markie_farkie: A friend of a friend was a Cabela's north of Dallas over the weekend and, according to the guy at the gun counter, it was Gunday Sunday, and the place had been packed ever since Wednesday.

Apparently people are stocking up on firearms, just so the U.N. can take them away any moment.


*SIGH*

I love that they fail to realize Obama has been far more gun friendly then their hero GW.

nekom: How did their message not resonate with the people?

Oh, it did, it did.But not the way the Republicans wanted.

nekom: I'm a liberal, and I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome, but I truly would like to see a competitive alternative out there that doesn't massively suck as hard as any party has ever sucked

It does make me wonder what they think their policies offer to the average voter. It seems as if the Republicans knew this presidential election had to be won. They did as much vote suppression as possible and still lost.

The battleground states, whose electoral vote decided the election (including winning margin) were:
Wisconsin (Obama +7%)
Nevada (Obama +7%)
New Hampshire (Obama +6%)
Iowa (Obama +6%)
Colorado (Obama +5%)

Wisconsin and Iowa will likely remain battleground states in the next two presidential elections due to the large number of working class white males. That's 16 electoral votes Romney lost due to "Let Detroit go bankrupt." Those states could swing back red.

On the other hand, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado are harbingers of times to come. Nevada and Colorado have rapidly increasing Latino populations. Colorado's Latino population has grown 42 percent in 12 years, helping to transform once-reliable Republican areas into swing counties now leaning toward Democrats. Add Florida's 29 electoral votes due to a lot of extremely angry Black and Latino voters who understand their voting rights were being screwed over by Republicans in 2012 and you don't see much hope for a party whose one consistent message has been "more money for the rich."

It's intriguing. They recognize there is a problem, and then intentionally veer away from any logical solution.

I hope they really do double-down on the derp. The faster they do, the better for the country.

abb3w: I suspect Virginia could be swung back red, IF the GOP give up the pants-on-head crazy levels of conservatism; stop trying to push so much to the insane hard right on abortion, but fight hard to preserve the status quo on it a little longer. That might be enough for Ohio and Florida, also. The short-term difficulty with this approach would seem to be that the crazies appear unwilling to back down the slightest from abject ideological purity.

Colorado was the "tipping point" state. This is the problem for the Republicans going forward. Even if Romney had won Virginia AND Ohio AND Florida, given his other victories, he would have lost the election.

The crazies gave the Republicans most of their state victories in 2012. Republicans can't give up on their Christian right stands on pro-choice, civil rights, and other socially conservative policies. The Republicans are not financially conservative. They really, really want tax cuts for the rich, no matter what it does to the deficit. How is that financial conservatism? For better or worse Republicans are the socially conservative party.

Were the Republicans to abandon abject ideological purity, they would lose to the next George Wallace who could again come from the Democratic party. If they abandon tax cuts for the rich, they lose their multinational corporations support. If they abandon invading on Iran, they lose their corporate support.

If I were a Republican, I would point out the only choice is to abandon the Christian right agenda, abandon the neo-con agenda, abandon the trickle-down corporate agenda and return to being the party of financial conservatism. Period.

I'm over this. I'll gloat for a while about Fox News, the RNC, Romney, Rove, Morris the Dick, etc. I don't care about some blogger whining anymore. A week of Schadenfreude was enough.

Wow, they simply love being victims. They don't want your pity sex, but they'll take your pity vote. I think not.

Handy dandy dog-whistle-to-English dictionary:

"The electorate has changed." = "There sure are a lot of n*ggers running around voting."
"This isn't the country it used to be." = "There sure are a lot of n*ggers."
"generations who attended public school" = "n*ggers"
"We have to change direction." = "More white people need to procreate."
"Take our country back." = "Take our country back from the n*ggers."
"Romney would have one if only X had voted." = "We should take the vote away from everyone but X. Especially n*ggers."
"Americans chose socialism" = "n*ggers like free stuff."