This is for those who think Obama won by 'giving things' to voters.
The republican position was George W. Bush failed initiatives and policies all over again. That, and the GOP-for-the-Rich candidates, and the right wing culture war on women, contraception, and abortion were rejected.
That is because the policies do not work, and the policies and positions make people less free, less affluent, less healthy, and less happy. Those policies are unmitigated disasters, and so were the candidates and their billionaire donors looking for post-election-give-away-dollars from Romney and Ryan.
You cannot continue to offend the oppositional voters as Romney and the righties did, and EVER expect them to support your side in the next election cycles for this quarter century. At best the GOP can BEGIN to rebuild their politics and positions from scratch, but any hope of success WILL REQUIRE a complete repudiation of recent platform, policies, and positions. That is a bitter pill to swallow, but it is the only way out of losing in the foreseeable future for the GOP.
More than that, it will require them giving the boot to the backside of their extremists, including some of the tea party, and some of the more extreme and intransigent evangelical fundamentalists. It will mean giving that same swift boot in the rear to their racists, their anti-gays and anti-hispanics, and probably to their Islamophobes too, unless they want to continue to alienate the Asian vote. It will mean dumping the misogynists - including Paul Ryan - for their past legislation. That isn't going to go away; and candidates like Ryan have shown how willing they are to lie, so simply claiming to have positions which have evolved will be no more persuasive than Romney claiming he didn't mean what he said about the 47%.
Until the right wing legislatures repeal their anti-women legislation and stop running candidates like Glenn Grothmann or Allen Quist, they're going to lose women voters in greater numbers, not gain them.
Wake up conservatives; I don't think you've quite come to an understanding yet of how much you lost or why. Governors Martinez, Christie and Jindal are starting to see the writing on the wall though.
From TPM: Gov. Martinez Says Romney Remark ‘Sets Us Back’
Add New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (R) to the list of Republican leaders upset with Mitt Romney's claim that President Obama won the election by doling out "gifts" to minorities, youth, and women.
"That unfortunately is what sets us back as a party -- our comments that are not thought through carefully," Martinez told Yahoo's Chris Moody. Martinez, who previously criticized Romney's "47 percent" remarks in September, added that his fundraiser video was a "ridiculous statement."
"You want to earn the vote of every single person you can earn, whether they be someone who relies on," she said. "Why would you ever write off 47 percent?"
The republican position was George W. Bush failed initiatives and policies all over again. That, and the GOP-for-the-Rich candidates, and the right wing culture war on women, contraception, and abortion were rejected.
That is because the policies do not work, and the policies and positions make people less free, less affluent, less healthy, and less happy. Those policies are unmitigated disasters, and so were the candidates and their billionaire donors looking for post-election-give-away-dollars from Romney and Ryan.
You cannot continue to offend the oppositional voters as Romney and the righties did, and EVER expect them to support your side in the next election cycles for this quarter century. At best the GOP can BEGIN to rebuild their politics and positions from scratch, but any hope of success WILL REQUIRE a complete repudiation of recent platform, policies, and positions. That is a bitter pill to swallow, but it is the only way out of losing in the foreseeable future for the GOP.
More than that, it will require them giving the boot to the backside of their extremists, including some of the tea party, and some of the more extreme and intransigent evangelical fundamentalists. It will mean giving that same swift boot in the rear to their racists, their anti-gays and anti-hispanics, and probably to their Islamophobes too, unless they want to continue to alienate the Asian vote. It will mean dumping the misogynists - including Paul Ryan - for their past legislation. That isn't going to go away; and candidates like Ryan have shown how willing they are to lie, so simply claiming to have positions which have evolved will be no more persuasive than Romney claiming he didn't mean what he said about the 47%.
Until the right wing legislatures repeal their anti-women legislation and stop running candidates like Glenn Grothmann or Allen Quist, they're going to lose women voters in greater numbers, not gain them.
Wake up conservatives; I don't think you've quite come to an understanding yet of how much you lost or why. Governors Martinez, Christie and Jindal are starting to see the writing on the wall though.
From TPM: Gov. Martinez Says Romney Remark ‘Sets Us Back’
Add New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (R) to the list of Republican leaders upset with Mitt Romney's claim that President Obama won the election by doling out "gifts" to minorities, youth, and women.
"That unfortunately is what sets us back as a party -- our comments that are not thought through carefully," Martinez told Yahoo's Chris Moody. Martinez, who previously criticized Romney's "47 percent" remarks in September, added that his fundraiser video was a "ridiculous statement."
"You want to earn the vote of every single person you can earn, whether they be someone who relies on," she said. "Why would you ever write off 47 percent?"
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