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Decreed by Fate

11.10.08 @ 6:01AM

Republicans were doomed from the start. Healing, hopefully. Klein's forecast: mostly cloudy. Plus more.

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A BAILOUT TOO FAR

Don’t push that first domino.

I grew up in Detroit in the 1950s and '60s when General Motors was the biggest corporation in the world. Back then, auto executives boasted that, “What’s good for GM is good for America.” It seems odd that all these years later, a weak GM may indeed spell disaster for America.
-- James Gavin
Orefield, Pennsylvania

WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT

After reading TAS and much of the post election commentary I believe I am now getting a very good idea of what kind of sound you hear in the political wilderness, at least when a Democrat is at or about to be at the helm. It looks and sounds like it will be a very bitter winter.
-- Roger Ross

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Joseph Baum| 11.10.08 @ 2:38PM

I have been telling everyone who would listen for the past year that if we got an Obama presidency with a liberal congress, we would become Venezuela times ten. It is happening already. With his views on energy, labor, capitalism, and unionism, it is obvious that anyone who works for a living is going to suffer and those who don't work (and don't pay taxes) will reap the rewards of the Obama victory will profit.

I remember when my liberal friends were lamenting the exodus of jobs after the passage of NAFTA, that they seemed to be blithely unaware that NAFTA was the centerpiece of the presidency of one William Jefferson Clinton, the almost unanymous choice of the liberal union members. I'm wondering how long it will take before the 'workingmen' who supposedly make up the democratic party realize that they have launched a strike at the heart of the goose that laid the golden egg.

Jim C| 11.10.08 @ 3:34PM

I have this theory that the Republicans let the Dems win...we lost the election on purpose.

The campaign was stagnant, and they thought Sarah Palin wouldn't do much to help their cause. When it "backfired" and she reenergized the party, McCain states that the economy is fundamentally sound and puts the campaign on hold to help with the bailout. (A loss of momentum) They were losing ground until Joe the plumber asked the right question and McCain started gaining ground. Then the stuff about Palin's clothes is released to cloud the issues.

They never attacked his spending plan or his job creation plan (which consisted of investing in government). They never pointed out when Obama or Biden lied. They didn't make a big enough deal how Obama was wrong about Russia, or how he was being endorsed by terrorist and communist nations. At the debates, he never fought back. Three debates and 4.5 hours on national TV face-to-face with Obama, McCain never mentioned Obama's "bitter clingers" comment; he never mentioned Jeremiah Wright's incendiary sermons; ne never mentioned Obama's breaking his word to use public campaign financing; he never mentioned Obama's plan to "bankrupt" the US coal industry; he never mentioned Obama's "price of arugula" comment; and he never cited the Clinton campaign's many tough arguments against Obama...he could have just quoted Hillary.

Could it have been run this poorly by accident? Conservatives like you and me were saying all the right things and bringing up all the right arguments, and the campaign did virtually nothing until it was too late.

But why would we throw an election? Well, in order to win the war, we had to lose this battle. How much better do you think the economy will be in 2 years? There may be some improvement from where it bottoms out, but I don't think it will be that good by the summer/fall of 2010. Who will the people blame? If McCain is in the White House, he's an easy target. Dems will say, "See, more of the same Bush policies that don't work. More big profits for the oil companies and the middle class is still hurting." We will lose more seats in the House and Senate and the Dems will have a filibuster proof majority. In 2012, a Dem would win the White House and they'd be unstoppable for years and years to come.

By losing, we can be critical of everything Obama does, without his television ads and Hollywood movie sets. The new faces of our party will need to get on all the major networks and be critical of everything, while offering solutions and pointing out how the Conservative approach would have been better. And we must point out that the blaming of Bush ends now. Unlike poker, Obama knew what cards he was being dealt and still decided to play his hand. What happens on his watch is his responsibility.

Republican speculators are betting that he will fail and we'll be there in 2 years to regaining some seats in Congress and hopefully get control back in 2012 when we also retake the White House.