Sandy and Christie Screwed Romney; May Be Time to Write-Off America

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

TJ is a good guy, and I have a lot of respect for him as a person, but obviously not the views he expresses.

As far as I'm concerned, a more inclusive society is a stronger and more cohesive one. I understand where he comes from with these views, it's a religious fear of sex and sexuality  Which usually gets mangled in some kind of hyperbolic analysis not entirely based on reality. As far as I'm concerned, sex, whether practiced or not, is one of the few genuinely common experiences of people. Controlling it has been a long-used way of controlling the populous... I think it's wrong and gives people a bad idea about sex and its role.

I can't necessarily speak for TJ here, but my concern isn't with sex itself, which is more or less fine and can be an equalizer of sorts if we want to look at it that way (which is a lot healthier than most other ways I'm aware of), so much as the social complexes built up around it, which have given me an appreciation for the idea of discretion (equally-applied discretion, though!) and tact about the whole thing.

I have a religious fear of a lot of things, but fear isn't the word I'd use regarding sex.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I agree that some displays of sexuality are for shock value and are genuinely vulgar... the same goes for violence or anything else that humans are somewhat wired for.

I think there is a dangerous line where healthy expressions of sexuality are confused for some other definition (ie biblical) and the psychological consequences for the suppression of healthy sexual expression can be pretty horrific.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Romney was toast with or without Sandy and Christie.

His momentum had began to fade in mid-October. Republicans need to stop fooling themselves by blaming Sandy.

Demographics screwed you, not Sandy or Christie.

Well, demographics, plus a terribly unflattering public view of the Republican party,  and a poor candidate who ran a sub-par campaign.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I'm not usually one to accuse people of being too tightly wound; but TJ makes me look like Boris.

[Politico]

Oh, it's really not a meltdown.  I was actually stupidly bored enough this evening to look at a little of Politico's posting history.  If he is entirely sincere in what he says, he converted from "Keynes" to "Friedman" sometime between 2008 and 2011,

How did you come to this conclusion? I have shifted slightly further right on economic issues, but I was never a Keynesian leftist in any sense except, perhaps, for a temporary love affair with environmentalism circa 2006-2009 (and I am still a moderate on the environment, especially relative to most Republicans).

I was wrong about a few things in 2008. Many remember my ridiculous EC forecast near the end of 2008 (I still believe it would have held had Obama been white). Another example where I was wrong:

I believe that comparing Obama and his supporters to Guevara and his supporters is insinuating that Obama and his supporters do not fully back American ideals, which is not true. Obama and his supporters love America and all that stands for, including its system of democratic capitalism. Neither Obama nor his supporters are communists/socialists like Guevara, et al.

A more apt, patriotic and less divisive question would be whether or not Obama is becoming the new JFK of his generation (i.e., a once-in-a-generation charismatic candidate of change). I think the answer is clearly a resounding yes. Clearly no candidate since Ronald Reagan has garnered such an enormous amount of popularity prior to becoming president.

I was also right about a few things in 2008. For example:

If McCain loses, Romney will be the nominee in 2012. They'll beg David Petraeus to be his running mate. Obama/Biden would likely win re-election no matter who the Republicans nominate, especially if the GOP takes back the House in 2011.

[Politico]

Politico,

Losing an election is horrible. I know that very well and had the same week as all the other Romney supporters who are mourning the state and perceived future of the nation, albeit for rather different reasons (and I happened to believe America is more fatally ill from my perspective than it is from yours).

But we vote in elections for the politicians that we think will improve our lives. But no matter who wins you still have to get out of bed the next morning and go through life to the best of your ability in work/personal relationships/etc. We have a habit in our political analysis to think that winning alone will cure our ills. But it matters much more what we do with our lives than who wins, or even who we vote for. We can never forget that and allow ourselves to be broken and destroyed by losing an election when the whole point of supporting the candidate we did was that we believed his victory would make life better than it is under President Obama. If President Obama wants to destroy my life, he'll have to do that himself; I won't do it for him. I think somewhere deep down you know that to be true too.

I also urge you not to write off America just yet. Yes, the future sucks and it will only get worse, I have no hope for a government or a society that will get better for the rest of my life, and on and on. In your view this is what you consider to be socialism and for me it's the destruction of morality that used to be observed in this country. I look forward to many long years of being surrounded by a hippie free-love sex culture where all politicians make ads telling people voting for them is like having sex That's how I read the "forward" slogan. For you, an increased reliance on the government is likely in store for years to come. But by writing off America, we would also be writing off all the faceless people who haven't even been born yet. They will grow up in a very different America than the one we grew up in, yes that's true. But just because they came from a background we each view as less optimal, yours with the government and mine with looser morals, doesn't mean every person born later can be written off as a lost cause. But writing off America that's what we'd be doing. Many people who come after us may turn out to be horrible, immoral from my perspective and "welfare queens" from yours. In fact it's pretty likely there will be many who could fit into both categories. But they deserve a chance to make that choice, not us.

Thank you for the thoughtful post.

I must stress that I do not want to write-off America, but there are cold, hard economic realities we cannot simply ignore or wish away. The election has created an outcome that will likely lead to the end of America's days as a superpower unless Obama unexpectedly swings far to the right and embraces much of what Romney stood for. If we run $1 trillion deficits for four more years, we're completely and utterly finished the minute the rest of the world recognizes that we're declining within. It will be especially brutal if they simultaneously come to the conclusion we're incapable of meeting our debt obligations...

The ONLY thing keeping us afloat right now is the fact that the greenback is the world's reserve currency, and most oil is traded in USD. And who can guarantee that will continue to be the case if the next four years look like the last four years?

[Politico]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

[LastVoter]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

Hopefully they will be guillotined, and only exclusive to the capitalists.

[Politico]

Also, for the record, my signature is the result of a bet I made with Badger.

[Franzl]

Guess I'm a proud Marxist then.

[Politico]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

Hopefully they will be guillotined, and only exclusive to the capitalists.

They can go preach to the choir in Pyongyang for all I care. They're in for a big surprise if they think taxpayers are going to keep paying for their garbage.

[LastVoter]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

Hopefully they will be guillotined, and only exclusive to the capitalists.

They can go preach to the choir in Pyongyang for all I care. They're in for a big surprise if they think taxpayers are going to keep paying for their garbage.

After the Romney campaign stopped paying you guys on November 6, maybe it's time to drop the condescending attitude? The rest of your brethren seem to be trying to apologetically cover their asses after the epic failure, trying to salvage any shred of credibility they have left in hopes of being hired by the next gullible Republican campaign, or are the PACs really that gullible to hire thickheaded analysts again?

[politicus]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

Hopefully they will be guillotined, and only exclusive to the capitalists.

They can go preach to the choir in Pyongyang for all I care. They're in for a big surprise if they think taxpayers are going to keep paying for their garbage.

The Workers Party of Korea stopped using the phrase Communism years ago and is de facto based on an extreme version of ethnic nationalism/Korean supremacism combined with an authoritarian power structure and a personality cult. That makes North Korea a fascist state, if you want to use a Western concept, not a Communist/Marxist.

[anvi]

Politico,

The economic "conversion" I referred to above was inferred from this post of the summer of 2011.

How'd Obama lose you btw?

It is complicated, I suppose. On the one hand, the markets have not responded well to Obama's leadership and the country's image abroad has not improved during his tenure (I am currently abroad in a nation with close ties to us, and can attest to the fact that most here see America as being on a downward spiral with no light at the end of the tunnel. Some people really believe America has seen its best days, if not its last days). On the other hand, I have come to the personal conclusion that Keynesian economics was a prescription for the 1930s, but it is not a particularly good prescription for America in the 21st Century. The results of the stimulus plan, sadly, are just reinforcing this viewpoint for me. Finally, I have spent some time abroad and personally witnessed what too much government intervention in the economy can lead to (i.e., less freedom, fewer choices, less opportunity, higher taxes, smaller quantity sizes, and much higher prices even after adjusting for exchange rates). It is not where I want America to go.

I am still a registered Democrat instead of a Republican because I am quite liberal on most non-economic issues with the exception of gun control (conservative), law and order (conservative), nuclear power (favor it) and defense (moderate), but I am now closer to Milton Friedman than John Maynard Keynes when it comes to economics. I suppose that is incompatible with my party registration at this stage in American history, but perhaps a more libertarian faction will emerge within the party in the future.

In any case, carry on.

[Zanas]

Just to frighten Politico away : I'm a proud Communist, have been for ten years now. And I still think I get reality a little bit better than you do...

[auburntiger]

All this talk about Christie losing it for Romney is absurd. Think about it from Christie's perspective. You're a red governor of a deep blue state (how many of those are there now?), and a huge storm as ransacked your entire coastline, and the President of the opposition party has offered you monetary aid and support. What else would you do? Obviously you would work together. To me, he did what he had to do, and it's a perfect example of Americans coming together for the common good. Republicans lost because of 27% of the Latino vote.

[John Dibble]

Politico, the 1950's would like their anti-communist paranoia back.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's

See, that does not inspire confidence.

We'll personally destroy the communists for what they have done to America. They may yet get their wish of the destruction of America, but they will go down first.

Aye-aye, Cap'n Ahab.

Let me just ask you this, pursuant to the Red-baiting and talk of personally destroying people. Politico, do you, in fact, believe in freedom of speech?

I believe in freedom of speech. Like I said, these professors will be free to speak their mind from the unemployment line. Unlike in communist nations, they will also be free to emigrate.

That said, the days of taxpayers footing the bill for Marxist ideology/brainwashing are coming to an end. Everybody carries a smart phone in their pocket that is capable of recording this rubbish. Everybody is capable of anonymously uploading this garbage, too. There will be coordinated covert efforts to bring to light what is happening. Taxpayers are going to be repulsed to learn what some people in academia have been doing to America's youth the last couple of decades. Heads will roll in the figurative sense. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This organic, yet uncoordinated, brainwashing cannot go on forever therefore it will stop.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity, not the land of communist slavery and stagnation.

As somebody who's currently in academia, your apparent mental image of it has little basis in reality. The sorts of people who go into majors inundated with notably and vocally leftist professors weren't going to vote for Republican mammonism and bad-faith patriotism anyway.

Thank you, politicus. I should also point out that it's a blatantly obvious absolute monarchy to anyone paying attention, which is about as un-communist on the theoretical level as it's possible to get.

[Badger]

When I read Politico posts in this thread and see the picture in his signature (If Politico have removed it in the future: Romney sit in a cage on the top of a car without a drive, desperate try to control the car, which have Romney Campaign written on the side). I can only come to the conclusion that Politico support of Romney has been one long joke on all of us.

His sig cartoon is a result of losing a bet. See my sig.

EDIT: I was going to say Politico was apparantly a troll after all, but then Anvi showed that 'conversion' post, and I just can't see a troll being that subtle.

So, horrendous mental breakdown it is.

[King]

Politico, the 1950's would like their anti-communist paranoia back.

At least the 1950s actually had real communism in the world.

[Simfan34]

Unfortunately, Politico is completely right. I do think a Communist threat is alive and well. It is pervasive, not only in academia, but the business world, in politics, in the military. I would not be surprised if the whole scandal with Gen. Petraeus is the official coverup of a communist power play.

Believe it or not, this country has been overrun by Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists, but this time they've truly inflitrated the highest levels of academia and government. One should only look here from my view point in the Kremlin on the Hudson, and see the Communism is truly rampant amongst the student body and the faculty, that I would say some two thirds of my peers adhere to either Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism. The economics department is perhaps the only bulwark of common sense. I would not be surprised, ludicrous as it sounds, that the large amount of Ivy Leaguers in the business world today are in fact a mass infiltration, a third column designed to collectivize and overthrow it once the signal for Revolution is given. It is a long time coming, let us not forget that the red flag itself flew over Morningside Heights in 1967. Where did these radicals go? Let us also not forget that our very Attorney General, Eric Holder, was one of the hostage takers in 1967!!

Let us not underestimate the detrimental value of the defeatists and the cosmopolitans, those who wish to see the acendance of Socialistic states like China and Russia, people, again who seem perfectly normal and esteemed, like Fareed Zakaria the plagiarist and Thomas Friedman, who preach that we should just live with the rise of China. These people have infltrated our society and esteemed institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations. I have been there! I have seen those defeatist Communists! So sadly the threat is very real, and omnipresent in all sectors in our society. We need a national reaction to flush them out. We should be greatful to Poltico for speaking out.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Simfan, I appreciate how you're obviously serious and obviously kidding at the same time. I like that about you.

[Politico]

Unfortunately, Politico is completely right. I do think a Communist threat is alive and well. It is pervasive, not only in academia, but the business world, in politics, in the military. I would not be surprised if the whole scandal with Gen. Petraeus is the official coverup of a communist power play.

Believe it or not, this country has been overrun by Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists, but this time they've truly inflitrated the highest levels of academia and government. One should only look here from my view point in the Kremlin on the Hudson, and see the Communism is truly rampant amongst the student body and the faculty, that I would say some two thirds of my peers adhere to either Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism. The economics department is perhaps the only bulwark of common sense. I would not be surprised, ludicrous as it sounds, that the large amount of Ivy Leaguers in the business world today are in fact a mass infiltration, a third column designed to collectivize and overthrow it once the signal for Revolution is given. It is a long time coming, let us not forget that the red flag itself flew over Morningside Heights in 1967. Where did these radicals go? Let us also not forget that our very Attorney General, Eric Holder, was one of the hostage takers in 1967!!

Let us not underestimate the detrimental value of the defeatists and the cosmopolitans, those who wish to see the acendance of Socialistic states like China and Russia, people, again who seem perfectly normal and esteemed, like Fareed Zakaria the plagiarist and Thomas Friedman, who preach that we should just live with the rise of China. These people have infltrated our society and esteemed institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations. I have been there! I have seen those defeatist Communists! So sadly the threat is very real, and omnipresent in all sectors in our society. We need a national reaction to flush them out. We should be greatful to Poltico for speaking out.

Yes, we need a national enema. Eventually the next Ronald Reagan will appear to rid us of those who seek to destroy America. There will be hell to pay.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Unfortunately, Politico is completely right. I do think a Communist threat is alive and well. It is pervasive, not only in academia, but the business world, in politics, in the military. I would not be surprised if the whole scandal with Gen. Petraeus is the official coverup of a communist power play.

Believe it or not, this country has been overrun by Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists, but this time they've truly inflitrated the highest levels of academia and government. One should only look here from my view point in the Kremlin on the Hudson, and see the Communism is truly rampant amongst the student body and the faculty, that I would say some two thirds of my peers adhere to either Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism. The economics department is perhaps the only bulwark of common sense. I would not be surprised, ludicrous as it sounds, that the large amount of Ivy Leaguers in the business world today are in fact a mass infiltration, a third column designed to collectivize and overthrow it once the signal for Revolution is given. It is a long time coming, let us not forget that the red flag itself flew over Morningside Heights in 1967. Where did these radicals go? Let us also not forget that our very Attorney General, Eric Holder, was one of the hostage takers in 1967!!

Let us not underestimate the detrimental value of the defeatists and the cosmopolitans, those who wish to see the acendance of Socialistic states like China and Russia, people, again who seem perfectly normal and esteemed, like Fareed Zakaria the plagiarist and Thomas Friedman, who preach that we should just live with the rise of China. These people have infltrated our society and esteemed institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations. I have been there! I have seen those defeatist Communists! So sadly the threat is very real, and omnipresent in all sectors in our society. We need a national reaction to flush them out. We should be greatful to Poltico for speaking out.

Yes, we need a national enema. Eventually the next Ronald Reagan will appear to rid us of those who seek to destroy America. There will be hell to pay.

Politico, I don't appreciate how you obviously believe this tripe with all your heart. I don't like that about you.

[Politico]

Unfortunately, Politico is completely right. I do think a Communist threat is alive and well. It is pervasive, not only in academia, but the business world, in politics, in the military. I would not be surprised if the whole scandal with Gen. Petraeus is the official coverup of a communist power play.

Believe it or not, this country has been overrun by Communists, Socialists, and Anarchists, but this time they've truly inflitrated the highest levels of academia and government. One should only look here from my view point in the Kremlin on the Hudson, and see the Communism is truly rampant amongst the student body and the faculty, that I would say some two thirds of my peers adhere to either Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism. The economics department is perhaps the only bulwark of common sense. I would not be surprised, ludicrous as it sounds, that the large amount of Ivy Leaguers in the business world today are in fact a mass infiltration, a third column designed to collectivize and overthrow it once the signal for Revolution is given. It is a long time coming, let us not forget that the red flag itself flew over Morningside Heights in 1967. Where did these radicals go? Let us also not forget that our very Attorney General, Eric Holder, was one of the hostage takers in 1967!!

Let us not underestimate the detrimental value of the defeatists and the cosmopolitans, those who wish to see the acendance of Socialistic states like China and Russia, people, again who seem perfectly normal and esteemed, like Fareed Zakaria the plagiarist and Thomas Friedman, who preach that we should just live with the rise of China. These people have infltrated our society and esteemed institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations. I have been there! I have seen those defeatist Communists! So sadly the threat is very real, and omnipresent in all sectors in our society. We need a national reaction to flush them out. We should be greatful to Poltico for speaking out.

Yes, we need a national enema. Eventually the next Ronald Reagan will appear to rid us of those who seek to destroy America. There will be hell to pay.

Politico, I don't appreciate how you obviously believe this tripe with all your heart. I don't like that about you.

I am not interested in coddling communists. There is no shortage of communists in America, regardless of whether many communists self-identify. Simfan knows it, I know it, you know it, and everybody else knows it. It is time to start discussing what is really happening in America, particularly in the hallowed halls of educational establishments across the country. Tens of millions of minds have been destroyed by the work of these communists, and the nation will not survive if we do not change course...