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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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  • deltasierra wrote...
    Haters Gonna Hate
    November 9, 2012 7:22 pm
    I love your first paragraph. "Aluminum lining", indeed. :)

    And I just read about McKenna's concession. The abdominal wound has developed peritonitis. :p Seriously, did someone curse conservatives with living in "interesting times"?

    Anyway, in the midst of my depression on Nov 7th, I had an epiphany: The next four years might suck mightily, but I'm in the cosmetics business (one that is debt-free, family-owned, and not publicly traded, I might add). We always do extremely well in recession. I could work really hard and be successful *in spite of* the economy and who is in office (even in our own state). Someday, I could make great contributions to candidates I support, including my time and that of my children's (whom I plan to homeschool--on a much smaller budget than our country demands for each student, if they even had a budget. But that's a different political rant).

    I'm still pretty bummed about both the presidential and gubernatorial races, but the damage has been done. Time to start fixing it. :)

    --Devon

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  • TheSymbolForBoron wrote...
    Some right-wing retard said Obama is worse than Hitler
    November 10, 2012 6:29 am
    Ok, so Obama is even worse than Hitler. Let's assume that's true. Still, we picked Hitler over Romney.

    These retards are incapable of seeing that the candidate of THEIR choosing has LOST to Hitler.

    White boy is now in the minority and all his hysterical ranting will never change that.

    Hey white boy, if you wouldn't mind, please step to the back of the bus.

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  • Anton wrote...
    Conservatives lost because...
    November 10, 2012 11:28 am
    A) Women don't seem to care for having government tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies

    B) Supply-Side economics is a failure.... What's that?... You don't agree?.... Perhaps you should check out the new released study from the Congressional Research Service and think about it.

    C) Conservative campaign efforts....well, they left a lot to be desired.

    D) More wackos on conservatives side that liberals.... Hey, Ted Nugent! Didn't you say something about jail or death or something....?

    Go cry some more and then come back to reality!

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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    Anton
    November 10, 2012 10:11 pm
    Shhhhh...Shhhh....We don't want word about that "war on women" thing getting out. No one on our side hasn't breathed a word about it until you opened your big yapper. If you need something to get the chicks with, try a compilation tape or pretending to listen as they whine incessantly about the bad boy they're schtupping instead of you.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    American lost because:
    November 14, 2012 2:56 pm
    more Useful Idiot voters wanted the Dear Leader re immaculated again thus not having their Gravy train disrupted. Illegal Aliens also were coached to vote for Obama for all this Free "ObamaCare" that we Americans are paying for.

    Donald Duck, the dead and hanging chads and voting booths that changed Romney votes to Obama votes. the Military ballots that were lost, destroyed or otherwise never made it to them and/or back in time.

    And let's us not forget the 3 million or so Republicans who chose not to vote. Thanks for the Dear Leaders re immaculation!

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Yes! Useful Idiot morons voted to re immac their Dear Leader for FOUR MORE YEARS of this insanity known as the regime.
    November 14, 2012 7:53 am
    The Left wing Parrots here did EXACTLY what they were programmed to do. The second immaculation. Another generation of Useful Idiots as a result of the next 4 years.

    America did not survive the first 4 years of Obamunism. What will be left of our America when the regime is gone? All I can say is that you Parrots will have to live under the very same umbrella of this regime as we Americans do. You Parrots DO realize that your Dear Leader is now UN accountable to anyone but his desires and dreams. What that means is when his dreams begin to squeeze you Parrots as well as us Americans? When your freebies are suddenly curtailed by the regime as we go deeper and deeper into debt? You Parrots will have ONE recourse! That is to come begging for us Tea Party Americans to do something at midterms. If you Parrots begin to see the errors of your ways and vote with us Americans for REAL CHANGE, we can vote out this regime and get real Americans back into our Representative Republic form of government.

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