The Party's Over

Mitt Romney gives his concession speech

Where does the Republican party go from here? They couldn't defeat a Kenyan Socialist Muslim who has been busy distributing food stamps to "the 47%" for the past four years. While they were busy calling President Obama names, the Democrats were registering voters (especially Latino voters).  A simple, old-fashioned "get out the vote" operation. Something like a community organizer might do.....

So how does the Right explain this defeat? Well, Bill O'Reilly pointed out that there is a shrinking number of white voters voting in each election. At the same time, there is an increasing number of minority voters who vote for Democrats because they want "stuff" from the rest of the country.  As a Liberal Democrat, statements like that warm my heart. It tells me that they don't even have the slightest idea of what's going on.  The fact of the matter is that most Americans ain't buying what the Republicans are selling. So what's their reaction? How do they move forward?  Sean Hannity said today that his as a result of this election, his views on immigration have "evolved".  He said that he is in favor of strengthening existing immigration laws, securing the borders and creating a path to citizenship for those illegal immigrants already here.  In other words, on the issue of immigration, he is now a Democrat. And what else could you expect him to say? The party can't move any further to the right - they would just keep losing.  This election marks the final stake in the heart for the Reagan supply side small government anti immigration anti woman anti birth control pro intelligent design crowd. Or maybe not....Rush Limbaugh and some others said that the problem was that they didn't push hard enough on issues like abortion! Wow....talk about out of touch....

The coming civil war in the Republican party will be good for the party and the country. The adults in the party need to stand up to the petulant tea partiers, who have proven they will bring the whole show to a halt if they don't get their way. Hey Republicans...join us in the middle. Its nice here.