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The election did not do well
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Domitius Corbulo
Nov 13, 2012, 8:59:14 AM11/13/12
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The election did not do well for the Republican party and while some
media notes some republicans are looking at why they lost this one, some
of them are still in step with hurting middle America. We have two
main issues here, Entitlements which are Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid
with the other issue being the debt. The two should not be melted as
one issue because the entitlements are holding their own at the moment. If
nothing is done to fix the problem they could run out of funding and
that is exactly what the right wing is so concerned about. They don’t
want to pay for what we currently have, to ask them to pay more is what
they are terrified of. The following comes from many sources to
illustrate this point.
Take a minute and look at this one first where a republican who should
be licking his wounds and trying to decide what direction to take makes
a point that he will be staying on course to rid the wealthy of our
entitlements.
See:
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/13/15118481-republicans-hunt-for-election-lessons-as-wounds-heal?lite
The Republican party isn't what it used to be. Our leaders and our most
vocal activists have written moderates out of the party and have refused
to work with the other side, to the detriment of the nation.
Center-right presidents such as Reagan, Bush Sr., Ford, Nixon and
Eisenhower would have no chance being nominated today. See:
http://www.republicansforobama.org/
And since New York and California supply such a huge and utterly
dependable source of electoral votes for the Democrats, if Texas joined
them in going Democratic in presidential races, which hasn't happened
since 1976, then, Cruz said, “The Republican Party would cease to
exist.” Hope Springs Eternal. Whatever becomes of the Republican
party is due to their own actions/inactions which may have begun as a
splinter of the party but has metastasized to the party itself.
“Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security,
unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you
would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a
tiny splinter group, of course, that believe you can do these
things….their number
is negligible and they are stupid.” President Eisenhower, (1954)
Source:
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1147.cfm
Warning of a demographic apocalypse for the GOP was Texas Senator-elect
Ted Cruz who told The New Yorker, “If Republicans do not do better in
the Hispanic community, in a few short years Republicans will no longer
be the majority party in our state.”
Nevada also has a “none of these candidates” line on the ballot and that
option drew 4.5 percent of the voters in that Senate race but only 0.6
percent of those who voted in the presidential contest in Nevada.
media notes some republicans are looking at why they lost this one, some
of them are still in step with hurting middle America. We have two
main issues here, Entitlements which are Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid
with the other issue being the debt. The two should not be melted as
one issue because the entitlements are holding their own at the moment. If
nothing is done to fix the problem they could run out of funding and
that is exactly what the right wing is so concerned about. They don’t
want to pay for what we currently have, to ask them to pay more is what
they are terrified of. The following comes from many sources to
illustrate this point.
Take a minute and look at this one first where a republican who should
be licking his wounds and trying to decide what direction to take makes
a point that he will be staying on course to rid the wealthy of our
entitlements.
See:
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/13/15118481-republicans-hunt-for-election-lessons-as-wounds-heal?lite
The Republican party isn't what it used to be. Our leaders and our most
vocal activists have written moderates out of the party and have refused
to work with the other side, to the detriment of the nation.
Center-right presidents such as Reagan, Bush Sr., Ford, Nixon and
Eisenhower would have no chance being nominated today. See:
http://www.republicansforobama.org/
And since New York and California supply such a huge and utterly
dependable source of electoral votes for the Democrats, if Texas joined
them in going Democratic in presidential races, which hasn't happened
since 1976, then, Cruz said, “The Republican Party would cease to
exist.” Hope Springs Eternal. Whatever becomes of the Republican
party is due to their own actions/inactions which may have begun as a
splinter of the party but has metastasized to the party itself.
“Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security,
unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you
would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a
tiny splinter group, of course, that believe you can do these
things….their number
is negligible and they are stupid.” President Eisenhower, (1954)
Source:
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1147.cfm
Warning of a demographic apocalypse for the GOP was Texas Senator-elect
Ted Cruz who told The New Yorker, “If Republicans do not do better in
the Hispanic community, in a few short years Republicans will no longer
be the majority party in our state.”
Nevada also has a “none of these candidates” line on the ballot and that
option drew 4.5 percent of the voters in that Senate race but only 0.6
percent of those who voted in the presidential contest in Nevada.
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