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I don't believe that for a second. They just are no longer based on reality because the delusional have over run their party. |
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I have a friend of mine who is partially retarded. He owns a house and lives on his own, and drives, but is mentally stuck as a sixteen year old boy and always will be although he is fifty. He watches TV but is barely aware of who the President is. Can cannot debate anything, and he'll believe nearly anything any one ever says. It's sad really. My point is there are a lot of people like this in society - not bright enough to comprehend the most basic things. Some of them are even college educated. I went to college for computers and a few days before graduation a classmate asked me what a pop3 email was - and then asked me to teach them how to set it up. I have a guy down at my gas station, fifty years old, former Army guy. Dumb as a fucking brick. He barely makes minimum wage and can't figure out why he can't get ahead. Whatever. |
This was it for the Republican party as we know it. There will be serious in-fighting for the 2014 midterms as they struggle with which way to go next (and that will likely extend to 2016). They can no longer depend on their traditional voter base to get it done.
Their dilemma moving forward is that they've painted themselves into a corner with their policies over the past 10-15 years. They are losing their voters as the older generation passes on (Romney got fewer votes than McCain did, who got fewer votes than Bush) and younger generations are too disgusted by Republicans to become one. It could take them a decade to fix their image problems. |
The GOP presidential nominee has lost the national popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections. They are pretty close to being irrelevant on a national stage. Sure, they'll win local races and will always win house and senate seats in rural areas and the South, but their strategists struggle with basic math when it comes to winning a national election. You can't win a national election if Latinos, blacks, Asians and women vote for the other guy. It is practically impossible.
They dug their own grave with their illegal alien rants. As Rubio said about Latinos, who voted huge for Obama: "It's very hard to make the economic argument to people who think you want to deport their grandmother." |
I'll say the Republican party is lucky that the country was SO fucked up from the end of Bush's term that it would have been impossible to have a strong turnaround regardless of who was president. Reason being that if the Obama-led country made a strong turnaround and everything was peachy, they'd have absolutely nothing. As it is, thanks to the 2010 midterms and things still not being great in 2012 leading to a continued Republican lead in the House, they're clinging to scraps. They're going to have to block everything Obama et al want to do to have any chance of continuing to have those scraps in 2016. That or they need to find a Republican version of Clinton that people can really get behind, which I highly doubt will happen.
It's really become a party of old people and loons. The irony there is you'd think they'd give a shit about the old people that vote for them considering that, but newp - paying for old people's prescriptions is socialist. |
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We, and I've caught myself buying into this crap too, are making decisions based on 30 second soundbites or 5 minute speeches that cover 12 topics in that time.
We're not facing simple problems that can be solved that easily. It's not about the passion of the speaker or the keywords. "He's a great orator", for example, doesn't solve a single problem. Not one. |
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