After ruining America for 50 years its time to bury them.

America has finally figured out that republiCONs are traitors.

I’ve yet to see just who could be the GOP ‘Clinton’ in the bunch in office today. I suppose they might put forth that young phony from Florida, and hope that his darker skin and made up family history will help. The country is not buying their brand and it is driving them nuts.

Excellent article. It hits the nail right on the head. We should be careful not to underestime or trust the animal called CONSERVATISM, they are also the abode of the hostile ‘gun’ set. Those on the winning side that gloat should be aware that this group of rapid anti-Obama and liberal haters are prone to ignorant militarism that could erupt into an ‘active war against the antichrist liberal heathans’. I worry about this cornered accepted ingnorance, hate and vitriol filled, neanderthalic fringe on the right that may not be a fringe at all.

I bet the republicans would trade a Karl Rove, Dick Chenney, Dick Morris, Donald Trump, Rush Limpball, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson for a Bill Clinton

And a first round draft pick in 2016

Republicans will be back strong in next election.

2016 Rafalco/Romney

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This should be the death knell of the Repealican Party, hopefully. The problem is that they are too hardheaded and blind and like most rich people incapable of admiting their errors. They won’t go away but they will be out of major politics for the next 20 years. Randall J. Marlowe, Buenos Aires.

To paraphrase this article, the Republican Party becomes either a bigger tent, or a sleazy side-show away from the greater achievements of the main event.

I completly agree. More inportantly than talking the talk, they must actually walk the walk. A great starting point would be to lead a compromise to avert the looming fisical cliff. A gesture. But like the ancient proverb says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step”

I consider myself both conservative and liberal, in the vein of Morris Berman, Garrison Keillor (Homegrown Democrat), and the late Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence)– to name three disparate figures who all seem to share the same general sense. There’s nothing wrong in principle with social security and government involvement in medical care. Most advanced Western countries have them, including those whose average life expectancy is greater than the mediocre U.S. figure, which is now worse than Cuba’s. Think of it. If you’re just not interested in seeing the United States become the world’s glitziest and best-armed banana republic, does it make you a socialist?

When the Republicans talk about freedom, they mean the freedom to make a huge fortune, keep all of it, and buy machine guns. When the Democrats talk about freedom, they mean the freedom to use contraceptives, get abortions, or marry someone of the same sex. But in certain other ways, this administration is no friend of civil liberties. The snooping and surveillance apparatus initiated by Bush has only expanded under Obama. Our fearless leader could simply conjure up a claim out of thin air that you or I were a threat to national security, and throw us in prison and keep us there without due process. Was there a peep of objection from Romney over any of this? Apparently he concurred. I’m not too fond of nanny-statism, either, such as the apparent war on smokers, which is reaching ridiculous extremes, or our grimly incremental inability to buy light bulbs anymore. It would be a travesty to call such developments either conservative or liberal.

According to William Stringfellow, ideologies and institutions are both demonic. But in the case of the GOP, they are now at odds with each other, and one of them must be sacrificed. Either the ideologues will prevail and the institution will, at most, retreat into a regional corner. Or the ideology will get a radical makeover to save the Republican Party as an institution. I can see attractive enough ways for it to do so given enough flexibility and imagination, by simply standing up for freedom for everyone, across the board, and meaning it. It will be very interesting to see how this conflict plays out.

You gave the answer for the Republican Party in your fourth paragraph; “What would Republicans have to do to regain the trust they have forfeited since the Reagan era?”

Return to the Reagan ERA lost with Bushes, Dole, McCain and now Romney. Only this time you will see a new Reagan concept that the Democrats have never supported at the National Level. Republicans lost because three million stayed home who voted in 2008 do to the VP nominee. This was the margin of defeat.

There is a reason he wants to disarm us!

I have read many of the comments. I will offer my bona fides. I have been highly critical, though problably not as loud as some, in pointing out GOP and Romney short comings. I gave a fair amount of change to keep the President the President and to keep a Democratic Senate and get a Democratic House. I do believe there are correct, i.e., truthful, factual, and appropriate answers to some questions, issues and policies. I think that compromise oftentimes only waters down the correct solution to a problem. It is a fact, however, that we only won with approximately 51 % of the popular vote. I am not ready to write off half the nation’s eligible voters. I have not been shy about insulting people, but I generally try to limit my vitriol to individuals I am engaged with, the lies they are spreading or the policies they support. We can paint with too broad a brush. I would like to think it is possible to be tough minded and hard headed about what is correct without being unreasonable and mean. Unreasonableness and meanness, and a general lack of concern for one’s fellow human’s are what we have been labeling GOP policies and attitudes. I am loath to see us become the self-righteous – our way or the highway – boneheads they have shown themselves to be for the last four years (at least). I don’t think it would be wrong to display a little more grace and charity towards them. We can be polite and not rude without sacrificing our principles or surrendering our beliefs. Maybe politeness should be a principle. It would clearly distinguish us. I do tend to think my grandmother was more accurate than not about flys, honey and vinegar. Many who voted for Mitt Romney were merely ignorant and wrong headed. It is not uncommon for people to vote contrary to their best interests. The majority of them aren’t evil blood sucking vampires, self interested and self promoting opportunists, or folks seeking to be masters of the universe. (Clearly there were a lot of those types.) A number of persons voted for the other guy and did not think the President was evil incarnate. Those people can be reached out to. I have always thought that it was easier to reach out to people if you didn’t dump sh!t on their heads first. (It is hard not to at times especially when that is exactly what they have been doing to you for years.) We are humans and we are not immune to arrogance, pettiness, and hubris. We should try very hard to avoid those things. (I am not excluding myself from any of these criticisms.) I like to think we are on the correct side of history and I would like us to stay there. I am proud to be a liberal democrat and I want to continue to be proud to be one. I am sure I don’t want to provide any legitimacy to the accusation that we are a bunch of a-holes too.

Al Gores “Stolen Election”? It was the same issue in this election, Romney won the Popular vote but lost in the Electoral vote. So why are there not charges from the GOP that Obama stole this election? I’m not even a Republican and I can see your Bias immediately. You are far far left. You are not going to build any bridges with those ideas. The Press has abandoned any pretense of following the ‘Journalist Creed’ and while that ineqity continues to exist it will be hard to find common ground with people you continue to assult! A-Holes!

Filling the real Americans, on this post in: 130observer and onedonewrong are racists. They let it slip on other posts. One said Obama talked in ebonics and the other said they hated political correctness. allllamerican has admitted to being a member of the kkk. So when they accuse you of playing the racist card it is a diversion. lana ward is not intelligent and just throws out words she has heard. One of their ilk kept posting a supposed quote from a foreign newspaper that actually came from a right-wing-hate blog.

There was a racist who decided to take over the world. He started with his own country. He used hate and fear and succeeded in destroying his country’s democracy and taking over several countries.

Now, there are multi-national corporations who want to take over the world. Their money can make black seem white and the sky seem green. People, like the above-mentioned- are their dream people. They don’t love America enough to find out what is happening. They are enamored by wealth. They are not people with high IQs. They are paranoid so they can be taught to fear those that are not fooled by the corporations. They are racist. They are the danger to our Democracy.

this is a huge wake up call for the gop!!!!!!IF THEY DONT WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT NOW, THEIR CHANCE FOR REELECTION WILL BE SLIM TO NONE!!!!! THE GOP DOES NOT LISTEN TO WHAT THE COUNTRY WANTS. THEY’RE ONLY INTERESTED IN THEIR OWN AGENDA. BEING ELECTED TO SERVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS AN HONOR AND A PRIVILAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS. NOT FOR A CHOSEN FEW. THE GOP JUST DOEN’T GET IT !!!!!!!! SO SAD THEY DIDN’T SEE IT COMING!!!!!! WE THE PEOPLE ELECTED PRESIDENT OBAMA , NOT THE SUPER PACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The base of the GOP is guided by their religious ideology which drives them far to the right on social issues. Many Republicans are really Democrats based on their economic status but will vote against their best economic interests because of their archaic religious dogmas which blinds them to reality. While they claim they are the party of “freedom”by espousing the reduction in the Fed Gov’t's scope, its really a hypocracy as they welcome the government’s intrusion when it comes to social issues such as abortion, contraception and gay marriage. Their mantra which harkens back to Teddy R is simply “you’re on your own”. This does not wotk for today’s diverse and more secular modern societies. Unless the GOP really changes, they are doomed except for local Congressional seats but never again to control the Senate or the Presidency.

After his low point–impeachment by the House–Clinton has rebounded to a new high of popularity and influence. I see no one in the GOP who can match him in influence, eloquence, and charm. Reagan is dead; Bush I nearly so; and Bush II is so out of favor that it will be decades, if ever, before he can fill a role like Clinton’s. What the Republicans really need is another Eisenhower. If they would return to his centrist views, they could then recruit Colin Powell, another General greatly respected by everyone but John Sununu. But for now, there’s no hope of finding anyone as principled and intelligent as Powell as long as they continue to deny evolution, global warming, women’s rights to control their own bodies, and scientific fact in general.

Well, there is no doubt that the republicans are where the democrats were just prior to Reagan’s landslides. This is undeniably true. It’s also incredibly obvious that the republicans need to do a massive house cleaning and some serious soul searching. For me, the single most destructive element that informs so much of the extremism and irrationality of that party, the complement to the former depiction of the democratic party as way out there and out of touch, is the increasing domination and prominence of evangelicals in that party, a phenomenon decades in the making. Previous to this new republican identity, the republican party was where FDR democrats have been defecting since the 60′s, precisely for this reason, most notably exemplified in the famous McGovern/Nixon campaign that saw Nixon take the White House in ’72. That was the point at which democrats felt massive obsolescence and political irrelevance.

But lets not delude ourselves here. The divisions between the two parties is largely defined in social terms. It is most pronounced in immigration, medicare, and the idea that our current president is running a sort of New Deal approach to dealing with a globally destroyed economy. The republican resistance to the this modern New Deal approach indicates a tremendous ideological inflexibility and an inability to appropriately act to historically epic circumstances (financial collapse) and I believe is an indication of their evangelical underpinnings. When all of the balony of dishonest partisan politics is peeled away, these are the primary areas of contention between these two parties. In all other ways, they are not so different, most poignantly indicated in the incredibly close White House race. With McGovern/Nixon, there wasn’t any question what Americans thought.

Mr Obama and Mr Romney’s differences are not so pronouced where dismantling the financial regime comprised of wall st elites who have completely dominated and destroyed our country and our economy are concerned. Neither of those two men will ever do that; they both support the one percent in their policies, there can be no doubt. A new generation of those who experienced the devastation and destruction of that regime of financial terrorists will be the ones to correct this. Nor is the difference between the two men so great where war is concerned. Both men would not hesitate to destroy villages and kill innocents using drones (a form of terrorism in my view) and secret raids. Neither would Romney nor Obama take down the edifice of the nefarious NDAA and its loathsome indefinite detention. That certainly won’t happen. No, these two men and their respective parties are not so different in most aspects of their approach to governing. I mean, after all, Mr Romney can indeed claim paternity to the great Obama care, which is a massive boon to insurance and elites.

And as far as race is concerned, I would say that there are not such great differences between white democrats and white republicans in their attitudes, as a most recent CNN survey showed a nearly even split among whites from both parties in their negative attitudes towards black folks and Hispanics. And to make matters even more embarrassing for whites, there was a slight increase in those racist attitudes over the course of the last four years. Not so different after all. So much for the racist repubs and the inherently inclusive democrats. Racism in America is deep and traverses party lines. Again, this will take new generations of people and a changing demographic to see racism and bigotry to the door.

So for me, the bottom line is the republicans most certainly need to clean that party out of the extremism and irrationality of their evangelical base and once again show themselves to be the party that was founded as an anti slavery party; to once again show themselves to be equality and freedom loving as exhibited by their once inclusion of the ERA amendment as part of the party platform; to once again show themselves as champions of equality, as indicated by their championing of the 1920 amendment that gave women the right to vote. Republicans have to embrace the reason and common sense American ways that the party of Lincoln was known for and was founded on in order to have their place restored in national political office.

How do you know I am a FREAK? You have never met me nor do you know my background. It is obvious we have different political philosophies but that does not mean that we cannot engage in civil discourse and argue our points and agree to disagree.

Hurling epitaphs and rantings doesn’t accomplish anything. You are entitled to your political ideology, that’s the beauty of our Country – Freedom of Speech.

If you “hurl rocks” then expect to get rocks hurled back at you.

Take care – and even though the election did not give the results you expected – have a good day

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Fern W. I really like what you have to say, it’s right on!! My diplomatic version is –> The right wing-nuts, teabaggers and republicons should stop their F***ing whinning since they got the MEAT PUT TO THEM!!

130observes squat, we did do something about it –>> we put the meat to that phoney bitch gov!!

Fern I like your style, tell it like it isl. This stuff is fantastic!!!

This article is validation of the disrespect I have been feeling all during this campaign. I was so offended by the fact that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan felt they could issue all this vague information and constant change in position on issues and we the American people were to just accept it. They told so many lies to support their antiquated point of view, I think they started believing the lies themselves. I am so proud of the American people for giving a resounding “no” to the BS they were trying to serve us.

I agree that a constitutional amendment is needed to correct the error by the Supreme Court. NO! Corporations are not people. Corporation lack a soul, they do not die. They dissolve when the purpose of their incorporation is accomplished or when their governing body terminates them. They are a legal entity, no more than that.
A corporation makes its decision on business. Reminds me of old movies when the hit man says “don’t take it personal it’s only business.” No emotion, no sense of morality, strictly mechanical.

i would hope that jon huntsman would be the repub of choice in the next 4…i think if huntsman would have succeeded this time around he may have won the white house back…but since we got what we wanted to win to run against OB we knew we could defeat Romney and when he chose ryan as his running mate…we knew it would be even easier to win against both of them..too bad romney had to lie his way thru this campaign….nothing ever comes to any good by lying…

In the next presidential election, I’d like to see Hillary Clinton run for president and select a Hispanic as her running mate. Republicans think that by putting a Hispanic like Florida’s Marco Rubio will assure them of electoral success. Republicans are so dumb and don’t have a clue! Just because Rubio is a Hispanic won’t change anything. For the most part, his message is the same as Republicans except when it comes to immigration. Republicans will need to change their entire message and ideologies and must be truly sincere in their welcoming all groups into their political tent, not only older white men but also everyone else. If they try to fake it, Americans will see right through it. I don’t see the Republican party changing their entire message and ideologies anytime soon. They will try and masquerade it yet hold on to the same failed leaders of their party. Ann Coulter made a statement before the election. She said that if the Republicans lost then the Republican party needed to be totally eviscerated. I’m waiting for that evisceration. I’m also waiting on those Republicans who said they would leave the country if Obama won. I don’t see them boarding any planes or ships yet.

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Clinton sold the Nation out for the Republican Corporatists, while holding the Office of The Presidency.

He gutted out our long standing TRADE & LABOR LAW at the behest of ex CIA director G.H.W.Bush .. got work around the Constitution Law crafted so to Unemploy the greater part of our Nations Manufacturing workforce .. oversaw the Legislation which enabled Corporate America to Abandon the American Workforce .. made it Legal and Prosperous using TAX PAYER FUNDS to entice & assist moving some 40,000 to 50,000 u.s. factories to Dictatorship Nation Workforces .. thus De Funding our Nations Workforce , De Funding our Economy and De Funding Our Government of Revenues which we will NEVER RECOVER FROM.

The Nation Now has been stripped of it’s Historic National Wealth Generating Abilities .. it’s Large Domestic Manufacturing for Export Sales .. the Export Markets which were Property of the American Workforce were stripped out & handed to select u.s.Corporations who moved their entire Manufacturing to those Nations .. destroying America’s Workforce Export Markets .. FOREVER .

COLLUSION _ Racketeering Legislation against the Economic Stability & Security Of Our Nation .. I level these charges against Bill Clinton . A New Age Benedict Arnold who is in service to the Democrats as a Promo to Voters who have No Idea the Depths He Sank To so to Enrich Himself Personally at the expense of Our Nations Economic Stability & Security.

Clinton IS a Republican.