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Let’s Not Panic Over Romney’s Defeat

By William Tucker on 11.21.12 @ 6:09AM

Republicans should calm down, stay the course, and be proud that Mitt Romney ran a damned good race.

I know most people would like to forget about the election, but as someone who supported Mitt Romney throughout the primary campaign — taking a lot of flak from Spectator readers in the process — I would like to defend his effort and make a few comments about the future of the Republican Party.

First of all, Romney ran a damned good race. He was up in the polls by as much as 7 points (Gallup) going into the last week. Where he got sandbagged was Hurricane Sandy. The storm captured the nation’s attention and pushed the election off the front page. It gave President Obama a chance to act presidential (with vague memories of President George Bush Jr.’s initial inaction on Hurricane Katrina reverberating in the background) and to shake hands with Chris Christie. Now I don’t fault Christie either and don’t see any nefarious plot to maneuver for 2016. A governor has to act on behalf of his state. Parts of New Jersey were devastated, and if Christie had snubbed Obama, it would have put thousands of his constituents in immediate danger — and been interpreted as his fault as well.

So let’s just call it an Act of God. Maybe the fates were shining down on President Obama. Polls showed that people who made up their minds the day they voted broke 7 percent for Obama — a sharp reversal of the usual pattern. I think the storm probably made the difference.

There was one point at which Romney made himself vulnerable to all this, however, and that was his all-out embrace of coal. Two weeks before the election I wrote a piece for the Spectator saying Romney should embrace a carbon tax as a gesture to the educated middle class that he shared their concerns about global warming. Our dearly beloved editorial director Wlad, for whom I hold the utmost esteem, turned it down — the first time in 25 years he has rejected one of my stories. He said it would amount to Romney “committing political suicide,” and in this he was undoubtedly right. Turning away from coal at that point would have branded him as a flip-flopper who changed with the political winds, and any appeal to the middle class would have been quickly erased by the press anyway.

The mistake occurred much earlier in the campaign. Romney’s bet was that enough votes could be mustered to put Virginia and Ohio in the Republican column. But coal miners and their families are a distinct minority in both states; the much more pivotal constituency is the professional middle class, which is far more concerned about global warming. (To express your conviction that global warming is a nefarious liberal plot, click here.)

Now, I will never understand why conservative commentators are so unanimous in their rejection of the possibility that human activity might be having an impact on climate. The logic seems to be that if liberals are the first to raise an issue and call for action, then it must be wrong. I agree that there have been ridiculous alarms and exaggerations in the press, but overall it’s perfectly plausible that putting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere might affect the climate. Nor would forestalling it mean the end of industrial civilization (although factions of the environmental movement would obviously welcome that). New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s public endorsement of Obama as a result of Hurricane Sandy probably represented the inclinations of millions of middle-class Americans. That’s what cost Romney all his momentum. Had he embraced a carbon tax alongside his general support of coal, he might have blunted the impact.

ON THE WHOLE, HOWEVER, Romney ran a very tight and effective campaign. He did so well in the debates that after the one on foreign policy, people were saying Romney looked like the incumbent and Obama like the obstreperous challenger. His only unforced error was the “47 percent” comment made way back at a private fundraising event during the primaries. But most conservative commentators were saying the same thing all along: that we were on the tipping point at which the “takers” would outnumber the “makers.”

Here again I think Republicans are being a little too pessimistic. The premise that people getting money from the government will automatically vote Democratic is very much open to question. Recipients of Social Security and Medicare constitute more than half these people, and they’re not in Democratic pockets. In fact they have much reason to fear that the Democrats’ “can’t-touch-it” attitude endangers everyone. There is a growing tide of “takers” who drop out of the workforce and go on Social Security Disability, but they are nowhere near to forming a majority, and it’s nothing that a good dose of Reaganesque economic revival wouldn’t cure.

So that brings us around to the liberal media’s other astute analysis: that the real problem with the Republican Party is that it’s too white. “GOP: You’re old, you’re white, you’re history,” says the charming cover of Newsweek. (Isn’t that magazine supposed to be dead by now?) Somehow this passes as enlightened discourse, whereas if Paul Ryan says urban turnout helped put Obama over the top, that’s just a code word for racism.

Let’s face it: Black America was going to vote 95 percent for Obama — in some precincts 100 percent, according to the returns from Philadelphia — no matter what happened. This contrasts with the usual 90 percent vote for Democrats. I don’t think this is going to change much, and I don’t think there’s any point in worrying about it. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of pressure toward conformity in black communities. If you think it’s tough being a conservative, try being a black conservative. You’re a “traitor” and an “Uncle Tom.” When Herman Cain emerged as a Republican front-runner in the early part of the campaign, did you read any stories praising Republicans for becoming more open-minded about race? Cain was simply described as a sell-out and a sycophant who was only being embraced by Republicans as a “symbol.” There is what you might call a lack of tolerance for political diversity among African-Americans, and rather than being queried, this will be celebrated by the press as long as it remains Democratic.

Nor is there much hope that Republicans will be able to appeal to Hispanics. President Obama’s “gift” to them — a very appropriate term — was that those who were born here illegally can stay and that immigration laws will be loosened so they can bring in more relatives and friends as well. This is a win-win situation for the Democrats. The more Hispanics they let in, the more the Democratic votes pile up. It may risk turning the country into another Venezuela, but if it wins elections, who cares? So how can Republicans outbid this, suggest we annex Mexico and give it 100 electoral votes? Then the Democrats would never have to worry about losing an election again.

The Democratic strategy now is to make voting tribal. Blacks will vote Democratic, Hispanics will vote Democratic, single women, who form another tribe, will vote Democratic. Presto! They have a majority. Make race and sex the major issues and Democrats can govern forever. Republicans are told they are missing the boat and the only way to recover is to trail after the Democrats promising…what? Lifetime supplies of birth control? Even easier immigration? Disability benefits for everyone who doesn’t graduate from high school?

Although it’s hard to remember now, the whole purpose of the Civil Rights movement was to ensure that racial differences wouldn’t matter, and that people would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Tell that to Newsweek.

THE ONLY SENSIBLE STRATEGY for Republicans right now is to keep calm and recognize that they can win another Presidency by running on the economy and talking about the kind of country we are going to live in. America remains an island of free enterprise in a world where economies are run by the government. Do we want to maintain the system that has made us prosperous or do we want to become a stagnant European welfare state? It could easily happen. The current issue of the Economist features a poll on support for free enterprise. In France, only 15 percent of respondents said they do. In the U.S., it’s a healthy 55 percent. The highest in the world? China, at 65 percent.

Since the 19th century, the key question in American presidential elections has been whether the middle class would identify with the people above or below them on the economic scale. The Republican Party will always be the “party of the rich,” because it attracts people who have succeeded in the free enterprise system and want to maintain it. The Democratic Party will always be the “party of the poor,” because it appeals to people who have not succeeded and want to see the system torn down. The key question is with whom the middle class will cast its lot.

The Democrats ran a 2012 campaign that demonized Mitt Romney for his success and told the middle class it should join forces with the poor. They were successful, but just barely, and with a whole raft of extenuating circumstances. That should be no reason to heed the liberal sirens and try to recast the party as a second-rate version of the Democrats. The best option at this point is to be proud that Mitt Romney came breathlessly close to unseating an incumbent President and to stay the course.

Photo: James Currie (Creative Commons 2.0).

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William Tucker is news editor for RealClearEnergy.org.

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steve baker| 11.21.12 @ 6:23AM

"57,000 conservatives can't be wrong"?

I don't know about the other 56,998, but either Mr Tucker is wrong, or I am.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 6:57AM

The Democrats are the party of abortion, homosexuality, sky high taxes, endless war for Israel, massive debt, bloated government unions, corporate welfare for their pals, and general waste fraud and abuse. Romney wasted a billion dollrs and said little. He was so unsure of himself to even give an interview the last month of the campaign. Steve Forbes called his whole effort an Tom Dewey campaign. He thought he could walk into the White House without standing for anything. This whole campaign was about the Republican elites making sure that the Tea Party, Pro- Life people, the Ron Paul Libertarians would be driven out of the Party. They dissed a lot of people and some of them stayed home. The Republicans do better when they run as national party of inclusion, low taxes, small local government, and Christian morality. Let the Democrats violate the laws of God, Economics, and common sense. We have to be a choice not an echo.

Stephie| 11.21.12 @ 7:57AM

For once Jack, I agree with you. Wholeheartedly.

Bob Grant| 11.21.12 @ 9:22AM

My, you have a short memory. He spent the bulk of the campaign season sabotaging Romney's chances.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 12:36PM

I stated many times that I was voting for Romney, as the lesser evil. I know many others who did as well. I voted Republican for President in the last 13 elections is the world a better place? Romney refused to defend any of the traditional conservvative positions. He was just another countryclub elitist who thought the job would fall in his lap. I see Romney still has a lot of campaign money left and has his shills working the conservative sites. It would not surprise me to see him try again for the Presidendcy next time. The man seems to have a hard time accepting that he lost.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 3:51PM

Jack, 13 presidential cycles back was 1964, cheese Louise you are an old bastard! My first presidential election was in 1972 and I didn't vote for either McGovern or Nixon. I voted for Ron Paul in 1988.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:12PM

Stephie: you support Hamas over Israel?

The Republicans do best when they smash our enemies without wasting time "rehabilitating vermin," keep taxes low, and keep spending low. In addition, they do best when they support life, strong borders, and oppose Sharia.

Aristocat| 11.21.12 @ 11:18PM

I was for Romney since 2008...But now I have to point out:
1) At the convention, he silenced our two best speakers, Newt and Sarah Palin.
2) He did not allow other candidates to be nominated and get their delegates...very ungenerous...
3) Paul Ryan: A disaster--brought his preposterous plans for Medicare, etc. into the campaign..
4) Rubio would have helped carry Florida for sure and maybe other states.
5) We lacked a strong campaign manager, like Gingrich or Howowitz, who could have attacked Obama with very strong negative campaigning,
allowing Romney to take the high road.
6) Romney campaign staff was arrogant and wrong.
7) Romney still would have won if he had shown up for the 3rd debate.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 3:54PM

All except #7 are a great possibility. I think that Ryan is a good man but Rubio would have been more strategic politically.

Suthenboy| 11.25.12 @ 11:31PM

John McCain, the candidate the republicans put up in 2008 recently said that citizens united was the worst supreme court decision in the history of our country. Mitt Romney, the most recent candidate for the republicans is a big govt, gun control, global warming RINO. Had he been elected there would be no substantive change from what we have now.

You are right Jack, the republican establishment wants to slap down the TEA party, Libertarians, and true conservatives in general. Until that house is cleaned up, things will continue as they are.

PCC| 11.21.12 @ 9:05AM

Is there any chance that the outcome might have been different if Gov. Romney said, "I don't think another American should die in the AfPak toilet and on the first day I'm president I will order the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from that irredeemable hellhole"?

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 12:46PM

Your statement is right on. If Romney had pushed for an immediate pull out in Afganistan, he would of rolled to victory. He had horrible advice from his neoconservatve foreign policy team. He really was a old man Bush realist, yet he let these punks define his foreign policy. The first disaster on foreign policy was going to Israel and kissing Bibbi Netanyahu's rear end. That is when his polling started tanking.That and his other aggressive statements sank him with women and young people. He had to offer a nore peaceful foreign policy then Obama to win this election. One thing Romney should be happy about is that he won't have the chance to be a mass murderer and war criminal like Obama and G. W. Bush. His soul will be much better as the result.

irish19| 11.21.12 @ 4:07PM

There it is. If only all those pesky Jooooooosss had gone peacefully into the showers, everything would be well.

Dennis D| 11.21.12 @ 6:24PM

I am not so sure Romney lost any votes supporting Israel. Jews were always going to vote Democrat regardless.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:42PM

Tucker is.

Alan Brooks | 11.23.12 @ 3:51PM

Romney doesn't believe in America-- he believes in Romney.

Alan Brooks | 11.23.12 @ 5:26PM

... the GOP went from Abe Lincoln all the way down to Mitt Romney. You consider yourselves the best-- but you are NO MORE!

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 7:47PM

The Democratic Party: Jim Crowe, the KKK, gold confiscation, inflation, central planning, interning peaceful Japanese-Americans violating their rights, a history of being pro-communist, and now Obama.

Alan Brooks | 11.25.12 @ 8:37PM

yes, the Republican Party WAS on top of it.

Henry22| 11.21.12 @ 6:43AM

Quite right. All this woe is me from the GOP is insufferable. Look at the governors, look at the state legislatures, look at the House.
Romney ran the worst modern campaign ever; so many opportunities to go after Obama but he chose not to.
Live and learn as they say.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:00AM

No Romney did not run the worst modern campaign ever. Not even close. He did go after Obama consistently on the economy and what Obama's leadership has lead to the past 4 years. To suggest Romney ran a worse campaign than Dole, GHW Bush in 1992 or McCain is beyond absurd. Romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than any GOP candidate except Nixon in 72 or Reagan in 84.

Youre probably too frightened to face reality so you create an alternative reality that Romney ran a poor campaign. The reality is America is a center left country where any GOP candidate will have an uphill fight. Obama wins 50.8% of the popular vote and gets 332 EVs, while GW Bush wins 50.8% of the popular vote and gets 286 EVs. The EC is heavily biased towards the Dems now.

45 years of unrestrained immigration and 50 years of NEA education have produced a majority nation that is hostile to American ideals and embraces socialism.

Minorities dont vote GOP regardless of the GOP candidates ideology, even if the GOP is to the left of the DEM. Simply ask Senator Matt Fong or Gov Able Maldonado.

But just go ahead and tell yourself it was a bad campaign. Then you can continue to ignore that real structural changes that have occurred in the USA that have resulted in a country that is moving far left quickly

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 7:15AM

The Democrats painted Romney as a rich plutocrat what cared only for his class. They ran devastating adds in this state with old white people who had been hurt by Romney's actions, in closing businesses. It cost him the Mid West. I have stated before many times that no-prowar Republican could win. He dissed too many people and it came back to bite him. He was a Massacusetts liberal, who was pro-abortion, pro homosexual and pro-war and inarticulate in defending most of his platform. He had to be different then Obama but was a phoney who stood for nothing but endless war and bailouts for the rich, and dog food for the rest of us. He reprsented the same gang that has led the party over the cliff for 7 elections. We need a real opposition party in this country. Enough of Carrol Quigley and keeping this country a virtual one party state.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:41AM

Cost him the midwest? IL, MI, PA havent gone GOP since 1988 and WI since 1984. MN since 1972. There is a much bigger problem than being a plutocrat. Youre under the assumption that there are a mass of voters who voted Dem who might not have if Romney hadnt been so rich or a plutocrat. I am tell you they wont vote GOP even in Reagan is running. WE'VE LOST THE FRIGGIN COUNTRY. WHY IS THAT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND??

National Review did an indepth study back in 1999 or so. It showed that after 2004, there would be too few whites to win any Presidential election for the GOP. That by 2048, even Reagan's 59-40 thumping of Mondale would be a 48-52 loss. Only Nixon's 1972 61-38 win over McGovern survives past 2050.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 8:20AM

Wi. was ready to change. I said many times no prowar candidate could win this state. The adds really did kill him in Wi. among blue collar people who are suffering in this depression. I really think a better candidate could have carried these Reagan Democrats in the Midwest.

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 8:41AM

Give that Man a Nat Sherman Cigar.

The Immigration Act of 1965 has done, what it was always Intedned to do.

Like every other White Guilt Country, we have spent the last 50 Years in a State of Mass Suicide, so we wouldn't be called a Name.

It would be Stupid, if it wasn't so Insane. Gobby is absolutely right.

We have lost this Country.

The Election of the First Black President is just like the First Black Mayor of (Pick any City) the first Black leader in South Africa, Rhodesia - (Pick any African Country) Forced Busing, or the First Black Housing Project in the Neighborhood.

It's The DEATHKNELL of that Place and Time.

I compare the aftermath of this Death by Diversity, to the Aftermath of The Fall of Rome.

The Dark Ages. 1,500 years of Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Philly, Camden, Gary, and Newark.

And the effects of these First Black Whatevers, occurred almost Immediately.

Isn't that Right..........Detroit?

Isn't that Right..........NYC?

Isn't that Right..........(Again: take your pick of Black Run American Cities)

It's not Racist. It's 2+2=4.

And, if anyone thinks it is?

I don't give a Fck.

Anti-Statist| 11.21.12 @ 9:56AM

You post truth.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 2:54PM

He posts lies.

Filthy, rotten, stinking, stupid lies.

And you can't see that?

Yowsers!

Somebody did a number on YOU.

SUBVET| 11.21.12 @ 10:25AM

Tim.........I don't know about you but It's time to MOVE ON....................just on more mindless artical.

loulou| 11.21.12 @ 1:58PM

Move--but to where?
New Zealand doesn't want me. I'm too old.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:16PM

Loulou: NEW ZEALAND SUCKS. 3 or 4 times more expensive to live in than LA. Best Clothes Dryer is made by a Company named SMEG. They've never heard of insulation for their homes, and it rains all the bloody time.

The kids do lots of drugs, clothes cost an arm and a leg, the Maori are racist assholes AND comprise 15% of the population, and finally, THEIR HEALTH CARE IS WRETCHED BEYOND BELIEF.

I was a NZ Permanent Resident from 2006-2007.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 3:57PM

Thanks for the tip. ;-)
wtf is SMEG?

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 2:03PM

I agree, SUBVET.

Toinfinityandbeyond| 11.23.12 @ 4:14AM

Yeah, you should freaking move on, Tim~

Hahahahahahahaha

Toinfinityandbeyond| 11.23.12 @ 4:12AM

@GobBluthe,

White Racists should die off in the USofA then the USofA will get "Peace."

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 2:56PM

All racists should either die or revise their thinking.

Period.

Ron Ackenberry| 11.24.12 @ 7:11AM

If Mr. Romney is not the poster child for the Plutocracy, ...who is?

Trump? Limbaugh?

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 2:58PM

No, you're right. Romney was indeed the "poster child" for plutocracy.

And look how close he came to winning.

Goddamned scary and infuriating.

America's got a LOT more dumbass racist fools than I would have thought and hoped.

Argh.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 11:54AM

"Romney won a higher percentage of the white vote than any GOP candidate except Nixon in 72 or Reagan in 84." - ah, yes, the almighty white vote you still bank on. Continue please, and enjoy Blue America.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:14PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

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 purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

TNcracker | 11.21.12 @ 5:05PM

Thanks, CJW. I so wish people at this site would stop responding to Purp and the other idiots. Keep it up!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:02PM

Hahahaha ... yeah, stick your head in the sand. Why face the real facts? LOSER.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 9:43PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Alan Brooks | 11.23.12 @ 3:53PM

Romney didn't run a poor campaign, he was merely a poor candidate.

A poor GOP candidate ran a good campaign.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:06PM

The ever-so-literate CJW apparently doesn't know "The Village Idiot" is actually a compliment.

Go back to your home country, CJW. This country is -- by fits and starts and backtracks -- becoming more democratic, more "socialist" and more decent. Apparently you feel more "at home" in some sort of fascist state. Go back there.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 11:33PM

Problem most Blue America is moving to Red America to escape Blue failed policies

Toinfinityandbeyond| 11.23.12 @ 4:15AM

White people will be minority soon.

Guess what's going to happen!

lol

Drunken Sailor| 11.23.12 @ 10:04AM

We get minority status, the goverment perks that go with it and all the perks of Affirmative action? Sweet.

Alan Brooks | 11.23.12 @ 5:28PM

"We get minority status, the goverment perks that go with it and all the perks of Affirmative action? Sweet"

No, you'll wear swastikas and burn books.

Ron Ackenberry| 11.24.12 @ 7:12AM

Sorry, white folks can't be a minority. It's a rule I think.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 7:48PM

Bob Dole ran the worst campaign ever.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 7:08AM

Right...

"First of all, Romney ran a damned good race. " Analyzed by gentlemen's rules... maybe. But, he failed to understand he was in a street brawl. Henry22 is correct. Obama was a sitting duck on so many issues. There is no way Gingrich would have wasted such opportunities. But... Gingrich destroyed himself. He wasn't perfect.

Until we get a Republican who can manhandle the press, forget it. Rubio is pretty good at it. I've heard him. Who else out there can put them in their place in real time?

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:12AM

Gingrich would have been lucky to win 42% of the popular vote.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 7:30AM

Gingrich would not have gotten even that much. The only way to win this election was for Romney to reach out to Ron Paul and his young supporters. He should have let them blow some steam off at the convention. He should of let Ron address the convention and embrace a few of his ideas, like getting out of Afganistan now, slashing whole Departments, and auditing the Federal Reserve. Instead he told them to go to hell, even after Rand Paul endorsed him. Well enough stayed home to cost him an close election. I said before you can't win without us and Romney just proved it. Ron Paul was the only guy bringing young people into the party.

Anti-Statist| 11.21.12 @ 10:22AM

I blame Ron Paul in no small degree.

For one thing, a man has to know himself. A serious look in the mirror should have brought home to Paul that he wasn't going to be electable (his visuals, his voice, and then his foreign policy).

After losing in the primaries he should have stated that he was endorsing Romney over Obama, that it was important to help Romney win, and that afterward Paul would work to bring the GOP around to his philosophy, and especially so on domestic policy. And that he strongly encouraged his supporters to work for and vote for Romney.

But he didn't do it.

I'm certain that a segment of his support bit the bullet and voted for Romney, some voted for Obama out of spite, some voted for Gary Johnson, and some just sat it out. Three of those outcomes were foolish and detrimental to the country.

Paul proved himself merely a contrarian/libertarian who was no statesman, and he could have exited his political career on a positive note, but he refused to do it. For him, at the twilight of his career, it was all or nothing.

A lot of his philosophy, especially regarding domestic policy, is very appealing, but that won't get much purchase now because of how he squandered his opportunity for a positive contribution on a national scale.

Here's hoping his son found wisdom and will not adapt his father's methodology.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:01PM

The son is not even close to the stature of the father. He won't be any better at garnering majorities.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:14PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

mike 3/505| 11.21.12 @ 10:46AM

Gingrich had quite the following among Ron Paul supporters....the only difference between the two camps was some foreign policy issues...and not even all of them.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 11:14AM

I'm not saying Gingrich would have won. I'm saying someone who can beat the hell out of the press, like Gingrich, could have won.

SUBVET| 11.21.12 @ 11:40AM

Gary..........I like Newt he was a smart man...and could defend any point. Both sides didn't want Newt because he knew where all the dead bodys were buried.

They said he had baggage "won't win" what they were really saying is were afraid of you.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 2:51PM

Plus, he had female baggage of worst type. Why do all of our best people commit suicide?

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 4:43PM

Hubris.

SUBVET| 11.23.12 @ 10:26AM

It's in a man"s DNA..........ask Adam

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:17AM

You can sit there and focus on little micro campaign issues, but I am telling you the big picture is the country is done. It is finished. The Permanent Democratic Majority is here. The USA will end up looking like Mexico under the PRI. One party, corrupt and brain dead.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 7:38AM

Even thePRI got beat by the PAN a couple times. There are 3 viable parties in Mexico now. It has more democracy then the USA. Run good people on a national basis, with a program that gives people a choice and the party may come back. But I have written of the country ever since Roe vs Wade in 1973. Murdering 60 million people has led to their replacement by 60 million immigrants. I still have a lot to be thankful personally. Happy Thanksgiving to all, Peace.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:43AM

Between 1929 and 2000 the PRI never lost a federal Presidential election.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 8:34AM

The lonest string in this country was from 1860 to 1888 for the Republicans. The Republicans stole couple of those elections,in 1876 , and maybe in 1864. The PRI ran Mexico like a kleptocracy with no real opposition allowed. We have to put out a real opposition not more of the same. To hell with what dear old Carroll Quigley wanted. I don't think Roosevelt would have been re-elected in 1940 if there hadn't been a war. He ran as a peace candidate. Peace wins over war anyday. Truman beat the Romney of his generation Tom Dewey. Romney ran as an incompetent warmonger in country that wasn't buying it anymore. Obama was a worse warmonger then Bush but Romney let himself get painted as a warmonger and an incompetent one at that. He let Obama off as the peace candidate.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 4:02PM

The PRI would in-prison its political opposition as well as deny them air time on television-radio.

RJ| 11.21.12 @ 10:27AM

Yes, too many people are focused on micro campaign issues in order to avoid the elephant in the room. Its like hearing football fans complain of the coach's play-calling, thinking that anything else would have worked better. Obama winning re-election with his record says America is a different country than just 20 years ago. Too many people value dependence on government over personal freedom and self-reliance. As you say below, conservatives have lost the culture war over the last 45 years. That is what has changed American politics. We need to restore the culture to personal freedom and self-reliance before the nation's politics can change.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:02PM

I hope you're right, but I don't agree with your characterization.
Well, what are you going to do about it?

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:15PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Von Mises Jr| 11.22.12 @ 7:21AM

But if you mock and ridicule Perpie, he will cry like a little bitch.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:11PM

Sorry. I should have qualified that.

Name ONE GODDAMNED THING about policy/matters of substance he told the truth about.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:12PM

Double damn.

AS's commenting system misdirected this post.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:14PM

He hasn't yet, von Mises.

YOU are prominent amongst the ones who have been whining.

Dry your tears. Digest some truth. Change your ways. It's not that hard.

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:09PM

Wow, if THAT ever 180 degrees wrong!

"Gentlemen's rules"? You're saying "gentlemen" lie ALL of the time about EVERYTHING?!

Name ONE GODDAMNED THING that Romney said during his campaign that was true.

Just ONE!

Damn.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 6:43AM

Romney ran a rotten campaign of endless war and endless bailouts for the rich. He was sandbagged at the end of the campign by huge numbers of brilliant adds that had old white people telling the story how their factory was closed by Romney and Bain Capitol. It destroyed his chances in this state. He also dissed Ron Paul, the libertarins, and his other young supporters. He told them to get lost and they did. He also told Sarh Palin and her pro-life supporters to get lost as well. I stated many times here that no Republican warmonger would win. Well he didn't. Romney and Obama were virtually the same on foreign policy, the role of the Federal Reserve, abortion, and gay marriage. They were bought and paid for by the Bankers, the Israeli Lobby, the Military Industrial Complex and Wallstreet. Romney got rolled by a guy he should have beaten by 10 points in this economy.

The Republicans if they ever come back have to run a national campaign that goes from coast to coast and everywhere in between. This concentrating on a few states isn't working. Put up a real conservave who is articulate and believes what he is saying, instead of a phoney, like Romney, anyone named Bush, Dole, or McCain.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 11:16AM

Jack, when you're right, you're right.

irish19| 11.21.12 @ 4:15PM

Except he isn't. Romney's biggest mistake was not hammering the Boy King in the second and third debates.
Jack is still hoping that the Jews will all die. Anyone who supports Israel-the only democracy in the Mideast-is somehow a warmonger.
Personally, I think Jack ought to take a little vacation this weekend. Maybe go up to the Chequamegon, put on a deer costume, and just go for a nice walk in the woods.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:23PM

Irish, correct as usual.

Romney's biggest mistake was not having PACs run ads on Obama's copkilling friends (showing a cop being blown apart in gruesome Peckinpah slo-mo) and Obama's homosexual cheating on his wife.

Afte the Romney kills women with cancer ads, anything should have been fairplay. Finally, a dramatization of our Ambassador being raped and killed should have been run around the clock in the battleground states during the last month. ("Oh my G-d, don't rape me! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Why isn't Obama saving me! ")

Next time, straight for the NADS from hour ONE. Especially if it's Joe Biden.

Another thing to do would have been to do a documentary re-creation of his Khalidi speech.

Jack likes babykillers and child rapists more than Jews. He's a sick little mneky.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:27PM

Every speech Romney said about Obama should have begun with: "thanks, thanks, folks. I want to shout out to the bravery of our police who protect us, as opposed to our current President, who socializes with copkillers and insults the police wherever possible. Now, on to tonight's speech."

Every damn speeech talk about Obama the friend of copkillers. Never apologize and NEVER stop. When confronted, talk about Ayers and Dohrn and how Obama started his career. But always throw mud. That's what he should have done.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:28PM

"monkey." Cheesehead Jack is a sick little monkey.

Terrible Ted| 11.24.12 @ 7:57AM

I like it just the way you had it written. It made me think of Return of the Pink Panther.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v.....nlIWpZSPXU

Ralph Novy| 11.24.12 @ 3:22PM

He couldn't hope to "hammer" the "Boy King" in ANY of the debates, fool.

He had no facts. He had no decency. He had no words.

He was a "sock puppet" for the privileged in this society. And a "poster boy" for cowardly hypocrisy whenever the subject of military service came up.

You're demon "MSM" declared Romney the "winner" of the first debate. I didn't even think THAT. Yeah, Obama was "lackluster," but that's about it. On reflection, I think he was just shrewdly lying back and taking the measure of his opponent -- so as to come back and utterly disembowel him in the second and third debates.

Ha.
Ha.

You don't see that, do you?

NOOOOOOOOO.

You see some sort of decent fellow "ambushed" by liberally biased mediators, right?

And you see gods and fairies and trolls and elves too, don't you?

LMAO.

Delusional fools.

Wake up!

Toinfinityandbeyond| 11.23.12 @ 4:20AM

Hey Jack~

How come you are always wrong?

Did your daddy raise you that way?

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 6:52AM

""First of all, Romney ran a damned good race.""

Actually that is why we should indeed panic. It shows just how far left the USA has become if a competent candidate who really made no major errors and mistake loses to someone like Obama.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 7:01AM

Romney ran a safe campaign laid out by the same consultants and handlers that McCain and Bush had. They raped him on consulting fees and he was to dumb to realize they were leading him over the cliff. Will Carl Rove and the same old suspects plaeas go away? You have destroyed the Republican Party and conservative movement.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:09AM

In 2012 winning 59% of the white vote gets you 48% of the popular vote. In 1988 winning 57% of the white vote got you 54% of the popular vote. There is the problem. Rasmussen poll shows those under 30, 33% think capitalism is the best economic system, 33% think socialism is the best economic system and 34% are unsure. Among those over 65, only 10% think socialism is better than capitalism. There is your problem.

Blame Romney all you want. His campaign was better than GW Bush 200o winning campaign and better than Nixon's winning 68 campaign. Both Nixon and GW Bush ran "safe" campaigns in those years. Face it. America is a leftist nation. There is no such thing as too liberal. Which is why President Warren, Patrick or Corey Booker is far more likely than President Rubio or Walker in 2016.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 7:47AM

We all know Gingrich self-destructed, which hurt the cause. But, boy, he could really handle the press. Until we get someone else with that skill and inclination, you may be right.

American is not a leftist nation. American has a leftist press, so it just seems like it's leftist.

SUBVET| 11.21.12 @ 10:34AM

Gary.....it all started in 1920 when Rockefeller baught over 200 news papers.

It's all about CONTROL.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 11:18AM

Yup... a leftist press.

aware| 11.23.12 @ 5:56AM

There can never be a cure as long as you continue to misdiagnose. America doesn't exist anymore, it is the US now. And the "Press" isn't "leftist", it is Statist. Both Left and Right. Like Tucker proves.

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 12:17PM

Please, let us never demean the people through the use of identity politics. Treating citizens as though they were all defined by some monolithic socio-economic-ethnic grouping rather than the individuals they are may assist the power hungry to win elections, but it does nothing to further the Liberty of the people.

DWS may claim her side of the isle is now a minority-majority, but that vision is one abhorent to the ideals of this nation of assimilated immigrants and diverse populations sharing cultural consensus rather than exacerbated differences.

May you all enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving remembering always to whom it is we owe our gratitude.

Jack in Wi| 11.21.12 @ 1:03PM

For a Republcian to win he has to get the votes of the countryclub, social conservatives, independents, libertarians, and dissafected Democrats. Romney came close even with his rotten campaign that dissed a of of his core consituencies. I expect the country to go over the cliff even worse in the next 4 years. We shall shall see what happens.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 7:32AM

100% correct. This is why I say the GOP got exactly the result they wanted. I repeat... To all appearances, they're running the mother of all false-flag operations. It's goal? To make sure conservatives don't acquire control. They're damned good at it. It starts with the primaries. Look at the difference between Romney's kick-butt primary campaign and his cotton-candy general campaign. What's that?

TNcracker | 11.21.12 @ 5:12PM

That IS suspicious. Romney, one by one, eviscerated his primary opponents with some of the nastiest ads ever, but then never laid a finger on Obama. Hmmm...

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 9:53PM

The press approved the former and would not have approved the latter. Romney was afraid of the press, as are most Republicans. I guess it's really important to get be accepted onto the DC social circle. I guess it's worth selling out half of the country. It's beyond my understanding.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:07PM

You mean Romney was a victim of "Vulture Consultants"? Now that's funny. The DA. LMAO.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:15PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Martin kzovich| 11.21.12 @ 7:03AM

the only area of agreement is the staying calm part.
after that we part. The damage to our nation's economy and our total national security by this president knows no bounds. He is a Marxist and a Communist in thought and deed. The policies of the former USSR and their Eastern Block ( the Iron Curtain) show this and now the EU is following suit. And to appease their ilk we throw some goodies ? No i think we learn from the mistakes of the Romney-Ryan campaign of which there are many . The central problem is a failure to strategically counter attack against the MSM and the Communists propaganda. I think we should calmly and in a determined manner have Think Tanks for this very purpose and go on offense--being on the defensive is a loser and its a major reason for the loss.

Kitty | 11.21.12 @ 7:08AM

http://fellowshipofminds.wordp.....ote-fraud/

"The Republican Party made an agreement 30 years ago with the Democrat Party NOT to ensure voting integrity and NOT to pursue suspected vote fraud. {snip} In fact, legally the GOP cannot ensure voting integrity, nor can it prevent vote fraud."

Von Mises Jr| 11.21.12 @ 9:32AM

This is illuminating in that the one statist party in DC with a Democrat wing and a Republican wing schemed against the rest of the country.
This is the same horse crap we hear from DC all the time such as once we sign onto UN LOST or Agenda21, we can never ever go back, just like the scam of the ObamaCare and Dodd Frank Bills where the funding is automatic and no longer part of the Power of the Purse of the Congress. By golly, if we want to repeal ObamaCare we have 3 months in 2017 and we need 108% of the Congress to agree to match the Democrat turnout against Allan West.
It is time for the American people to have a Jackson moment. Not a Michael Jackson moment, Perp. You had that last night. I mean an Andrew Jackson moment: "Chief Justice Marshall has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:19PM

Your insulting attitude to me at the end of your screed confirms why you lose.
Unfortunately for you, you don't have the "Andrew Jackson" in the White House, and won't for many, many years to come.

Drunken Sailor| 11.21.12 @ 3:29PM

His insulting attitude toward you? You have got to be kidding. Anyone who has read your post over the last 6 months know how you love to insult conservatives with just about every post. Well the post that don't have you playing the whining victim anyway.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:04PM

Hard to face the truth, is that it?

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:15PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Neatsfoot| 11.23.12 @ 11:12AM

Purp you and I were born to be insulted on this page

irish19| 11.23.12 @ 12:22PM

Poor babies.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:11AM

That isnt why Obama won. Sure some Philly precincts had Obama winning 100% of the vote on 150% turnout, but that isnt why Obama won PA by 400,000 votes. He won because previously GOP counties like Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware which GHW Bush won in 1988 by 65% are today solid left.

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 8:43AM

Meaning - Solidly Black.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:23PM

You personally constantly confirm y'all are racist pigs. Wonder how long you'll be welcome in the Conservative Kingdom?

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 2:57PM

Purp, why do you prefer to hang out with us racist pigs when you would be so much more comfortable in some progressing handout? Really? Why put yourself through it?

You should be out celebrating Obama's victory and enjoying all the freebees at least until other people's money runs out. I just hope you're not looking for a job right now.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:07PM

Hahaha ... I have my own money and trying to degrade me into being a taker, moocher and federal money sucker doesn't mean a thing to me.
It misses the mark, but it can only serve to make YOU feel better - does it? Does it relieve the pain of LOSING? Does it make you feel superior to those that BEAT YOU?
I sure am celebrating Obama's victory and hope y'all don't change ... I will enjoy the next 30 years of BLUE AMERICA!

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 9:57PM

See if all the recently laid-off Hostess workers will celebrate with you. Give 'em a call. Tell them how happy you are about their situation and, while you're at it, see if any Obamacare victims feel like buying you lunch.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:15PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:07PM

Retard.

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 9:44PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 11:36PM

Those PA counties are as white today as they were in 1988

Toinfinityandbeyond| 11.23.12 @ 4:29AM

TLP Tim is gay.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:14AM

Romney lost because the right has lost the culture and lost control of immigration and the schools. It is that simple. The right has lost a 45 year war for the soul of America.

ElGordo| 11.21.12 @ 7:32AM

Romney's campaign could've been much much better. See today's Brent Bozell column to see how.

Just for openers, Romney should've selected Rubio instead of Ryan and attacked Obama on Libya mercilessly. Romney should've also had a better ground game.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 7:34AM

So Rubio gets you 29 more EVs. It is Obama 303 to Romney 235. Still short. Brent Bozell cant effectively manage what he currently has. I wouldnt put much stock in him.

ElGordo| 11.21.12 @ 10:18PM

Your omitting votes Romney may have obtained by attacking Obama on Benghazi. After winning FL he only needed 36 more electoral votes

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 11.21.12 @ 7:34AM

The argument for a carbon tax is ridiculous. There is no scientific evidence that carbon contributes to climate change. If carbon were a real threat, you would eliminate it. Since it's a natural part of life that can't be done.

The political view of the ruling class then is tax it whether there is concrete evidence or not. Yes, go along to show you're concerned. That's how we got a welfare state.

Apparently, modern political success is how you're either Santa Claus to corporations (carbon tax) or Santa Claus to the public.

Ned Ferguson| 11.21.12 @ 7:41AM

This article is a good illustration why Republicans are losing. They are completely out of touch with the tenets of conservatism and have no interest in embracing, or espousing, them anytime soon. It looks like our only hope is to completely destroy the Republican Party and rebuild it from the ground up.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 7:51AM

Put another way, the GOP establishment has allowed the press and liberals to position them in the minds of many voters as deserving targets of "revenge."

Ned Ferguson| 11.21.12 @ 8:00AM

The GOP establishment successfully positioned themselves. They didn't need any help. They attack and alienate the best conservative candidates who try to join their ranks. The "solution" to their lack of success involves moving even farther left. Everything emanating from the mouth of mainstream Republicans confirms that America was right -- they are not worthy of our confidence.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 11:20AM

So, Ned... is the Republican brand ruined? It may be.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:44PM

Case in point, Ned, is Jon Huntsman.

Ned Ferguson| 11.21.12 @ 7:52AM

"Romney ran a damned good race."

In your fantasy world. In my reality Romney was a candidate who presented no specifics, rejected the most successful political strategies pioneered by the Tea Party, and was more interested in appealing to moderates than the Republicans' natural political constituency. His entire campaign was built around not being Obama. Obviously, it wasn't good enough.

Nancy in NC| 11.21.12 @ 8:09AM

I agree, Ned. Romney spoke conservatism as if it were a second language. He never talked about the TRUTH. obama is a terrible president with a terrible record. But how can you attack on obamacare when you had the same thing in Mass? How can you really talk about abortion when once you were pro-choice?

Let's face it. Romney was a mediocre candidate, albeit a nice guy with a nice family, but no will to fight in the gutter with the Chicago thugs. He was out of his comfort zone and the results prove it. I still think obama was beatable, but not with velvet gloves. Brass knuckles were in order.

Romney was so afraid of offending the left or being called a racist or such that he failed to bring the fight to obama. He would never win the hearts and mind of the committed lefties and lifelong D voters...I don't understand why he even tried.

Maxwell| 11.21.12 @ 8:43AM

With all due respect Nancy, who do we have that brings an AR15, 1911 45 ACP, & an AIAW (in 308) to a knife fight? Cruz of Texas, Martinez of New Mexico, Rubio? Who can kick the backside of the press & smile at the same time?

James Baker| 11.21.12 @ 10:13AM

Starting to think we need to bring in a fresh roster of people. Damm, wish I wasn't still in the service or I would give it a try. My plan would be to bring a tactical nuke to a knife fight, tired of losing my Country.

James Baker| 11.21.12 @ 10:11AM

I am going to make one comment here. Concerning Romney and the healthcare of the state of Mass. I am against Obamacare on the grounds it is not a power granted to the Federal Government, with that said, if the people of a state wish to create a healthcare system for themselves, all the more power to them. But only within their state.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 11:37PM

""In your fantasy world. In my reality Romney was a candidate who presented no specifics, rejected the most successful political strategies pioneered by the Tea Party,""

Didnt Obama do just that? And win?

Ned Ferguson| 11.21.12 @ 8:13AM

P.S. It's about time amateur politcos realized that the real fight is not Republicans vs. Democrats, but freedom and individualism vs. tyranny and statism. As long as you view yourself as a member of the "Republican club" your perception will remain clouded. To the extent that Republicans embrace statism, they are my enemy. In the fight against Democrats, Republicans are mere frenemies who are on the cusp of becoming my sworn enemies. To borrow a phrase from Reagan, I never left the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me (I never flirted with the Democrat Party to start with.)

Alice Moore| 11.21.12 @ 9:02AM

In the 19th Century principled American Whigs were in the same conundrum. History showed that the breakaway party could not only survive but thrive and win.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 11:22AM

And, now is the time.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:59PM

By all means, please do.

PolishKnight| 11.21.12 @ 9:28AM

Tucker's claim for why the GOP lost PA and OH are: "But coal miners and their families are a distinct minority in both states; the much more pivotal constituency is the professional middle class"

He means swing voters but overall, the biggest constituency that turned out for Obama were non-whites, women of course non-white women. That puts 40% of the vote in the left's pocket with a remaining 10% that can be had with marxist promises, media orchestrated attack campaigns, etc.

"Staying the course" is like steering the Titanic into the iceberg (actually, that might have worked if they had just bumped the front instead of scraping the side but you get the idea.) The right is bleeding their main electorate and handing over one to the left while protecting the ultra wealthy at all costs which is precisely what the left wants via their "control the reactionaries" approach.

Bottom line: Once the ultra wealthy start paying higher taxes then maybe the elites will start caring.

lettruthspeak| 11.21.12 @ 9:29AM

Let's not panic at Romney's defeat? How about the picture circulating of our inglorious President serving food to his fellow Americans at a soup kitchen. Pathetic and disgraceful. When 50 million Americans can no longer afford to feed themselves, then what America is it that we are trying to preserve. I am so ashamed of this country, and I feel true despair. Not so much for myself and the other people who come to sites like this, but for those still lost souls who do not get it and never will. We truly have met the enemy, and, yes, it is us. God forgive us for what we have turned this once great nation into, and I fear it is beyond too late to turn things around. All that is left is for the crazies to start running up and down the streets yelling, "Soylent Green is people". Gobble, gobble.

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 12:20PM

No need to panic. It is simply time to recognize that the handwritting is on the wall; that this nation has been weighed in the balance and found wanting and that the majority of our voters now prefer the gurantee of subsistence over the risk and promise of opportunity.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 9:37AM

Umm, yeah, that Global Warning was the derringer Romeny should have pulled when he missed that Inside Straight...
actually an Inside Straight would have been more likely than carrying Florida, North Carolina, Virgina, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada..
I know, this year had more Hurricanes than any year EVER, in RECORDED HISTORY, EONS, MILLENIUMS,
umm except for 1936, you know how much pollution there was during the Depression..

Frank "I still think Susan Rice is Hot" Drackman

Anthony| 11.21.12 @ 9:38AM

Well Mr. Tucker you sound like the band leader on the Titanic who told his fellow band members not to worry, we still have time for another upbeat number, ana one, ana two.....
Yes Romney did run a good campaign, much to my suprise and my origional expectations, however your optimism is totally off the wall.
If, as you opine, Sandy turned this election around for Obozo, then the country is indeed lost, and you fail to see the significance of your comment.
What you fail to comprehend is that this election told us that half of this country is essentially brain-dead, zombied by the MSM, and perhaps beyond salvation.
With the current unemployment rate of 14%, half the country on some form of federal assistance, Fast & Furious, and Benghazi, and Obozo still gets elected, it tells thinking Americans the country has lost its collective mind.
The sickness of American leftism has become stage 3 and the America that we know and love is dying. Unless and until we take over the corrupt institutions that have helped devolve our culture, the media, academia and the entertainment industry, the American Republic is finished.
Now you can go back to telling yourself all is well. Oh by the way, Mitch Miller of TAS, that is water rising above your ankles, but you still have time for that little upbeat number, but play it allegro as the sea is rising quickly.

Kwan| 11.21.12 @ 9:58AM

Carbon tax? Global warming? Come on Tucker let's not get rope-a-doped with this Gorewellian fantasy. McCain bought into this nonsense and still got defeated. This global warming hoax-a-rama is all about allowing the left to totally control our lives 24 hours a day, in order to save the planet. In fact the EPA has now become a rogue agency, essentially operating as an enemy combatant trying to shut down the American economy and drive electricity prices into the stratosphere, in an effort to save us from the evil carbon dioxide menace. As for the election, in a sane country Romney would have won. Giving further proof that the inmates are now running the asylum. Hard to believe that in a country with a population of 300+ million citizens a Communist rat like Obama is the best we can come up with as a leader. What an embarrassment.

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 3:00PM

Mr. Kwan.

I hope you will grace us with your presence, this Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Kwan| 11.21.12 @ 4:22PM

I'll be there Tim. Happy Thanksgiving.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 10:18AM

Reading those posts claiming Romney made mistakes or ran a bad campaign miss the point. Romney wasnt perfect, but he ran a sufficiently competent enough campaign to win in a center right country. He wasnt perfect, but do we need perfect top defeat:

A party that boos God
Runs up trillion dollar deficits year after yeas
Passes Obamacare
Openly supports gay marriage
Openly supports abortion anytime anywhere
Destest the military
Abandons allies internationally
Presides over 47m on food stamps
Supports amnesty

That's my point. If you need the perfect candidate to beat the above, you dont live in a center right country or possibly even a center left one.

The McGovern coalition might not be the majority but it is certainly larger than the Reagan coalition

Zeppo| 11.21.12 @ 10:27AM

Is this the Bizarro Spectator? One article claims that the GOP should become more like the risible British "Conservative" party, and here Mr. Scarf says that Mitt could have turned it around by embracing a carbon tax, a policy too toxic even for the Pelosi Democrats. Has Wlady been kidnapped by aliens?

Zeppo| 11.21.12 @ 10:27AM

JP Jones| 11.21.12 @ 10:36AM

Actually
He ran a bad race

Sandy was a factor but

his lead would have been 15-20 points
heading into Sandy.
If the race had been run right

I don't buy that Obama's free stuff bought off 51%

It was Romneys Gaffs---some very big--that doomed him.

You cannot openly get caught insulting people over and over and then pretend it never happened.

The Flip Flop only showed that he lacked a firm grasp of who he really is.

All of that said, he would have destroyed Obama had he just not come off so darn hard core Capitalist.

Yes this was a clear battle between the Nanny State and Pure Capitalism.

You never want that battle to be so clear cut because the majority will not support "pure" Capitalism

That is why you have to embrace social issues
no choice in the matter.

An averagestiff in the Ohio auto plant can give a hoot about pure capitalism or pure anything.

They want food on the table and basic freedoms
to do their thing.
They want their family traditions and pensions

Romney came across as the guy that would fire your butt on Christmas week.

Its that simple folks.

Run a center right passionate social
conservative
that really cares about the little guy
and that person gets 60 percent.

Politics 101

Happy Thanksgiving

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 11:32PM

Your entire posting is nothing more than one delusion after another.

AgntOrngVctm| 11.27.12 @ 2:18PM

Yes, that is correct.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 10:39AM

Here we have yet another pundit telling Republicans that what we need to do is adopt yet one more plank of the Democrat platform, and that will solve our problems.

Why, if we listen to all of you geniuses, there won't be a dime's worth if difference between a Republican and a Democrat. As it is, there's barely a quarter's worth of difference between Romney's world view and the liberal world view.

Not only is this idiocy, it is morally wrong. Just because it's "plausible" to you that carbon - which comprises an inconsequential 0.03% of our atmosphere - is destroying the planet, doesn't mean it's correct (and you DO know that “global warming” peaked 16 years ago, don’t you?), and it doesn't mean we should tax coal more.

I mean, it's plausible on the surface to think minimum wage helps minorities - but scratch the surface and we find that, in every instance, minimum wage DECREASES minority employment.

We don't tax businesses and people because something might be true (and when are you going to realize this is an utter redistributive canard that has nothing whatsoever to do with the climate????). And if you think a carbon tax isn't opening the door to complete and utter control of the way Americans live, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. Don't worry, it was constructed with nothing but unicorn dust and angels' smiles.

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 2:25PM

I am always amused when "moderates" and/or Democrats try to tell the GOP how to run campaigns. Did Wellington tell Bonaparte how to array his troops? Why take advice from the enemy?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:47PM

Why take advice from the enemy?

They win.

And we need two good political parties.

BTW, TAS's vision and that of most posters here does not qualify for what constitutes a good political party.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 3:01PM

That is rich - we need 2 good political parties. Very, very droll. As a card-carrying liberal automaton, you don't want a robust opposition. You have a monolithic view of the universe and you believe hook, line and sinker in the socialist model (or maybe you just personally benefit from it).

Besides, no successful totalitarian government brooks opposition parties. Duh.

Of course, if you were to lookpast your own greed/ envy/moral vanity, you might realize that there's no such thing as a successful totalitarian government.

And that will shortly be proven true in what used to be America. And then you will have crapped all over yourself.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 10:40AM

(cont'd)

We don't need pundits like you advising conservatives that if they just abandon principle and imitate Democrats, Democrats will like them.

I also had to laugh when I read that we "can win another Presidency by running on the economy and talking about the kind of country we are going to live in. America remains an island of free enterprise in a world where economies are run by the government. "

Earth to William Tucker: Americans have spoken. They WANT to live in a welfare state. They WANT socialism. They HATE capitalism and free enterprise. My god, this election was a two-by-four right between the eyes; if you think something as ephemeral as hurricane Sandy temporarily warped our can-do, rugged individualism spirit, you are beyond redemption. It wasn’t Sandy that changed people’s minds. It was that their minds have been changed by long-since corrupted education system, legal system, scientific community, burgeoning government and the gravy train of American taxpayer loot that Americans and non-Americans alike think is their birthright.

And you really think we still have free enterprise in this country? Good grief, you are encased in amber. Man, whatever you're smoking, send me some.

Zeppo| 11.21.12 @ 11:11AM

Any truth to the rumor that "Grzmlyk" is Slobovian for "sunshine"?

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 11:29AM

That made me smile. You see? I do have some sunshine in me.

But I don't see how people like Tucker can look at the culture - forget politics - of this country over the last 50 years and conclude that we can just pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and imitate Democrats and, lo and behold, the GOP will be in ascendance once again. By advocating malicious theft at the hands of Big Brother in the form of a carbon tax, he's undermining the very America he thinks we can return to. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Maybe it's part of the Bush "destroying capitalism in order to save it" initiative.

This country is going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better because our people have pissed away freedom and do not deserve what the founders created.

Collapse of the dollar is a fait accompli; the destruction has already occurred, we're just waiting for the "splat."

Sadly, there's not much sunshine in America's future; to co-opt Reagan's famous campaign slogan, it isn't "morning in America" anymore it's "mourning FOR America." We are now a corrupt, oppressive, sclerotic banana republic.

On the positive side, it looks like Kim Kardashian's reality show will be renewed!

Ugh.

Zeppo| 11.21.12 @ 12:34PM

I'm with you, Grz. People who post here tend to scoff, but the left's control of the instruments of culture-academia, the schools, the law, the media, Hollywood, to a large degree even the corporations and churches-has reduced conservatism to a pitiable state. To think that the GOP can come back by proposing a carbon tax (of all things) is insane, and even if a hollowed-out Republican "brand" somehow regains the ascendancy (a la David Cameron), what good will it do?

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 2:10PM

Thou speakest the truth.

The boil must be lanced before the disease can be elminated.

Zeppo| 11.21.12 @ 11:11AM

Any truth to the rumor that "Grzmlyk" is Slobovian for "sunshine"?

Anthony| 11.21.12 @ 12:27PM

Grzmlyk, While I hate to talk doom and gloom on the verge of Thanksgiving, whatever that stands for today, I have come to embrace your pessimism.
You have been correct all along, all is indeed lost, save for a serious sea change in America. Mr. Tucker's Titanic, which also contrbuted to global warming lo some 100 years ago, is sinking fast and the band is drowning, yet Tucker remains blissfully ignorant, like 60% of Americans today.
America was the greatest experiment of human invention, until the leftists destroyed it.
We need to fight this or die trying.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 12:54PM

Anthony, I appreciate your comments greatly. I would not call this pessimism, however - although I completely understand why it would be interpreted as such.

I call it realism. Not only is America broke, but we have chosen to ignore this fact as we rush headlong into more handouts, more inflation, more phony low interest rates, more borrowing by buying up our own debt and more and more and more transfers from the productive side of the ledger to the dependent side.

Not to mention that, as we continue to spend money we don't have, we are hampering those producers with regulations, lawsuits and onerous taxes - we make it impossible for a company to stay in business and then excoriate it when it moves overseas.

America lives in an utterly false reality. We are in a mass delusion that we can continue to be wealthy even as we kill the goose that laid the golden egg and we ignore history's lessons.

Since I realized what deep shit we were in about four years ago, we have only continued to spin further out of control.

Reality will impose itself. You can jump off a cliff and declare that you no longer believe that gravity ought to exist, but that isn't going to change one iota the fact that you will go "splat" on the ground below.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 6:21PM

What you don't get, Grzmlyk, is that you and the other 57,000 people at TAS are not conservatives. You are radicals. Extremists. Ideological purists. RWNJs.

Another thing you don't understand is that I want a robust opposing point of view - a robust conservative point of view. What I don't want is idiocy. I don't want Akins or Murdock. I don't want religious idiots who insist that the earth is six thousand years old. I don't want clowns who think markets work flawlesslessly. Hell, even Greenspan admitted that he was wrong about this, after his monumental contribution to screwing up our economy. I don't people with a fetish about the U.S. heading to European socialism. I don't morons who harbor a blind hatred of government. I don't want dumb shits who sign secession petitions and talk about impeaching the president.

In other words, give me real conservatives with whom to contend. Not assholes.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 6:28PM

And one more thing: people who take an honest look at what is wrong on their side of the divide and what is right about the other side instead of putting out an endless barrage of bullshit about the president and a whole lot of strawmen.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 6:54PM

Tut, tut you weasel: let's not get anti-semantic, eh?

Typical lying liberal a la Saul Alinsky: Change the meanings of words.

Do you even know what the word radical means, moron?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 11:00PM

Anti-Semitism?

Add delusional RWNJs to the list.

You are the one who clearly doesn't have a clue about the meaning of radical.

BTW - sign a petition to secede , clown?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 11:03PM

Oooops

Anti-semantic. Misread. Ignore my first sentence. I stand by my second.

And, what about secession?

Aloysious| 11.21.12 @ 10:48AM

[The mistake occurred much earlier in the campaign.]

Wow, that could not be more wrong.

Conservatives don't make mistakes. Only flip-floppers make mistakes, and no conservative is a flip-flopper so they have no choice but to stay the course and substantiate a popular definition of insanity or be cast out.

GobBluthe| 11.21.12 @ 10:57AM

""Conservatives don't make mistakes""

Tell that to Todd Akin and Richard Moudock. Another Limbaugh listener who thinks ideology is a substitute for competence

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 11:35AM

While I do not agree that conservatives don't make mistakes (though I understand what Aloysious was saying), I'm rather surprised that you, of all people, have a problem with thinking that "ideology is a sustitute for competence."

Isn't that one of the primary tenets of your religion?

I mean, that's the fundamental theme of the Obama administration and its dancing fools, of which you are one.

In fact, competence is the enemy of liberalism; it is in your philosophical DNA.

Louis Jenkins| 11.21.12 @ 10:48AM

Get over it Mr. Tucker. We lost. Now we can sit around and blame this and that about Mitt, or we can hitch up our pants and do some really hard work. Embracing a carbon tax? Have you gone utterly out of your mind? How about just barely embracing free oral contraception, or abortions? How about just slightly embracing homosexual marriage? You either are or you ain't. Bottom line. Stop trying to influence us with your little pithy mouthed mumblings.

Get on with the business of running a conservative effort. True conservative. Listen up Congressional Republicans, and those on the street, stop trying to be Republican lite, immigration lite, abortion lite, and realize that the people who voted for Obama do not have the interest of America in their hearts. Only the Democrats and libbies know what their interests are and it doesn't make a pile of dog sh--.

Lucky Jack| 11.21.12 @ 11:01AM

I'm not panicking, but this election was a tipping point. Do you remember 1980? The Nation still had enough productive citizens to fire President Carter for his failures in the economy, foreign policy, energy, and national defense. Sadly, in 2012, the takers outnumber the makers, so working Americans couldn't muster enough support to fire the worst chief executive. Additionally, we cannot win another national election with the culture not simply slouching towards Gomorrah, but embracing Sodom & Gomorrah. I wonder if a few remaining conservative states will declare, Enough is enough. Does the legacy of 1776 include borrow trillions to fund obscene Government spending; permitting and funding millions of abortions on demand; redefining marriage and embracing buggery; and reducing the Armed Forces to a playground for left-wing social engineers? Where is our George Washington, Patrick Henry, and James Monroe?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 11:16AM

Thank you for the dispatch from the bubble.

Neatsfoot| 11.21.12 @ 11:52AM

Mike where in the world is Jack's bubble? Pluto?

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 12:32PM

Not only embrasing it Jack, we are institutionalizing it through government sanction.

Lucky Jack| 11.21.12 @ 2:13PM

Exactly. Any solutions from your vantage point? (Discussions above about a new conservative party miss the new realty: we simply don't have enough conservative voters to make a new party viable.)

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 4:48PM

Solutions, No. Carthago delenda est. We, like Cato, must be willing to die rather than submit to tyranny.

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 4:10PM

Lucky Jack: [sarcasm] You must be a racist to bring up all those dead white males. [/sarcasm] Actually I think that the 1964 election was the the point of no return for constitutional government. Now we are going to have to repudiate the un-constitutional Omnipotent Central Government masquerading as the US Gov, and re-establish a Republic under our constitution.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 11:10AM

Remind me, how long ago was it that Karl Rove told us that we were on the eve of an essentially one party (GOP) system?

We know that Karl's supporters are smart enough to make a lot of money in business. The question is whether or not their intelligence extends beyond the spread sheet.

Seek| 11.25.12 @ 11:50AM

Rove, more than anyone else, persuaded Bush into making large numbers of marginally creditworthy blacks and Hispanics into homeowners and thus Republican voters. What this strategy did was trigger a series of events leading to an international financial collapse.

I wouldn't trust Karl Rove with the time of day.

Who Knows?| 11.21.12 @ 11:19AM

Useful fictions are only useful, until they’re not.

What is the useful fiction, which most sane Americans accept as true and regnant, these last days of America?

One man, one vote.

Ha ha!!! Welcome to Philadelphia or Cleveland or Chicago or…

America is like a high wire trapeze artist, who BELIEVES there is a safety net beneath him, but in fact, there is none. Voters balance on the “high-wire” when they cast their ballots, BELIEVING elections are fair, and they’re not.

Also, if there’s anything to be learned from the election, it’s that the whole concept of a melting pot is vanquished. Kaput. Void. Melted, itself.

It’s all about you verses me, or one tribe against others.

How can anyone not be aghast that a good election is when “only” 90% of blacks vote for the Dems?

Ask any “grown up”, which means a human 18 or older, of ANY tribe, and they will know that there are stages of life, even if they can’t go into much detail about it. But, from a babe in arms to an adult, they are aware that CHANGES take place.

In the under-developed West, whose culture has become dominant worldwide, there are three basic stages.

Who Knows?| 11.21.12 @ 11:20AM

Until age 7, it’s mostly about the physical. Until 14 or so, it’s about mastering the emotional sexual dimension. And, around 21 is when the lower mental stage should be mastered.

Well, guess what?

There’s a whole lot of variance between cultures in the mastery of the stages. It seems to me that there are lots of people who have mostly failed to come close to “getting it”, when it comes to thinking!

The bottom line implication of this is that what underpins the whole makers-takers divide is this truth---most people are still children, who need their PARENT. Ergo, let’s vote for the surrogate, government.

Yes, the dumbing down of Americans is PROFOUND!

Another thought about why blacks vote Democratic---they are the party of and for government, and the “poor” children of that culture, which eschews mental learning, knows it NEEDS mommy and daddy government, big time. They are aware than in a fair fight, the FREE marketplace, they are woefully prepared, and it’s government, ITSELF, that will be their best prospect for a job.

Why would a rational black, these days, vote against their source of free or earned money?

Much the same analysis is true for Hispanics, whose culture is dominated by the Catholic Church, and bowing down to a hierarchy---knowing their place in the group---led by the Pope.

Individuals need not apply.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:19PM

It is the Electoral College that undermines the principle of "one man, one vote." With the winner take all rule, the votes of Republicans living in blue states are essentially nullified and vice versa. I think John Husted's idea is insane. In his proposed congressional district electoral vote plan, he is assuming that the GOP will always be able to gerrymander the state of Ohio in a way that is beneficial to Republicans. Short sighted to say the least. And, it really doesn't address the concerns over one man, one vote.

Al Adab| 11.21.12 @ 12:27PM

One man one vote is falacious in that it institutionalizes the tyranny of the mob. It creates conditions in which the current "crisis or fad" of the day becomes the defining issue in political choice. That is abhorent to the American system of representative government tasked with the protection of Liberty not the provision of handouts.

That said, the reorganization of the EC to deliver based on Congressional districts is also flawed. It would be representative... until the next reapportionment at which time the great urban centers (where the majority of Leftist votes reside) would solidify their control over every district in their States.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:47PM

I understand your comment about the tyranny of the majority. It is evident in the issue of gay marriage.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:35PM

So you wanta change the Constitution?
Well you know, we'd all love to see your plan.
Actually we'd rather see those naked pics of your wife, I mean, as long as she's not overweight(i.e.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:51PM

Actually, Frank, you would like to see naked pics of my wife, but you never will.

As for changing the Constitution, it has happened several times by amendment. In each case there were voices guaranteeing the end of the Republic. Gee, we even imposed term limits on the presidency and, voila, we are still in business as a country.

But, don't worry, the electoral college is in no danger. To win, the GOP is going to have to become as good as the Democratic Party at messaging and at organizing. Good luck.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 1:01PM

sooooo your wife's a little heavy???,
Know how it is Brutha, sometimes Mrs. Drackman gets up to umm 105 or 106(lbs, we don't use none of that SI crap)
just bout gives me a Hernia

Frank

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 1:58PM

Frank, if you want pics of Mike's wife, give me a call. I'll direct you to the URL.

Of course you can't be SURE it's his wife; the tattoo, prosthesis and peircings lead you to believe it is, but the German Shepherd's hind leg obscures her face.

However, in the blog section, she mentions that she has a garden gnome fool of a loser cuckold husband who gets his jollies by going to conservative web sites when he's not playing Halo 4 and throwing digital rocks at the denizens there. Makes him feel like a big man.

That information, combined with the tattoo, the prosthesis and the piercings, makes me pretty sure it's Mike's wife.

My advice: save your $3.95; the video ain't all that, and they eventually had to euthanize the German Shepherd.

loulou| 11.21.12 @ 2:01PM

Too funny.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:34PM

Yeah, loulou, I pegged you as having the same emotional and intellectual maturity as Grymlyk.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:31PM

Geez, Grzmlyk, do you really enjoy displaying what an idiot you are?

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 3:07PM

Geez, Mike. I think it was kind of clever. I enjoy wit and humor - two things liberals cannot fathom (and no ,the taunts and hate speech that you engage in aren't quite the same thing).

Turn that frown upside down: We've all got to be married to SOMEBODY.

And look on the bright side: If you think you've got it bad, just think what a raw deal your wife got.

As for maturity, I will now condescend to your level: I'm rubber, you're glue; everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you."

Frank Drackman| 11.22.12 @ 5:34AM

geez, Mike in NC, do you really enjoy displaying what a Pediofile you are?
FOR THE LAST TIME STOP TEXTING ME, I'M A 12 YEAR OLD BOY,
in fact if you show up on any more on TAS I'm gonna report you, Homo.

Frank

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:30PM

Hey, Mr. G, usually those are my lines! Thank you.

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 2:08PM

Why would we wanna see pictures of Him?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:36PM

TLP, meet loulou. You two are well suited for each other.

TLP| 11.21.12 @ 3:01PM

Mike, meet Purp.

You two are well suited for each other, Dumb@ss.

Warrior| 11.21.12 @ 8:04PM

Grz, Frank, TLP, Occam, Al and loulou, I wish you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Mike, I really could care less if you are eating dog food as you would deserve it. I still picture you as Lance.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 10:54PM

Fuck you too, Warrior

Warrior| 11.22.12 @ 9:18AM

No thanks, but maybe you'll meet Barry in a bathhouse one day. Enjoy your Alpo.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:33PM

OMG ... that is one of the most insulting comments about African-Americans I've ever read, as well as Hispanics.
I wouldn't vote for your side either with that attitude. In fact, you make me ashamed you are part of the human race, let alone white.
White people blaming non-whites for all the problems and ills that you think exist is ignorant, stupid or maybe even evil. It sure won't get you any supporters. OMG.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:38PM

did you actually use "OMG"??
what are you? a 14 year old Girl?
And you know what's really insulting to Afro-Americans?
Aborting 500,000/year and calling it "Family Planning"

Frank "Black below the waste" Drackman

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:31PM

And setting up a welfare system that puts the vast majority of Black Males in jail for a portion oftheir lives.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:09PM

Oh, now YOU are so supportive of the Black Community, is that it? Hahahaha ... clueless

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 12:19PM

Yeah, DUMBAXX, we and our ancestors have been "supportive of the Black Community" for centuries. It's really a GD shame that the "Black Community" is not SUPPORTIVE OF THE COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS THEM, and """"""stupidly"""""" fails to make proper use of the free public education that has been PAID FOR/SUPPORTIVE by same taxpayers for their benefit. Its a shame that the "Black Community" historically has continued to dumbazzedly sleep through their school years, to continue to be dumbaxxedly stupid and therefore incapable of contributing to society as productive citizens. Its a shame that after a hundred years of this, the "Black Community" is in no beeter financial shape than they were pre-1954 [Brown vs. Bd. of Ed.]. Oh I forgot....it's all racism etc.
What a f-king moron you and yours are and forever will be!!!!!!!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:08PM

Ruh-Roh, morals from the POS ... watch out below.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 2:02PM

Das raht, massuh purp. You loves dem black folk jes as long as day stay on da resuhvation and admit dat you carpetbagguhs know wha's bes' fo 'em. Yessuh! From de cradle to de grave!

But iffin day gets off da resuhvation, den it's release da hounds, boys, we got ourselves another uppity one!

You are a 100% phony.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:11PM

Thank you for betraying your true racist self. Your veneer of gentile has been wiped off - by yourself. What a racist pig you are.
Phony? I'm not hiding my disdain for all things conservative and Republican, now am I?

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 9:27PM

Aside from pointing out your usual incoherence when you stray from Rachel Maddow's talking points, I would just point out that I was channeling YOU.

Frank Drackman| 11.22.12 @ 5:32AM

OK, I get the racist part but "Pig"?? who are you, H. Rap Brown?
or Bella Abzurg?
everyone always be hatin' on Pigs, one of the smarter Animals BTW, and even though I'm a Hooknosed Jesus-Killer I do enjoy a little of the Schwein every so often..
OK, 2-3 times a week when the Miss-us isn't watching, hey, thats what the Crestor's for, you Gentile.

Frank

PS, its 8:11pm and you don't have anything better to do?

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 12:12PM

It's always RACIST, DISCRIMINATION, GENTRIFICATION, HOMOPHOBIA, etc right? Especially when you have no logical/rational arguments to support your [programmed by the MSM and their liberal dictators] insanity, right? Lemmings headed off the cliff with T&L, right? Goose-steppin to THE KING's dreams, right? Heil, KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:16PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 12:23PM

Oh yes, the $trillions of government welfare is strictly paid to the white-honkies, right? Every prison in this country is strictly loaded with white-honkies, right? The criminal statistics are biasedly slanted toward the white-honkies, right? Ever heard of whats known as """"""TRUTH""""?????? What a dumbaxx you are!!!!!!!

JCS| 11.21.12 @ 11:27AM

Oh, for goodness' sake. There are no "conservative commentators" who reject "the possibility that human activity might be having an impact on climate." Rather, there are conservatives for whom the science is quite compelling that manmade carbon emissions do not hold a candle to natural carbon emission and that therefore the trillion-dollar carbon fixes will do nothing but bankrupt Western civilization. If we're going to criticize conservative environmental policy, let's at least state that policy honestly.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:23PM

First, the party has to contend with those who are fundamentally hostile to science and to the short term economic interests that deny science in the pursuit of profits.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 2:04PM

Fundamentally hostile to the religion of Global Warming, you mean? Or are all the data that disprove this candard just so much noise from the unbelievers?

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:57PM

Give me the links to the data.

You need to get current with the thinking, Grzmlyk. You're still posting last year's RWNJ's propaganda.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:19PM

Links?
How come everything with you always gets back to Sausage??
and not all of us know what RWNJ means you DSF

Frank ESADMF Drackman

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 6:31PM

RWNJ : euphemism for asshole; i.e. people like you.

Frank Drackman| 11.22.12 @ 5:28AM

oh, Thats Clever..................
"Asshole" you mean that orifice of yours that's looser than the Morals of Paris Hilton??
See THAT was clever...
Homo, now stop sending me those pics of your cock or I'll sick skully and mulder on you..

Frank

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 3:27PM

Incorrect. I know how this game is played; I pull out a statistic, you pull out a statistic. I'll bet the Daily Kos has organized all the little bits nicely for you; you're just itching to hit "paste," aren't you?

It isn't the stats per se - it's which stats you choose to believe. I believe that Global Warming is a myth that capitalizes on classic White Guilt in order to redistribute wealth. For every stat you bring out, I can bring out one that will contradict it. I guarantee it.

But you think YOUR people are more credible - simply because you believe them. Well I think that at the top tier you have your con men - and then the foot soldiers, like you, who credulously believe that the world is flat. Wasn't that settled science at one point? And wasn't phrenology supposed to be all the rage in psychology at the turn of the 19th century? And didn’t the flagellants in the Middle Ages believe that if they just whipped themselves enthusiastically enough, they could cure the Black Death?

My god, science can't even agree on the ideal food pyramid without incurring disagreement from all sides. But you know THE TRUTH. Uh huh. Do you happen to work for GE? Kidding! I know you don't work.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 3:27PM

You choose to be a chicken little who believes that you can expunge your own guilt - or, more plausibly, the guilt of EVIL corporations that you have been FORCED to be a party to and on which you seek revenge - by embracing the myth of global warming.

Of course you don't actually plan to live as you insist others do, but you think that just being on the "right" side, and scolding everybody for not recycling candy wrappers, ought to be enough. And every bad storm is "proof" that climate is getting worse, and every atypically cold day is just a random outlier and you change the term from "global warming" to "climate change" for that day. Hey, believe in the tooth fairy for all I care, but don’t force me to worship your secular god.

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:32PM

Changes in Earth temperature are primarily due to variable changes in the output of the enormous fusion bomb 93 million miles away, NOT due to the carbon output of the human race.

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 11:34AM

With all due respect to its writer, this editorial is mostly wrong. As Limbaugh said, YOU CAN'T BEAT SANTA CLAUS. It wasn't the ineffective message of Republicans, but instead the STUPIDITY OF AMERICANS. Forrest Gump had it entirely correct. FREE STUFF is what they voted for, and it'll continue to be "free" but only until the money runs out. And who pays the "money"? The American taxpayers, thats who, and the taxpayer base is dwindling rapidly due to les and less people that are working full time. When the "money" dries up, the country dies and it will be dead within two years max. Whose fault is this election's results? The labor union members [mostly municipal local, state and federal government employees], but also the American Jews [69% voted for this POTUS when he is obviously anti-Israel], parents of pulbic school children which are constantly brainwashed with leftist propaganda by unionized school teachers/administrators, single women who are collectively dependent upon government for welfare services, etc. No it is not the old white men theory that is decaying the Republican Party's success, but rather these aforementioned sources. If and until Americans WAKE UP to the dictatorial/controlling agenda of the Democratic Party, this country will continue on its death spiral toward the economic brick wall at 100 MPH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:35PM

Another insult instead of blaming your ignorant and stupid attitudes for why you lost. You will continue to lose, because you are no longer relevant to America.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 2:09PM

Ah, but America is no longer where we live. We now live in Liberalville, a mythic land beyond the rabbit hole, where up is down, good is bad, and morality is immoral; where wishing makes it so; where envy, greed, vanity and sloth are rewarded with Other People's Money; and where, if I put a gun to your head and force you to work for my benefit, that makes me a good person.

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:12PM

" if I put a gun to your head and force you to work for my benefit, that makes me a good person." - YOU've been doing that for years... and now it's over. Party's over and you don't even know it. It's sad - but LMAO.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 9:31PM

Ah, yes, the downtroden Proletariat. You fools never get past 1917, do you? What's so progressive about an entire philosophy that seeks to regress to the sepia-toned days of a century ago?

And if you could read, you'd realize that I KNOW the party's over - but it's not the party you are referring to. I'm referring to the endless gravy train that you think you're entitled to. That's going to end. Well, with any luck, you'll get a serious illness and be able to show us all how you fare in the Brave New World of Obamacare.

Gary B| 11.21.12 @ 3:03PM

Purp, how about the people who produce goods and services and hire people and who pay all the taxes? Are they relevant to America, or shall we slander them, too? Are they just greedy perpetrators who deserve to lose everything? Are they the object of Obama's revenge? Do they even deserve to live?

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:17PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 7:45PM

No dumbazz, you and your other snotnosers are complete losers. You don't work, you don't serve your country militarily, you don't pay taxes to support the government, etc. You simply do illegal drugs, listen to idiots banging on drums thats falsely called music, you abuse children by bringing them into this world and not financially supporting them thereafter, you street protest for more government benefits and demand that we taxpayers pay for same, etc. In a nutshell, you're worthless nobodies and never will be anything of any substance. You worthlessly devoted yourselves to a political charleton manipulator and his domest terrorist friends who will destroy this nation in several years due to his incompetence and radicalism, and all that we of present and past generations have worked, supported, fought and died for will be lost forever simply because of your insane stupidity and worhtlessness as human beings. The asylum is now being run by the inmates, ie YOU!!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:16PM

Farty, my old, old friend. I work, have a business, was in the Air Force, pay taxes and everything a good white conservative Republican says they do - Except I really did it or do it today.
Your projection of all the ills of society you don't like must be a result of you living in a trailer park with White Trash. Is it?
You are right about one thing - WE RUN THINGS...! it must sting to be a LOSER, but for your ignorant, stupid, evil nasty ways, you unfortunately deserve it. You are reaping the hatred you've sown. How's it feel? I hope you love it, 'cause you're gonna live with it for 30 years hence! LMAO.

Frank Drackman| 11.22.12 @ 5:38AM

Your right, we lost.
Guess Gitmo will be closed, umm sometime around...
when you get out of jail, you Homo
FOR THE LAST TIME STOP SEXTING ME!!!
Wouldn't wanta see your wrinkly old scrotum even if I was into scrotums, like you.

Frank, 12/M/GA(don't get excited, that means, Georgia, not Gay)

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 11:56AM

"have a business"? What a joke you are! If that were true [I have known and worked with small business owners my whole life and you are NOT one of them and never will be; when the stupids that work for business owners are going home, the business owner is just getting started his work until he practically passes out from exhaustion for two hours sleep], you'd be WORKING YOUR AZZ OFF instead of on here blogging and "LMAO" constantly. You wouldn't have time to sleep, eat, much less constantly making an AZZ of yourself here arguing with everyone using your insane and radical ideas. No you don't "have a business" unless it's fetching cow milk for your mother whenever she whistles for it, and you're what comes out of the wrong end of cows after they've drank their milk. "have a business"..... MY AZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 12:03PM

No fool [and stupid one at that], I and the resto of us built this nation [and that dumbazz Harvard lawyer is FOS about his dictatorial theories about gov'tment doin so], pay taxes that support you welfare suckers of society's taxpayers and defended same for the rights of you and your sister Hanoi Jane to stupidly mouth-off your insane BS. When this country is on the brink of financial disaster next year, you and yours will do what you always do and that is to turn-tale and run for the woods to hide [or Canada]; and it will be left to the Romneys, the McCains, the Bushes etc to clean up the mess that the Axelrods, the Garretts, the Durbins, the Ayers etc have created!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neatsfoot| 11.21.12 @ 11:45AM

Funny, I am a troll, and was going to invoke the Titantic analogy, but I see it has been done already . . .
Based on the comments on this page, reflecting the chaos in the GOP, it is indeed time to start panicking .
I process visa applications for Australia. . .

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 11:51AM

For someone that only got 47% of the vote (final tally) with the President at 53% of the vote, he's really irrelevant now. I'm tired of talking about Willard, so I won't. He's a LOSER and that's the end of him. Period.
On the other hand, it's funny you label constituencies "tribes" as if we're an uncivilized nation. From the party that started divisiveness with Karl Rove and his "divide and conquer" strategies, it's quite amusing that you blame divided tribes for your loss.
Well, if that's true, you sowed the seeds, now you reap the whirlwind. It was a stupid, short-sighted tactic, but you can look toward 30 years of losses now, because of your ignorance and unresponsiveness to the electorate. It's just what you deserve, so I don't think you should be surprised.
You haven't won a majority in a Presidential Election but once in the last 7 elections. Not a very good track record to bank on the future.
Of course, you could continue to try voter suppression techniques and keep people you don't like from voting - but that didn't work this time, I doubt it will in the future.
No, the future of conservatism and the Republican party is highly in doubt now. I've endured for the last 30 years through Republican majorities, and now it's your turn to endure. Enjoy the ride - I will!

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:20PM

I bet you enjoy rides every nite...

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:18PM

You Betcha! Maybe you can run Brainiac Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" Palin in 2016 ... Wonder if she knows what newspapers she reads by now? Or where the Middle East is? Hahaha .... LMAO.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 10:56PM

She never said that. Tina Fey said that. Oops. Some anecdotes are just too good to fact check aren't they? What she said is that you can see some Russian territory from some parts of Alaska. Which is T-R-U-E.

But, you know what liberals always say: The facts may be wrong, but the narrative (we want to believe) is right.

That's kind of like when Barack Obama said, "I'm gonna get all those white bastards to bow down to me!"

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 11:28AM

What intelligent person READS NEWSPAPERS, since they are all filled with the radical and biased BS and propaganda of the Democratic Party? Obviously you do read "newspapers", which explains why you're so STUPIDLY brainwashed by them. Oh and as to where the Middle East is? Is that perhaps where some domestic terrorists administrators allowed four American diplomatic personnel to be sacrificied and slaughtered in order to subversively cover up their illegal and unpatriotic activities within that region????????

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:13PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 7:48PM

Purp, you make a pile of horse manure seem relevant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Warrior| 11.21.12 @ 8:15PM

Purp you keep proving that liberals can do nothing but lie. Final tally was 50.6 to 47.8. Next W got 50.7 percent of vote in 2004. You need to return to 6th grade (which is probably a stretch) and try basic classes again. Don't respond as you are a contemptible piece of shit.

Seek| 11.25.12 @ 11:47AM

The wisdom and articulation of people like you, Warrior, never ceases to astound me. You should be up for a Nobel Prize for Literature. Do you still beat your wife?

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 11:45AM

Yeah your domestic terrorists won, so now you OWN THEM.....enjoy it while you [and everyone else is flying off of the cliff next year]. Oh and as to the Republican losses, remember also that the Democratic Party dominated this nation's history until they screwed up so much that we thereafter elected Nixon, Reagan, Bushes and then Clinton [and how did he sqeek into there? He campaigned and administered based upon a MODERATED POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, as opposed to the then Democrats' ultra liberal/radical wing of its party]. So ya domestic terrorists will have their day of destruction as seen previously in history, and then the country [if ther is a country left] will once agains come to its common senses and reverse its voting patters back to the Republicans. "Enjoy the ride-I will!" ? Hopefully so, just as did Thelma & Louise as they flew off of the cliff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riff Raff| 11.21.12 @ 11:59AM

"Maybe the fates were shining down on President Obama. "

"Republicans should calm down, stay the course, and be proud that Mitt Romney ran a damned good race."

Yup. Right. Check. Everything is A-OK. Just relax and wait for the next election. Sure. While people lose jobs and property is worth less and money is worth less and... well, more of what we had these last 4 years. I'm sorry (and I am NOT a Republican) but I can't buy this tripe. The dumbest stump in American Politics just got relected by the Proles he paid to vote for him using taxpayer money. 4 more years of our dolt president and his lunatical economic policies and bumbling, incoherent foreign policy, and his brazen corruption. Yeah. 4 more years. Just relax. Right. Check.

Gary B| 11.22.12 @ 1:58PM

The best campaign Romney ran was against other Republicans in the primary. The press, of course, loved every bit of that. Then, when he's up against Obama, he quits. Why? Because the press wouldn't like it one bit if he pulled out all the stops. My kingdom for a conservative candidate who isn't a world-class pussy.

JayDick| 11.21.12 @ 11:59AM

I don't think Romney ran a great campaign. He let too many Obama lies go unchallenged for too long. His "get out the vote" effort was a disaster. He never realized he was in a street fight and not a college debate; if he had, his strategy and tactics would have been far different.

Nevertheless, the Republican party will recover, probably in 2014.

But, the nation is lost. We will become like the European Socialist countries. We have been moving in that direction for decades and Obama has moved us so far in that direction that even a conservative President will not be able to reverse course. The best we can hope for is to slow things down.

Our armed forces will be neglected and will dwindle, just like the Europeans', as more and more resources are devoted to wasteful endeavors. It won't be long before that weakness will be exploited by our enemies and we will be doomed. In time, we will be totally dominated if not taken over entirely.

Riff Raff| 11.21.12 @ 12:13PM

JayDick, I am forced to agree. What I fear the most is not that our Amred Forces will dwindle, but that they will be re-directed away from foreign threats and toward American citizens. It is not unprecedented.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:31PM

good point, see War, Civil(What's so Civil bout' War anyway?)
or "War, Between the States"
or "War, of Northern Aggression"
or "War, of Southern Independence"
or "if I knew this was gonna happen, I'd have picked my own Cotton"

Frank

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:34PM

I prefer "The Late Unpleasantness."

Rhoetus| 11.24.12 @ 4:29PM

Occam, Frank: Now it's officially [PC] called "Workplace Violence."

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:34PM

Your anti "European Socialist" fetish is really ridiculous. Americans are quite comfortable with our largely market based economy and our "socialist" safety net. The iconic image of right wing stupidity is the geezer, who in the summer of the debates over the ACA, stood up and loudly demanded the the government keep its hands off of his Medicare.

Our biggest problem now is how to tame inflation in our extraordinarily inefficient (and not so great) health care system. What Americans are fundamentally unwilling to do is have an honest, open discussion about the enormous medical costs attending the end of life. Thank Sarah Palin for the "death panels" comment. She effectively shut down what could have been a good conversation.

JayDick| 11.21.12 @ 1:30PM

If Americans are happy with our safety net, why have they been demanding more government help with more things for over 50 years. My conclusion that European Socialism is on the way is based on 50 years of observing our government and our elections. People may not be verbal in their demands for more government (although some are), but elections tell the tale. The geezer's concerns about his Medicare is a good example of this trend.

Every time there is a disaster, be it economic, social, or natural, more people demand that the government "do something". Politicians oblige by pretending to do something. The fact that there is not much the government can do effectively is lost on a majority of the electorate.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:53PM

Jay,

In times of disaster people help each other. But a collection of rugged individualist, even working together, were not going to deal with Sandy or the last financial meltdown without the help of the government. The idea that the government can't do anything right is right wing nonsense.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:08PM

Umm, yeah, a collection of YANKEEs can't deal with that Glorified Thunderstorm, I mean Category 1, lame-ass-wouldn't-stop-a-Girls-pee-wee-football game-in-Mississippi Hurricane..
in the South we deal with annoying nuisances that cause hundreds of billions of death and destruction.
They're called "Black People"
and the Hurricanes suck too.

Frank

JayDick| 11.21.12 @ 3:21PM

First, I'm talking about a 50-year trend, not just the last year.

Second, I was in an excellent position for over 35 years to observe (and critique) the federal government. Believe me, there is very little that it can do well over the long term. There are many notable short-term successes and a few long term ones. But, it is very difficult for the government to do things well long term. The main reason is that all Federal government functions are driven and controlled by politics. Seldom is the most efficient or effective solution employed; politics always rules. Then, when things don't work out well, instead of going out of business, as a private concern would, the government simply puts more money into it.

Many other factors prevent government success, but these are some of the most important.

My conclusions are based on 35 years of direct observation and study, not right wing ideology. The right may overstate this conclusion, but it is basically accurate.

Drunken Sailor| 11.21.12 @ 3:46PM

"The idea that the government can't do anything right is right wing nonsense".

Really? So how goes that war on poverty or that little skirmish called the war on drugs? Has the goverment won yet?

JD| 11.21.12 @ 5:25PM

The idea that the right thinks that government can't do anything right is left-wing nonsense.

Unlike the Left, the Right does not believe that government is a "special" entity not subject to the forces that govern other entities, such as big businesses. We oppose big government for the same reasons that you oppose massive, too-powerful corporations. We oppose undue concentrations of power.

You don't get that. You take our opposition to your bad ideas so personally that you assume we always want the opposite of what you want, instead of merely understanding that your ideas are bad ways to get what we both want. You are so married to your idea that government IS special that you take our opposition to you as irrational hatred of government because it is government.

In all things, what characterizes the Left is a gross failure to understand what the Right even is. When you accidentally get too close to the truth, you react angrily, insisting that what we actually believe is something else, something more evil, something more easily attacked. There is nothing you resist more strongly than knowledge of what we actually believe, either among yourselves or among others.

That is why we are frustrated. We did not "lose" an election, because we weren't a candidate. Instead, most voters chose between Obama's caricature of himself and Obama's caricature of Romney, neither of which had much to do with the real candidates.

Grzmlyk| 11.21.12 @ 7:13PM

Hey, moron, I have a piece of news for you: inflation is a separate issue that you bloody fools, acolytes of Paul Krugman all, will never comprehend.

Skyrocketing health care prices are the result of - say it with me - GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. Yes, I could explain it, but you wouldn't get it. But government has created this mess - yes, prices are going to go up in any case as new technologies and medications and procedures not even dreamed of 20 years ago come online. There are more intervention points in a person's life now. However, the natural spike in prices - which, if markets are allowed to work, would drop over time (remember how much plasma TV's cost just 5 years ago?).

But busybodies in government want to show constituents that they're on top of a situation they don't remotely understand or care about beyond the political lucre they can amass by sticking their fingers into the pie.

Every safety net eventually morphs into a hammock and then a ravenous monster. It NEVER fails.

Ah, trying to reason with you is like taking a wee-wee in the wind. Go back to internet porn.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:16PM

Aren't we all Conservatives here? Meaning we believe in the 3 "G"s
God,
Guns, and
George Jones...
and the power of Prayer, I mean, I prayed that the Auburn Tigers would win a National Championship and they did.
Too bad I prayed in 1983, and it took 27 years, Jehovah works that way sometimes.
So everyone out there, Pray that (redacted) gets Lung Cancer.
Don't call the Secret Service, or whoever you report someone that asks people to pray that someone gets Lung Cancer, I could be talking about someone really creepy, like the guy who does Elmo's voice...

Frank

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:26PM

You are a disgusting POS... glad you're a conservative. Wonder how long you'll be welcome by them?

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:28PM

umm about as long as I've been screwing your wife,
umm that's a cheap shot,
your daughter,
the retarded one,
now why don't you do your part to lesson CO2 emissions, Nome Sane?

Frank

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:36PM

Yeah, go with that ... that makes you so much more elevated. Ignorant DA.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:46PM

"DA"????
I've been to a World Fair, a Picnic, and a Rodeo* and I've never heard of that Abreviation except for District Attorney's and a stupid 50's hairstyle(looks good on you though) seriously, don't play with the Bull if you can't take the Horns...

Frank

loulou| 11.21.12 @ 2:02PM

Duck's Ass?

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 8:01PM

If you've been to a rodeo, then obviously seen "Purp" on the arena's sawdust floor....he was lying around in little brown piles and kind of had a foul odor!!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:21PM

DumbAss ... proves my point DA. LOL, LMAO ... ROFL - look 'em up DA .... hahahahaha

Oldefarte| 11.23.12 @ 5:32PM

Perp, here's a link to your blow-buddies:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....-S-Economy

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 8:04PM

"elevated" ? As in Barry on a podium with a teleprompter and Greek columns??????

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 7:54PM

There once was a pile of excrement called "Purp"
Who mostly was considered a TWERP
His commentary was insanely dumb
And he was no doubt a financial bum
And additionally whats referred to as SCUM

Rhoetus| 11.23.12 @ 4:16PM

Well done! LOL

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 8:02PM

I'm back....I was inside the bathroom taking a "Purp"!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:20PM

So why you called OLDEFARTE? HOHOHO...

Frank Drackman| 11.22.12 @ 5:42AM

same reason your called Creepy wrinkly guy that keeps sending me photos of his wrinkly-ass-scrotum
STOP SEXTING ME, I'm 12
are you really that guy who played Elmo?
Frank. 12/m/GA(georgia, not gay)

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 11:34AM

Yes, everyone does it/farts and also excrements out of their anal cavaties little "Purps". You ought to try it sometimes, as it would possibly unclog your brain and create some intelligent thoughts!!!!

woodsman1st| 11.21.12 @ 12:21PM

Romney did NOT run a good and tight campaign!
Romney made a huge blunder!
During the 3rd debate, and for the rest of the campaign, Romney allowed Obummer to escape the most traitorous act ever commited by any politician
Obama not only failed to see that our Embassy in Benghazi and the Mid East were properly protected; he allowed Hillary Clinton to order that our Marines guarding our Embassies NOT TO CARRY LIVE AMMUNITION!
Then for months Obama ignored repeated requests to re-enforce the military that was protecting our embassies, even tho a UK ambassador was assasinated, the UK pulled out of Lybia, the Red Cross pulled out of Libia, other attacks on US Embassies, and most damning...THE ANNIVERSERY OF 911!
Then once the attack started, as Obama watched it live in the Situation Room of the White House, Obama REFUSED TO SEND AID TO AMERICANS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!
The day after the Benghazi murders by terrorists, 20 EMBASSIES IN THE MID EAST WERE UNDER ATTACK! In cold blood Obama refused to send aid; and left for fund raisers and TV shows. Obama then began the lies that continued for over a month.
From the 3rd debate onwards Mitt Romney never once mentioned those treasonous acts by Obama;! Or mentioned the ongoing lies and coverup by Obama and his entire administration!
Mitt Romney's poor judgement cost him the election and may result in damage to our country that will be impossible to repair.
Thanks Mitt....for nothing!

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:32PM

so, whats your point?

George S| 11.21.12 @ 12:32PM

Let's not panic over Romney's defeat. Okay.

But we are not the ones who are panicking -- it is you, Mr Tucker. See, this election was supposed to be a slam dunk for the Republican nominee, no matter who it would have been. Finally, a chance to prove that compromising and inclusiveness will carry an election -- even though it miserably failed four years ago.

Now you see that your type of candidate cannot even win with the four most miserable economic years the country has seen. So you need to keep the myth of the RHINO alive to make sure you get another one in 2016. Face it, if a conservative candidate should win, the Rockerfeller wing will finally be over.

That is why you think we need not panic -- we need to do it again.

Jeb Bush in 2016?

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 12:40PM

Jeb Bush is a conservative? Nonetheless, the "Bush" name will guarantee another Democratic Victory .. yes please, "may I have another Sir".

CJW| 11.21.12 @ 4:17PM

Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:

"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM

"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!

The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:

So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.

In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.

Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)

Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 7:57PM

Oh you haven't gotten the email, we're going to nominate/run Mohammed Morsi in 2016 and he will no doubt bring about total victory since all of the STUPIDS will be voting for him!!!!!!!!

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:19PM

You will vote for him? My, my ... LMAO.

Oldefarte| 11.22.12 @ 11:19AM

It's what is known as a "joke".....you SHOULD be familiar with that term/word however!!!!!

Oldefarte| 11.21.12 @ 8:08PM

'the "Bush" name'? At least he has a NAME from his ancestors, unlike your trojun-horsed domestic terrorist who can only dream of his non-existent one, right????????

Purp| 11.21.12 @ 8:20PM

LOL ... actually funny Farty. Ancestors? The man isn't even dead... poor Papa Bush.

TeaPartyNow| 11.21.12 @ 12:40PM

Sure, why stop doubling down on stupid just because it has just proven to be a complete loss?

If the right fails to admit its mistakes of 2012 it is doomed to repeat them.

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:40PM

Is there anyone here who seriously believes that any other of the GOP's candidates would run such a compelling campaign that the GOP would have won this election? Bachmann? Perry? Cain? Santorum? Gingrich? Paul? The only one who had a prayer of appealing to enough moderate and independent voter was Jon Huntsman. But, for the typical TAS reader, he represented just another version of the Democratic Party. So you ended up with the second best candidate in the field and you lost.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:58PM

what are you, A Homo? I mean a Racist?
Herb Cain would have beat EICOTUS(Evolver in Chief of the US) like the Nattering Nebob of Effeteness that he is, only reason we kept Him in our pants, is he couldn't keep his in his own pants...
and why are you wasting your time here? can't find any 12 year old boys?
WELL I AM A 12 YEAR OLD BOY!!!!! so watch what you say to me, Homo.

Frnak

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 2:42PM

Your admitting to being a twelve year old boy is the only credible thing you have written, Frank.

BTW, it is Herman Cain.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:26PM

his friends call him "Herb"
you know, like how your friends call you "The Creepy Guy who chats up 12 yr olds in Gay Sex Chat rooms"
I know, I used "Chat" twice in a sentence.
Speaking of Sentences, when is your's up?

Frank

Bill30097| 11.21.12 @ 5:25PM

Frank you would have been better to ignore Mike and let his post prove his idiocy.

Seek| 11.25.12 @ 11:44AM

Herman Cain would have no more successful against Obama than another "best black," Alan Keyes, in the 2004 Senate race in Illinois. Black conservatives are a tiny minority within a minority. Cain's main qualification for president was that he makes decent pizza and has a speaking voice virtually identical to that of Samuel L. Jackson.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 12:43PM

Bla Bla Bla,
its so Obvious what the Republiclans need to do to win in 2016.
Repeal the 13th Ammendment, or 14th, you know the ones Lincolns Drunk Sucessor forced down our throats..
Short of that, we need to appeal to the minorities,
You know, that 38% of White Peoples who voted for a (Redacted).....

Frank

Mike in N.C.| 11.21.12 @ 12:58PM

Little early to be drinking, isn't it Frank? Repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments to give that horribly oppressed minority (38% of White People) a chance to win.

Folks, How many here support Frank's plan?

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:12PM

Mike, I told you I'm 12 and you keep blowin' up my phone(among other thangs)
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!
won't you leave me alone, just leave me alone, won't you leave me, leave me, A-Lone...
Homo

Frank

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 5:35PM

When is it TOO Early to be drinking? It's 5 O'Clock somewhere, and talking to drawling LIBTARDS is always exhausting.

Stevemmn| 11.21.12 @ 1:39PM

We need for Newt Gingrich to train every Republican candidate in how to deal with the press and how to fight back against the Democrats. Gingrich was not a good candidate himself, but he was great against the biased press with their gotcha questions.

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:15PM

We need for Newt Gingrich to drink a 6-pack of STFU..
Seriously, I'm just to the Right of Vlad the Impaler and I've never been able to stand the guy.
I think its the shocking white hair(I'm bald, blow me)his shocking pink wife, and that he wore a pink Breast Cancer ribbon when he served his wife dying of cancer even though she's still alive divorce papers.
Wait, I like the last part,
seriously, how come Jehovah gave that Wake Forest Coaches unborn kid a Brain Tumor and yet Newt still slithers on the Green Room Couches???

Frank

Tafuna| 11.21.12 @ 1:44PM

Had Romney not supported coal and instead gone in for carbon taxes he'd have lost massively as conservatives such as myself who were cool to him from the start would have given up on him altogether. Very few people based their vote on "global warming." It's a non issue. I'm surprised, Mr. Tucker, that you believe such nonsense. The earth has not warmed a bit for over a decade.
Science shouldn't be a popularity contest in which the theory with the most votes is declared valid, but even if one thinks that way, there is no consensus among climatologists that the earth is warming due to fossil fuels. Indeed, when you look at which scientists are pushing this "global warming" nonsense, it's mainly crackpots like that publicity hound James Hansen and that noted scientist Al Gore (BTW, where DID he get his degree in climatology?) When one has to start calling it "climate change" because the earth is refusing to warm up according to theory then perhaps the theory isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Mitt Romney lost not because he didn't bow to the global warming gods but because he ran a mediocre campaign and the GOP allowed the Dems to engage in their usual massive vote fraud.

Buldogg45| 11.21.12 @ 1:49PM

You had me until the carbon tax. Republicans don't need to embrace taxes or global warming. Go advise the Democrats.

Solo| 11.21.12 @ 2:04PM

"Romney should embrace a carbon tax as a gesture to the educated middle class that he shared their concerns about global warming. "

Good Gawd! that has got to be the most asinine suggestion I've heard in a long time!

The reason that any reasonably educated person objects to the whole "Man-Made Global Warming" meme is not because liberals first suggested it.
The reason we object is because it is patently false!

You are aware, of course, that our atmosphere was once loaded with 100 times the amount of CO2 than it is now? And...despite that, the earth subsequently endured not one but a long line of Ice Ages.

If CO2 content controls climate, then how is this possible?
No...CO2 does not control climate and taxing
Americans to the tune of $16 Trillion (as admitted is required by the IPCC to achieve a less than 1/10th of one degree in global temperature--an amount which we lack the technology to detect) is nothing more than a "Global Welfare" scheme.

This, by the way, is why the Left is so in love with the idea.

By the way....what IS the optimum temperature for the earth?

Vic| 11.21.12 @ 7:01PM

I agree, Carbon tax would kill the Coal Industry

Occam's Tool| 11.21.12 @ 2:33PM

Next time GO FOR THE NADS!

Frank Drackman| 11.21.12 @ 3:24PM

This reminds me of 1972...
everyone was talkin about how it was gonna be 4 more yrs of Tricky Cock, then either Agnew or Conley, or Reagan would win, and so on and so on,
and we all know what happened.
Now if we can just get EICOTUS to tape himself committing High Crimes and get a Repubiclan Senate...
Frank

guest| 11.21.12 @ 3:56PM

Please forgive my sycophantic attitude, but every day, I check the Spectator website to see if Mr. Tucker has a new article.
A minor correction: the word "born" in the 11th paragraph should probably read "brought".

Jane Chingo| 11.21.12 @ 5:01PM

What an amazing ability to miss the point -- which is this. Have it engraved on your forehead or something: It's not that Romney lost or what kind of campagn he ran. It's that the country voted for that idiot obama AGAIN.

Bill30097| 11.21.12 @ 5:16PM

Global Warming is proven to be a fairy tale. No one but a liberal would want Romney embrace a carbon tax as a gesture to the educated middle class that he shared their concerns about global warming. Tucker should have been fired.

JD| 11.21.12 @ 5:18PM

I don't like the title of this article in that it suggests that Romney should get a trophy for losing. The rest, though, is better.

I don't reflexively deny the possibility that human beings could change the climate. I just refuse to reflexively believe that it's happening either. The AGW agenda has done a terrible job presenting real evidence, has many times sold us garbage as if it's real evidence, and has used textbook scam tactics in politicizing and selling their ideas. Telling us it's a slam dunk, then saying you aren't qualified to even comment on the matter without one of their "expert" certifications? Very fishy.

As for the 47%, demonizing them works against us. Tucker is right. If we announce that they'll vote for Democrats because of handouts, we're implying that we agree that they're better off under Democrats. They're not. Many of them only need handouts because of Democrats. We need to tell them that.

We must not imply endorsement of the idea that Democrats are better for the poor, or Democrats will dominate among the poor as well as the altruistic middle class and rich. That might be the majority of voters right there.

Dennis D| 11.21.12 @ 6:22PM

Yes Romney did run a good campaign . I do not believe the Gallup poll which had him up 7 and believe it was an outlier. Romney should have defeated Obama by 20pts and thats what has me worried. Has American demographics changed so much ? Have the under 40s been so badly brainwashed ? My 39 Yr Old White Middle Class Nephew voted Obama. He cited the religious right and parrotted the " Romney is for the Rich" theme to me. We have a messaging problem and much of it has to do with the far left media which isn't going to change soon

Vic| 11.21.12 @ 6:58PM

I do feel bad for Romney. He is being hounded by Republicans for his 47% comment and "Gifts to Blacks/Hispanics/Young students/Women seeking free contraceptives & abortions" but atleast he came out of the woods as a true conservative. Not the fake one he looked like forever. I don't buy the Storm surge for Obama and feel that Romney did lock in the conservative vote (guys he got 48%!) but failed in fooling enough Reagan democrats that he was a moderate. I guess the Democrats figured him out thanks to wave after wave of unanswered ads by Obozo

AgntOrngVctm| 11.21.12 @ 6:55PM

It was an awful, bland, moderate, non or neo-conservative campaign. In Ohio, the Romney team did not even try. At all. Ever. He fully expected the TEA Party to do the heavy lifting, then he disavowed them in his quest for moderation.

This article was atrocious.

paulie4| 11.21.12 @ 8:59PM

Conservatism should not lose to Liberalism but it does on a regular basses, why? I believe that it’s because Liberalism appeals to the emotions and because Liberals will get dirty and personal quickly. Every salesman knows that customers will rationalize intellectually what they have already decided on emotionally. Liberals strike with quick emotional attacks and from then on it’s an uphill battle as Conservatives struggle to show the intellectual honesty of their positions. We have to start selling Conservatism like the Socialists sell Socialism.

sdfhlk | 11.22.12 @ 4:56AM

Romney’s Defeat, i am sorry with that

Teflon93 | 11.22.12 @ 9:04AM

Sure, Tucker---Mitt Romney ran a GREAT campaign.

Yet another RINO rejected by the electorate despite your claims he would win.

So why should we listen to you again?

Bumr50| 11.22.12 @ 10:05AM

"Two weeks before the election I wrote a piece for the Spectator saying Romney should embrace a carbon tax as a gesture to the educated middle class that he shared their concerns about global warming. "

Yeah, that's probably why you took a lot of flak.

Let's say, for arguments sake, that you're right and anthropogenic CO2 has a slight impact on the climate.

Your first thought is to agree to tax CO2 emissions?

You, sir, are no conservative.

Mike in N.C.| 11.22.12 @ 10:23AM

Of all the people in the GOP who got it wrong in the last election, none failed so spectacularly as Karl Rove and Dean Chambers. One would think their careers would be over. How could the Koch brother possibly support such rank incompetence in the future?

Don't worry. Their jobs are secure. They will be employed by the plutocrats to keep the useful fools, like most of the people who post here, engaged and angry so they vote in 2014. Be honest. How many of you have swallowed hook, line and sinker Chambers BS that Obama stole the election in four swing states? Of course you have.

Oldefarte| 11.23.12 @ 5:28PM

Why don't you C&P morons [see below link] go imitate Thelma & Louise?????????????????

AKraver| 11.22.12 @ 3:01PM

Mr. Tucker,
I haven't read much of your work, but from this post it appears that you are not particularly conservative. You may be exceedingly Republican, but that's not the same thing. But therein lies the trouble with the Republican Party:

We have plenty of Republicans who fight like the dickens to find moderate ground, to soften conservatism. Strong leaders, regardless of whether their policies are good or bad, however, draw people TO THEMSELVES, rather than seek to change themselves.

The problem with Republicans is that they are not unabashedly conservative, and this shows in who we nominated for president. Romney is not an ideological conservative. Romney is a, conversely, an ideological pragmatist; and pragmatism leads to compromise, and compromise leads to a dilution of principles.

Do you see Obama or the democrats compromising? No! They play for keeps. Do you see them waffling and being inconsistent? No! You see a concerted direct effort to bring socialism to the US. And they certainly sacrifice pragmatism for their ideology.

We have to achieve the fervor and the strength of the Liberals, except for our own ideology, which is, of course, superior.

I didn't see that in Romney. I don't see that in the Washington Republicans. I don't read that in this article. But unabashed conservatism is the only available tool to convince our fellow citizens of our ideology.

Tassie| 11.22.12 @ 4:38PM

Republicans should never give up their moral values, even if they will go on losing elections. In the end the values they are standing for will win, because they are universal and timeless.Although it might take same time. Don' t become the party of moral decay like the democrats. A time will come when they will pay dearly for it. Just take a look back in history at the Roman Empire.

Cats1cowboy| 11.22.12 @ 5:05PM

Re: "...it would have put thousands of his constituents in immediate danger..." I've survived 9 hurricanes and private sector help was there first. And they didn't run out of water or pack up and go home early, like FEMA.

stmichrick| 11.22.12 @ 9:28PM

Considering Romneys political background I think he did OK as far as his personal presentation is concerned. His campaign organization, not so much. They failed to get our side out to vote and they underestimated the 'Jonestown' mentality of Obama zombie voters. After all, The One wasn't on the ballot in 2010.

Our surrogates, on the other hand, need to get better in flipping around the innuendos of racism and Christian fundamentalism traps used by rabid leftist media types.

The biggest miscalculation of our side however is assuming a reasonable level of economic sophistication in the electorate. It is truly shocking how many don't know much about capitalism, debt and taxes. This is where Republicans and conservatives need to adjust their rhetoric down to a first grade level.

Davidowen| 11.22.12 @ 10:14PM

I think you got it wrong for why Romney lost. For starters, Romney personifies a spoiled rich kid. Spoiled rich kids are not appealing to a majority of the people. Secondly, he only started speaking as if he were conservative during the last month of the campaign. The rest of the time before that, he came across as weak kneed and wishy washy. when you run against a person for office, the last thing I want to hear is that you think he is a nice guy. Romney is a classic RINO from the Northeast. Those people usually have bad luck when they run for the presidency. History has proven that. So considering all of that, it does not matter what the poll numbers were a week before the election.

Seek| 11.25.12 @ 11:39AM

Oh, and Rick Perry did well? Religious culture war types just don't get it. They're highly unpopular even among the GOP.

topcat52| 11.23.12 @ 12:35AM

Enjoyed the article, but more than that, enjoyed the global warming (don't we call that climate change now?) video. So far, it has convinced me that over the past almost 60 years, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has gone from 315 parts per million to 385 parts per million. (The experiment showing how heat is captured, essentially replaced the entire atmosphere in the tube with CO2, hardly what is going on in the "real" atmosphere.) But I look forward to the other 2 parts of the series, which was run in 2008. It seems we have actually learned a few more things since then.

HoraceRumphole| 11.23.12 @ 5:05AM

More idiocy. The argument isn't whether CO2 affects the environment, but how much we contribute and how much nature contributes. What good will a carbon tax do if our reductions in carbon do nothing at all to change the outcome, except destroy our economy? The left's motives are suspect. They are obviously using climate change to justify the transfer of wealth from our country to others, in support of their goal for world governance. No, the Democrats should have to prove their case, and thus far all these arrogant bastards have done is demagogue the issue, ignoring those who have the facts on their side.

Teflon93 | 11.23.12 @ 8:30AM

The whole nonsense hoax of anthropogenic global warming is exposed by three simple facts:

1. The eruption of Mt Pinatubo put more CO2 into the upper atmosphere than man has ever created;

2. The mean surface temp of the Earth has not in fact warmed over the past 16 years;

3. Surface temps were far warmer than now during the Middle Ages, when man produced next to no carbon emissions, without ill effect.

Ralph Novy| 11.23.12 @ 8:12PM

All three of your "facts" are lies.

Who told you that crap?

Ralph Novy| 11.23.12 @ 8:13PM

Senator I'm-too-dumb-to-tie-my-own-shoelaces Inhofe?

Jeff R| 11.23.12 @ 8:34AM

"A governor has to act on behalf of his state. Parts of New Jersey were devastated, and if Christie had snubbed Obama, it would have put thousands of his constituents in immediate danger -- and been interpreted as his fault as well."

Granted, but Christie had to fawn, then?

Jeff R| 11.23.12 @ 8:37AM

Romney seems a man of honor. Why would he pander to the "educated" middle class by offering a needless tax on an issue that's a red herring ?

Ralph Novy| 11.23.12 @ 8:17PM

"Romney seems a man of honor."

Yeah.

That's the problem. Romney "seems" to be a lot of things he isn't.

Does ANYONE know who/what he is? Does he?

And this reptilian bastard almost became the U.S. president???????????

Can anyone else smell "American decline" in the air?

Jeff R| 11.23.12 @ 8:40AM

"I agree that there have been ridiculous alarms and exaggerations in the press, but overall it's perfectly plausible that putting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere might affect the climate. Nor would forestalling it mean the end of industrial civilization (although factions of the environmental movement would obviously welcome that)."

"Perfectly plausible" doesn't science make. It was once perfectly plausible that the sun rotated around the earth.

Jeff R| 11.23.12 @ 8:45AM

"ON THE WHOLE, HOWEVER, Romney ran a very tight and effective campaign."

It was an uneven camapign by Romney, in many ways. Romney shouldn't have allowed Obama to so freely define him during the summer. Too many attacks by Obama went unanswered.

Mike in N.C.| 11.23.12 @ 11:58AM

Well, now I know why righties accuse Democrats of being communists, fascist, socialists (whatever - the terms all mean the same thing to those on the right).
Chris Mooney, in a book titled The Republican Brain, demonstrates that conservatism is highly correlated to authoritarian inclinations. What we have here is projection - pure and simple. Another tendency of the conservative mind is to suppress scientific information, any rational thought for that matter, that conflicts with theology; be that theology fundamental Christianity or Republicanism. Hence, Marco Rubio has no idea how old the earth is. Creationism is substituted for evolution. Climate change is dismissed as a hoax. The Congressional Research Service's study disproving the GOP's doctrine that lowering taxes on the wealthy stimulates growth is dismissed out of hand. Rove and Dean Chambers are still credible to the faithful in spite of being proven totally wrong on November 6th. Is there anyone here ready to leave the bubble?

Oldefarte| 11.23.12 @ 5:25PM

See the blow link and then STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack London| 11.23.12 @ 5:32PM

Dang - there goes the geologist vote too.

The term 'Republican brain' looks like an oxymoron to me - it is a life form, but not as we know it, Jim.

ABNCP| 11.23.12 @ 2:24PM

Romney is a good man. However he is not a LGT, a ligt tough guy. He had numerous opportunities to smack Obama around both in campaign events and those debates. He chose never to really do that. He was up against Chicago thug politics. Obama publicly said, " you bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Romney was never prepared to get his knuckles dirty. He needed to punch hard and never did.

Mike in N.C.| 11.23.12 @ 4:58PM

Nonsense. Romney is a nasty piece of work who surrounded himself with second rate operatives and pollsters. He got his ass handed to him. Case closed.

Oldefarte| 11.23.12 @ 5:22PM

Sure he is, as we all are [according to your radicalisms].....MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU.....AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....-S-Economy

Mike in N.C.| 11.23.12 @ 10:27PM

Oldefarte,

Post your address and I'll send you a subscription to The Economist. Breitbart? No wonder you are so daft. Seriously, I'll pay the subscription.

Ralph Novy| 11.23.12 @ 8:08PM

No, you should not panic, Mr. Tucker.

You should hang your heads in shame, reflect, and figure out how to atone for Romney's shameful and yet shameless campaign.

Lie after lie after lie.

Cascading obfuscations.

No cheap shot not taken.

Most disgusting case of moral hypocrisy since the days of Chester Conklin.

How about THIS, Tucker?: Rethink what it takes to create a decent society for decent folks. Not a decent society for RICH folks; a decent society for "regular" folks.

THEN -- and only then -- will what you have to say and propose be worthwhile.

Ron Ackenberry| 11.24.12 @ 7:08AM

Balderdash!

Mitt who?

What's a Republican?

Martin kzovich| 11.24.12 @ 8:01AM

If the Repyubix dare to run a Bush, a Christie or any one like Romney or for that matter any other Moderate --I say THIRD PARTY.

Mike in N.C.| 11.24.12 @ 9:51AM

Please, by all means create a third party. Strip the RWNJs from the minority GOP and you have two minority parties at each others throats. This would be good for the Democrats, but not for the country that needs a solid center right party to counterbalance a solid center left party. I so wish the extremes of both parties would sit down and STFU.

TheGr8Goat| 11.26.12 @ 6:08AM

"...to counter a solid center left party"

Why are the leftist Republicans in such denial? If they were center-left a good 30% of the Republican party (presumably including you) would change back to being Demonicrats.

Let's rumble| 11.24.12 @ 10:21PM

One month out. No one is buying what your selling. It's pretty clear Romney bent over and took one for the party. I do admit my own temporary stupidity. After the third debate I bought the line that he was playing it cool. So now we have a president that still hasn't been vetted and now has a iron ring of invulnerability around him called the media. I don't see one good reason there should not be a third party. Last time I give my vote to

Let's rumble| 11.24.12 @ 10:23PM

Yah, steady as she goes boy. Steadily marginalized out of the process.

greatj| 11.24.12 @ 11:20PM

Let us never forget that Mitt recieved almost sixty million votes.

Seek| 11.25.12 @ 11:38AM

This is, without question, one of the best post-mortem articles on the 2012 presidential election one will find on this site or anywhere else. Tucker grasps that blacks and Hispanics are not "natural Republicans": au contraire, they are natural Democrats, ever and always looking for, and receiving, a free lunch, with the Democrats serving by far the largest portions. Why should the GOP imitate them? We not only lose the party's reason for being, we lose America as well. We need an outreach program -- a white vote outreach program.

Romney ran a fine campaign insofar as he avoided race, language, immigration and other issues of national identity. Unfortunately, those issues are paramount and drive all other issues, from national security to crime to traffic gridlock to the welfare state. The Republican Party desperately needs to become pro-white and downplay aggressive Culture War sentimentality.

Mitt Romney operated brilliantly within proscribed boundaries; it's time now to nominate someone who goes beyond those boundaries.

hammerin4u56| 11.25.12 @ 12:28PM

Look. The Republicans lost by 4 million votes and 3.3% with a sluggish economy. Can you imagine what it would have been like with a more robust recovery? As a former Republican, who voted for GHWB (twice) and Bob Dole - I think I can stand for the many educated whites who feel that complete lunatics have taken over the party. Too many Republicans deny global warming, repudiate science and evolution and talk about the evils of Big Government - except when it comes to womens' bodies. They've abandoned us, and the results will only get worse. Can you imagine the result if Hillary runs in 2016 with a recovered economy and an electorate that is only 70% while? The Republicans will be slaughtered.

TheGr8Goat| 11.26.12 @ 6:11AM

Right.......go away troll.

Ron Ackenberry| 11.25.12 @ 7:18PM

I begrudgingly admit Romney ran a good race. He was determined, focused and personally ethical the whole way.

He was and still is the wrong guy for the job, but he handled himself with a degree of dignity not seen often in the halls of Wingnuttery.

Let's remember though, no one really LIKED Mitt, or his wife. Especially after the story about what he did to the dog. Real Americans don't like dog abusers.

And, the majority of Americans don't like a party that abuses women and children, minorities, people who aren't millionaires and people who work for a living.

In short, the party lost, not Romney.

But, indeed the party did lose.

Get over it, losers.

TheGr8Goat| 11.26.12 @ 6:05AM

It is folks like you who brought us Romney, huh? Learn your lesson, Chicken Little, we won't vote for any more of your manginas.

AgntOrngVctm| 11.27.12 @ 2:08PM

This article is spectacularly clueless. Wait for a couple'a years and the TEA Party will pick up a few more house votes and a Senator or two and then slam right into 2016 with the Mittens McRomney moderate style of campaigning. What could go wrong? RINOs run from conservatives so as to not be associated with their "extremist" views, and wage a nothing campaign.

I can't believe the Spectator would agree to print this tripe. I thought the magazine would not abandon what made it great in the '90's. I was wrong. Goodbye.

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