This off-year election shellacking that Obama took was his second in six years. The Democrat Party has been hemorrhaging seats in every election but his own. In 2010 the Democrats lost the House in one of the most embarrassing and lopsided drubbings in some 70 years. Now, in 2014, history not only repeated itself, but it did so with double exclamation points. That being the case, one is forced to wonder how support for Obama’s policies was able to spell the end of their careers for so many but not spell the end of Obama? I know this is the point that the “he stole the election” choirs start to warm up, but I did not believe that to be the case in 2012 and I do not believe it to be the case now. I believe the reason he survived both election (white-guilt notwithstanding) and reelection is because conservative voters recognized John McCain and Mitt Romney for what they were and said no to them both. But while that makes for cogent discourse, I ask the question: “What did the Republican Party accomplish after the historic landslide victories in 2010 and what can we expect them to do now?” The answer is that the only thing the Republicans accomplished in the aftermath of the 2010 victories was what Obama wanted them to accomplish. That goes from the debt-ceiling concessions to Republicans introducing and passing legislation intended to strengthen Obamacare and Republicans working feverishly to pass amnesty. I used to be of the mindset that Republicans just didn’t know how to engage in guerrilla or trench warfare. I used to think they were just too “country club” and that Democrats had that “smash your face” turn of the century union corruption mentality. However, I have come to realize that’s not the case. The truth is that both parties are two sides of the same coin...............
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:43:09 +0000
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