Hoyt on why the Republicans lost

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enjoy!

Comments

[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.

[sesmo.livejournal.com]

Plus there is Ryan, whose signature accomplishments in the House were introducing a budget bill that didn't go anywhere, signing on to the forcible rape story, and introducing a personhood bill. I can't imagine why people might think this has something to do with the Republican party.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

WE should be so lucky :)

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping he'll take his buddy Rupert with him.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

He was an unrestrained mortar launcher, obviously.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of shipping him to the UK. Maybe y'all could get him a Lordship and he could go to Parliament! ;-)

(Seriously, we'll keep him - he's our problem)

[(Anonymous)]

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

Bruce

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

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

Oh, wait, she didn't mean it!

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

My favorite is the part where the commenter bitches about how nowadays, because of political correctness, writers like John Scalzi and Neil Gaiman make it big--see, because of political correctness, these white dudes are famous important writers, not like in the good old days, when it was...those other white dudes.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Or noticed the legislation their politicians keep passing?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

No, Card writes better SF.

[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.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

o.O

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

The thing is, as immersed as I am in the decades of thought, belief, hysteria, postures, threats and rhetoric that created secession and the confederacy > the U.S. Civil War, those guys back then were as loony tunes as these people. In fact much of the rhetoric is exactly the same words, and the hatred the same hatred, and the fantasies of what they were entitled to and could do with all of North America, were the same loony tune then as now. And you know what they then wrought.

[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?

[chomiji]

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

And those comments are downright scary.

[daev.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually I was thinking: if you're happier seeing things moving your way rather than just being your way, Canada and England are great choices for right-wingers now.

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.

[fsandow.livejournal.com]

I followed a link over to a thread on Free Republic yesterday (because, you know, masochism) wherein the participants discussed the various manners in which they plan to go Galt. While I didn't read the whole thing, I didn't see a single post which actually understood what going Galt means. Some of them planned to reduce spending, some of them were going to stock up on canned food and gold coins, and some of them were thinking of becoming full-on survivalists. Not one of them alluded to forming an isolated new moocher-free society of like-minded free market purists.

Weird. It's like running into those so-called Christians who have never actually read anything in the Bible beyond the anti-gay quotes.

Re: homonyms

[caper-est.livejournal.com]

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

[caper-est.livejournal.com]

Succession seems to me to be a perfectly cromulent solution, and possibly the only viable solution, to the current woes of American conservatism. But it's not a very quick solution.

[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.

[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...