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GOP Columnist: The VERY Bad News FOR THE GOP in the GOP's Midterm Victory

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A GOP strategist, columnist at the Houston Chronicle who goes by the handle GOPLifer, Chris Ladd, has declared that the week of the Midterm Elections “was a dark week for Republicans, and for everyone who wants to see America remain the world’s most vibrant, most powerful nation.” What the HELL! Where was he?

In a careful analysis, Ladd builds a case: The Midterms of 2014 demonstrate the continuation of a 20 year old trend. Republicans are disappearing from the competitive landscape at the national level where the population is the largest utilizing a declining electoral base of waging, white, and rural voters. As a result no GOP candidate on the horizon has a chance at the White House in 2016 and the chance of holding the Senate beyond 2016 is vanishingly small.

The author points to the Blue Wall.

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The Blue Wall is a block of states that no Republican Presidential candidate can realistically hope to win. On Election Day that block added New Hampshire to its number and Virginia is shifting At the outset of any Presidential campaign, a minimally effective Democratic candidate can expect to win 257 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win. If Virginia joins New Hampshire that number will be 270 out of 270.
To win a GOP candidate has to win all nine “tossup” state and one solidly Blue state.
Thus, in the next, and into the foreseeable future, Presidential elections will be decided in the Democratic Primary. What are the chances that a Republican candidate capable of appealing to the increasingly right wing GOP will appeal to enough Democrats to win in tossup and Blue states?

But what about that RED Map….well it accounts for 149 electoral votes. The biggest Republican victory in decades did not move the map. What was Red before in electoral politics is still Red (and maybe less Red considering NH and VA).

Republican support grew deeper in 2014, not broader.

Some other observations
a) Republican Senate candidates lost every single race in the Blue Wall.
b) There were some GOP victories in Governor’s races, but in each case there were no coat tails. None of these candidates ran on social issues, Obama, or opposition to the ACA. Look at Rauner who took out Quinn in Illinois, but Democrats in Illinois retained their supermajority in the State Assembly having not lost a single seat.

c) Voter turnout was awful. It was more awful for the Democrats but the GOP won 52 percent of 35 percent of the vote: in other words their mandate is 17 percent of the registered electorate (and 13 percent of those eligible to vote).

d) Good news for the Democrats: They have consolidated their power behind the sections of the country that generate the overwhelming bulk of America’s wealth outside the energy industry.

e) Voter suppression is working remarkably well, but that won’t last. They key is voter ID. Eventually Democrats will top whining and will help people get the documentation they need to meet confusing new requirements and obstructions. The whole “voter integrity” sham may have given Republicans a one or maybe two-election boost in low-turnout races, but the message to minority (but growing) groups is clear. We GOP don’t give a damn about you.

f) Every major Democratic ballot initiative was successful, including every minimum wage increase, even in the red states. AND every personhood amendment failed.

g) Half of the Republican Congressional delegation now comes from the former Confederacy. There are no more white Democrats from the South. All of the Dixiecrats are now GOP.

h) Democrats in 2014 were up against a particularly tough climate because they had to defend 13 Senate seats in red or purple states. In 2016 Republicans will be defending 24 Senate seats with at least 18 of them very competitive based on geography and demographics. Democrats will be one seat looks competitive.

i) McConnell’s conciliatory statements were encouraging, but he cannot persuade Republican Senators and Congressmen to cooperate on anything constructive.

j) This is an age built for Republican solutions. The global economy is undergoing a massive, accelerating transformation that promises massive new wealth and staggering challenges. Ladd say that the GOP could address a this with heads-up, intelligent adaptations to capitalize on those challenges. Republicans, with their traditional leadership on commercial issues, he claims, should be at the leading edge of planning to capitalize on this emerging environment.

k) Instead, he predicts, what the GOP will spend its time on is: Climate denial, theocracy, thinly veiled racism, paranoia, and Benghazi hearings.

He closes his essay saying: “It is almost too late for Republicans to participate in shaping the next wave of our economic and political transformation. The opportunities we inherited coming out of the Reagan Era are blinking out of existence one by one while we chase so-called “issues” so stupid, so blindingly disconnected from our emerging needs that our grandchildren will look back on our performance in much the same way that we see the failures of the generation that fought desegregation. Something, some force, some gathering of sane, rational, authentically concerned human beings generally at peace with reality must emerge in the next four to six years from the right, or our opportunity will be lost for a long generation. Needless to say, Greg Abbott and Jodi Ernst are not that force. ‘Winning’ this election did not help that force emerge.”

littlebit

To tell you the truth I don't think there will be another election. And if there is the voter fraud will be so bad that people will not show up. We will see what happens in September. My opinion they already know who's to be the next president. You need to look at Noah, Simon and Gomorrah and the fall of the Roman Empire. We do not read history more or study it. And we've taken God out of our country. Are used to say God bless this country but how can I ask God to bless this country when it so evil. We made it that way. May God have mercy on our souls.

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Keep spreading the word...
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Keep waking up all the DumbAsses you're surronded by everyday...

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etc...

Build groups,
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Speak up and bring to the floor a new Agenda...

The Agenda of Protections and Reversals

Vote those out of Offices who no longer Protect and serve STRICT Constitutional Governance for the people.

Ask them for a published copy of the CAFR and an independent audit of the Towns, cities, Counties Collected Taxes...

Watch what happens next !


Let us know how that Peaceful voting process works out ?


Most of the peeps you're surrounded by daily haven't a Clue about anything really besides

eating
sleeping
shitting
candy crush
and foam at the mouth to go line up to vote for their next TRAITOR Candidate !


Ha... .LMFAO !

eden

He should have added to Item K: The GOP acronym has morphed into the
"GetObamaParty" with their distractive carreering around the block in the Wambulance crying about the black man who cleaned their political clock
(twice) and persisting in their futile attemps to unseat him with ugly personal attacks and puerile "birtherism" nonsense. I would prefer to see other independent parties arise to give a little more plurality to the political debate but at the very least we need a viable Republican counterweight to the Democrats. In this regard the Republicans are failing themselves and us and the cure is to grow up and start acting like they really are the proud party of Lincoln.

reconreb Loc: America / Inglis Fla.

OH, you must have missed the last 6.5 years, nevermind go back to your sleepy stupour, do'nt let reality cloud your judgement.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Reality never enters the liberal mind, they are too busy in Wonder Land!

Kevyn

You mean the last six and a half years recovering from some of the darkest days in modern history? No one missed it, and that is why your next president will not be a republican.

eden

A weak reaponse my friend. You failed to address the central issue of my post;
when is the GOP going to grow up and start being Pro-actors instead of
re-actors?

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Shut UP !

You don't have a Crystal Ball, none do...

1063 Transgressions and you're a TRAITOR for supporting it.

texasace

I hate to admit... but you do make valid POINT. The GOP has had no real leadership since Reagan. There are a couple true leaders in the pack now, but they are being silenced by the loud mouth professional politicians that have been losers for years.

But now... The Donald will straighten everything out. He will clean out the useless wannabees and bring the party together and save our country!!!

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That is very true Ace... I hope he can bring Rand Paul, Walker and Ben Carson to the table...

Are there others that are non CFR Card Carrying TRAITORS ?

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Think you may be full!

In a clever display of Marxist political maneuvering, President Obama and his “progressive” supporters are now attacking the substandard economic “recovery” that they have helped create. Zubi Diamond, author of the Wizards of Wall Street, says their ultimate goal is to increase federal control of the economy and “complete the fundamental transformation of America.”

The public understands something doesn’t add up. A Washington Post-ABC poll finds that 64 percent of the public thinks federal government policies currently favor wealthy Americans, while a new CNN/ORC poll shows that nearly 70 percent say the economy is generally in poor shape, and only 32 percent rated it as good.

This is after Obama has been president for five years, trying various tax-and-spending measures supposedly to spur economic growth.

The CNN poll finds that, “Thirty-six percent said they were cutting back spending on food or medicine, up from 31 percent in late 2008, the year the housing market collapsed.” Behind some apparently good economic numbers are “the long-term unemployed, the under-employed and those who have dropped out of—or never even entered—the workforce,” CNN reports.

This is a recovery?

Businessman Zubi Diamond calls it a “phony recovery,” based on the stock market rise driven by the Federal Reserve, that clearly has failed to help most Americans.

Diamond and other critics call Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the “day trader Fed chairman” and “Magic Ben,” for his ability to print money and propel stocks to record levels. He is leaving office on January 31, to be replaced by Janet Yellen, who promises to continue the controversial policies that have given unprecedented monetary power and influence to America’s central bank.

Obama calls inequality “the defining challenge of our time,” even quoting the pope to that effect. But his policies, as carried out by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, have clearly exacerbated the inequality he now complains about. Such a claim enables Obama to avoid responsibility for his own policies and to campaign on a platform of reducing the inequality he has increased.

Talking about “inequality” seems to be the only way that Obama’s “progressive” allies in the media, such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, can change the subject from the lack of economic progress and opportunity—problems exacerbated by the disruptions to peoples’ lives caused by the socialized medicine scheme known as Obamacare.

What liberals like Krugman want the public to ignore is the fact that the politicians yakking the most about inequality—such as Obama, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren—are backed by George Soros, the billionaire socialist hedge-fund operator who says capitalism is the major global threat. Soros almost single-handedly financially underwrites the “progressive” movement today.

The political reality facing the Democrats, as they ponder congressional elections this year, helps explain why a recent Post-ABC poll focuses on the so-called “wealth gap,” and whether ploys such as raising the minimum wage can turn things around for them. Another proposal is extending unemployment benefits.

The poll is worded in such a way as to be a prescription for more federal interference—some would call it socialism—in the economy. The Democrats, backed by Soros, believe this is how they can win.

But none of these proposals would increase the real economic growth that can help the millions of unemployed Americans get back into the economy and acquire good-paying jobs. Yellen’s confirmation as the next Fed chairman only helps the money manipulators on Wall Street, and does not filter down to Main Street, Diamond insists.

Putting the matter in personal terms, he asks, “Has Ben Bernanke’s artificially inflating assets and balance sheet in the economy reached your household and personal bank accounts yet?” He asks, “How come some communities and municipalities are filing for bankruptcy protection, and how come your personal bank account is not flooded with liquidity from the Fed?”

In this sense, he argues, the Obama “recovery” is worse than the so-called “trickle-down” pro-growth policies of President Reagan, which even the pope mocked in his recent papal “exhortation.” In the Obama economy, he says there is no trickle down, unless you have major investments in the stock market or have large accounts managed by the hedge-fund operators such as George Soros.

Diamond tells Accuracy in Media, “Do not get confused or be deceived by the rising stock market. It is not based on any fundamental recovery in the macro economy. It is artificially inflated. There is no fundamental economic recovery.” He says the “recovery” has basically consisted of the Federal Reserve assisting the stock market “with freshly minted U.S. dollars electronically transferred to a select group of primary broker dealers to replace the liquidity and buying power of the investors who fled the market due to fear and lack of investor confidence” in the wake of the 2008 crash. Diamond says hedge fund operators such as billionaire George Soros were behind the collapse in 2008, and Obama’s rise to power.

He explains, “Ben Bernanke’s rationale for doing this is to artificially inflate assets and balance sheets in the economy to create a wealth effect that will spur spending and economic growth.” In this Fed-induced stock market rally, he says, “the fact that the stock price of a particular company is rising does not necessarily mean the company is profitable or that the economy is doing well.”

Diamond, with 15 years of financial market experience, cautions people not to be confused by media misreporting: “When a talking head analyst points to the rising stock price of the electronics retailer Best Buy as proof the company is doing great business, and proof of healthy consumer spending, nothing can be further from the truth. Best Buy is losing money and closing down a lot of stores.”

“Since the Federal Reserve began their asset (stock) purchase program coupled with stock price manipulations, good earnings for the publicly traded companies do not really matter,” he says. “The price to earnings ratio valuation does not really matter, either. A fundamental or technical analysis of stocks or the market indexes does not really matter. The only thing that really matters is the activities of the world’s central banks led by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke.”

This is being done, Diamond maintains, because certain actors on Wall Street, like the hedge fund operators in the Managed Funds Association, want to see Obama turn the U.S. economy into a top-down command-and-control socialist-style system that eventually includes nationalization of the big banks.

“If the Federal Reserve continues the QE [quantitative easing] stock buying program in 2014, they will be holding up the economy artificially to lull you to complacency while the enemy of freedom remains in power to complete his fundamental transformation of America,” he says. “Things are not what they seem.”

Let me rephrase that, I know your full!!!

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That was AWESOME and I created a couple Topics on this past week....

Clowns like Kevyn, Richard, Vagina6000 and some others can't grasp it though....

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Liberal math is a sad sad thing, their formula is odd at best and even trying to follow their logic is a complete waste of time.

eden

The Donald will only accelerate the alienation hispanics already feel about the GOP because of the GOP bone headed unrealistic attitude towards immigration. To win this next election you need a solid chunk of the Hispanic vote.