Posted on 11/25/2012 6:01:48 AM PST by expat1000
The difference between victory and defeat often comes down to morale. You've seen it in baseball games and wars. It's that faint sense of air leaking out of the balloon. A weariness and malaise that kicks in when one side decides it can't win and doesn't want to be here anymore.
November 2012 was not a defeat. It was a loss in a close election that rattled the Democrats by showing just how much of the country had turned on their savior. It was a rebuke to Obama's mismanagement of the country and the economy over the last four years.
Or it would have been if the Republican Party had not reacted to its loss by screaming and wailing in despair after their hopes were ludicrously inflated by establishment posters. Followed by running around like a chicken without a head because we fell 400,000 votes short of winning key states. And this defeatist behavior has helped the media create the myth of a second-term mandate.
The country did not repudiate us. The majority of Americans did not pledge allegiance to some rotten post-American country. The majority stayed home. And that is damning, but it's also comforting because these are the people we have to win over. They don't believe in Obama, but they don't believe in us either. They don't believe in politics because it isn't relevant to their lives.
The more Republicans treat the election as a renunciation of everything that they stand for or a reason to give up on the country, the more Democrats posture as having won a tremendous ideological and cultural victory, instead of a limited strategic victory. Our reaction legitimizes theirs.
Republican consultants and pollsters fed the dream of an easy victory and that vision of an inevitable victory made the actual defeat much more shocking and devastating. It made people despair thinking that if we couldn't win an election this "easy", then it's completely hopeless. But this was never going to be an easy ride. Not against the first black man in the White House with a money advantage and the media in his pocket. Not against opponents running a coordinated smear campaign while rigging the economy in their favor.
Obama may have Carter's policies times ten, but he also has the image and the ruthless political machine of JFK. And even Reagan had to work hard to beat Carter. It wasn't the easy ride that some Republicans like to remember it as. Even though the economy was a disaster, the hostages were in Iran and Carter's performance had been so bad that he had a high profile Democratic challenger in the form of Ted Kennedy who took the fight to the Convention; Reagan did not break out until the debate. Now imagine Reagan running against JFK. The man in the cowboy hat might have won, but let's not pretend that it would have been any easier than it was for Romney.
Beating Obama was possible and for a brief shining moment the window was open, when Romney had one good debate performance, but then it closed again as the storm blew in and the polls filled up with the handpicked demographics of the welfare state. And we lost, but we also won.
Win or lose, elections send a message and the message for this election to Obama was not, "We like what you've been doing the last four years. Great job!"
Obama lost his mandate. To win, he had to run a divisive campaign dependent on minority groups. And that locks him in a box outside the mainstream. Forget any of that nonsense about bringing the country together again. That is over and done with. The transformation of Obama from mainstream leader to bellicose mouthpiece for the left was completed at his first post-election press-conference.
Republicans might understand what this means if they weren't busy with an opportunistic internal civil war. And if sizable chunks of the rank and file weren't busy proclaiming that no election can ever be won again because the demographics of the country had changed so dramatically and everyone is so addicted to free stuff.
Neither one is true.
The demographics have not made it impossible for Republicans to win, not unless Republicans make that a self-fulfilling prophecy by jumping on the amnesty express. And you can beat Santa Claus, because our fat red man is a redistributor and does not give or take equally from all. But doing that requires spending more time making a case on the specific individual economic impact, rather than endlessly singing the wonders of free enterprise and depending on enough people to align with your economic philosophy to carry you over the top.
Romney was great when it came to talking about the impact of the economy on large businesses. He was much poorer at connecting to the concerns of ordinary people. He wasn't Reagan and Obama is a much better campaigner than Carter and there was no significant split in his party to tie him down. His victory was not inevitable, though he came close. A better candidate might have won. Even Romney might have won if he had tackled a wider range of issues and done a better job of connecting with the frustrations and anxieties of ordinary people.
In a period of prosperity or hope, he might have even been the perfect candidate. And it's not hard to imagine the electorate choosing someone like him to preside over growth and prosperity. But Mitt was running for the wrong job at the wrong time. He was running for the presidency of a bankrupt company and the shareholders were no longer at the point where they wanted someone competent and professional to run the company. They wanted someone who shared their anger or would protect them from the worst of the company's collapse.
And that may be the larger reason why Romney lost.
This was a loss and there are lessons to be learned from it, but it was not a repudiation of conservative values, the end of America or any of the other things that some people keep insisting it is.
The country isn't lost and acting like it is will just make it easier for the Democrats to win. Right now the establishment is trying to sell out the base and the base is abandoning ship. That is a truly toxic combination which could very well accomplish what this defeat did not. It can bring down both the Republican Party and the Conservative movement.
On the one hand we have Liberal Republicans who want to realign their party as a less extreme version of the Democratic Party. On the other hand we have Paleoconservatives who view the country as a hostile cultural territory that they are no longer interested in fighting for, but a liberal Sodom and Gomorrah that they would be happy to see burn. Some expect a better America to emerge out of the ashes. Most do not. They just want to see America destroyed to prove their point.
Pulling out of the political process is no answer. It's comfort food before the apocalypse. There isn't any room in this country for private enclaves, cultural or otherwise. Not when the left gets through with it. There will be as much room for a real or virtual conservative enclave in 2035 as there was for one in the USSR in 1932 or as there is for one today in Cuba. If the left consolidates its control, then the only place to go will be underground, alive or dead. History bears ample witness to that.
Right now we can still fight and win, but the window is closing on that. If we accept the premise that change is no longer possible, then it really will be all over.
The left has not won. It is doing what it always does, acting as if its victory is inevitable. And that is the sum of its ideology. The left believes that its movement is the inevitable progress of history. It believes that it must win, it's only a matter of time. That sense of inevitability can be a powerful thing. And its opposite number, the thing that the left tries to instill in its opponents, the sense that they are doomed fossils, dinosaurs watching the comet, is equally powerful in killing hope and urging on the false wisdom of bowing to the inevitable. Amnesty, why not? It's inevitable.
Defeat is a teacher. How we behave in defeat shows what we are made of. It shows whether we have what it takes to win. If we fail the tests of defeat, then we shall never be worthy of victory.
Kipling said it best in his famous poem, "If". "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two impostors just the same/If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken/Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools/Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken/And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools."
The question is can we do that? Will we bend down and do that?
We need to recognize this as a golden opportunity!
I’d liked to snort the same white powder that you’re snorting. It was a monumental defeat. Obamacare guarantees votes for the Communists until doomsday (”The Republicans are trying to take away your health care!) just as FDR’s SoShecurity had done, which is the only thing such programs are about, and the likes of Romney are either too shy or too clueless to expose it for what it is. And Obamacare was passed without a single vote from the oposition, what do you think is going to happen now? Eye One thinks he has a mandate to erect statues of Josif V. Stalin in Every American city and you can do nothing about it. Don’t forget that our purrfect 18th Constitution has us elect a King George for 4 years of nearly unlimited, unchecked power, as evidenced by the past 4 years, don’t kid yourself.
I’d liked to snort the same white powder that you’re snorting. It was a monumental defeat. Obamacare guarantees votes for the Communists until doomsday (”The Republicans are trying to take away your health care!) just as FDR’s SoShecurity had done, which is the only thing such programs are about, and the likes of Romney are either too shy or too clueless to expose it for what it is. And Obamacare was passed without a single vote from the oposition, what do you think is going to happen now? Eye One thinks he has a mandate to erect statues of Josif V. Stalin in Every American city and you can do nothing about it. Don’t forget that our purrfect 18th century Constitution has us elect a King George for 4 years of nearly unlimited, unchecked power, as evidenced by the past 4 years, don’t kid yourself.
On November 14, 2012, newly elected U.S. Senator [Ted] Cruz [TX] was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He needs to hear from us. We need to show the people on Capital Hill that we aren't going to fool with the moderates but rather champion the conservatives.
I generally like this author, but I think he needs to put down the hopium pipe. This election was repudiation of what we hold dear by the majority of the electorate. Much as the author would seem to like to deny that, it is what it is. There are some silver linings in the clouds, but if the author thinks that we are going to see another conservative renaissance across this country then he’s plainly delusional.
We’re at that point where I think we need to decide what a realistic victory looks like. Conservatives are in control throughout the south and most of the west. The west coast and northeast are hopeless.I think a divorce in some sense is probably inevitable. How that salts out is going to be much more important than whether the failed gop gets a few more seats.
I feel 100% the way that you do.
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, along with an order to extract REVENGE against anyone threatening them won the election.
I have no hope about anything anymore, I’ve given up.
We can not wait for 2014 and 2016 to regroup and figure out new strategies. By then it will be too late. The Marxist/Muslim usurper will have completed his planned distruction of America.
That’s what people fail to understand.
Col Allen West; “I don’t want to see America become like Zimbabwe where people don’t trust their electoral process. If we cannot trust the integrity of the voting system then we are no longer a free republic.
Col West has opened the door.
It’s now up to We The People.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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Polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office. Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party.
Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.
So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns?
Massive voter fraud.
There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans, as many term the fraud- but CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.
http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/
Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.
The evidence is overwhelming!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-aVy_s76ZY
https://www.facebook.com/lori.patriot/posts/404694619604138
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-stole-the-election/
feature=player_detailpage&v=LbOtYQceBxI-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rMpQKqZhM
http://obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/
http://newtgingrich360.com/profiles/blogs/obama-stole-the-election
http://appalachianforums.com/forums/Dickenson_County,_Virginia.pl/md/read/id/255145
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/adding-up-the-evidence-to-a-stolen-election/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/allen-west-mitt-romney-and-the-massive-voter-fraud-machine/
http://www.truethevote.org/news/how-widespread-is-voter-fraud-2012-facts-figures
http://foxnewsinsider.com/tag/voter-fraud/
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/01/voter-fraud-is-no-myth-its-more-common-than-you-think/
http://thewillcountynews.com/?p=415
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4279497/obama-stole-election/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/
Accuracy In Media
The Left’s national voter fraud strategy exposed:
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-lefts-national-vote-fraud-strategy-exposed/
Thousands of military votes uncounted or missing:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/complaint-filed-over-illegal-alien-voters/
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/obamas-army-of-illegal-election-workers/
http://mvpproject.org/in-the-news/va-military-absentee-ballots-going-awol-in-2012/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/
http://www.naturalnews.com/037952_vote_fraud_Philadelphia_elections.html
Demonstration- voter machine hacked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FPuLNjvAc&feature=youtu.be
Go to http://www.facebookcensorship.com and see the documentation of their censorship and harassment.
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What you can do:
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Visit these sites:
The Competent Conservative: Here’s What You Can Do:
http://thecompetentconservative.com/elections-have-not-yet-been-certified-heres-what-you-can-do/
WND: How Obama Can Be Stopped In The Electoral College:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/how-obama-can-be-stopped-in-electoral-college/
The Competent Conservative: Here’s What You Can Do:
http://thecompetentconservative.com/elections-have-not-yet-been-certified-heres-what-you-can-do/
http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/
Most of ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ activity is moving to FaceBook.
‘Obama Voter Fraud Volunteers
http://www.facebook.com/#!/ObamaVoterFraudVolunteers
‘Obama Voter Fraud’ on FaceBook-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=488176621204089&set=a.488176614537423.110863.488173144537770&type=1&theater";;;-
Sign the petition- over 99,000 and counting -cards, email
http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/
Another petition, The ‘We The People’ petition has 60,000 signatures and counting-
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recount-election/ZQmy0Mlv#thank-you=p
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I feel the same way, as if I’m in a horror movie.
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