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JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:44 PM Nov 2012

Column: Reality crashes the Republican Party

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It turns out this presidential election wasn't so much about race after all, but about something bigger, more fundamental and harder to ignore. And there's a lesson here for shellshocked Republicans, still wondering how things went so wrong:

It's time to drop that "Take our country back" stuff and take your party back instead.

Barack Obama's romp took many by surprise. Even as Obama votes piled up on Tuesday night, political operative Dick Morris, who has worked both sides of the aisle, kept predicting a Mitt Romney landslide.

It's hard to argue with the demographic dimensions of Obama's victory. He won in almost every category of voters except senior citizens and white men.

That's led to lots of head-banging for GOP pundits: Romney might have won, they say, if he had eased up on illegal immigration and found a running mate who could attract Latinos or draw votes in swing states.

http://touch.latimes.com/#story/la-me-banks-campaign-20121110/
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Column: Reality crashes the Republican Party (Original Post) JRLeft Nov 2012 OP
Da plane da plane Republican Fantasy Island. Tutonic Nov 2012 #1
this is the best election review I have read Skittles Nov 2012 #2
It shows the deep arrogance and denial. JRLeft Nov 2012 #3
this part Skittles Nov 2012 #4
Yes, we are tires of the legacies. We are tired of 2 different judicial systems. JRLeft Nov 2012 #5

Tutonic

(2,522 posts)
1. Da plane da plane Republican Fantasy Island.
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 06:08 PM
Nov 2012

All that is missing is Ricardo Montebaln and a large body of water.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
4. this part
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 06:28 PM
Nov 2012

".......that's a collection of folks alienated, over time, by Republicans and their mission to return America to an era when some people had it really good — and whole groups of others had to settle for leftovers."

It underscores what I have been saying - we don't want "free stuff" - we want a LEVEL PLAYING FIELD!!!

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
5. Yes, we are tires of the legacies. We are tired of 2 different judicial systems.
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 06:53 PM
Nov 2012

We want fairness.

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