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The Silver Lining
Almost one week after the election, many of us are finally coming out of a severe fog of depression. As conservatives/Republicans we realize the good fight isn't over. It's just gotten tougher. As time goes on and 2014 and 2016 draw close, we must focus on the task at hand and get back to work. We must save America from the clear and present dangers from within.
The re-election of Barack Hussein Obama was a big let-down for at least half of the nation. But do not despair. Even on Tuesday, November 6th, there WAS good news - the so-called "silver lining." Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin put together a list of "20 Things That Went Right On Election Day," (which our own WTMJ conservative radio talk show host Charlie Sykes featured on his website):
1. Republicans retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2. Voters in Alabama, Montana, and Wyoming all passed measures limiting Obamacare.
3. Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz, one of the conservative movement’s brightest rising stars, overcame establishment GOP opposition to clinch a U.S. Senate victory in Texas.
4. Corruptocrat Beltway barnacle Rep. Pete Stark was finally kicked out of office in California.
5. Despite entrenched teachers’ union opposition, a charter school initiative in Washington state triumphed.
6. Despite entrenched Big Labor support, a radical collective bargaining power grab in Michigan failed.
7. Oklahoma voters said no to government race-based preferences in college admissions, public contracting, and government hiring.
8. Montana voters said no to boundless benefits for illegal aliens.
9. Washington state approved taxpayer-empowering limitations on its state legislature’s ability to raise taxes.
10. For the first time since Reconstruction, the GOP won control of the Arkansas state house.
11. Voters rejected tax hike ballot measures in Arizona, South Dakota, and Missouri.
12. Louisiana voted to protect gun rights.
13. Kentucky voted to protect hunting and fishing rights.
14. Parental notification for minors’ abortion prevailed in Montana.
15. North Carolina Republicans claimed the governor’s office, congressional gains, and control of the state’s general assembly.
16. Paul Ryan will return to Congress after winning re-election and continue to carry the torch for entitlement reform and budget discipline.
17. Conservatives won big victories in the Kansas state legislature.
18. Republicans won historic supermajorities in Tennessee.
19.Across the country, Republicans reached a post-2000 record number of gubernatorial victories.
20. Conservatives who were devastated by the national election results demonstrated how to lose with dignity and grace. There will be finger-pointing and recriminations and soul-searching, but committed activists can’t and won’t lose heart. We’ll regroup, recover, and keep fighting for our country.
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Our friend and commenter SteveEgg adds: “And you missed Rs retaking the WI Senate.”
21. Wisconsin: GOP wins back control of state government.
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50 Comments
MGarber - Nov 12, 2012 10:41 AM
jman99 - Nov 12, 2012 11:50 AM
In four years, more old white guys will be dead and not voting.
In four years, the population of minorities eligible to vote will increase.
In four years the number of voting college educate women will increase.
Most likely, in the next two years, Obama will normalize relations with Cuba.
But wrap yourself up in your rationalizations if you like; perhaps they will keep you warm on the long cold dark nights ahead of Conservatives.
Mucho - Nov 12, 2012 12:02 PM
It is taking time but it is quite encouraging to see the grass roots conservative efforts like the GOP's dominance in WI politics, charter schools in Washington, tax and ObamaCare limits in many states, and a record number of GOP Governors.
George W Bush's failures due to his sellout to moderates paved the way for a radical leftie president O. As his record failures continue for 4 more years, the conservative economic policies at the state and local level continue to gain momentum. There is Hope, but it aint coming from the White House any time soon, it's coming from Scott Walker, Grothman, Paul Ryan, ...
God Bless WI voters for knowing that the GOP is the right thing for our state even if they flushed the country for another 4 years. We are teed up for another power grab in 2014.
WFB resident - Nov 12, 2012 12:10 PM
While you are at it - I have a couple of pigs you could slap some lipstick on.
Its OK Pier , We see the o all the time ! lol...
WFB resident - Nov 12, 2012 12:17 PM
In four years, more old white guys will be dead and not voting.
In four years, the population of minorities eligible to vote will increase.
In four years the number of voting college educate women will increase."
In four years the o and his policies will make people vote against PDLS's !
In four years women will pay better attention to policies and not PDLS rhetoric!
Most likely in two years the o will be impeached !
In four years more criminal PDLS vote changers will be dead!
LOL...
MaireR - Nov 12, 2012 1:39 PM
I decided to send this to your blog to see if i get an answer. You seem to have the best results.
After all the back and forth before and after Tuesday's election, I was quite surprised that none of the Obama voters addressed this problem. It's the main theme for my questions... I'm tossing this to those who voted for Obama or against Romney.
1. Obama promised he could fix the ongoing financial mess we are in by raising taxes on the wealthy. His office says those revenues come in somewhere between $26 billion to $80 billion per year. From what I understand it will be somewhere in the middle. How will $40 billion in new taxes help underwrite Washington's $3.6 trillion in new spending each year? Did all the Obama voters somehow not know this?
2. How will that additional tax on the many who employ new people help with our already high unemployment and grow GDP to 3% or higher?
3. Where will this extra money coming from?? It looks like Obama will be way short again with his spending. Wouldn't it be a better plan to slow the spending first?
Can anyone help me with this?
Thank you.
jman99 - Nov 12, 2012 2:06 PM
Hi Hayett.
Still hanging around I see.
achieve1 - Nov 12, 2012 2:34 PM
ahemmer - Nov 12, 2012 3:40 PM
There was NO bet because of YOU.
Let's refresh your poor memory step-by-step:
1) you made a bet. You bet Romney would lose, Obama would win. We had agreed on prizes (I'd stop blogging, you'd take out a full-page ad in the newspaper touting my blog).
2) I said, sure, as long as you'd give me your name and e-mail. You responded with a very common name (that I had no hope of tracking down) and a g-mail account (untraceable to IP addresses, by the way).
3) I was suspicious, since I knew if I ever won, I wouldn't be able to find you to collect. So I asked you for an address and phone number. Very simple requests. In the meantime - here's the important part -
4) YOU - Achieve1 - e-mailed me you were "drawing up a contract for the both of us to sign for the bet."
5) After I asked you for a real address and phone number (after all, we would have had to meet to "sign" the "contract" you were drawing up now, wouldn't we?) you slithered away - NEVER to be heard from again!
6) I e-mailed your "g-mail" address several times asking where you were? where was "our contract?" what was going on? NO RESPONSE FROM YOU.
7) And NOW you have the nerve after the election to pop back in to say you "won a bet?" No. Sorry.
8) Achieve1: YOU LOSE. Accept it. You lost cuz of your own actions (or in-actions I should say). You didn't follow through. Too bad so sad. You - Achieve1 - welched out. Now be sure to appear as your alter-ego Janet! She's soo much fun! :)
MGarber - Nov 12, 2012 3:48 PM
In the meantime, a GREAT article that answers the question:
"Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, "What went wrong?", they should ask themselves a question every bit as important: "Why were we the last to realize that things were going wrong for us?"
from the not-very-liberal: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-conservative-media-lost-to-the-msm-and-failed-the-rank-and-file/264855/#
PS. Achieve1 blew it. Wimped out. Terned yeller.
MaireR - Nov 12, 2012 4:18 PM
All you can muster-up is calling me by a different name? So no Obama voters can give me an answer. Guess I already got it. Thank you My jmann99
ahemmer - Nov 12, 2012 4:18 PM
As for "what went wrong" in the elections on Tuesday, I do think we are at a tipping point - when the "me-me-me" mentality and desire for "freebies" wins out over those who view the role of government quite differently and vote for "freedom" over "freebies." Conservatives and Republicans need to hold firm to our principles and just find a way to reach more of the voters. I do think after four more doom-and-gloom years of Obama, more people will realize that just expecting "stuff" at the expense of others isn't the way to run a country. After all, we will run out of $$$ no matter how much people are taxed. There is no way to sustain all the entitlement programs including the biggie - Obamacare. And the jobs/economy won't be coming back anytime soon, either. Four more years - four more looonnnng years of shared misery. But, we deserve the government we vote for. (And funny how 50-plus precincts in Philly now show NO votes for Romney - 100% for Obama?!?! Is ANYONE investigating? Isn't that troubling to anyone? Statistically impossible, but in a banana republic, maybe not surprising....)
ahemmer - Nov 12, 2012 4:24 PM
See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/odd-romney-got-zero-votes-in-59-precincts-in-philly-9-in-ohio/
Very sad what conservatives/Republicans are up against for the future - a nation of "takers" who care more about what the country can give them ("freebies" vs. "freedoms" - and what really appears to be statistically impossible voter turnouts (no votes - ZERO - for the challenger???) - all for one candidate - in key states/cities...
Will things change anytime soon? Not with Dems in charge. We've got to overcome great challenges in 2014 and 2016.
Mucho - Nov 12, 2012 4:51 PM
Thanks to Walker, KMSD keeps their $$ local and their school levy increase is less than 40% of the Doyle era.
achieve1 - Nov 12, 2012 5:32 PM
NathanT - Nov 12, 2012 5:37 PM
Nathan
MGarber - Nov 12, 2012 6:48 PM
You didnt read the article, didja?
yert49 - Nov 12, 2012 6:54 PM
follow the rules you lose, then you try to re-write history and make it sound
believable the second time around. Fact is, your just a total dope for not following
thru. It begs the question, did you get your name Achieve by by taking bets and
then trying to lie thru your teeth to change the result?
Oh and Nate, you're pretty empty in the logic area.