Hoyt on why the Republicans lost

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enjoy!

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Because our tears are delicious to you?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha ha!

And now I am off to pill an asthmatic cat.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Damn it, that's what I came here to say!

Also, she's kind of annoying to have on a WFC panel.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign? The Republicans campaigned on the economy.

The lesson here is one side cannot count on dictating the terms on which the election will be fought. Well, a lesson. Don't let your rape-apologists talk to the press if you can avoid it would be another.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

And all of my libertarian friends who think the problem is that Romney didn’t say he was okay with contraception and abortion — since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign?

That poor baby, all those crazy liberal lies! He's so confused! It's so hard to do a Google search on "republican convention platform" and click the first non-news link and then scroll down to "Defending Marriage Against An Activist Judiciary," "A Sacred Contract: Defense of Marriage," and oh look--"The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life." Yeah, since when is something specified as part of the official Republican campaign platform supposed to have anything to do with the official Republican campaign platform? Sheesh!

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

As pointed out elsewhere, when your response to "our rape-apologising candidate lost" is "which one?"... you've got a serious problem.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

The fun part there was how---almost immediately after denying that the campaign was at all about contraception/abortion/social conservative issues---she went off for a paragraph or two about being pro-life.

Classic denialism. Is that a word? Do we have a word for that phenomenon? Because we need one.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I am not clicking. neener neener neener.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Once bitten, twice shy."

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

But they have cookies!

Such as “abortionpalooza”


Bwahahahahahaha!

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

"And all of my libertarian friends who think the problem is that Romney didn’t say he was okay with contraception and abortion — since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign? "

Note to everyone: The party platform is not part of the campaign.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. I'm stunned by the dishonesty of "How can they even believe that? What part of the Republican platform had anything to do with that?" If Hoyt hasn't read the platform, she knows what is is in it.

That Republicans lie about their agenda rather than defending it is disturbing and hopeful. Disturbing because it means they know their policies are too ugly to state openly. Hopeful because this awareness of the need to conceal ugliness may indicate some part of them objects to the ugliness as well.

The Obama supporters who ranted at third party voters indulged in dubious rationalizations, but at least they didn't flat out deny drone strikes had occurred.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

We’re horrible, uncaring people. We hate everyone. We’re stupid too. We’re something out of a comedic routine.

Yep, that about sums it up.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It's rare to find that degree of insight among her cohort.

Oh, wait, she didn't mean it!

[rosefox]

Oh wait, THAT Hoyt.

*closes tab*

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

There is actually a commenter proposing revolt, going Galt or succession as possible solutions. Apparently in all seriousness.

I need read conservative blogs. Maybe I should, it's fascinating.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Some of them are proposing moving to Canada. :)

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Why did I do that to myself? Why did I click that? Why did I read that?

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Sucked in by the hard vacuum where there should have been intelligent debate on the issues?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

Because turnabout is fair play, this is for James from "Fail Burton":

Being involved in SF has nothing to do with it per se. SF has wandered in political correctness to a degree that is staggering. Most of this is due to how much it’s been mainstreamed. 40 years ago SF literature was a still rather obscure genre inhabited by professional but aging writers with little access to their fan-base. Politics didn’t matter; good story-telling and writing did. ...

It gets worse.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

I read that, and now I'm a little stupider than I was five minutes ago. Damn it.

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

I feel a bit sorry for those crying crocodile tears over Romney losing. When Bush won re-election in 2004 at least I could listen to Randy Newman perform his "A Few Words In Defense of Our Country" at the Winnipeg Folk Festival and laugh. What does the losing side in 2012 have to listen to? Meat Loaf. Ted Nugent. I'd be crying too.

[connactic.livejournal.com]

It's hard to do a what-if, but I think Bush's second term was in large part due to the Democratic party completely rolling over on the Iraq war vote.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

So you all lied to me? She's OSC under alias?

Actually, the spewings there are terrifying, so out of reality they are. For x re abortion, have none of them actually read or heard about their own campaign platform, or listen to their own candidates?

Love, C.

[(Anonymous)]

What the actual candidates say or do is much less important than the imaginary little candidate in their heads.

Bruce

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

I will tell you right now, I’d have voted for Santorum only because I’d have voted for Satan himself against Obama.

And when the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Contraception and abortion were the media’s theme, introduced in the Republican primary. It was never in doubt that it wouldn’t be outlawed — a president can’t do that.

President can't improve the economy either. Or write a budget. Or decide on taxes. Why does she care who the President is?

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

However, the president can appoint Supreme Court Justices (that need to be approved by Congress), and Supreme Court Justices can vote to overturn Roe V. Wade. And if we had a Congress that passed a bill that vastly improved women's access to contraception and a Republican president vetoed it, Congress would have to override that veto, which isn't an easy thing. Methinks she doesn't actually know how a bill becomes a law.

[chomiji]

I now have a pain in my brain. Reality is not her strong suit, is it?

And those comments are downright scary.

homonyms

[asyouknow-bob.livejournal.com]

She had a chance to make a "Kenyan" crack about Mau Mau-ing; but no, she's too ignorant, and thinks the phrase is "Mao Mao"; and so she wound up complaining about "Marxist mao maos". Yes, it's a rant, but it's careless, tone-deaf writing, too.

FEEDBACK: Would not read again.

Re: homonyms

[caper-est.livejournal.com]

I believe that to be a pune, or play on words.

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

I really love the people decrying the media's role in Romney's defeat, even though they probably only think the President is a "failure" because they watch Fox News, the propaganda wing of the Republican Party, 24/7, which does little else other than lie about the President's many very valid accomplishments, his religion, his birthplace, etc., and treat him as if he constantly has stepped in something nasty before walking on their pristine, conservative carpets.

It wasn't the mainstream media that originally publicized Romney's 47% gaffe, it was a waiter with a phone who uploaded a video to YouTube. Perhaps the real reason the Republicans can't win is that they're still campaigning in 1984 and it's 2012...

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

In 1984 they had a better candidate, a fact I would not have cared to believe in 1984.