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The Early Lessons

This one hurt.

I advised my followers on Twitter last night that the next time I wrote a post about the polls being wrong, somebody should punch me in the ear.

So what does this mean? Many many people, including people smarter than me about these things, expected this to be a turnout election. We expected the turnout to be close to even with either a slight edge to Democrats or a slight edge to Republicans. Either way, most were in a agreement that it wouldn't be anything like 2008. We were wrong. Exit polls have it pegged at D+6, fairly close to 2008.

So, what does this mean. It means that Republicans can no longer win national elections by turning out the base alone. They have to start convincing more people that they have the answers. They can no longer continue to write off blacks and Latinos as un-winnable and expect to win. There is just not enough base to do it.

Another lesson is that Catholics just don't care in the slightest about the persecution initiated by this President and about the unborn. Every indication is that Catholics have granted an imprimatur for their own oppression. The reasons for this are a topic for another post.

Another key lesson Republicans should learn is about the nominating process. First, I don't think that Mitt Romney is a bad man or that he was a particularly bad candidate. But, during the primary process conservatives looking for any alternative but Mitt bounced from candidate to candidate. For this we were harangued by party leadership and pundits alike that we had to nominate Mitt because he is 'electable.' To all those who beat us up over this back then, you know what you can go do to yourself.

I do not understand this ridiculous notion that we should nominate the candidate we like least so that others will like him. If we don't like him, why the hell should anybody else? Republican moderates lose, period. I know the mantra by the Republican establishment will blame this on social conservatives and urge us to nominate someone even more moderate next time. They are idiots.

And the bottom line for me, if Americans would not reject this President under these circumstances, with a record of such unmitigated failure and with the prospect of country destroying debt looming, there may be no coming back for America. I am serious about that. Seriously, what will it take for Americans to change course? You would have to imagine that whatever it is it will be too late. I mean, look at Greece. They are past the point of no return and their country is in ruins and they still keep going. We. Are. Doomed.

I am buying beer, bullets, and a bus ticket to Texas and maybe somebody someday will pick the good fight.

Posted by Patrick Archbold

“It means that Republicans can no longer win national elections by turning out the base alone.

If the base would have turned out, we would have won last night. Obama got 58 million votes. Romney got about 56 million. John McCain got 59 million.
Obama was down a solid 10 million from his 2008 performance.

Our base supported guys like that nut in Virginia. They supported Gary Johnson here and there. They said Jesus didn’t want them to vote for a Mormon and stayed home. Others said Romneycare is the same as Obamacare and that there was no difference.

The people who for many reasons stayed home gave us Obama II. No matter what catholics did, if everyone voted for McCain would have come out, we would be rid of Obama this morning. Goood work A-holes.

(from Greg Kendra) Early exit poll results also showed Obama losing the overall white evangelical vote to Romney, but winning the overall Catholic vote by just a few points.

(From Patrick Archbold) Another lesson is that Catholics just don't care in the slightest about the persecution initiated by this President and about the unborn. Every indication is that Catholics have granted an imprimatur for their own oppression. The reasons for this are a topic for another post....I am buying beer, bullets, and a bus ticket to Texas and maybe somebody someday will pick the good fight.

To those in the Catholic Church who voted conservative, and to the bishops who exhorted Catholics to do so, thank you.

"Another lesson is that Catholics just don't care in the slightest about the persecution initiated by this President and about the unborn. Every indication is that Catholics have granted an imprimatur for their own oppression."

I wonder, Dr Kopp, how many actual Catholics remain in America. From the voting indications, it appears cinos are the majority now.

...or...Patrick Archbold can read and heed 2 Tim. 2:15 and understand where we ARE on God's TImeline. We are NOT setting up an earthly kingdom for Christ to return to, we are NOT Israel, and God is NOT building a new nation of kingdom believers while Israel is temporarily set aside and blinded. He is building a BODY of believers, whose inheritance is in the heavenlies and who are admonished to keep their eyes on things ABOVE, NOT on things on this earth. (Col. 3:1,2). Partrick Archbold can understand that we, the Church the BOdy of CHrist, are made up of individuals, not groups, not nations, not religious buildings. And that we are NOT in some kind of religious revival, as Peter spoke of in Acts. We are in the days of apostacy, as Paul spoke of in 2 Tim. So that what is happening here is easily understood, according to GOd's Timeline.

It is about getting the gospel of the grace of God out while there is still time. 2 Cor, Chapters 5,6.