The American Spectator : Blame It on the American People

Appleby| 11.16.12 @ 6:24AM

WHO was the last fascist to step into a huge depresssion and demonize one entire class of people, promising to wipe them out to the last man, woman and child, for the benefit of the masses, and thus get elected by the Pee Pull?

That.would.be.Hitler.

If you are under 30, look him up.

Aristocat| 11.16.12 @ 6:30AM

Don't panic...
We hoped he was Carter...
Turns out he is Clinton...One smart, tough politician.
Here are the similarities between Obama and Clinton:
Both were elected when a Bush was President
The Democrats also won the House and Senate when they were elected..
Two years later, both lost the House in Republican landslides...
Two years after that, both were re-elected, but the Republicans kept the House.
So here's what to expect for the next four years:
Scandals, possible impeachment by the House, but the Senate won't go along.
Gridlock, as the Democrats have the President and the Senate, but the Republicans have the filibuster in the Senate and they have the House.
The President will continue to rule by Executive Order, and will continue to pack the judiciary and federal agencies with liberals.
Republicans will thrive in state governments, and we will see increasing conflict between the states and the federal govt.
Republicans will win the next Presidential election.
Jesus Christ will continue to rule as King of the Universe.

Darin| 11.16.12 @ 6:45AM

Comparing Obama to Clinton is wrong. After the Democrats lost the House in 1994, Clinton moved to the center. When the Democrats lost the house in 2010, Obama moved to the left. Now that he won't have to face another election, look for Obama to move further left, bypass Congress, and attempt to rule by Executive Order. Obama is a dictator wanna-be, but it's hard to be one in Amercia (versus Germany) due to the size of the country, the justifiable mistrust of government, and a little thing called the Second Amendment. Look for America to decrease on the international stage and for the world to become MUCH more dangerous as thug nations like Iran and North Korea find they have little to fear for the next 4 years.

Louis Jenkins| 11.16.12 @ 9:26AM

Darin:

The problem with the second Amendment is a little item called the UN Small Arms treaty. How can it be served up as law in the USA? It can. We can no longer rely on the right to bear arms. Obama has a war on the the bill of rights, and he will prevail one way or the other.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:22AM

Stop your specious, irrelevant argument.
There is no legislation to curtail gun ownership under Obama - never has been, never will be.

You've been saying it for years, why are you hanging onto your dream campaign issue when it's total horses**t?

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:34AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

WaffenSS| 11.19.12 @ 10:00AM

Does this mean you would support gassing them.

TrueBlue | 11.16.12 @ 3:40PM

He doesn't have to create the legislation, it's already in the UN, and has been for years. It was disapproved up until the point Obama got re-elected and then the US suddenly backed it. You may want to actually read the Small Arms treaty Louis is referencing before denouncing the idea.

DRed| 11.17.12 @ 9:13AM

TrueBlue, you can't read the Small Arms treaty because it hasn't been written. There was a meeting at the UN last year to discuss drafting a treaty, but it broke up without anything being done. I believe they're meeting again next year, so get ready to become hysterical sometime in March.

Occam's Tool| 11.16.12 @ 6:53PM

Well, Purp, Chicago has very strict handgun laws, and the high murder rates attest to this.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 8:07PM

Thats true Ralphie, since those F&F AK-47s are being passed through Mexico on their way to the ME [why do you think those four were murdered in Lybia?]!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:31AM

Because to face reality would be devastating for him. His delusional myths are his life-story. "Facts" be damned. I.e., he's psychopathic.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:32AM

Or "psychotic."

Take your pick.

Neatsfoot| 11.17.12 @ 4:37PM

Purp, you have as much fun trolling on these pages as i do . . . Obama has passed legislationpermitting gun possession on Amtrak trains (great for croweded rush hours and vexed commuters) and in national parks. even after the recent carnage in Wisconsin, Colorado, no call for dramatic gun control legislation.
But that means little here . . .

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 11:14AM

Louis, you have becme a wimp, coward, stockholm syndrome prototype. I am embarrased for you.

Rhoetus| 11.16.12 @ 6:51PM

Rules for Conservatives @
http://www.saveamericanow.us.com

Joellen| 11.16.12 @ 7:36AM

Aristocrat see Noel Shepard's article - this should be tied in. The people are not educated, blame that on the schools and the media. Remember, even if you're right about how his next 4 years will go - we dont have an honest media to report the facts- it's is now (and was) up to us to educate and inform the people.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:11AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:33AM

Boy, I sure wish I'd had YOU as my English teacher, Joellen.

I'd've learned english real good. And some other stuff to.

Joellen| 11.17.12 @ 9:56AM

Blame it on the Liberal Public schools I endured for 12 years; and I speak gooder than your President does!

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:42PM

What that Purp=Ralph????

Cobalt| 11.16.12 @ 7:38AM

Obama is certainly no Clinton.

Among other undesirable things, Bill Clinton is a lying weasel who just happens to be a very intelligent, gifted politican.

Obama is just an average politican with a thin veneer of style, and very little substance. Obama is a figurehead who follows orders, and does what people like Valerie Jarrett tell him to do.

cuban pete| 11.16.12 @ 8:59AM

Cobalt:
On the money.
Although I think you are too kind in calling Obama "average". He is a true empty suit who has been propped up his entire life.
Since BHO's ascendency I feel as though we are living in a Lewis Carroll poem but the consequences will be real.
Have a great weekend.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 10:14AM

The American people have always had a fondness for con men. "There's one born every minute" remember?

Cobalt| 11.16.12 @ 10:58AM

Beware the Jabberwock!

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:51PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:24AM

Insulting, disrespectful and dismissive attitude is why you LOST...
You threw too many Americans under the bus and then want their vote. No way, Jose.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:35AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Grzmlyk| 11.16.12 @ 3:33PM

You are a moron. You've always been a moron. You will always be a moron. I'm not just saying that. You are truly a useful idiot.

You are also a liar. Even your commas and semicolons are mendacious.

And you are a thief.

You know, for someone who ought to be gloating, you have spent quite a bit of time since election day - you know, the day you got to vote for Obama six times? - hanging around this site wallowing in - no pun intended - "purple" anger.
Why don't take a break from throwing rocks at people you are bigoted against and go out and do what it is you people do when you're not throwing rocks at people you are bigoted against? Defecate on a rich person's car, sexually harass a white woman who looks like she might be from Texas or maybe do some early Holiday-season shoplifting.
Cheer up, toilet filler. You won. You're gonna get the world you've always wanted. And without the benefit of lubricant.
On the bright side, Obama will make sure you all of you worthless pieces of shit get every last dime of the people who actually work for a living. Until, of course, they run out.
The liberal trifecta: liar, moron and thief; you’ll soon be tapped for a cabinet post with that resume.
No wonder you sit in the first pew at the Church of Divine Self-Flattery and Eternal Liberalism - What's the name of it again? Oh yes: Our lady of All-consuming Envy and Undeserved Entitlement.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:51PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 8:05PM

Nah, "Jose" was under the bus because he thought it was a border fence!!!!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:28AM

The only thing you're right about is Clinton.

Elsewise ... you need to step back and rethink.

And who the hell is Valerie Jarrett?

Do you actually think any one person is dictating to Obama? Seriously? You do know that's delusional thinking, right?

Hey ... I can see you've got potential. Don't squander it.

7-08| 11.18.12 @ 11:28AM

It is not that Obama was concealing an inner Clinton, it was that Romney manifested the typical NE chameleon phoney "I will say anything at anytime" campaign. Running Romney as a conservative was like Dukakis driving around in a tank. NOBODY really believed him.

Nancy in NC| 11.16.12 @ 8:21AM

Everyone should read a little booklet called "How do you kill 11,000,000 people". obama's name is never mentioned so it might be a tad deep for many of the sheeple, but for the rest they will see the reality. The answer to the above question is simple: YOU LIE.

If obama were Pinochio his nose would reach to China...at least. But the sheeple prefer to ignore the truth, for a number of reasons...the color of obama's skin, they like the "freebies", they hate rich people too, or they just prefer not to think.

And then the other side of the story is voter fraud and corruption. With the machine the Dims have erected we are kidding ourselves if we think we can beat these corrupt pieces of flotsam.

SUBVET| 11.16.12 @ 10:05AM

Nancy...on point

How long are we going to talk about this.....come on let's move on and gather what we know and hope we get someone that is a leader.

All this bickering and trying to find out where we went wrong.....I don't know about you but I am tired of it.

Game plan......stop the train wreck on a daily basis.

Nancy......to the point ......no need to dissect the past lets move on.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:10PM

subvet and other interested parties: My e mail is i-bean@sbcglobal.net
Speaking of moving forward on a daily basis, I shall repeat yet again the MOST cogent question since the election from a friend of mine: "OK so who do I shoot First?"

Half seriously, (now three quarters seriosly might be "any mover in the mainstream pravda!")

I sugested leg wounds only for these fools, a .22 is the perfect solution.

How many corrupt media guys would need shooting until the message got out to all of the cowardly bastards..."do better or get shot in the other leg?"

Obama is only President today because they lied and covered up for him for four long years.

Countless soldiers and Marines have died covered up with crappy rules of engagement. Finaly, a fully accredited Ambasador was raped and murdered in the streets of Benghazi.

My suggestion to my friend was to consider all of the above carefully when he takes his shot. My only advice was to "make it count" (and send a followup letter.to splain the motivation. ie" from now on you are responsible for truthtelling".

RCV| 11.17.12 @ 1:42PM

You're pathetic, Ken. Sober up.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:26AM

You can't beat us... so join us and enjoy the bliss of being a WINNER!

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:25PM

Moonbats are losers even when they win elections. The parasite caucus is losing their liberty right along with those they seek to destroy.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:25PM

That's where you go wrong. We aren't trying to destroy anyone. We don't think like that - you do. Stop projecting. We don't like your losing ways projected onto us.

Albertus Magnus| 11.16.12 @ 3:34PM

This is a lie. This is EXACTLY how the Left thinks. Take! Take! Take! Envious, incompetent bastards who take from the hard earned wages of honest people so they can BUY votes with other people's money. Denial is irrelevant. LOOK around and SEE! Your dolt president is putting people OUT of work and businesses OUT of business and buying votes with taxpayer money. You are just too tiresome and dim-witted. Go away.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 8:03PM

Does that mean you'll forfeit your EBT card?????

AKraver| 11.16.12 @ 8:47PM

don't feed trolls

Grzmlyk| 11.16.12 @ 4:43PM

Hey, I have a GREAT idea. Brilliant. Know what we should do? We should raise corporate taxes to 100%! And when those greedy bastards tell us there's no point in manufacturing a product if they can't keep any of the money and therefore have no profits with which to pay employee salares and no capital to invest in the factors of production, we should put loaded guns to their heads and tell them they have to be more compassionate toward their fellow man and make that stuff for free!!!! Tell their employees to suck wind!!!!! Is that a GREAT idea or what?

And we should raise minimum wage to, like, $,1000 an hour! Talk about boosting demand! Ka ching! I mean, everybody knows that mom-and-pop store on the corner is just sitting on MOUNTAINS of cash! They won't pay $1,000 an hour because they're just greedy!! Not to mention those aforementioned evil corporations! AHHHH!!

Don't you just want to go get in your Chevy Volts and go vandalize their houses, rape their women and burn down their businesses?????!!!! Come on, liberals, are you with me????

One side note: Of course you and me, Purp, we'll still get paid by because we DESERVE it and we have shit to buy. But those businesses and the evil white men who run them? They don't deserve SHIT!!! YEAH!!!! KILL THE RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chuck| 11.17.12 @ 8:16AM

Question:
To become a liberal, do we have to have our testicles removed, or do they just fall off by themselves?

Grzmlyk| 11.16.12 @ 4:01PM

Obama could walk out onto the street, approach a bystander, pull out a 14-inch hunting knife, slit the person's throat, leave him to fall in a dying, gurgling mass of blood, and walk away grinning from big ear to big ear, and 52% of America would say, "Isn't Obama WONDERFUL, the way he hugged that supporter and showed how much he cares? Sigh. He's DREAMY."

And once the crowd cleared and the corpse was discovered a day or so after the naked emperor 's bare ass was kissed in praise of his fine suit of non-existent clothes, guess who would be arrested for murder? George W. Bush.

Obama supporters are either liars, loonies or morons, or else so intoxicated by marinating in the own moral vanity for so long that they have come to believe that wishing makes it so.

And they think Christians are delusional!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:37AM

You're here hoist by your own petard, dimwit, whether or not you know it.

And I'm pretty sure you don't know it.

Sheesh.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:31AM

Nancy:

You're psychotically delusional. Get help. Pay attention to Subvet at your peril.

Fare thee well.

Ralph

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:39PM

AKA Purp!!!!!!!

Von Mises Jr| 11.16.12 @ 8:37AM

While the history has yet to be written on the re-election and second term of Obama, your reference has some historic value.
The Prussian Empire was a militaristic regime that transformed into the Weimar Republic. There were three political parties in the Weimar Republic: The Majority Socialist, Independent Socialist and the Communist influenced by the Bolsheviks. The Majority Socialist won the day. But the people chose to pursue socialism and used war to plunder their neighbors. This is what led to the rise of Hitler. The Majority of the American people have apparently now chosen socialism.
The second interesting point is that Hitler killed 6,000 Jews. There are now about 7,000 people living in Israel that is under attack. When Iran gets the nuclear bomb, Obama's Arab Spring may be a similar outcome for God's Chosen People.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 10:18AM

Jr:
The concern here is that we, as a society, have in fact passed the "point of no return" in our social and economic life. It remains doubtful that any future administration can or will have the huevos to so reduce the administrative state to bring our fiscal house in order.

If indeed better management of the welfare state is all we can hope for, then the decision becomes an individual one regarding how best to accomodate and survive the tyrannical paternalistic government we chose.

Von Mises Jr| 11.16.12 @ 10:44AM

Herb Stein once quipped that "if something is unsustainable, it will stop."
If we keep spending $40B a month on QE3 and burning through $1.3 trillion per year we do not have, it is either collapse or hyper-inflation.
Excuse me now; I need to go stock my freezer again after I fed much of the neighborhood after Sandy. Next time they are on their own.

Have you noticed that the DOW is down 1,000 points in about one month? That is about a 7.5% decline. Wait until January when people get their new ObamaCare and Taxmeggedon pay checks. It will be dropping 7.5% per week.
Obama, Obama, Obama.....

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 12:01PM

Jr:
Had that very conversation with my stock broker this morning. What I have decided is to follow the example of my government and pay my Master Card in full with my Visa, which I will then pay with my Discover, then repeat, and never get charged interest or pay anyone anything. It's all in the accounting after all.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:52PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:19PM

Al adab, Im gonna be a little bit Leaning forward".
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:10PM

subvet and other interested parties: My e mail is i-bean@sbcglobal.net
Speaking of moving forward on a daily basis, I shall repeat yet again the MOST cogent question since the election from a friend of mine: "OK so who do I shoot First?"

Half seriously, (now three quarters seriosly might be "any mover in the mainstream pravda!")

I sugested leg wounds only for these fools, a .22 is the perfect solution.

How many corrupt media guys would need shooting until the message got out to all of the cowardly bastards..."do better or get shot in the other leg?"

Obama is only President today because they lied and covered up for him for four long years.

Countless soldiers and Marines have died covered up with crappy rules of engagement. Finaly, a fully accredited Ambasador was raped and murdered in the streets of Benghazi.

My suggestion to my friend was to consider all of the above carefully when he takes his shot. My only advice was to "make it count" (and send a followup letter.to splain the motivation. ie" from now on you are responsible for truthtelling".
Reply to this

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 1:12PM

correction 1-bean@sbcglobal.net for Texican

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:42AM

OMG what twisted logic you came up with.

Your conclusions are delusional.
Social Democrats were the majority party.
And, numbers are WAY OFF.
6 Million Jews, not 6,000 were killed by Hitler. And 6 Million non-Jews went in the Gas Chambers as well. (A major fact often overlooked)
Hitler rose to power by espousing the virtues of German morality, pride in German nationalism and the German people's superiority after suffering a crushing defeat during WWI and the degradation of the aftermath. All this was heightened by the Great Depression, which hit the world, not just in the U.S. Add to that the hyperinflation and devaluing of the German Mark, where wheelbarrows of marks were needed to buy a loaf a bread.
Hitler took advantage of fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst the people by leveraging the bad economy and hurt to German pride and then by offering an escape and the way to be proud again. Himself, and the Nazis, of course, was his answer.

Comparing Obama to Hitler in any way, shape or form is just stupid.
And, yet, he does has total control of the military, so I'd be careful what you say about him, before a drone flies up your a**. :)

Grzmlyk| 11.16.12 @ 5:16PM

Zat is right, mein liebchen. Obama would never be so crass as to wear a tacky uniform und make vit ze zilly zalute. Und instead of fear, uncertainty and doubt, he takes advantage of envy, greed and moral vanity amongst ze leetle sheep.

But he vill come up vit a final zolution for you troublemakers, whose liberal blood is like zat of vermin, ya?

Und after ze destruction, und after ze Master Race of Utopian Fools reduces America to rubble, leetle former Braun Shirts like Purp vil say "I knew NOTHING!"

Rhoetus| 11.16.12 @ 6:54PM

Oy vey! Akderlibr!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:41AM

"Akderlibr"?

LOL

How fucking illiterate .....?

And do you actually think Grzmlyk's lame post was vaguely humorous?

Jeez, Louise.

Get help.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:22PM

Grz,
Your constant sarcasm has worn very thin. Get serious or get off the air.Thank you

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 8:01PM

"Comparing Obama to Hitler in any way, shape or form is just stupid" You're right Ralphie, Hitler didn't have a law degree from Harvard paid for by Muslim oil shieks and the US taxpayers!!!!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:33AM

If you're saying I'm right, Oldefarte, I must be wrong.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:38PM

No Purp, we all know you LEFT [and especially your mental faculties]!!!!

DRed| 11.17.12 @ 3:15AM

Wow-that is an insanely ignorant summary of early 20th century German history. Seriously, Von, where do you get this nonsense? A fifth grader with a connection to wikipedia could do a much better job. The fact that people replied to this fantastically erroneous post in a serious manner just makes me depressed.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:34AM

Yeah.

Sigh.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:19AM

And, who does the Bible say will come upon the scene, in the Midst of a World Wide Crises, my good Appleby?

Something, say...............Like the World Wide Financial Crises.

See how quickly there is War on Israel, after Hamas' Deliveror was put back on his Throne. Listen to the Tone of this Scion of Jackels. See how everything mentioned in Revelation, is on a Rocket to Fullfillment.

It's a shame that nobody's been writing about all of this for the last YEAR.

Stkman| 11.16.12 @ 10:34AM

Tim,
You see it, I see it and yes, there are some others that see it. Most people are so deep in denial they won't see it or refuse to see it. Thats okay though, because that was prophsized as well. Whats not okay is the living hell that most will go through because they refuse to do what they no they are supposed to do. Do what our forefathers told us was our duty to do! Abolish this government, do it now before you can't! Wake up damnit wake up! Think about your kids and grandkids, quit thinking woe is me and remember there are millions of us. All we have to do is just get started. If we can't unite physically(yet), then let us unite spiritually. We must prevail or the United States is no more. Remeber what Reagan said, "America is the last great hope of the world". Beleive it, live it, fight for it, die for it!

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:53PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Can you see this?

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:43AM

Oh, so now Obama is the Anti-Christ or the Beast? Delusional TLP ... delusional. Rubber room is ready for you.

benny havens| 11.16.12 @ 2:23PM

No, Obama is not the Anti-Christ.

But when the King of the North and the Kings from the East and the Kings from the South attack our friend, Israel, we will have been so weaken by your chosen one, Obama, that the United States will not be capable of mounting any support for her.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:54PM

Exactly.

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:55PM

And, it's not that we'll be too Weak.

It'll be that he just won't lift a finger to Help Them.

He's Hamas' Deliverer, for God sakes.

Alan Brooks | 11.16.12 @ 11:27PM

"and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks."

A neo-Confederate's opinion means little; and why are you ashamed of the name Timothy l. Pennell? it is a good name unless you feel your family's honor has been besmirched by some things they might have done.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:58PM

Nah he's the Black Jesus...get with the program, dummie!!!!!!!!

Alan Brooks | 11.16.12 @ 11:24PM

I live in the Midwest, and it is as fusty as the South ( and almost as violent); I know that if you had run an Ike or Reagan in '92, '96, '08 and '12, you would have won the elections, all of 'em.

axbucxdu| 11.18.12 @ 7:55PM

There it is, Al, as usual in a nutshell. If I were a rethug, I wouldn't waste time observing bellybuttons, I'd spend it identifying and calling out the wizards behind the curtain that sabotaged the senate takeover by foisting Mittens on them for the sole purpose of distracting the rank and file from the congressional races! Idjuts all...thug leadership is interested only in self preservation...Ike??? Reagan???? Puleeze...

RJ| 11.16.12 @ 6:35AM

The first 4 years of Obama-Biden were bad enough. I dread the upcoming 4 years. Culture determines politics. We need to work on restoring a healthy culture if we hope to remain a free, prosperous society.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 8:29AM

"We need to work on restoring a healthy culture if we hope to remain a free, prosperous society."

So we need to change the culture of a demographic that votes 96 % in a certain direction ? Or of another that votes 71 % in the same direction ?

Lots of luck.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:19AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

CrackerHound| 11.16.12 @ 9:53AM

Yea Alej..we will need more than luck. Watching those "man on the street" style interviews really gives you a sense of the level of societal connection many people have, or knowledge.

It never ceases to literally shock me when people cannot name one branch of the Federal Government or who we were fighting in WW2 or who was the first president of the US.
They damn sure know who octo-mom and Charlie Sheen are though.

We really are living in an"Idiocracy" .

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:56PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:44AM

Disrespecting, dismissing and degrading most of America is hardly the way to a healthy culture.

CrackerHound| 11.16.12 @ 12:10PM

...say conservatives to the progressive, big goverment party

philippic| 11.16.12 @ 1:31PM

bingo!

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:57PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 1:21PM

Most (51%) of America degraded itself.

Again.

And secession, incorporating STRICT voter qualification laws upon accomplishment of that objective, is the only way to a healthy culture.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:57PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

kingratt82| 11.16.12 @ 7:08AM

Great article. Ultimately, yes, the American people are the ones to blame for Barack Obama's re-election. I agree with the author that those who voted to re-elect the president are going to have the sorest case of buyer's remorse, probably sooner than later, but for sure at the end of 4 more years of President Obama's foolish, inept, misguided, horribly short-sighted, Hugo Chavez-esque, almost Zimbabwean economic policies. Forty-nine percent of voters realized this, 50% did not.

America's terrible public education system and uber-liberal universities are, in my view, largely to blame for producing such a large electorate ignoramuses that Americans would re-elect someone like Barack Obama to a second term. People that voted for Obama must be described as both selfish and economically illiterate (or deliberate economic saboteurs--either way, neither is cheering), among other things.

While placing blame accomplishes little except to identify the source of the problem if the blame is correctly placed, it is refreshing to hear someone actually stop blaming the Hispanic vote, or Romney, or this or that and tell it like it is: selfish, economically illiterate Americans who desire entertainment over substance are to blame for re-electing the worst president in this nation's 224-year history as a Constitutional republic and for the disasters that are going to befall us in the next 4 years.

Alan| 11.16.12 @ 8:09AM

People who are ignorant of history, will repeat it, over and over and over. You have generations of young people who couldn't place the Soviet Union or for that matter the US on a world map. Give much of the youth today a device to thumb twiddle on and a video game and thats about the limit of their existences.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:21AM

And, don't forget about everyone who think that Hawaii is in Asia, and The United States has 60 States.

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Albertus Magnus| 11.16.12 @ 3:38PM

An ignorant population is easy to sway with vacuous rhetoric (e.g. voters for our dolt president). The LEFT took control of government schools over 50 years ago, and ignorance is their desired product. Politics trumps everything. Simple lesson of History.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 8:33AM

"Ultimately, yes, the American people are the ones to blame for Barack Obama's re-election."

"The American people... "

Are not monolithic. Are NOT of the same culture or educational level.

The American people are NOT one people anymore. Not even close.

Stkman| 11.16.12 @ 10:37AM

In human history, people only become one people when they are in a fight for suvival. Well, it will be upon us soon and we will once again be one people. It's just too bad so many will have to suffer first.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:48PM

Jawhohl, mein fuehrer!

One people. One fight. One destiny.

Blah, blah, blah.

You total lick-ass imbecile, you.

Didn't you ever take a history course?

Jeez, Louise.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:36PM

Is that why you and Ralph stay up all night long....cause you took that history lesson and now work at Mickey Ds??????????

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:27PM

Stkman
Yep. see my comment above.

PJ| 11.16.12 @ 7:26AM

What I find incredible is the Catholic vote. 50% went to the incumbent. Romney got 48%.

Many of those votes were made up over Hispanics. I wish I knew the percentage of that.

But what's even more outrageous, is that the practicing Catholic voted 57% for Romney & 42% for Obama.

It's the 42% that worries me the most. They obviously have no clue about the incumbent's most radical pro-abortion policies & thay have no clue what the 1st Amendment of the Constitution really means. Also it shows that the bishops who have been preaching publicly & smartly about the destructive HHS mandate since at least June have no credibility in matters of religion. -------That's the saddest fact of all.

Joellen| 11.16.12 @ 8:27AM

They are not Catholic, they're CINO's - something hard to believe, but is true. Remembe the left has infested the Governnment; Church; Media; Education and entertainment outlets.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:46AM

If you really believe that tripe, why don't you just give up? You have no hope.

Gr0w1er601| 11.16.12 @ 5:48PM

You have no brain.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:55PM

Yes he does....he drops it into his toilet every other day!!!!!!!!

PJ| 11.16.12 @ 1:10PM

Joellen,
The 42% represent Church-going Catholics. They are obviously not very well catechized.

A little side note: Many of the Latin mass goers are not well catechized either.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 3:58PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:07AM

The "Catholic vote" is skewed because of the Latino vote that went 70% to Obama. Unfortunately it seems the promise of gifts, welfare, and immigration amnesty trumps religon.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:46AM

Yep, keep the insults coming ...

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 1:08PM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

PJ| 11.16.12 @ 1:07PM

CJW,
Until we see the numbers, we don't know. Don't forget many Hispanics are leaving the Catholic Church for Evangelicalism or no church at all.

benny havens| 11.16.12 @ 7:36AM

President Santa Clause promised goodies for all of his sub-group followers.

Free healthcare, food stamps, free money, free I-phones and free citizenship and all of it paid for by the filthy rich.

And they voted for him.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:21AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:52AM

So, who voted for Romney's Bag of Xmas Presents?

It's not like he wasn't trying to be Santa, to use your analogy.

Your idea is wrong-headed and insulting. But, go ahead, go with that.
Now, bend over for the WINNERs.

Frank Drackman| 11.16.12 @ 7:38AM

Don't Despair Homos,
EICOTUS(Evolver in Chief of the US) is still partaking of the Cancer Sticks, I'm a Smoker, we can tell. Which puts him at an admittedly low, but still as we say in the Healthcare biz, it would "Not be Uncommon" for him to develop Joe Paterno's disease, allowing
Joe Biden, who had a brain aneurysm repair 20 yrs ago, which is about when the warranty on the clips runs out, and he's also old, soooooooooooooooo
It's a long shot, but the vote for Speaker could chose the next POTUS...
Frank "fingers crossed" Drackman

John Navratil| 11.16.12 @ 8:15AM

Frank Drackman,

I always love an optimist. "There's a pony in here somewhere!"

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:22AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Alice Moore| 11.16.12 @ 8:50AM

Maybe the GOP in a fit of intelligence will elect Paul Ryan as Speaker. John "Law of the Land" Boehner must be sent to the back bench.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:53AM

You are one sick dude. Wishing for anyone's death.

Jack in Wi| 11.16.12 @ 7:38AM

Romney ran a terrible campaign. There was little to separate him from Obama on the issues. They were both big government warmongering liberals who love abortion, homosexuality, and big intrusive government. Romney ran as the guy who would be a better manager of the Leviation. He refused to use the wedge issues that get his people out to vote. He dissed Ron Paul and his young supporters and it cost him a lot of votes. He also dissed Sarah Palin and the people who liked her. It cost him a easily winnable election. He ran as a countryclub Republican like every Republican in the last 25 years. Well the people are sick of that branch of the party. They have been braindead for decades. The people had to choose from Tweedledee and Teedledumber. Well They chose Tweeledee. Tweedle dumber spent a billion dollars and said nothing of consequence. He found it hard to defend his beliefs because he changed them every 10 minutes. In the end people vote for Truman over Dewey. Truman ran a nasty lying campaign that Dewey couldn't be bothered with to answer. These elite candidates think the people will elect them because of their pedigree.

GobBluthe| 11.16.12 @ 9:51AM

Romney didnt run an awful campaign. It was good enough to win in a center right country. Only America isnt center right.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:54AM

Exactly ... Center left and these people are on the far right fringe, about to circle back to far, far left ....

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:32PM

Romney would be a raving right-wing lunatic only to an idiotic moonbat. The founders would see him as a far leftist with no principles, and Obama, and his ilk, as nihilist opportunists willing to sell their grandmother into slavery for their personal benefit.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:26PM

Romney didn't lose, Republicanism and Conservatism did. And took him with.

You can't see it, because then you'd have to blame yourselves. Okay, go with that.

philippic| 11.16.12 @ 1:37PM

wrong....but I imagine if you repeat a meme often enough some will be convinced.

States are moving in a Republican direction. this fight has just started to unfold - it will last well beynd Obama.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:53PM

Nah Ralphie, America lost and you'll find out how badly next year!!!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:57AM

Calm down, grandpa!

Have a few sips of your warm milk and go to sleep.

"America" is not lost. You've just lost your train of thought.

Don't worry about it. Just go to sleep, wake up in the morning, and all will be well again.

G'night!

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:34PM

2:57AM Purp? Doing the midnight shift at Ralph's????

allanius | 11.16.12 @ 7:50AM

I think the simplest explanation is that Obama is a stronger politician than Romney. Obama is the first presidential candidate since FDR who can make class warfare work. And by the way, doesn't the strongest politician always win?

Alan| 11.16.12 @ 8:12AM

"doesn't the strongest politician always win?"

Yep, and as the road continues, it becomes the most ruthless and viscious tyrant who always wins.

Alice Moore| 11.16.12 @ 8:52AM

The evilest politician wins in the short term.

benny havens| 11.16.12 @ 2:37PM

Not always. In this case it was the consummate bull-sh*t artist and liar that won.

Stormzeye| 11.16.12 @ 8:10AM

Democrats will always be better at politics than Republicans. For them it's a career while for us Republicans, it's a necessary evil, something most of our candidates do in addition to working or building businesses. It's hard for Tea Party amateurs to compete with professional head-breaker union thugs.

Alice Moore| 11.16.12 @ 8:55AM

I have always thought of the GOP as the well meaning but Stupid Party. The Democrats, on the other hand, are the Evil Party. Just like the quote from Star Trek," Good has to be very careful" to prevail over evil.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:55AM

You got that backwards honey.

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:33PM

Nope. The Dimocrats are very evil. Hitlerian and Stalinist levels in fact.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:28PM

Ya, that will get you some votes to win elections. Dimocrats? hahahaha.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 2:59AM

Really?

So there are secret concentration camps somewhere?

Identify one.

Put up or shut up, pal.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:25AM

It's easy to be a good Politician, when it doesn't matter if everything you say is a Crock a Sh*t, because No-one in the MSM is gonna call you on it.

Understand?

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:28PM

The Tea Party is dying ... there will be no long-term career Tea Partiers. Just a matter of time now. They are too weird for most Americans.

Stormzeye| 11.16.12 @ 4:34PM

Purp, I can understand why you think a balanced budget, constitutionally limited government and a free market capitalist system is "too weird".....you like all leftists suffer from mental illness and a complete denial of liberty in favor of statism, oppression and suffering.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:51PM

You're doing to Ralph Novy what Clint referred to in addressing the empty chair and claiming NO HE CAN'T DO THAT TO HIMSLEF!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:01AM

What in Sam Hill is THAT supposed to mean, Oldefarte?

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.12 @ 12:42PM

Ralph, you must be the only man in America who has not seen the video of Clint Eastwood at the convention Just go to youtube and type in clint eastwood convention speech.
Hold on to keep from falling over laughing.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 10:43PM

I saw the Clint Eastwood thing at the RNC. But that still doesn't help make sense of Oldefarte's statement.

C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 8:14AM

Yes, Romney ran a "decent" campaign when running against a liberal, but ran a nasty campaign when running against a conservative (Newt). Romney ran on his life story and the economy, not on conservative principle. IOW, like McCain, he ran as a loser.

PJ| 11.16.12 @ 8:38AM

Romney "...ran a nasty campaign when running against a conservative (Newt). "

I had to think about that. And I think you're correct. It than begs the question: why not with Obama? Romney had more legitimate items to attack.

C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 11:48AM

The answer is because Romney was a moderate Republican.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 8:21AM

Don't you people get tired of lies, innuendos and conspiracy theories? This guy is a tool.
"causing to the death of laid-off steel worker's wife." - that was an ad made by a SuperPac, not Obama's campaign, and was NEVER aired on TV.
Gotcha.
"he claimed that he had unequivocally called the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi a terrorist attack the very day after it happened. In fact, he did not do so until weeks later." - I saw his news briefing the day after Benghazi, and you're wrong again. He did say it was "Terrorism" with reference to Benghazi ... so you're wrong, just like Romney was - reading from the same playbook are ya?
Gotcha!
"Why would anyone give the president high marks in that emergency-- which did not require any hard decision-making on his part -" - Because compared to GW Bush and Katrina, THIS President actually WAS competent dealing with Sandy. Ya think? Another misinformation technique on your part.
Gotcha!
And these are just on the first page! My God, don't you people learn anything? Spinning every fact to a point it is unrecognizable, yet you are determined to make it factual. There are too many ways to prove you wrong and you keep it up.

Your article is full of s**t and you expect your readers to eat s**t pie? That's what you think of your readers?

Nancy in NC| 11.16.12 @ 8:29AM

Do you know Jim Jones? He has some kool-aid for you.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 8:54AM

Oh, you're so nice. Satan is waiting for you.

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:34PM

And you. Liars will have no place in the Kingdom of God. They will spend forever with their father Satan, the father of lies.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:31PM

My place in the Kingdom of God is well secured. I don't lie, I don't have to.

You don't need to worry about me - but you and your bigoted ways are anathema to God and his admonition to 'Do Unto Others ..."

So let me know how Satan provides you with all the comforts of Hell.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:32PM

What about Ralph, Purp?????

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:48PM

No but he does know Ralph Novy intimately!!!!1

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:03AM

Oh, sure.

I know Satan Smith quite well.

Good neighbor of mine.

So?

Nancy in NC| 11.16.12 @ 8:33AM

Your annointed one was still talking about the video at the UN two weeks later. And where did Susan Rice come up with her theory about a little demo?

Face it, purp, you would follow obama if he had killed mochella and eaten her for lunch.

obama surpasses an empty chair. He is an empty suit with an empty soul...Hitler in blackface.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 8:57AM

Congressional Intelligence hearings will finally put the nail in your conspiracy theories and then you can SHUT UP.

Since intelligence briefings are secret, you and your side are just making s**t up for something to attack upon. It's so transparent.

Your side couldn't even beat the Black President, and with only 13% of the population black, says a lot about how horrible your side really is viewed by the majority of America, doesn't it?

JP| 11.16.12 @ 9:18AM

Purp,
Where was the President from 4PM on 9/11/12 to 9PM. According to the White House website on 9/11/12 he had a scheduled meeting on the Oval Office with Gen Dempsey, VP Biden, and Sec of Def Panetta at 6PM.

We can easily assume the President had a front rwo seat to the butchery in Benghazi. We know that at least one unarmed drone was circling overhead providing a live video feed to the WH and Africa Command. There was also live intel sat feeds as well (not to mention email, and sat phones from Benghazi).

And you wonder why Obama declared the Bengahzi consulate a crime scene - all the evidence is now under lock and key.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:48AM

I don't know, and neither do you.
Again, innuendos, "possibilities", assumptions, as if they were facts. It's a house of cards and I can't wait until it falls on you.

Yeah, the President watched it all eating popcorn enjoying Americans being attacked and killed. That's what you believe - but that doesn't make it true.

And, that's why you LOST. You're in fantasyland, and most of America rejected your Nazi-style propaganda machinery.

philippic| 11.16.12 @ 1:47PM

but we do know A LOT...in fact...everything you chose to ignore with these false feints - for example "how can we know...it's secret". gee......DC is an airtight environment - no possible leaks going on. and, my o my, there haven't been weeks of researched and revealed communiques sequenced into an emerging storyline that confirms at least one thing - the fabrication about a film being the root cause. nope...the really scary people in all of this continue to be the likes of you - ends over means. I know dozens of folks like you - walled off from any reality that it isn't an echo.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:42PM

Yes, Philippic, you've got it right.

A whole lot of these folks are indeed "walled off" from the rest of humanity and certainly truth/facts.

They're willfully delusional, pathetically holding onto the notion that their "race" and "social standing" somehow makes them superior to the rest of humanity.

That perspective/attitude would be laughable if it didn't have such horrible consequences.

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 10:14AM

well...you folks are good for comedic relief!

same ole race/class warfare bating. with the added humor that you can't absorb how the constant drumbeat inevitably creates its own threats, its own demise.

there are so many contradictions in the Liberal mindset - with obvious consequences for truth and collaboration. let's see...what would be an example? oh....I know: this horrific economy? it's all Bush's fault. it's all a recidivist, unyielding Republican House! (i.e., real power). buuuuut......a majority voted Obama back into office.......he has the power. you all will yield to the inevitable. Progressive think! say anything. assert anything. hide/dissemble anything that does not fit the storyline. that's a tactical/operational strategy and not a strategic one.

Ralph Novy| 11.18.12 @ 11:32AM

You do realize none of that made any sense, right?

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 8:57PM

very good! you understand my point about Liberalism/Progressivism!

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:45PM

Where were YOU, from 3:00 a.m. CST till 3:30 a.m. CST, 9/11/o1?

Don't know?

Aha!

Liar! Terrorist!

Lock that pathethic SOB up right quick and throw away the key.

Above all, keep children away from him. He's a pervert.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 10:38AM

"Your side couldn't even beat the Black President... ."

Couldn't "even !"

You have low expectations of blacks, too . You and your hypocritical brethren try to hide it, but it comes out when you run your puerile mouth.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:51AM

And, yet, you couldn't beat him ...
more to the point, YOU don't think anything of African-Americans. That's why you knew you would win, isn't it? Isn't it?
I do think a lot of African-Americans, I voted for him, TWICE. Actually, I think a lot of all Americans. We're quite a unique breed of people.
Try as you might to degrade, dismiss and disrespect most of America, she comes back strong every time. Your evilness lost and will continue until you see the light and focus on the Shining City on the Hill, that has a decidedly Blue Hue to it lately. :)

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:13AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:56AM

CJ the irrelevant retard can copy/paste idiocy... Ha.

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:36PM

And, he differs from exactly how? At least what he is pasting is truth. You on the other hand are a raving liar.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:32PM

How would you know truth from lie? You watch Fox and Rush - the Conservative Media Entertainment Center - certainly not based in facts.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:47PM

The truth is that Purp=Ralph Novy and thats no lie!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:07AM

"Purp=Ralph Novy"?

... with four exclamation points?

And it's not lie?

Well ... sorry to burst your bubble, boy-o, but I, Ralph Novy, have no idea who "Purp" is.

... and, if anything, I'd prefer to be referred to as a "perp," not a "purp," thank you.

LOL

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 1:11PM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:46PM

Where ya at Ralph Novy?????

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:09AM

Right here, boy.

Sailsman| 11.17.12 @ 3:28PM

He's an attorney in WI and liberal troll.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 1:28PM

It's hard not to think a lot of "African-Americans," when one sees their criminality, slothfulness, disgusting, lowclass and vicious behavior all over the news every day.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:33PM

There is black trash just as there is white trash - so what's your point?
What you see on the news is what you know of black people? Ya, that's a good way to judge. No wonder you lost.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:37PM

"One" does not see that.

Only YOU see that.

And you don't even "see" that.

You're just a filthy animal pretending to be a human being, Alej.

Go back to your pig-pen, pig-dog. And start waitin' for us makin' you bacon.

LOL

What a waste of resources keeping vermin like you alive.

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 10:19AM

and you also dwell in the gutter....and will have to be dealt with downstream. that fate befalls all useful idiots.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:12AM

You know what's hard?:

Not advocating that nasty retards like you be summarily sent to the funny farm.

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 8:59PM

ouch! a tad sensitive are we?

you are too easy. I need bigger challenges....ooops...a challenge period.

Stormzeye| 11.16.12 @ 4:38PM

Our Allen West is 100% African-American and we love him. By the way, we hate Obama's white side as much as his black side.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:15AM

It might come as a surprise to you, Stormzeye, but, if the current anthropological consensus is correct, 100% of ALL "Americans" -- including "Native Americans -- are "African-Americans."

Duh.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:17AM

oops -- "Native Americans" ....

SUBVET| 11.17.12 @ 11:42AM

Ralphie boy........did you ever get out of 5th grade.......grow up.

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 9:03PM

sub...leave him be......he's another poster child for the deep seated hatreds that characterize the Liberal/Progressive psyche.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.16.12 @ 8:49AM

Yet you showed up to make all of your comments. Purp, if you thought you were winning on a permanent basis (as opposed to last week's election), there would be no need for you to offer your thoughts.

Again, Purp, thank you for all you do here. Each day, whenever there is a chance that we might forget the vapid nature of the Left's talking points (that don't even rise to the level of arguments) or the obnoxious, delusional and childish behavior that characterize so many of those with whom we disagree, you arrive to drive home the message.

You are much better than Eddie Haskell ever was as a tool to advance our narrative. If you didn't exist, we would have to invent you, and no one would believe a fictional character could be so loathsome, so you advance the credibility of the narrative so well.

Thank you very much.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 9:01AM

Oh, no, quite the contrary. I get to crow about winning, and winning decisively against your poor Republican and Conservative ideas. You picked the wrong side to back, and I didn't. I chose wisely.

And at least 40% of the white population voted with me. So we're not all suckered by the Fox/Rush Conservative Entertainment Fantasy Reports, are we?
Screaming loudly about something doesn't make it true, does it?
Facts matter, don't they?
Polls are right-on, aren't they?
The economy really is improving isn't it?
It's really hard to look in the mirror, when you see a LOSER looking back - how's it feel.
Now bend over til we tell you to get up.
Oh, and you're welcome. Conservadums forever!

Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.16.12 @ 9:46AM

We're not reeling, Purp. We're reloading. Your comments above are just what I'm talking about when I thank you. None of my points refuted, all reaffirmed. At the risk of sounding like Elvis, thank you, thank you very much.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:52AM

You're quite welcome.
You're like the pig in shit that is happy to be there. You know no better, but it is sad.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:12AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.16.12 @ 12:52PM

The best part is we don't have to make up stuff that Purp says to show how reprehensible he is; we only need to cut and paste his own words to expose him.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:35PM

Ya, how inventive ... when I use your own words that mock you ... and you think that is somehow a response to me to throw it back at me? Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson probably wish you'd stick up for them. Oh and that retarded Franklin Graham that clearly is delusional as well.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 3:09PM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:21PM

All you've got is words, CJW, apparently.

No facts, no persuasive rhetoric, no logic.

Poor showing.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:45PM

Where ya at Purpie???????

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 10:43PM

Purpie a/k/a Ralphie's gems:
Purp| 11.7.12 @ 1:16PM

The unborn have no rights - they are biological entities until God allows them to be born.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 10:46PM

According to the PurpeVillage Idiot, God allows abortion until God allows the unborn to be born.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:19AM

"Purpie a/k/a Ralphie's gems:"

Huh?

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:30PM

Ralph, Ralph, come out come out wherever you are?????

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:28PM

You're like the idiot in Ralph Novy that disguised himself!!!!!!!!!!!!1

GobBluthe| 11.16.12 @ 9:55AM

You won as decisvely as GW Bush in 2004. In fact Obama got a smaller % of the poplar vote than GW Bush 50.3% versus 50.8%.

I do find it amusing that you as a committed leftist think that facts matter.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 10:22AM

Just remind Purp that, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism". Many individuals, for that is where the choice now lies, will simply not comply and will, in a variety of fashions, resist.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:56AM

Al - resistance is futile.
You will pay Obamacare's tax penalty or get insurance.
You will pay higher taxes, if you are in the 1%.
You have no choice - you will be assimilated.
Now, bend over til we tell you to get up.

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 11:59AM

Yep, click those fascist heels of yours Purp and don the uniform of Obozo's civilian army.
We'll be waiting for ya.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:36PM

No, Anthony, you must comply now. Bend over like a good little Conservative F**k

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 3:20PM

The only thing we will be bending over is your cold carcass, to insure you're not moving.
Then we'll kick it into the gutter where it belongs.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 12:05PM

Carthago delenda est. Remember your Cato my friend and recall also that The Younger chose death over the tyranny of Ceasar

...and BTW, no I will not pay.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:36PM

You have no choice Al, it'll be done for you. There are many ways to pay pal.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 2:11PM

Didn't you read the part about Cato?
I will not comply.

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:38PM

Everyone, everyone will pay higher taxes, unless you are a member of the parasite caucus that does no productive work.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 1:37PM

"you are a member of the parasite caucus that does no productive work." - Are you?

I wouldn't know, but you seem to know a lot about the subject.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:23AM

Hey, "Purp":

Two things.

1. Some morons here are thinking you're me. I hope you don't think so.

2. Think the tone and tenor of this particular response plays right into those morons' hands.

Cheers.

Ralph

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:54AM

50.1% is all that matters Baby. Willard told you that. Don't you believe everything he says?

Committed leftist? You wouldn't know one if it bit you.
Did YOU vote for Ronald Reagan? Twice?
Did YOU vote for Papa Bush?
The party left me in the center as y'all marched to the far right - and now you reap what you've sown. LOSING the Majority.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:14AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:30AM

"Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death."

No, he didn't.

Don't lie.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:26PM

No, sorry, Purp, but facts do not matter to a lot of these folks.

They are delusional, narcissistic a-holes who are here to see their rantings in print and to try to provoke thoughtful individuals who comment to make verbal missteps. In other words, they're here to vent and circle-jerk.

Don't take them too seriously.

Their opinions are "marginal" or "fringe," at best.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:26PM

Talking to yourself again, huh? There is a straightjacket awaiting you [and your imaginary friend, Purp]!!!!!!!

philippic| 11.18.12 @ 9:06PM

"thoughtful"!!!!!!

bahahahaha.

you don't have the faintest clue what is going on behind the virtual scenes.

JP| 11.16.12 @ 9:13AM

Purp. The speech he made the next day referenced not the 9/11/12 attacks but the 9/11/01 attacks on the WTC. This has been confirmed by many sources -even CNN.

C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 9:21AM

Don't bother JP. The purps of the world would rather gloat than deal with facts.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:58AM

Yes, it's so much fun to gloat. As if you wouldn't have done the same, had you had a good candidate.

You knew Romney was awful, wrong for the party and doomed to fail. Yet you soldiered on - and now you have to deal with utter catastrophe and loss.
But I'm having a great time, yep you're right!
Facts from CNN? Ha.

C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 11:08AM

I agree that Romney was awful, but the difference between you and me is that I don't gloat when my country is going down the drain.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:59AM

There's another difference or two.

The country can now move Forward and Upward, not down the Conservadum drain.
And, you didn't win, so you can't gloat.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:16PM

That's a lie, JP.

Period.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:26AM

Yeah.

We do get Tired of your Comments.

Thanks for asking.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 10:58AM

Tough - it's a free country with freedom of speech.

At least I don't deal in guttersnipe disgusting speech like you do.

Quartermaster| 11.16.12 @ 12:40PM

Being a guttersnipe, it would quite impossible for you to avoid such disgusting speech.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 4:00PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 1:30PM

Actually, it's not a free website, and I'm sorry habitual trolls aren't controlled by the owner and moderators.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:15PM

Yeah, you like "control," don't you, Alej?

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:44PM

That you Purp? Come out, come out wherever you are!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:27AM

You just can't face the fact that there is more than one person "out there" who's not in agreement with you, can you, grandpa?

Shee-it. Where the hell did you grow up? Some cave in Arkansas?

RCV| 11.17.12 @ 1:46PM

Alej would like to live in a little bubble, where everyone looks and thinks just like him.

Alej| 11.18.12 @ 10:19AM

I will, when the red states' secession is complete.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:10AM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Hardcard| 11.16.12 @ 9:22AM

what would the kardasian's do? I hear the fat lady singing and it ain't Kate Smith.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:26AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

PolishKnight| 11.16.12 @ 9:23AM

As long as conservatives hide from the truth, they will lose elections: The largest majority of Obama voters voted for race and gender entitlements AND white males who voted for Obama in PA and OH did so because Romney didn't seem to care about them (he was busy looking in binders for women to hire.)

Until they confront this primary vote grabber for the Democrats, they will lose elections.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:27AM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:29AM

Hmm.

Methinks you're halfway to a rational perspective on political reality, PolishKnight.

I'm a Bohunk myself.

Go Slavs!

LOL

CrackerHound| 11.16.12 @ 9:41AM

.."petulant and strident Obama, or the mocking and clownish Biden. Both got away from with telling outrageous falsehoods during the debates"

Biden actually said during the debates that he voted against the war in Iraq!! I read one article that mentioned. this. It is a well known fact that all of the prominent Democrats of the time voted FOR the invasion, including Biden.

unreal

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 4:01PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Louis Jenkins| 11.16.12 @ 9:42AM

Inspite of what Romney said about women, you do look at their past experiences to figure out their suitability for a job. Yes, Romney picked the wrong language, but was he wrong? So we hitched our horse to the wrong wagon? No, he was what the RINO party gave us. The general and his sixty push up sex partner, well, he resigned. Yet there are others who did, including a possible candidate in the Republican party this past spring. It depends on which party you are affiliated with. Democrats normally don't care, and are re-elected time and again. Republicans, once they are found out, usually do.

We voted for Romney, and are willing to stand for our decisions. Go ahead, allow Obama and his lackies declare that we will be punished, we will take it and a lot more. We can do all the soul gazing that this artricle asks us to do, but remember, payback can be very uncomfortable, we are tired of playing the part of bad guy.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 4:01PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:23AM

Suck it, TLP.

Know how to spell "loser"?

Hint: It's not "looser."

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:34AM

I liked "push up sex partner."

John786| 11.16.12 @ 9:49AM

The flood of 'why we lost' stories seem to be never ending. Apparently it was because the people made a mistake. Or, it was vindication of right wing policies. Or, we didn't get the message out. You lost because people don't like you. There is an inverse square law relating: education attainment vs voting GOP. You've been found out as an irrational hate filled party. Time to evolve or go the way of the Dodo,

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 10:31AM

Good morning John. Happy new year.

John786| 11.17.12 @ 6:11AM

Haji Al Adab,
My dear brother in humanity. I hope you are well. Yes indeed , the Islamic year 1434 has come around quickly. I pray that God showers me , you and all of humanity with his mercy and guidance. Ameen.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 10:45AM

You lost because people don't like you.
******************

We lost because 96 % of blacks, 70 % of hispanics, and 40 % of pathetic, uneducated socialist whites didn't like us.

That's a compliment. And a reminder of what will need to be excised from whatever republic we eventually live in, whether 3,000 miles across, or 878.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:12PM

Bye, bye, Alej.

LMAO.

You're a nasty nut-case that's going to be hauled off to the "funny farm" pretty quick.

Run! Run! Run!

Hide!

Scurry about, you little rat!

Or ... get the hell out of America and leave Americans alone, you snotty little Nazi bastard you.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:36AM

Oh ... wait ... imaginative flash ... you and Reince Priebus "holed up" in some hut in the Ukraine.

Precious.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:24PM

At 3:36"""""AM"""""", what """"hut""""are you holed up in[when normals are sleeping]???????

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 10:52PM

Go back to sleep, grandpa.

Dream about the "good old days" of white male supremacy.

Alej| 11.18.12 @ 11:09AM

I'm so sorry I've upset you.

George S| 11.16.12 @ 10:53AM

Just out of curiosity... where did the ObamaPhone lady receive her doctorate?

We lost because too many of you want me to pay for your medical care, your contraceptives and your retirement.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 4:02PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:37AM

Go back to bed, George.

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 9:51AM

All the so called media experts want to opine as to how and why Romney lost. Yes, you can nitpick all day, but the larger truth is staring them in the face, and it's THEM.
For every minor misstep made by Romney, Obozo's and Biteme's were 10x worse. Problem is, the corrupt media went after Romney and made no mention of Obozo's or Biteme's flaws.
Fast & Furious and Behngazi are criminal in nature, and the media are co conspirators in keeping these stories from the American people.
They should thank God for the Constitution, because in any other society their actions of malfeasence and nonfeasence would have put them in prison.
We need to overhaul our culture and remove the cancer of leftism.

TLP| 11.16.12 @ 4:02PM

Contest today.

Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.

You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.

Gr0w1er601| 11.16.12 @ 10:04AM

Welcome to the United states of ...Greece.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:20AM

Thank you for your perspicacious commentary.

Bob Grant| 11.16.12 @ 10:24AM

Bill O'reilly: " Romney deserved to lose to obama"?

What?

That may be true in the technical sense but the American people don't deserve another 4 years of obama.

America doesn't deserve an Obama Supreme Court

American doesn't deserve an Obama Federal Court

America doesn't deserve Justice Department Lawlessness

America doesn't deserve have itself involved in a regional war in the Middle East due to Abject Weakness

America doesn't deserve to have unstable/rising fuel prices

America doesn't deserve to have a devalued dollar

F**k the know-it-all Bill O'reilly. While he spends his time Monday Morning Quarterbacking Mitt Romney, the lawless obama regime continues the quickening of our demise.

O'reilly. What a smug A-hole.

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:19AM

O'Reilly is a pompous windbag. He interviewed Obama last year and Obama handled him like a novice. O'Reilly did not ask any tough questions, did not follow up on questions, but he was invited by Obama to the WH Christmas party.
O'Reilly is finally criticizing Obama after the election for the BenghaziGate, which means he is jumping on the bandwagon for ratings. He knows a good story when he sees it, and there is no other story now.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:09PM

And he's a "saint" in comparison to most of the other folks who describe themselves as "conservative."

Doesn't that tell you something, Bob?

Do you not learn anything from that?

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.16.12 @ 11:00AM

Buy a spare rifle.......yoday! Buy spare clips...today!
See American Thinker today.

RCV| 11.17.12 @ 1:48PM

Put on your tinfoil hats, get on that dime store plastic pony, and pretend you're a Texas Ranger!

Who Knows?| 11.16.12 @ 11:12AM

I think Obama is really feeling his oats after winning the election, and we should remember who he is and what his past record is---he's a brainwashed communist who voted present all the time.

He's ALSO lazy, so the easiest thing for him is to DO NOTHING, since the gold medal will be his, if NO DEAL is reached---higher tax rates.

Remember, he lives to screw the wealthy, even if it brings in less revenue.

Yes--for him, the short term troubles of a little recession ain't no thing, because if he can succeed in both installing Obamacare AND higher tax rates to support more government, in his own mind he'll be a wild success.

IMHO the election took America, probably permanently, over the real "cliff", to wit we chose to be like Europe, with unemployment never again to approach 5%, let alone 3 or 4 percent.

Should never have given people with no property, blacks and women the vote, and nowadays, it's the Hispanics who get to dip into the pockets of the makers---read Ann Coulter from yesterday.

She's "married" Mark Steyn, and nailed it in two words--

demographics is destiny.

Hope for stagnation, at best.

djn1313| 11.16.12 @ 11:23AM

Romney lost for one reason and one reason only--changing demographics.

The newer Americans, younger Americans, and illegal hispanics have no love for this nation, nor believe in free market capitalism. Hard work and striving to improve oneself isn't important. They have one goal in life, to see how much they can acquire without having to earn it.

Our nation is being transformed forever, the American spirit does not live in these people.

JFGalt| 11.16.12 @ 11:44AM

I can't say this enough to the Romney worshipers that dominated this board and those that slammed Ron Paul. You got what you should have expected. Everyone spent their whole efforts into telling us how really great Romney was despite the fact that the guy was just the I'm not OBAMA! candidate. He was a weak candidate from Day 1. He was 100% RINO yet you took him anyway because you saw no choice. You had a choice to elect someone that actually understood the issues facing this country better than any other candidate. But no, you chose Romney because he was prettier. Everytime Romney had the chance to take it to the president, he backed off. His 47% comment was spot on. He should never have backed off on it and sought to inject the problem of a society that has become dependent on the hard work of 53% of the people while the 47% either sat at home or were elites that lived in a fantasy world that most cannot imagine. Bengahzi, it goes on. You supported the RINO when you knew what he was.

C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 11:51AM

Pretty laughable to think Ron Paul would have defeated Obama.

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 1:34PM

So, Galt, did you sulk and stay home ?

Paul had a GREAT idea about auditing/abolishing the Fed.

He also came across like a whining, defensive old man... remember "likeability?" He wouldn't have come even close in the general election.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:36PM

Word has it that the Asylum wouldn't unlock his bedroom door in order for him to fully participate in the election, and besides he would have run out of pamper-jockstraps [that he uses to bicycle in] before 11/6/12!!!!

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 11:54AM

FROM THE LEFTIST WORLD OF INSANITY
The Michigan ban on affirmative action was struck down today by the Feds on the basis that it violated the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE.
You can't make this Orwellian stuff up any better than this one!!! And they say this with a straight face!!!!
If you wonder why America is lost and a majority of Americans dimwits, here's your answer folks.
I'm sure Purp and vtwin find no problem with all this.

Purp| 11.16.12 @ 12:00PM

Correct! It's not Orwellian, it's in pursuit of forming a more perfect union. You have heard of that phrase, have you not?

CJW| 11.16.12 @ 1:13PM

Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:

"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."

So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.

Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.

This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 1:42PM

Thank you for making my point Purp. You and your ilk are total and complete morons, beyond salvation.
When reality hits you morons, and it will real soon, it's gonna hurt. Or do you truly believe trolls like you are immune from your actions?
And you won't have any Twinkies to succor yourselves with either. That's 18,000 newly unemployed, and Obozo hasen't even started his second term.
Look for the union label and close shop. Obozo's America; will the last person leaving turn off the lights.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 1:51PM

What would you know, Anthony, about what happens when "reality hits"? You haven't yet even made reality's acquaintance, let alone been hit by it.

Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 3:25PM

Only a leftist troll would make such an assinine comment about me, Ralphie boy.
What I know about reality that I learned in one single day, would take you a lifetime of learning.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:45AM

BTW ... "Ralphie boy" was so clever.

I've never heard that before.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:43PM

Hmmmm, Anthony critisizes Purp and then Ralph Novy critisizes Anthony. As they say, THAT CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:41AM

Hmm.

So you, Anthony, and Oldefarte are lovers?

Is that what I'm hearing?

Just trying to make sense of what you guys have posted.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:19AM

Or how about this: I killed Kennedy -- and Lincoln.

I and Purp are twisted time-traveling assassins!

LMAO.

Go to bed and rest your fevered brain, grandpa.

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:23PM

4:19""""""AM"""""""? Interesting. Are you a domestic terrorist vampire or just an idiot? Amazing that you tell others to go bakc to sleep....why don't you take your own advice, moron??????

Oldefarte| 11.17.12 @ 4:18PM

Myself and Anthony are TWO SEPERATE INDIVIDUALS [and one or both of us don't substitute and interchange our commentary between the two monikers either], whereas you and Purp are not.....that's thats the difference. Stop hiding and disguising who you are.....it's not working!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 10:58PM

Well, Oldefarte, it's not worth my time to try to prove I'm not Purp.

I'm not -- and the difference in our writing styles clearly shows that.

Period.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 12:58PM

This editorial's points are well meaning and mostly true, but the only neglected item is that this is NOT a game of marbles in a playground etc. but instead a life and death situation. The American stupids [ie Purp etc] have chosen and won the day for their domestic terrorists. THEY NOW OWN IT! The fact remains though that this country will die a immediate and agonizing death from their choice beginning 1/1/13. We conservatives and Republicans cannot simply take our marbles and go home, since the playground and everything around it will explode and destruct under our feet and we have no where to run to. The snot-nosers, the domestic terrorists, the labor unionists etc are now in charge completely and rule the day, week, month, year, decade, century forever. The American people had their numerous chances to get it right, to correct the mistakes, etc; and they failed to take advantage of these too-numerous opportunities. May the Almighty comfort us one and all in our time of futuristic misery. As Forrest Gump so well stated: STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 1:33PM

An indication that the beginning of the end is near:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headlin...../id/464385

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 1:38PM

Outstanding ! Hostess is going Galt !

I hope the Fortune 500 does, as well. Make the blue states resemble Staten Island in one month flat.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 3:07PM

Read the article once again, as Hostess is HQ'd in Irving, TEXAS [hardly a "blue state"]. Red, blue, purple, whatever......they're/we're all toast eventually because of 11/4/08 AND 11/6/12!!!!

Alej| 11.16.12 @ 5:36PM

Irving is HQ, management. Plants are in Oregon and Washington.

Alej| 11.18.12 @ 10:24AM

And Indiana and Ohio, just learned. And the unions are blaming the problem on ROMNEY !

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:07PM

Yeah, grandpa. Now stop yelling at the dog and go change your underbritches.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 3:09PM

STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE, CLINTPAULIEEXCREMENT!!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 3:11PM

Yeah, you're correct I need to go "change my underbritches" since I just took a "RALPH NOVY" in them!!!!!!!!!

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:42AM

How erudite.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:44AM

Wondering: What the hell is "CLINTPAULIEEXCREMENT"?

No idea.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 1:49PM

"This happened despite the fact that Mitt Romney ran an exceptionally decent (as opposed to nasty) campaign, while President Obama ran an exceptionally nasty (as opposed to decent) campaign."

Thank you so much, Andrew, for pointing out -- twice -- that "decent" is the opposite of "nasty."

I didn't know that.

What would we do without wise teachers like you?

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:02PM

"the American free enterprise system is based on voluntary exchange for mutual benefit"?

And is never abused, right? No-one ever "gouges" or extorts, right? Out of a spirit of "mutual benefit," no mercantilist would raise his/her prices on goods in the wake of a disaster, just because would-be consumers are desperate, right?

And no-one in this capitalist Shangri-La Land of yours would EVER seek to squash competition by illegal/unethical/immoral means, right?

Newsflash, pal: theory and practice aren't the same thing.

Al Adab| 11.16.12 @ 2:05PM

...and neither are they in any central planned demand economy i.e Socialist, centralized Administrative Social-Welfare State. There is no Utopia and only free markets protect the Liberty of the people. Of course when Liberty is not the priority then...

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:07PM

Then WHAT?

Please do complete your point.

Can't wait.

In the meantime, please do check out the general rules for capitalization in "standard" English.

Cats1cowboy| 11.17.12 @ 4:53PM

We don't need no language police.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 11:00PM

LOL.

Right.

"We don't need no stinking language police with badges."

But I beg to differ.

Cheers.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:04PM

"Both got away from with telling outrageous falsehoods during the debates -- knowing that they could count on the mainstream media to divert or suppress any real criticism."

Beauty.

Trifecta.

Ungrammatical, nonsensical, and false.

You're a winner!

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:15PM

"In affirming rather than contradicting one of Obama's falsehoods, CNN's Candy Crowley kept him from being hoist on his own petard in open debate."

LMAO.

That's like saying John Wilkes Booth was merely defending himself against Lincoln's attack.

Look up "hoist by one's own petard," son. It was Romney who was doing the petarding, not Obama. So if anyone was going to be hoist ....

Duh.

And you're actually telling me that even now -- at this point -- you can't understand English well enough to know that Obama said the Benghazi attack was an "act of terror" the very next day?

Are you serious? At all?

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:23PM

I'm so jealous, Andrew.

What's your secret to having such confidence in yourself?

I mean, to write a piece like this and accuse Obama of petulance and stridency ... well, it's just breath-taking.

And then to double-down and say it's "The American people" who are lazy, gullible chumps. Holy cow!

Please, please, please share the secret of your success with us!

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:43PM

Bottom line:

Check out

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....44253.html

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 4:00PM

Want a "bottom line"? Instead of sticking ya snoz inside some HOS' huffpo, try this instead:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....l-Continue

Mike in N.C.| 11.16.12 @ 3:35PM

Haley Barbour is correct. The GOP needs a proctologist. As long as the right continues to blame the loss in the last election on everyone from Mitt Romney to the America people instead of taking a long, hard look at Republican theology the party will not likely be any more successful in the next election. Think folks are going to be fooled again by some variation of "compassionate conservatism?" Don't count on it. Having been fooled once, they will detect your contempt for them and they will recognize any deceitful attempt to disguise it. The mask came off of the Republican Party during the last campaign. Akin, Mourdock, Santorum, Brewer, Arpaio, Sununu, Limbaugh, Scott and Turzai, to name a few,revealed all too clearly the party's neanderthal attitudes about human sexuality and reproduction, its contempt for Latinos thinly disguised as concern over legal immigration, its efforts to disenfranchise voters thinly disguised as concern over voter fraud and the animus of those in the party who hate all who differ in thought and appearance. Aberrations? Having seen the audience reactions to various issues during the Republican primaries, I don't think so.

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 4:11PM

Yeah, it's all those slimball Republicans alright:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....l-Continue

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:03PM

A couple of points on the "secrecy" thing.

Otherwise, just big, stupid lies. A Breitbart speciality.

Yawn. What else have you got?

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:29PM

"What else have you got?" Guess who that closely resembles in tone, inflection? Are you switching again your disguise? "Yawn"? Where/who else have we heard this? It's amazing that chicken-excrements that can't use/stick with one moniker only, and constantly flip-flop between alternatives but who are about as apparent as Barney Fudd at a NFL players meeting!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.16.12 @ 7:32PM

Oh an also, Braitbart does not lie like your friends at HuffPoHo [who make a living at it]. What next, are you going to quote/link the NYT, WaPo etc here???????

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:52AM

Repeat: Yawn. What else have you got?

So far, you've got nothing, boy.

If you've got something, bring it on.

I tell you, I'm no big fan of Obama. If I wanted to bring it on, I'd bring it on. 1. 2. 3. Not "rocket surgery."

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:00PM

Hear, hear, Mike.

Please do keep a-going.

Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:04PM

... but you had better put on rubber gloves!

LOL

Rhoetus| 11.16.12 @ 6:59PM

I cover my TV with a dental dam every time ObaMao is appearing.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:53AM

Methinks you also put on blinders and put in ear-plugs.

Mike in N.C.| 11.17.12 @ 6:32PM

Good for you. I'm sure your boyfriend is impressed.

Bob K| 11.16.12 @ 8:30PM

Dumbest article I've seen yet!

It's got to be revisionism! Why else blame this loss on the American people and not on Romney and his advisers?

They screwed up because they ignored the Republican victories in the 2010 mid term elections.

Does anybody remember the 2010 elections? There wasn't anybody running for President that year. The elections were for State and Local offices. If you recall, the Republicans won big all over the USA. They took control in the majority of the State legislatures and Governor's offices. And they did it without the guidance of the geniuses running the National Republican Party! It was a spontaneous revolt against Obama and his socialist policies and his contempt for traditional values. The 2010 election was about Obama and his policies.

In 2012 the Republican "geniuses" did not analyze why the Republican parties won in 2010. Because they did not about 11 million less people voted in 2012 than voted in 2008. Obama got 8 million less votes and Romney got 3 million less than McCain got in 2oo8.

Romney should have gone into every state and thanked the people for their great victory in 2010, asked for their votes so he could expand on that victory! He should have praised their values and beliefs, and discussed their fear of Obama's economic policies.

He didn't and that's why he lost.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 3:57AM

I think you're fundamentally wrong on policy, Bob, but I have to say that you made your point well.

It's encouraging to find a mind such as yours here.

I think it needs "tweaking" -- in a "liberal" direction -- but I'll give credit where credit's due.

Cheers.

Ralph

Bob K| 11.17.12 @ 6:42PM

How would you explain the remarkable election year of 2010?

The mass media called it the "Tea Party Election." The label stuck and the media began attacking the people who supported it along with their beliefs and values. The Republican leadership and it's pundits, like Andrew Wilson here, went underground, not wanting to be associated with such crass members of their party! He and others have now popped up like poisonous mushrooms on lawns after a rainstorm to blame the party's loss on the voters.

The voters can't be as uninformed as people here allege. The voters were well aware that it was a census year election which would determine the redistricting of the states voting districts. They came out in droves to put Republicans in charge of that redistricting. Without that redistricting the House of Representatives would not be controlled by the Republicans in 2013. They handed to 2012 Presidential election to the Republican leadership on a platter. All they asked is that they give the party a leader who would take that platter and run with it.

They got instead Republicans who acted as if it was a Hot Stove Lid and who did not want to touch it.

Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 11:11PM

Hmm.

No, Bob, I don't think more than, say, 5% of 2010 voters were voting on the basis of what the effect on redistricting would be. Most voters aren't that well-informed. They're more well-informed than Wilson suggests, sure, but not THAT well-informed.

My take is that the 2010 election was a chaotic, knee-jerk response to having a "black" president who seemed to be on the side of Wall Street and Big Government. Both racist resentment and liberal disillusionment played their parts.

At the bottom line, though, I think 2010 was an aberration. The trend, right now, is toward greater "socialism" rather than toward letting "free markets" determine everything.

$.02.

Bob K| 11.18.12 @ 1:01AM

The Democrat party is and always has been a coalition party. There were few, if any, "liberal" disillusioned voters from the left wing coalitions of the party who voted Republican in the 2010 elections.

There were disillusioned Democrats from the mainstream center who did vote Republican in the 2010 election. Call them Ronald Reagan and Bob Casey Democrats. Many were both. They blamed the melt down of the economy on Obama and congress and opposed the Health care bill and were concerned with other policies which threatened traditional family values. Both are concerned with the selective approach the Administration has to the rule of law which they see as racially motivated.

They are most of the 8 million voters who Obama lost in the 2012 election. They are not coming back into the Democratic coalition until the party moves back to the center and that can't be blamed on racism. Many Black voters would have stayed home for these reasons if Obama were not Black. A White Democratic Presidential candidate in 2016 must swing back to the center to win. Black and Hispanic voters with traditional religious and cultural values also will also stay home with the Casey and Reagan Democrats if the economy does not improve. And realistically, the economy can't improve with the coming socialist expansion of government Obama wants.

itsy_bitsy| 11.17.12 @ 7:39AM

Bill O'Reilly and Jindal make me sick!! O'Reilly is so busy trying to protect his ratings that you can't believe a word he says. He has switched positions so many times, on so many things it makes my head spin! As for Jindal, what Republican candidate deserves a "so called" friend like him? Patting Romney on the backing, riding along on what he thought would be good coat tails, and then when the election is stolen, spews forth with his vindictive crap about Romney! I am and always have been a conservative, but Jindal has cooked his goose with me! As for O'Reilly, he has to be the most obnoxious man on TV. The man has an ego that rivals Obama's!

HopeChangeInAZ| 11.17.12 @ 10:20AM

I can hardly stand listening to O'Reilly any longer and I lump quite a few of other mid-to-right commentaries. It sure would be nice to see some fresh faces with fresh perspectives because all O'Reilly and some others have become are snake oil salesman.

Benson II| 11.17.12 @ 11:04AM

I don't want to hear any excuses for Romney or the people who made him our candidate. He was a moderate liberal who shouted he'd create jobs while mouthing conservative platitudes with a grimace. It was no wonder few of the uninformed saw him as an alternative to Obama. I'd venture to say more than half of his votes were against Obama not for him. The Republican establishment, Romney;s own dishonest and vicious lying attacks against Gingrich and the whining Santorum who should have dropped out gave us a flawed candidate to run against Obama. I see little difference between Romney as a candidate and McCain and now the Rino's want us to move even further left than either of them.

Cats1cowboy| 11.17.12 @ 4:52PM

The Americans who stayed home and did not vote for Romney because he wes (insert excuse here) or was not (insert excuse here) chose not to exercise their civic duty and are guilty of apathy. The reason that Obama won is that not enough people voted for Romney. The blame is theirs.

Mike in N.C.| 11.17.12 @ 5:19PM

Aside from Huntsman, who never had a chance, Romney was the most electable of the GOP candidates. Does anyone seriously think Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul or Cain would have won? Want to blame somebody? Blame the nuts in the GOP who fielded these clowns and blame the others in the party for not recruiting more electable (e.g. reasonable) candidates. Of course, none of those candidates wanted to run. Wonder why. In other words, you can basically blame the entire party. Have a good fight.

atilla| 11.17.12 @ 5:29PM

When will outright, willful lying for political advantage become a crime in this country when committed by politicians. My God, what cannot be perpetrated on un-informed or downright ignorant voters, of which most of us are, due to the complicity of the MSM WITH THE LYING OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY..THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA SHOULD RISE UP AND BURN NEWSPAPER OFFICES AND MSM TV STUDIOS TO THE GROUND. THEY ARE DOING A SUBVERSIVE SERVICE TO THE ENEMIES OF THIS GREAT LAND.

N0 one can lie to congress, but they can lie to us 24/7 and laugh about it.
When does this change?

We are fed up with their exemption from the rule of law.

Where are the honest lawyers that can do something about this.

I feel that there is no incentive to tell the truth to anyone because my leaders don't EVEN KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS.

WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH IT...HUH???

Mike in N.C.| 11.17.12 @ 6:06PM

Evidently, you don't include Fox, EIB, Breitbart,TAS etc. in your definition of MSM, so you you are, by definition, a blithering idiot. Why do we put up with it? First Amendment. DUHH!

ReaganConservative| 11.18.12 @ 12:23AM

I'm sorry, but with anti-Obama fever as high as it was, and the Republican Conservative Tea Party active as it was, there was no way Obama should have won that election, period.

November 13, 2012
Article - "Was the 2012 Election Stolen? Answer- Yes It Was
By Selwyn Duke

http://www.americanthinker.com...

What is the implication of such a crime against Democracy and Freedom- The answer is that now that Democracy has been directly compromised- ie; overty subverted against the will of the people, there can never again be any trust in the voting system under any govt that has this radical liberal socialist marxist anti-American Obama, and his crony union thugs running any election process, especially and particularly the use of electronic voting machines, that have been pre-programmed, and or with a click of a button, able to change votes from within the machines instantly before they have been tabulated, processed, and counted.. Many of these electronic voting machines around the Nation used in the 6 Nov election, were bought and paid for by George Soros, via a Spanish Company, along with many others, whose unions like SEIU ran the machines and had direct access to their computer software codes, etc..

The only answer is the use of paper ballots in any further Voting elections, nation wide as a law from here on out.

Mike in N.C.| 11.18.12 @ 4:32PM

In the bubble thinking. Utter non sense.

Alej| 11.18.12 @ 8:59PM

When I saw that a Spanish firm was engaged to count electronic votes, and that Soros was connected with that firm, I didn't believe it.

I do now.

Thom| 11.18.12 @ 11:22AM

“… Obama's victory was a triumph of spite over experience; and of government-favored plunder over earned success and achievement. This is an abhorrent (let's hope fleeting) perversion of the American dream.”

This is the way Democracies operate. We’ve been a democracy, not a republic since 1913.

“Both got away from with telling outrageous falsehoods during the debates -- knowing that they could count on the mainstream media to divert or suppress any real criticism.”

This will not change as long as the Democrat Party controls 80% of the news content, the “education” of children and the entertainment culture. The Nazis and Communists had to use “force” to achieve better results than this; the Marxist here just dangle “free stuff” paid for by someone else’s labor three generations into the future for a vote in exchange. We know how this story ends. As long as the free looters feel no pain for their actions nothing will change.

Ralph Novy| 11.18.12 @ 12:25PM

Name ONE "outrageous falsehood" that Obama told.

I can easily name about 20 that Romney did.

Mike in N.C.| 11.18.12 @ 4:33PM

We are still a republic.

shaysite| 11.18.12 @ 12:03PM

In other words, minority voters chose a president for the wrong, self serving reasons rather than with a correct understanding of American values, such as truth, justice and liberty. They must be less American than the white people who voted for Romney.

Bwha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

And BTW: Anyone who says that Romney stands for truth is a charter member of the "take Orwell literally fan club." If that's your definition of character, you're a reprobate.

Alej| 11.18.12 @ 9:04PM

"In other words, minority voters chose a president for the wrong, self serving reasons rather than with a correct understanding of American values, such as truth, justice and liberty. They must be less American than the white people who voted for Romney."

You understand perfectly. They are unassimilated crap that sees America only as a fat feast to be plundered.

Ralph Novy| 11.18.12 @ 12:19PM

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Bob K| 11.18.12 @ 6:14PM

Read "DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM Fear and Hatred," a historical essay by Professor John Lukacs. Yale University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-300-11693-4

Ralph Novy| 11.20.12 @ 4:07PM

Bob:

Although I couldn't lay my hands on the original for free (I'm not paying one red cent for "reactionary" stuff), I think I've read enough "bleeding chunks" of it through several reviews to make three points:

1. I share Lukacs' disdain for nationalistic, militaristic populism. I would characterize this as the "Tea Party" mindset. The so-called "left wing" is also capable of being stampeded by various memes/tropes/slogans into ill-thought-out positions, but I'd submit that the nationalism and militarism is far less pronounced there; moreover, there's a much stronger tradition of protecting individual rights (NAACP, ACLU, etc.).

2. I don't think his right/left hate/fear thing holds up all that well. After all, it's often fear that gives rise to hate. "Resentment" might better characterize the actors on the ends of the spectrum, methinks.

(cont.)

Ralph Novy| 11.20.12 @ 4:08PM

3. I think Lukacs vastly underappreciates -- in fact, all but ignores -- the social power of the "capitalistic aristocracy." For him, it would seem, there's only a choice between "real" aristocrats and the rabble. He doesn't see that people like the Rothschilds, Astors, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers could possibly wield as much clout as they in fact have. Perhaps attribute this to his overdependence on the thinking of de Tocqueville, who was writing/thinking well before the "gilded age" of the late 19th Century.

As I say, I'm reacting to reviews and quotations in reviews -- so this is by no means a rigorous response and I'm open to persuasion here and there with regard to this and that -- but that's what my thoughts are right now.

Thanks for the reference.

Regards.

Ralph

Americanpatriot| 11.19.12 @ 12:11PM

Court appointed GOP election workers were thrown out in Philidelphia. None voted for Romney in 39+ precincts in Phildelphia yet more than one person has come forward and said they voted for Romney, what happened to their vote. In counties across swing states more people voted for Obama than were registered for the entire county. So if republicans are willing to sit and watch elections be stolen then we most certainly deserve wht we get. Do you really believe that less people voted in this election than for McCain. Not on your life. People were excited about voting. This whole election does not pass the smell test and most of us know it. How did Mia Love lose in Utah a red state when she was ahead. How did Allen West get voted out when ballots go missing and more people vote than are registered. At least West had the courage to stand up and say this is not adding up. No the republicans cannot win when things like this go on. Romney wins 50 counties in Pennsylvania, Obama has more votes in 12 and he carries the state because 100%+ people vote in those precincts. You and I know 100% of people do not show up and vote. It ain't gonna happen. Did 100% show up and vote for Romney? I rest my case.

Ralph Novy| 11.20.12 @ 4:13PM

Your post is full of hooey -- a bunch of lies you've chosen to believe without scrutiny.

Don't be a chump for liars-for-hire like Hannity and Rove.

Do your own research.

Rifleman| 11.19.12 @ 2:58PM

It is now painfully obvious that too many Americans (as well as most illegals) have bought the lie that reducing spending means kicking granny off Social Security & Medicare. Or that raising taxes on the "rich" will cut the deficit. Too many people are ignorant (I mean that they are lazy & won't look up the truth) of the issues and buy the same old lies peddled by the Democrats for decades...

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