We didn't lose because of fraud.
We didn't lose because of bad turnout by conservatives. FReepers who say that are ascribing to themselves wayyyyy more importance than they deserve.
We didn't lose because we didn't focus on the right states.
We didn't lose because of a bad candidate.
We didn't lose because of a bad election team.
We lost because a message of individual liberty and personal responsibility simply is not what the typical American believes in anymore.
What the typical American believes in is a false empathy that equates handouts to indigent and stupid people with "compassion," and a President who "relates" to their problems.
What a typical American believes in is a completely feminized, unprincipled co-op, where the concepts of duty, honor, and country, are simply words.
Greedy businessmen have opened our country to refugees from a third world shithole for the sake of lowering their costs by displacing them to taxpayers.
All of us -- liberals and conservatives alike -- have literally allowed the lunatics to take over the asylum so that people who in previous generations were regarded as mentally ill are now destroying many of our basic institutions, because no one would speak up and say, "wait, sexual deviancy is not, by definition, a normative behavior, neither the addiction to or recreational use of drugs is healthy, families with only one parent (by design) are not acceptable, and the portrayal of sexual and violent pornography as harmless is ultimately destructive."
We have been weakened by prosperity. Now we will discover through adversity if the America of our fathers and grandfathers can be revived.
America really did fall in love with Big Ears and his baloney and bull hockey, you say.
It’s a freak country.
Post 84 - great post and I agree.
I wanted Romney to win this, but more importantly I wanted to know where we stand as a nation. The choice was clear. It was pretty close but the takers and wanters outnumber the producers and self-reliants.
Disappointing but when you see where we have been headed, aided by Democrats and Republicans alike, it is not that surprising.
I have two disappointments tonight - there are not enough of us and Romney would have been a good president.