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    Republicans mourn 'the day America died' and plot the path ahead

    Republicans mourn 'the day America died' and plot the path ahead

    At the end of the night, supporters of Mitt Romney wait for him to come out and make a concession speech at the Boston Convention Center after the Republican nominee lost the election to President Obama. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / November 6, 2012)

    By James Rainey November 7, 2012, 1:44 p.m.


    The morning after President Obama’s reelection, tea party activists and movement conservatives reacted with dejection, rage and considerable resolve — saying they just need a better national candidate and a purer distillation of their anti-tax, small-government message to win the presidency in 2016. That did not inspire high hopes for compromise in Washington — where automatic tax increases and budget cuts loom even before Obama’s January inauguration. If there was one subject on which the political right made conciliatory noises, one day after Mitt Romney’s defeat, it was immigration. Republicans must think about the issue in new ways if they hope to expand their appeal among the growing Latino population.

    Out in the land, though, some hard-core conservatives spared no hyberbole in expressing their anguish over Obama’s victory. The political blog for the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that a tea party group in Warren County, Ohio, sent an email Wednesday morning saying “the world mourns the loss of America. Socialists, welfare and unions took over this country yesterday. Today I wear black. The day America died.”

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    Not to be outdone, right-wing commentator John Stacy McCain (no relation to the U.S. senator from Arizona) fulminated at the “American Spectator” website in an essay entitled “Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption: Dark thoughts on the meaning of a catastrophic election.”
    The losses suffered by some of the most doctrinaire Republican congressional candidates — like Senate hopefuls Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana — seemed not to faze the ideological purists.

    Activists like Matt Kibbe of the conservative organizing group FreedomWorks for America chose to focus, instead, on election victories by Senate candidates like Ted Cruz in Texas, Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

    “Candidates who ran on and articulated our message not only created a clear choice for voters but were overwhelmingly victorious in this election,” Kibbe said in an email Wednesday morning. “That is the power of our ideas and our movement.”
    The message concluded: “We must never give up. We must never stop fighting. America's future depends on it.”

    Long-time conservative stalwart Richard A. Viguerie also trumpeted the “purity triumphs” theme, saying in an email that Romney had strayed from “the path that led Republicans to win seven of the previous eleven presidential elections.“ Viguerie also demanded the rejection of a raft of mainstream Republicans apparently deemed too moderate — National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, along with “establishment” consultants Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie.

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    "Mitt Romney's loss was the death rattle of the establishment GOP,” Viguerie’s message said. “Far from signaling a rejection of the Tea Party or grassroots conservatives, the disaster of 2012 signals the beginning of the battle to takeover the Republican Party and the opportunity to establish the GOP as the Party of small government constitutional conservatism."

    Other Republican sympathizers hinted, though, that there would have to be more moderation — at least in the GOP’s message on immigration. Obama won roughly 70% of the Latino vote, with many voters saying the Republican Party had alienated them with its hard line on immigration. There was talk in the primary season of installing an “electrified” fence at the Mexican border and using a tough Arizona law as a model for tracking down illegal migrants. Fellow Republicans belittled Texas Gov. Rick Perry because his state allowed in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants. They redoubled their mocking of Perry when he said his foes showed they “have no heart” in opposing tuition for young people.

    Conservatives took a different tone on the issue Wednesday morning. On Fox News, one-time anchor Brit Hume said the Republican Party is “going to have to ask itself if the hard-line position that Mitt Romney assuredly took during the primary season to try to win this election … is in the long run a winning position for them. … And so when they're saying 'Well, Mitt Romney wasn't conservative enough' as some certainly will say, you have to point to that issue as one that might be a short-term and a long-term loser for them, politically."

    George Will, the columnist and ABC news commentator, noted the trouble Romney got in because he “came out against the DREAM Act, promising to veto it, and a few months after that he was using the language of ‘self-deportation,’ that is making life difficult enough for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country that they would deport themselves…It’s awfully hard to un-ring that bell.”

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    Democrats and, previously, some Republicans, called for a “path to citizenship” for undocumented immigrants who met a series of requirements. Whether more Republican officeholders will now embrace that position — while facing the potential of primary challenges from those who hold the more conservative view — remains to be seen. There appeared to be no mood for compromise, though, on their demands to stop new taxes and shrink government.

    Times staff writer Michael Finnegan in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.

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    Note how this Obama supporter was so 'happy' his Communist idol 'won' that, in his 'enthusiasm', he actually ripped the entire cuff off the shirt in the left side of this photo. If this kind of 'energy' doesn't frighten you, nothing will.

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    Death of America?

    Posted by Max Tollens Jr on November 7, 2012 at 4:00pm

    America used to be a country of people with faith, morality, and a strong work ethic that made her the most prosperous nation on Earth. Due to Liberal/Progressive policies of the past 100 years, those qualities have been diluted to the point that half of the nation have become takers. We're on the verge of a bloodless revolution that will re-make America into a socialist or communist nation.


    Nothing else seems to explain the re-election of a president who, by past standards, has been a failure. The economy is hanging by a thread, energy costs are skyrocketing, unemployment remains high, the dollar has devalued, the debt piles up on the basis of deficit spending in the trillions; yet half of the country saw fit to continue the status quo.


    Some blame the GOP while some blame the complicit media for their cover-up of the president's failures. I blame the media but I place a good portion of that blame on WE the PEOPLE.


    Americans have allowed the Liberal/Progressives to redefine moral standards; Americans have allowed Liberal/Progressives to remove faith from the public square. Liberal/Progressives have used Americans' compassion against them while advancing agendas that have made half of the nation dependent upon government.


    Americans failed to stand strong for the principles of hard work that made this country a beacon of freedom for the world. Their natural compassion for their fellow man was used to Liberal/Progressives' advantage in the creation of socialist welfare programs.


    Americans failed to stand strong for their faith when they allowed religion to be removed from the public square because Liberal/Progressives feigned offense to Christians "preaching" to them. Americans failed to stand for morality during the "sexual revolution" of the late 1960s, leading the way to a court decision that created a "right" to an abortion not found in the Constitution.


    Americans have failed to understand or explore the connections between Liberal/Progressives and the policies of the dedicated Socialist/Communist. The agenda is the same, to "progress forward" to communism by avoiding the bloody revolutionary means required to achieve the ends. America has been like the frog placed in a pot of water, slowly boiled to death degree by degree. Until we educate ourselves and our fellow Americans on the dangers we face, the temperature will continue to rise until America the Free is dead.

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