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The "Silver" Lining to the Election Results for Conservatives

November 9, 2012 @ 9:41 am

"Silver" might be a bit of a stretch. "Aluminum" might be more like it. While some may wonder why conservatives are still walking around as though they're recovering from an abdominal wound, it's not confusing if you understand that when conservatives said this was possibly the most important election of their lifetimes, they meant it.

President Obama has piled on more debt in one term than all other presidents combined. He talks about wanting to do something about it, but his actions speak otherwise. With the aid of a "conservative" Supreme Court, he has expanded the power of the federal government to force citizens to buy a product. His "reforms" are thousands upon thousands of pages that empower bureaucrats and regulators rather than citizens. In blatant election pandering, he ignored the limitations of his powers (which he himself had before recognized) and pronounced a executive "DREAM" act to pander for Hispanic votes he'd ignored when he had the legislative power to properly act. He has run roughshod over the religious freedom of churches and individuals in an unprecedented way. He is fawned over for saying "their are no red states and blue states, only the United States" and yet runs a campaign in which his opponent wants a man's wife to die of cancer, any concern about border security is racist, and the GOP wants poor people enslaved to the rich. And the list goes on.

A media so blinded by their predispositions and biases used their positions to guard the president and attack his opponent (Mitt Romney's "gaffe-filled" trip to Europe, for example, in which Mitt said what all of Europe and the press was saying, but when he, as a former head of the Olympics says it, is an "embarrassment." Or when Candy Crowley defends the president as a moderator in a debate on a point which Romney was almost entirely correct about--or CBS's withholding of embarrassing video. Or the fact that when a Republican was president, Guantanamo was a human-rights outrage, but with Obama it was a non-issue... as were war casualties, unemployed people, predator strikes, declining income, etc.

So yes, there is a sense of unfairness.

But more importantly, there is a sense that America has lost its senses, that we have reached a tipping point in which more Americans are interested in taxing others to pay for what they want than they are in having the freedom to pursue their talents and provide for themselves.

Have we reached the tipping point?

Maybe.

But the "silver" lining is this: Freedom works. The free market works. Moms AND dads ARE vital to the rearing of children. Life is sacred. Personal responsibility DOES improve lives and outcomes. Peace IS best preserved through strength. In other words, truth is on our side. It doesn't mean we've always presented it well, or applied it wisely, but our principles are true and there is a power in truth.

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  • sghouse wrote...
    Yes, we are past the tipping point
    November 9, 2012 9:20 am
    and there will only be a long slow decline into a cesspool of debt and liberal ideology. America committed national suicide Tuesday by a 50 to 48% margin.

    I'll be long gone by the time we reach bottom and the following generations, educated by socialist revisionists, will never know what has been lost.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    David ? Is your unicorn running amok ?
    November 9, 2012 9:52 am
    With deference to the Lone Ranger. The only thing we got out of this election was what comes out of Silver's hind quarters.

    But there could be some gold in this if a few more people get off their superiority complex and stop excluding people from the party.

    Hispanics are religious, family orientated and hard working. ... Stop trying to deport their cousins and we just might be their natural, political home.

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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Ronny
    November 10, 2012 9:57 am
    Since when did it become exclusionary to squeeze people who don't go through the proper channels? I would figure that the Latinos who busted hump and worked within the system would be resentful of giving a pass to those who didn't. It's human nature. The Republicans need to figure a way to exploit that train of thought as opposed to Democrats, where everything is skin color.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Cigarillo, you would be right except the was too many put things,
    November 10, 2012 10:00 pm
    it IS more about race than 'illegal'. Our tent was shut after Reagan was gone to too many Hispanics who've been here many generations as well as recent. And when WE block out any people, the they don't go away, but gravitate to the leftist party.

    16M people are NOT going to go 'home'. Listen to Lindsey Graham and recognize this truth. ... Accept their children and let them start paying taxes legally. ESPECIALLY SSI, so my retirement won't go broke.

    Actually, few want to jump the quay to citizenship so long as they can live without fear. ... And 'Hispanic' can be almost any race. It's only about skin color to the party that has rejected Dt. King's Dream.

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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    I see Dave's in full angry, whiney denial....
    November 9, 2012 12:07 pm
    Ah yes, it starts. From Dave and many others.... Which stage of grief is denial? Which is anger? It's funny how just because the majority of American's aren't on your side that _they_ are the ones who are so obviously wrong that you can't beleive that they can't see it. One day, the remainder of the right wing bubble of un-reality will burst and you'll find out that Obama's not the largest evil since the world began (he's not even close to the greatest President ever either btw), and all the name calling and silly slander won't change the fact that the extremist ideology that you espouse wasn't accepted by most Americans after all.
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  • sghouse wrote...
    Yup
    November 9, 2012 1:24 pm
    The takers will run roughshod over the makers until the makers can make no more. If you can't beat'em then join'em, and we can all drown in the debt cesspool of our own creation.

    Now where is my Obama fone???

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  • Zagnut wrote...
    FMS, your post is typical of the left.
    November 9, 2012 1:42 pm
    You can't argue with any of Dave's specific points so you go to the liberal playbook of using false arguments. On another website I frequent there is a really well done list of the arguments libs are experts at utilizing. Here it is: http://listverse.com/2012/11/08/15-bad-arguments-we-all-abuse/
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  • Drool wrote...
    Appropriate Word
    November 9, 2012 1:13 pm
    ....given the accuracy of Nate Silver. I kept trying to tell you guys.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Boze
    November 9, 2012 2:39 pm
    It is obvious to see why management passed over you and promoted John Curly instead of you. You have no imagination for real drama no matter how hard you try and your kind of boring to listen too. I am glad your stuck on Am.
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  • Frogsplash wrote...
    My earlier comment seems to have vanished.....
    November 9, 2012 3:11 pm
    I will try again. Dave, you are falling in to the same stereotype trap. Take a look at a US Per Capita Income map. It looks exactly like the electoral map. Now take a look at party affiliation of the top 20% income earners. in 2004 39% of them affiliated themselves with the Republican party. In 2009, that number had dropped to 32% (compared to 30% democrat). Based on the electoral map, and per capita income map, my guess is that has swung even more. What does this tell us? First, numbers do not lie. The Northeast, Upper Midwest, and far west coast are where the top earners are. Those areas are where Obama won the election. The deep south and midwest, based on per capita income, are the least affluent areas of the country, yet this is where the Republican base is. Republican's are fighting to not raise taxes on the top earners, when it is the very areas of the country where the top earners live that are blue states, and the party affiliation numbers trend to them moving *blue*. Are they trying to fight having higher taxes for a group that is using their vote to vote for the guy that is saying he wants to tax them more? Are there other issues at play here? Sure. The south tends to be more socially conservative and lower income, and the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and West Coast tend to be more socially liberal and have a higher income. Republicans need to better target their platform. Just for the record, I did vote for Romney (he had the smaller shoe).
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  • irony wrote...
    thanks david
    November 9, 2012 3:17 pm
    always like your shows
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Get out of the trees and see the forest...
    November 9, 2012 5:28 pm
    "President Obama has piled on more debt in one term than all other presidents combined."

    So did Ronald Regan. In case you haven't noticed, it's a trend line not a blip on the radar.

    "_he (Obama) has expanded the power of the federal government_"

    So did Abraham Lincoln. Again, a trend. Name one who didn't. (Coolidge maybe?) Name a time in our history when this was not the case. Historically, governments do not get smaller until collapse or revolution occurs. I missed your small government screed when Bush signed the 'patriot act' or created the department of homeland security. Got a link? Both are growing larger and more powerful now under Obama as well. It's OK Dave, hypocrisy abounds on all sides. I seem to be missing the liberal's screed lately as well. Taking your freedom or money away is OK as long as it's 'your' guy doing it, right?

    "A media so blinded_"

    A media so blinding... There, fixed it for ya. All the major media outlets are owned by just a few companies now. Do a google search on 'media consolidation' if you don't believe me. Truth is irrelevant. Their job is not to inform you. It is to divide you and keep you tilting at some fictitious windmill (and generating a little profit). Any line of division will do, class, race, gender, religion, red hat, blue hat, etc. As long as you're busy fighting your neighbor you will be too distracted to pay attention to the real crimes being committed.

    "_there is a sense that America has lost its senses."

    America has lost sight of its constitution and its bill of rights. People as a group really never had any senses to begin with, and they still don't. It's the rules that enshrined freedom that created opportunity.

    “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835.

    Sort of running out of clock aren't we... :-(

    "Have we reached the tipping point?"

    I wouldn't call it a tipping point. It's more like a slow tumble down an inevitable hill, since about 1913. Have we reached the point of no return? Maybe. Would electing Romney have changed anything? No. US debt per taxpayer is $141,668. Unfunded liability per taxpayer is $1,058,475. I don't know about you, but I seem to be a little short of the million dollars to pay back the debt they racked up in my name.

    If I could only get some of that TARP money, I could borrow myself out of debt. What a fantastic idea! *cough* Alas, these programs are only for banks that print money themselves and institutions that engage in risky investments and fraud on a global scale. Average folks don't seem to qualify to receive the loans, only to fund them.

    But take heart Dave... The same people that have been in charge for a long time still are. Nothing has really changed. Politicians are just window dressing, they don't control anything. The Obama cabinet is just as full of banker cronies and wall street criminals as Bush's was, or many before him. The fleecing of the flock will continue as planned until there is no more to take.

    We're not so different. Here's a 'socialist' you can hug. Senator Sanders asks Bernanke WHERE IS THE MONEY!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOpQkRsEfaU&feature=related

    You might even find yourself agreeing with partisan hacks like Grayson sometimes. 'Bernanke “I Don’t Know” Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion'

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yvagtrEQMI

    Btw Dave... There was a real conservative in the race 'who gets it' and you were among the people who belittled him and put your political party over the needs of our populace. Forgive me if I have a hard time feeling sorry for you now. You and the rest of the pseudo conservative republican cheerleaders got exactly what you deserved. You wanted status quo and you got it.

    Conservatives, liberals, whatever your label may be, we all have something in common. We're all having our freedoms taken from us and being robbed blind. Obama changes nothing.

    Don't you feel better now?... XD

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  • sportsguru wrote...
    roomtemp
    November 9, 2012 5:40 pm
    sniff, sniff. I love you man.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    @sportsguru...
    November 9, 2012 7:09 pm
    Hehehehe... You know me. I just call it like I see it.

    I'm an equal opportunity derisionist! Or maybe a derisionary? (Hmmm. Neither one seems to pass the spell checker.) :-D

    Oh well. -passes a virtual beer- To the health and happiness of you and yours...

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  • SeattleD wrote...
    That was quite the anti-Obama rant by Boze
    November 9, 2012 6:35 pm
    We've been hearing Boze and the rest Obama bashing for the last 4 years. How'd that work out for you last Tuesday?

    Do you think it will work for you in 2014? Of course you do, you're retards.

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  • SeattleD wrote...
    I should point out
    November 9, 2012 6:40 pm
    my Mitler Dumney bashing was extremely effective.
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