Statistics show that it is precisely their insistence on irrational right leaning policies in regards to social and immigration issues that not only are responsible for Republicans losing the presidential election in the middle of a recession, but also for their loss of Senate seats held for years by Rational Republicans in swing states where they were unseated in the primaries by, yes, the nutty contingent of the Republican Party. These seats were not lost to Democrats, they were lost to Radical Republicans who then handed them over to Democrats. Apparently the more radical right does not have the national appeal they think they do. Imagine that....
Other than doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, insanity is the denial of fact. And the fact is that the demographics of this country have changed, and the Republicans are in denial about that. They actually think that there are great pockets of evangelicals out there who did not come out to vote; and that if only the party can find an even more polarizing candidate to appeal to those hoards, they can win back the Presidency and the Senate. That is crazy thought. Where do they think the swing voters that they did get will run to when they find this Messiah of theirs?
Our only hope for the future is that one day some fiscally conservative democrat will be born to float to the top of the expensive cesspool that is American politics *. Although that might be crazy thought on my part. Until then, well, four more years. ...four more years of bickering, four more years of recession, four more years of high unemployment, four more years of the inability to open a simple savings account to mitigate inflation... but heck, let us hope for inflation, because in this landscape, deflation actually looks like a possibility, and we defintiely don't want four years of that... ...Take 'em boys
* 6 billion dollars spent on trash talk this season - boggles the mind.
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