Hoyt on why the Republicans lost

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enjoy!

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Because our tears are delicious to you?

[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.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I am not clicking. neener neener neener.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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...