The end of a long, ugly road for the GOP’s
Southern strategy
“…Speaking with
reporters in the final hours of the campaign, Romney either developed
never-before-seen acting skills or truly believed he was on the glidepath to
victory; inside the Fox News bubble, perhaps no other outcome seemed possible.
But far more
important than any of this, as we look to the future, is that since Romney’s
loss, we’ve continued to hear conservatives who do know they are on camera or writing for
publication carry right on cementing the impression that they think Obama
only won because he was the choice of Moocher Nation: Not only had they
failed to “take back America,”
from the guy Newt Gingrich delighted in calling “the food stamp president,”
but non-white America, they inferred, is not really America at all.
All of which explains
how, in a tepid economy, Romney managed to lose the election more than Obama
won it. Yet they’re still at it, with Ole Miss students contributing some
standout visuals to the narrative that the GOP is not exactly
minority-friendly.
George Allen seemed
to blame his Senatorial campaign defeat to Tim Kaine on the anti-business bias
of his fellow Virginians: “It would be nice if we had an electorate that
supported entrepreneurs.” In Obama’s reelection, conservative radio host Mark
Levin literally saw the end of civilization: “We will not negotiate the terms
of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child
to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the
legacy we inherited.” On National Review Online, Ed Whelan wrote that “the
great American experiment in constitutional republicanism is in grave peril, if
not doomed,” because somehow, the greatest country on earth has been overrun
with layabouts: “As the Framers understood, self-government depends on a
virtuous citizenry. Instead, we have a growing mass of citizens seemingly
wedded to dependency on big-government spending.”
This must have been a
moment brand new Republican Artur Davis knew would come when he spoke at this
summer’s Republican National Convention, where 98 percent of the delegates
were white. ”The Republican conservative base seems perilously close to
shrinking to white southern evangelicals, senior white males, and upper income
Protestants,” Davis wrote on Thursday.
His new fellows would
do well to takes some cues from him and other minority voices on how to address
that problem. But first, they’d have to stop hurling pejoratives at the
Americans they so mistakenly see as “takers.”
Cassi Creek:
Veterans’ Day
rolls around in two more days. The free
market will use the occasion to hold appliance, car, and other types of sales
all staged under sadly mis-used American flags.
Our veterans did not place their lives on the line so that they can be cited
as the saviors of unfettered capitalism.
The 2012
general election is almost over. Unless
a large number of electors are co-opted, Obama will serve a 2nd term
and the teavangelists will display increasingly bad behaviors. “Take that, Mitch McConnell!”
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