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

[Marokai Backbeat]

I can't believe the Right gets away with looking like the patriotic ones.

[SPC]

I can think of bigger reasons why Romney lost.

To paraphrase Jon Stewart, that was only the second biggest reason for why Romney lost. Here is the first:

[politicallefty]

As a partisan, I can only hope the Republicans blame Sandy and Christie and not themselves for their failings in this election. If you don't see anything wrong with the Romney Campaign or the Republican Party as a whole, you are only setting yourself up for further defeat. Your side lost the Senate this cycle 25-8, which I heard is the most lopsided result since 1964. By all means, please blame anyone and anything but yourselves. It'll only make it that much easier for our side to expand our majority in the Senate, win back the House, and win a third consecutive term in the White House.

I really don't think the Republicans lost by enough in this election to learn their lesson. You have the voice of reason from people like Joe Scarborough and David Frum (sorry, I was watching Morning Joe this morning, so they came to mind first). Your side has a woman problem and a demographic problem due to the extremist elements in the Republican Party. If Republicans are still stuck in the bubble in not realizing that, they will face a similar result as Democrats faced during the 1980's at the presidential level. I don't really know, but maybe it takes a 3+ consecutive loss for President to realize that there is an internal problem within a party. We'll just have to see over the next couple years if Republicans have really learned the lesson of this election. I know Democrats cannot hold power forever, so I'd really prefer we have two sane parties in this country.

[Politico]

Everybody in the Romney camp is well aware of the consequences of sharing a party with idiots such as the bozos from Missouri and Indiana who blew guaranteed seats in the Senate. People like that are finished. The GOP will never have another statewide candidate who openly voices such stupidity.

GOP will do a better job with Hispanics next time. Rubio will run for president, and if he falters he will be the running mate. Nobody in America can better connect with Hispanics who came to America for freedom and opportunity, not those who still believe in Chavez, et al. (they can take that garbage back to South/Central America, thank you very much).

Democrats now own the deficits, the debt and the economy. Blaming Bush for four more years is not going to save you in the next two elections. Boehner will compromise on anything other than taxes, so you better provide some reasonable ideas both sides can work on or you're definitely screwed. Be like Clinton when he worked with Gingrich, or be a lame duck like Bush in his last two years...

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

The GOP will never have another statewide candidate who openly voices such stupidity.

Can we hold you to that?

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Nice to know that immigrants are welcome or unwelcome on the basis of their politics.

[Lief 🗽]

Good thing people like Politico are in charge of the Republican Party. I was worried they'd come to their senses and shift their positions and rhetoric so they could be competitive in presidential elections again! But no, the same right-wing garbage, with just a hint of racism. Love it!

[Politico]

The GOP will never have another statewide candidate who openly voices such stupidity.

Can we hold you to that?

I can assure you that no statewide candidate will ever produce such a catastrophic gaffe with respect to answering questions about abortion.

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The views of Chavez, et al. are diametrically opposed to the Constitution and all it stands for. Immigrants who seek freedom and opportunity are welcome; those who seek to bring communism into America are enemies of the Constitution.

Make no mistake about it: We are still at war with the parasitic ideas of communism. Communist ideals are perhaps the gravest threat to America other than terrorism.

[Politico]

Good thing people like Politico are in charge of the Republican Party. I was worried they'd come to their senses and shift their positions and rhetoric so they could be competitive in presidential elections again! But no, the same right-wing garbage, with just a hint of racism. Love it!

Hispanics who seek freedom and opportunity are embraced by the GOP. Those who bow to Chavez, Guevara and Castro are enemies of freedom and opportunity, the basis of America.

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

The GOP will never have another statewide candidate who openly voices such stupidity.

Can we hold you to that?

I can assure you that no statewide candidate will ever produce such catastrophic gaffes with respect to answering questions about abortion.

I'll hold you to that.

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The views of Chavez, et al. arr diametrically opposed to the Constitution and all it stands for. Immigrants who seek freedom and opportunity are welcome; those who seek to bring communist into America are enemies to the Constitution.

Make no mistake about it: We are still at war with the parasitic ideas of communism, which are perhaps tr gravest threats to America other than terrorism.
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The views of Chavez, et al. are protected by the Constitution, or at least Chavez, et al.'s rights to hold those views (or any others) are. The idea that we are still 'at war' with communism, or that communism as an abstract concept (as opposed to a no-longer-existent bevy of countries whose governments believed in it) is something that the United States can be 'at war' with, is of course ludicrous. The Constitution also isn't a sacred text; it's an eighteenth-century political document with a couple dozen later fixes and all the baggage that that history entails.

Hispanics who seek freedom and opportunity are embraced by the GOP. Those who bow to Chavez, Guevara and Castro are enemies of freedom and opportunity, the basis of America.

So, the Republican Party likes Hispanics who are Republican. Good to know!

[Politico]

Academia is overrun with communists, closeted or otherwise. Many cohorts of various backgrounds have essentially been brainwashed as a result. It's time for numerous groups to start cracking down on those who are cracking down on America with their dangerous ideology that is destroying the very fabric of society. We know what they are up to. Even Democrats like me who love America know the score. We love America, and will not allow communists to destroy it. It is past the point of saying, "bite the hand that feeds you at your own peril." If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

That's all, ladies and gentlemen.

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

Are you seriously trying to gin up a third Red Scare? That would be funny if it weren't so sad.

EDIT: While we're at it, how dare somebody who suggests 'writing off America' in the thread title and OP impugn anybody else's patriotism? I'm serious. How dare you, you sniveling fifth-column mammonist?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

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

Truly a sobering sign of the times for us all.

[Mr.Phips]

Yes Politico, because Sandy and Christie just happened to flip about 200,000 voters in just the right places(Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia) from Romney to Obama even though these areas were not affected by the hurricane at all.  Yep. 

[Zanas]

those who still believe in Chavez

I'm afraid I'll have to reveal to you that, as opposed to God, you don't have to believe in Chavez, for Chavez really exists, I have encountered him !

[Politico]

Are you seriously trying to gin up a third Red Scare? That would be funny if it weren't so sad.

EDIT: While we're at it, how dare somebody who suggests 'writing off America' in the thread title and OP impugn anybody else's patriotism? I'm serious. How dare you, you sniveling fifth-column mammonist?

The only fifth column in America today is located in the hallowed halls of academia. Communists in academia have been given too much leeway since the end of the Soviet Union. No more. As soon as the political pendulum swings back towards the party of freedom and opportunity, this nonsense will be brought to light. Careers will be destroyed and rightfully so since people employed at public institutions on taxpayers' dollars should not be welcome to preach values that are diametrically opposed to the public interest and all America stands for. Of course, these communists will be free to preach their garbage from the unemployment line. They will be free to seek employment abroad, too. Perhaps Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea or China will take them in.

Mark my words: All of the money that went into trying to unseat Obama will now go into this effort, both covertly and overtly, because it is abundantly clear that this is the only way to potentially save America from destruction from within.

Obviously I am the last person on the planet who wants to say it may be time to write-off America, but I am a realist. There may be time left to change course, but it is not looking good. More than anybody, we can thank the communists in academia and the NEA for creating this tragedy of biblical proportions.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Seek help, troll.

[opebo]

Are you seriously trying to gin up a third Red Scare? That would be funny if it weren't so sad.

The only fifth column in America today is located in the hallowed halls of academia.

Guy, your progeny must be defective if they're swayed by someone that easily.  They probably just like communism - after all it has its own appeal that really exceeds that of some broken down old overworked professor.

Obviously I am the last person on the planet who wants to say it may be time to write-off America, but I am a realist. There may be time left to change course, but it is not looking good.

One thing you're not is a 'realist', if you think your precious capitalist slave-camp is going to change much at all.

[Politico]

Are you seriously trying to gin up a third Red Scare? That would be funny if it weren't so sad.

The only fifth column in America today is located in the hallowed halls of academia.

Guy, your progeny must be defective if they're swayed by someone that easily.

They are weak. The NEA conditions them that way before their brains fully develop, and that is the end for the weakest. For the more intelligent ones, communists in academia finalize the brainwashing process for all but the strongest and those brought up on decent American values.

This phenomenon is organic yet real. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. One way or another, this will stop because it cannot go on forever.

[Lief 🗽]

Wow, losing the presidential election has really shattered what remaining grasp Politico had on reality.

[Cobbler]

Politico, I don't understand you. I really don't. You say that you dislike Obama and everything he does so much, yet you still say you are a Democrat (though I don't know why, because you sound like a partisan conservative to me). And correct me if I'm wrong, but you were a Hillary supporter before, right? You realize that on the issues, they agreed basically on everything? The most difference I've heard from you regarding them is things like how she had more "balls" and other things of that sort, which is a pretty weak argument. Honestly, I think she'd have governed almost identically to Obama.

Also, you supported Romney, who based on his record in Massachusetts, was very moderate. As Governor he would've lined up with many of Obama's positions as well, from things regarding healthcare to climate change to stimulus spending. And assuming you were a supporter of his record, then as President, he wouldn't have been too radically different from the way Obama has governed over the last few years. Maybe he would've been more effective as a President than Obama at running things, which I agree, but that is not the angle you seem to be coming from.

If you bought into the platform he supported this election, running as someone who was "severely conservative"(neoconservative foreign policy, very conservative economic policy, conservative social policy), fair enough. But I still don't see how someone who claims to still be a Democrat that supported Hillary Clinton could back the Republican message of 2012.

Its not the end of America and freedom. By acting like the sky is falling is just making the GOP look bad, and the last thing we need to do is start freaking out about socialism and communism with an Obama reelection. The Cold War is over.

[Politico]

Politico, I don't understand you. I really don't. You say that you dislike Obama and everything he does so much, yet you still say you are a Democrat (though I don't know why, because you sound like a partisan conservative to me). And correct me if I'm wrong, but you were a Hillary supporter before, right? You realize that on the issues, they agreed basically on everything? The most difference I've heard from you regarding them is things like how she had more "balls" and other things of that sort, which is a pretty weak argument. Honestly, I think she'd have governed almost identically to Obama.

Also, you supported Romney, who based on his record in Massachusetts, was very moderate. As Governor he would've lined up with many of Obama's positions as well, from things regarding healthcare to climate change to stimulus spending. And assuming you were a supporter of his record, then as President, he wouldn't have been too radically different from the way Obama has governed over the last few years. Maybe he would've been more effective as a President than Obama at running things, which I agree, but that is not the angle you seem to be coming from.

If you bought into the platform he supported this election, running as someone who was "severely conservative"(neoconservative foreign policy, very conservative economic policy, conservative social policy), fair enough. But I still don't see how someone who claims to still be a Democrat that supported Hillary Clinton could back the Republican message of 2012.

I am not going to go into detail, but my story is much like Sheldon Adelson's and many more:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204712904578092670469140316.html

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This process will be done the right way. We're gonna rout out the communists without looking like Chicken Littles. We'll even use liberal tools to get the job done (e.g., leaked audio recordings of the anonymous variety brought to the world by applications on smart phones, social media, etc.). These communists are destroying America from within.

[Cobbler]

Do you think Obama is a communist or has communist sympathies, Politico?

[ingemann]

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.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

You're a truly sad human being, and I wish you the best in seeking the help you so desperately need.

Either that or get a hobby.