Looking back one last time at the election; we just have to ask…
Why would anybody give Karl Rove another nickel to peddle political influence? Rove’s Super Pacs spent $100 million on campaign ads and robo calls. The number of winning candidates supported by Rove’s operations…0.
Why would anybody believe that the National Chamber of Commerce carries any political influence? The number of winning candidates supported by the NCOC…1.
Why would anybody with money to burn waste it on trying to buy an election? The Koch brothers and their related groups spent over $400 million trying to elect Mitt Romney. Sheldon Adelson spent $100 million. Their efforts resulted in an Obama blowout. Romney couldn’t even win in the states he owns homes.
Why would anybody watch FOXNEWS? This organization is locked in such an alternate universe that they have no concept of reality. Their reporting was consistently wrong on the facts and their opinions lacked any semblance of the “Fair and Balanced” approach they claim to follow. Dick Morris, their political prognosticator spent most of the campaign claiming that the polls were “cooked.” On election night, Morris predicted Romney would win by 10 points and carry 300+ electoral votes. It turns out that the only thing cooked was Morris’ brain.
Why would anybody put any stock in the Rasmussen Poll. Throughout the campaign it was so consistently weighted toward the right that it lost any semblance credibility.
Why would anybody ever doubt the king of the data geeks…Nate Silver? According to Wikipedia, Silver is a “statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist and writer.” We don’t know what most of that means. What we do know that on election eve Silver predicted that Obama had a 90+% chance of winning. He correctly predicted the outcome in 50 out of 50 states. He also predicted the outcome in 100% of the senate races. This was no fluke! In 2008 he predicted an Obama victory, the outcome in 49 out of 50 states and 100% of the senate races. All hail Nate Silver!
Why would anybody believe, as Rush Limbaugh opines, that “conservatism lost on election night?” Conservatism didn’t lose. Conservatism is a valid political philosophy that embraces small government and a balanced approach to spending. There are plenty of strong, rational clear minded individuals who believe in this approach to governing. But that philosophy is not what was defeated last Tuesday night. Bigotry, racism, homophobia, hatred, fear mongering and the marginalization of women went down to defeat in this election. And as long as the Republican Party allows Limbaugh and other radicals to associate their party with these heinous attributes, the party will continue down its path toward irrelevance.
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