Barack Obama won a second term pretty easily for many reasons. Of course I am not happy about it. Here are my thoughts with how I am backing them up
Romney was the GOP’s “most electable” candidate.
This kind of thinking by pragmatic and party line Republicans is what helped form the Tea Party. The Republican party is terrified of their core base and has made themselves a pastel gray of the Democratic Party (they are guilty of it as well to some extent). Like Reagan said in his 1976 speech:
There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and is doesn’t very often amount to much. Whether it is different this time than is has ever been before, I believe the Republican party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors with no pale pastel shades
I know 50 shades of grey is popular, but that is not how you win an election. It is time for the Republican party to read their own platform and cling too it rather than running from it.
Romney was Not the Lessor of Two Evils
Had Mittens would have won somehow, the campaign Mitt would have been shelved and Moderate Mitt from Massachusetts would have arrived to rubber stamp a lot of the things that conservatives and libertarians are disgusted with, only he might have used a small stamp than Obama. He was not the lessor of two evils, but rather the equal of two evils. What troubles me is that way too many conservatives that I know were willing to close their eyes and jump on board. Couple examples to that:
- Mitt previously supported Pro Choice, but shifted to align with cases of rape/incest.
- Romney Care of Massachusetts was a blue print for Obamacare. (although Romney care might have been more sustainable, and he at least had bi partisanship support)
- During the Republican primaries, everyone except Mitt was fighting to be the “anti-Romney”
So what now?
Well we will have to see, Obamacare is now a mandate and no doubt the value of the US Dollar will continue to be devalued. I would advise praying, that is what I am going to do. But don’t blame me, because I voted for Gary Johnson.