Since the election Tuesday several things are happening. On
Wednesday, the Stock Market was so thrilled with facing another four years of
Obamanomics that it fell 313
points. If nothing is resolved by Jan. 1 and the Bush era tax
cuts are allowed to stop, the economy is expected to suffer, so some investors
are already selling while the Stock Market is relatively high and before it
plunges further down. Boeing,
revealed their plans to restructure their defense division. Those plans
include reducing management jobs by 30%, consolidating several of their
business divisions to save money and to shut down their facilities in
California. In Las Vegas,
one business owner believed he was left with no choice but to
lay off 22 of his 114 employees because of Obama’s victory. He said that
his costs of running a business and having to pay more in taxes and health
insurance costs due to Obamacare left him no alternative. A Utah coal
company owned by a vocal critic of President Barack Obama has laid off 102
miners. The layoffs at the West Ridge Mine are effective immediately,
according to Utah American Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. They
were announced in a short statement made public Thursday; two days after Obama
won re-election. The Fiscal Cliff is not January 1 as everyone claims, but
it was November 6, 2012. We are already seeing the first few rocks
tumbling down the face of the cliff and believe me, there is a lot more to come
and when it does, we will find ourselves buried beneath it with little hope of
getting out.
Who are the ones that are truly unwilling to compromise? It’s Obama and
the Democrats. They have said it’s their way or no way. The legislation they
passed, they did not allow debate and now we have “THEIR” legislation in
place. And like old times, the media is already taking the liberal side
and laying the blame on Republicans for not compromising. January 1, 2013
is being referred to as the Fiscal Cliff. If nothing is done, the tax
breaks enjoyed by all of us will end and we will see a significant decrease in
our take-home pay. Additionally, there will be forced massive spending
cuts in the federal government, some of which will not be beneficial such as in
the Defense Department. There is one thing that hasn’t changed at all and
that is the unwillingness of the Democrats to compromise and then blaming
Republicans for the same.
It’s easier and cheaper to take over the GOP. Starting a viable third party or just take over an existing political party? I have been hearing the same rhetoric for more than 30 years. The establishment stock is down when it comes to the Republican establishment, and it’s ripe for a takeover. Most Conservatives despise the Republican Establishment (as I do), but they haven’t offered a viable alternative except in principle. Viability is important for people who do not have an ideological dog in the fight which is where a majority of Americans are. People support winners. If you can’t or will not grasp this point, then you better find a different line of work.
I firmly believe that many (maybe most) third-party people don’t want a real change in the political landscape because they know they couldn’t make it work. We split or water down the platforms even more which confuse the already blind electorate and they don’t have the skills, knowledge, or the work ethic to make the fundamental changes that are needed to turn things around and the clock is working against them. Some are content to watch it all burn and then believe that a new political Phoenix will rise from the ashes and a desperate world will call on them to show the way to salvation. It’s not going to happen. If it burns, it’s taking us with it. Sorry folks, but that’s not the way it works. It doesn’t work in politics like it doesn’t work in medicine, fixing cars, building a house, learning a new language, designing a sky scraper, or learning to play a musical instrument. It’s hard work. Talk does not build a building. The majority of people do not devote that amount of time to politics, but it shows us that change is not magical. It doesn’t drop from the sky after wishing, bitching, and hoping. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. Are you up to the task?
It’s easier and cheaper to take over the GOP. Starting a viable third party or just take over an existing political party? I have been hearing the same rhetoric for more than 30 years. The establishment stock is down when it comes to the Republican establishment, and it’s ripe for a takeover. Most Conservatives despise the Republican Establishment (as I do), but they haven’t offered a viable alternative except in principle. Viability is important for people who do not have an ideological dog in the fight which is where a majority of Americans are. People support winners. If you can’t or will not grasp this point, then you better find a different line of work.
I firmly believe that many (maybe most) third-party people don’t want a real change in the political landscape because they know they couldn’t make it work. We split or water down the platforms even more which confuse the already blind electorate and they don’t have the skills, knowledge, or the work ethic to make the fundamental changes that are needed to turn things around and the clock is working against them. Some are content to watch it all burn and then believe that a new political Phoenix will rise from the ashes and a desperate world will call on them to show the way to salvation. It’s not going to happen. If it burns, it’s taking us with it. Sorry folks, but that’s not the way it works. It doesn’t work in politics like it doesn’t work in medicine, fixing cars, building a house, learning a new language, designing a sky scraper, or learning to play a musical instrument. It’s hard work. Talk does not build a building. The majority of people do not devote that amount of time to politics, but it shows us that change is not magical. It doesn’t drop from the sky after wishing, bitching, and hoping. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. Are you up to the task?
There are plenty of things to take away from this election
and a clear understanding of just the pure numbers:
In 2008
McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden - 132,653,958 voters turnout rate of 61.6%
In 2012
Romney/Ryan vs. Obama/Biden - 118,782,374 voters
We
were (Down - 13,871,584) voters. 10 million less Obama voters. We
lost the popular vote by a difference of 2,899,844, less than the 3 million
that stayed home and didn't vote.
The
Democrats removed God from their platform and supported pro-Abortion while the
Republican platform reflected a pro-Life position yet 50% of the Catholics
voted for BHO. In comparison 78% of White Evangelical Christians voted for
Romney. What does this tell us? The Obama team ran on no vision for the future
other than more of the same. High unemployment, 47 million people on food
stamps, Middle East is in shambles, cover ups, and the Federal government
trying to impose its will on states and the Republican Party could not win at
the National level – WHY?
Ready????
Women are the biggest voting block in the United States. The media wants to
paint Sarah Palin as a “polarizing individual” – to whom? The statistics at the
National level are more than clear. Unless the Republican Party can
“PHYSICALLY” get away from White male leaders only and make sure the ticket
cross’s gender and ethnic lines, the war on women, the isolation tag on
minorities is going to stick. Sarah Palin brought out the women in 2008 and the
conservative base voters with her strong conservative values. When we continue
to allow the media and the establishment to keep bringing Moderate (all be it
bright and experienced) individuals to the front of the pack, the party will
continue to fade at the NATIONAL level where building a platform that cross’s
ethnic and gender gaps is imperative because these individuals have simply been
unable to articulate their message into these groups. The Republican Party/Tea
Party continues to gain and have success at the State level and lower where the
ethnic and gender gaps are being crossed at a rapid pace but when it comes to
the National level it is a miserable failure. Even the State levels can garner
way more support if the leaderships were changed.
There
is simply no argument to the fact that they have to be experienced for the job
knowing what we have at the current President and the Vice President, these two
are the joke of the World, making us the laughing stock of the World. I would
also even consider going back to the last 3 Democratic Presidents (Carter,
Clinton, and Obama) and extending that argument. Romney needed to have either a
women or a minority on the ticket that was staunchly conservative to rally the
base and the other voting blocs – he failed miserably. We could not even get
voters out after the last four years of the start of Armageddon. You may not
want to accept this but this is the world we live in.
America's voters – 73% White, 13% Black,
10% Latino, 3% Asian. Women make up 55% of the voting electorate and when they
vote 56%-41% Democrat or 67%-31% Democrat that are un married to the Democrat
Party we lose every time. Even with Blacks voting 93% Democrat and Latino
voting 75% Democrat. The numbers are the numbers – either we change the menu or
you get served the same meal!
Some things did go right November 6th. http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/07/20-things-that-went-right-on-election-day/