrat. > >> > >> More specifically, America wants liberal. It wants an activist, > empowered > >> government, imposing fairness and supporting entitlement. > >> > >> Thats what America wants. > >> > >> At least half of it wants that. Half and a tiny bit more. > >> > >> And the inexorably shifting demographics of the nation ensure that that > >> tiny bit more will grow steadily, cementing the liberal majority and > >> creating an electoral impossibility of replacing it. > >> > >> Last night was the last chance. > >> > >> It was the last chance to gain a last national electoral victory over > the > >> Democratic coalition Latinos, blacks, gays, feminists, trade > unionists, > >> government employees and welfare beneficiaries. The last chance to let a > >> Republican president advocate the conservative, constitutional > principles > >> upon which American society was built. > >> > >> But America said, No, thanks. > >> > >> The majority preferred more of the last four years to anything Mitt > Romney > >> and the Republicans were offering. > >> > >> The constituent communities of that majority are only going to grow in > size > >> and prominence in American society. They are going to increasingly > dominate > >> our society and politics. > >> > >> Four years from now, more of the older conservative voters will be dead, > >> and more of the younger liberal voters will be registered to vote. The > >> Latino community, essentially co-opted by the Democrats into an > aggrieved > >> permanent minority status, will, like black voters, be larger and more > >> Democrat. Four years from now, the cultural shift away from traditional > >> values will be more advanced, thanks to more brainwashing by school > >> teachers and sitcoms. > >> > >> Those members of our society who typically identify with the Democratic > >> Party are increasing. Those members of our society who typically > identify > >> with the Republican Party are shrinking. > >> > >> You do the math. > >> > >> Certain, Republicans will keep running. And some of them, no doubt, will > >> win. But they will be a different sort of Republican. > >> > >> They will not be conservative. Certainly not socially or morally > >> conservative. > >> > >> They will bend over backwards to avoid the principles of moral > >> conservatism, so as to not disrespect a social norm. > >> > >> They will be Democrat-lite. > >> > >> Or they will not win. > >> > >> Last night was our best chance. > >> > >> And America chose the other team. > >> > >> Almost $3 billion was spent on the presidential campaign. Untold tens of > >> millions of dollars were spent on congressional campaigns across the > >> country. And nothing changed. > >> > >> Obama is still in the White House. The Democrats still control the > Senate. > >> Republicans still control the House of Representatives. The pundits say > >> America voted to break the grid lock, that it voted to demand team > work. It > >> did no such thing. It voted to maintain the status quo. > >> > >> So we have gone on a long, painful and expensive national journey, and > it > >> has left us exactly where we started. > >> > >> A couple of House seats this way, a couple of Senate seats that way, and > >> Obama on top of the whole thing. > >> > >> That isnt change, that is business as usual. > >> > >> Conservatism has become a regional philosophy, the Republican Party a > >> regional party. It will win governorships, it will win seats in the > House > >> or Senate, but it will essentially be a phenomenon of the South and > >> Midwest. > >> > >> Where traditional values endure and dwindle, the Republican Party will > >> still be relevant. > >> > >> But those places will shrink and shrivel. And each year, the gap between > >> those who support conservatism and the number needed to win a national > >> victory will grow. > >> > >> Last night was conservatisms last stand. > >> > >> And it lost. > >> > >> The Republican Party died last night. > >> > >> > >> http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4 > >> > >> J > >> > >> - > >> > >> I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody. - > >> Barack > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
