Winning Ugly! The WSJ's Take On Yesterday's Election

[Locutus]

He's like Jabba the Trump eh.

 

[SLM]

He's like Jabba the Trump eh.

That's an apt a*n*a*l*ogy actually. He is to the Democrats what Trump is the the Republicans.

I'm sure there has been more than one politician who's uttered the words "Stop helping me!" with regards to both of them.

OK, as an Albertan, I can empathize with American Republicans, in losing a federal election: for most of my life in Canada, all we could do was vote and hope the Liberal Party of Canada wouldn't screw up the country and screw us (Western Canadians and Albertans in particular) over too much. It sucks to lose and be reduced to hopes and prayers for those of you that bother.

That being said, the world isn't over.

Canada survived all the years of Trudeau (arguably the worst leader in the nation's history). It survived the screw ups by Mulroney, Chretien and Martin after him. One could argue it survived in spite of them.

The United States survived 8 years of George W. Chimp and Darth Cheney. It will survive 4 more years of Obama. If you really believe that the government your peers have elected is that away from your values, you need to re-examine those values. At the core, both Republicans and Democrats are in favour of a democratically elected government and a capitalist economy to exist in the country to achieve the goals of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". There are significant differences in how they see the roles of various arms of the government but at the end, those values are the same. If you still feel the same way after re-examining those values, then maybe you need to think about moving to another country or work towards legally separating your region.

Look at you being all reasonable and rational. Are you sure you're in the right thread?

 

[Praxius]

I pointedly avoided last nights Liberal-Socialist gabfest and downloaded two movies to view. Both has more redeeming quality than the Red Pravda edition on TV.I'll bet this morning's festivity at all the major media offices included not only a pledge of allegiance to the Hammer and Sickle but a reciting of some of Lenin's finest works. All led by Andrea Mitchell and a few White House staffers.

Learn the difference between Socialism & Communism will you?

OOOooooo.... Evil Socialism!!! Say it isn't so...

If you hate Socialism so much, why don't you democratically petition to get rid of your local fire departments, police forces, your military and your infrastructure development.... as all of those things you take for granted are *gasp* SOCIALISM!!!!

Booga Booga! :roll:

 

[taxslave]

It's time for the political regime to die a complete death. The US govt. is the instrument of the left. What needs to be done is to radicalize conservatives so they reject the idea of the regime.

You ot to come to Canada. Compared to Obama Harper is a lefty.
The biggest problem in US politics IS the radical right wingnuts that want to take away peoples rights and freedoms.

SO teddy how does burnt crow taste today?

 

[PoliticalNick]

- JLM ... As always you are clueless about the US political system and just trying to BS your way through which is not a problem when you chat with your usual circle jerk of Obama can do no wrong lefties but is a problem with informed individuals like myself.

You are so informed you spent the last 2 weeks telling us all how BamBam was going to get his a$$ handed to him on a plate and Mittens was the second coming....well it looks like you were pretty uninformed and suffering from wishful thinking.

- Obama didn't win by 5 million or so votes but by 2 million or so votes, 50% to 48%, which is just 1/3 of his 6% margin last time out and a close call as these things go. Only an idiot would say that a 2% margin of victory is cleaning the opponent's clock.

Considering how you were sure Mittens was going to win in a landslide I'll say Bamster cleaned your clock.

 

[PoliticalNick]

- Unlike most of you, I found last night's TV programming absolutely awful, the worst TV watching since, well, four years ago last Sunday.

Well if you weren't trying to watch it with your head up your a$$ it might have been better.

- Not being as good a Chrstian as Mitt Romney, I find myself unable to pray for President Obama.

Not surprised at all by this. You have shown your complete lack of character and morality many times in your posts here.

- But I do have a faint hope that Obama might stop perpetually campaigning and instead focus at least occasionally on learning to be an actual president and trying to ameliorate the serious economic, fiscal and foreign policy problems faced by the republic.

The problems left behind by Bush. He has tried to work on those and had congress fight him every step just for spite without a care for the citizens...just like you would.

- There has been a lot of talk in the campaign about percentages of Americans as in the one per cent cited by Occupy Wall Street participants, the rich 2% cited by Obama in his envy and class warfare campaign, the 47% cited by Romney who don't pay federal income taxes, and so on.

- But the most important percetages are 24-35-40 which is the most recent survey of Americans who self-identify as liberal (24%), conservative (35%) and moderate (40%).

- By pressuring all candidates including Romney to take more extreme positions on hot button issues like immigration reform, the Tea Party rump of the Republicans protested taxation by throwing Romney into the Boston Harbor because they made it exceedingly difficult for him to win any significant share of the largest 40% bloc which is moderate.

This is actually very insightful. I hope the GOP realize their stance on hot-button issues will keep costing them in elections as the majority of the population is moderate and socially liberal.

- Ironically, when Gingrich was courting the Tea party vote in the nomination process and sneeringly referred to Romney as a "Massachusetts moderate" he was actually telling the truth and left to his own devices Romney would have run an economically and fiscally conservative but socially moderate administration.

Maybe he should have had the balls to do that instead of bowing to his controllers. his also leads one to question if he let the radicals in the party control him and his campaign why would it be any different if he got elected thereby proving the people got the better man last night.

- It is a sad thing for the country that he won't get that chance.

Sad for you and the more radical, partisan republicans but not so sad for over half the voters.

 

[JLM]

Well, you can relax Teddy, as I predicted the Dow is "headed north" again already. Hope that makes for a better day for you!