“How did the fundies fail so wildly?”

I suspect there’s a very simple answer: they went into full wingnut mode, didn’t bother to watch what they were saying, and turned everyone but their own hard-core followers off, big-time. Things like “legitimate rape,” “gays deserve death,” “If Obama loses, God will refrain from destroying America,” and the like don’t go a long way toward winning hearts and minds, because Americans are basically decent people, and most of us, I think, have a much clearer sense of what morality is than those who are constantly bleating about it.

Do I expect them to learn from this? No. I think the Republican party is going to have to lose so badly that there’s no party left before they throw these mountebanks back out into the dark, where they belong, unless the corporate types step in and pull the plug on them.

Yea, losing sucks. I remember ’00 and ’04. I am looking forward to the coming right-wing civil war. Ought to be fun. What I want to know is what happened to the True The Vote million man army, I mean poll watchers? Weren’t they supposed to keep us safe from the leftist thugs who were going to steal the election through the use of massive in-person voter fraud?

You don’t think they were just interested in the pot of money they got from their billionaire backers, do you?

President Obama has decided he can put any of us in prison indefinitely without trial, or freeze us out of the country with the no-fly list, or simply have us killed. But wombs are free, so that’s good. As long as the body they’re in isn’t killed, imprisoned, or exiled.

Thanks, Pam!

this is a great summary; and for those like myself without TV, it was good to see some news photos of last nite’s “info-tainment.”

and, YES, you definitely deserve a break from all your time on the front lines.

admire your work on everyone’s behalf,

karen

We did lose. I don’t understand this diary. Aren’t the same banksters going to stay in charge of fleecing the public? Obama is still helping Big Pharma last I checked. Our teachers are still under assault. We’re still occupying Iraq.

Nothing’s changed. Nothing would have changed had Romney won. Why the hoopla?

This is actually a case where the laziness of the Corporate Media (their unwillingness to challenge this lunacy with anything other than lobotomized “objectivity”). From the Birther movement forward, these wing nut Republicans doubled down on the culture war AND Robin Hood in reverse at the same time.

They just come off as childish and arrogant. And cruel. That whole 47% deadbeat thing is just too callous to be believed in the wake of many of the normal Republican constituencies who have lost it all in the past four years along with the “darkies” and the “entitled” youth. At some point the ideology has to morph into a plan for governance.

So thanks CNN, Fox and the rest. By letting these lunatics froth, Obama comes off as sympathetic and non-crazy.

But what gives me hope is for the future: Millenials 20% of the electorate; Old White People 17%. And how many more millions of Hispanics will gain citizenship going forward.

The Republican Party will reduced to two regions: The antebellum south and the Mormon Triangle.

Of course Obama will give away that advantage after *he* doubles down on his Catfood Commission reduction of the safety net.

Watching all the wingnut heads explode makes for some Class-A Entertainment. Hell, it’s almost PPV-level.

Re: the Civil War. They are better armed than us liberals. How many of you reading this have even fired a gun much less own one?

Schaudenfrade is bad karma. lol.

The photo of Dick Morris reminds me that there is a lot of money to be made by pandering to the stupid and rabble rousing for malevolent moneyed interests by being wrong for the “right” people.

I believe Jerry was referring to a war within the right-wing, not a war by them on the rest of us. They pretty much won that war in the 1980′s and have stayed in control since. The more moderate conservative won the presidential election last night.

Well I’m a little surprised, I confess, at how badly a drubbing some of the elections were. Not that many of the Dems are heaps better, but I’ll leave that comment at that.

The barking lunacy of the beyond radical rightwing fringe *may* finally be shuddering to its last “stand.” There certainly is a hard-core fringe who’ll vote for these lunatics and whine & cry when they lose. Sadly, too, they also believe to the core of their beings that when they lose – no matter how big they lose – that THEIRs is THE ONLY TRUE WAY, and that they should kick, scream & basically be obstructionist assholes until the end of time and not give one tiny millimeter in tantruming for their world-view & stringent “Rules” to be pushed onto everyone.

Tea Partiers, quite simply, do NOT believe in or agree with the notion of Democracy. It is THEIR WAY or the highway, and they’ll push & scream to block and obstruct anything that isn’t *exactly* what they want. What do they want? Who the EFF even knows anymore. They all thought that GW Bush was “too liberal,” and now same goes for Lord High Muckey Mitt – Mitt lost bc he was “too liberal.”

Honestly, it’s not really even “entertaining” anymore.

So. Sick. Of. the. Crap.

A loyal & well-informed opposition would be welcome any time. Sadly I won’t hold my breath.

Yes. Agreed, albeit it’s starting to look like that pandering may be getting a tad less profitable. Or, at least, I hope so.

Even the pundits on National Propoganda Radio were opining (not in these exact words, mind you, but close to it) that the Southern Strategy may have seen better days & that it’s not really working anymore to solely & only pander to a bunch of immature, self-centered, racist, bigoted, mostly older, WHITE voters.

Ya think???

Your right. I was talking about the right. As for guns, I was awarded the Marksman Ribbon in basic training, I had a Concealed Handgun license and I’m about as liberal as anyone I know. What about you nutty rabble? Sorry, I meant natty rebel

* Tennessee U.S. Rep, fundie and physician who used his patient list as a dating resource (and knocked up one gf and pressured her to have an abortion, Scott DesJarlais, also held his seat. Tennessee, you need an intervention.

It’s even worse in Tennessee than you think. At the state level, Republicans won supermajorities in both houses of the legislature. There literally is nothing to stop them from doing everything and anything what they want here.

Sorry, I guess I was taking Trump a little too literally. He is going to strangle Obama with his toupee

Same in Utah. They called it a Demogeddon. All those one time voters who came out of the wood work to pull the lever for Romney and voted straight ticket Republican

Americans have very short memories and are quite gullible. You would think that people might remember the Republicans’ positions on gay rights, abortion, demagoguery on immigration, pandering to white segregationists, etc., and hold that against them for a long time to come, but all the GOP needs to do is reset the Etch-a-Sketch and they can win elections to serve the greediest and least patriotic of the wealthy for years to come. Come to think of it, the only differences between the two parties are on cultural issues. On foreign policy, taxes and spending, the differences are marginal and mostly rhetorical. The Republicans are the more aggressive proponents of serving the rich, but the Democrats are the enablers.

What happened is that those states with 1) a long tradition of voting Republican, particularly because of the Southern Strategy, 2) the sort of gerrymandering (for both national and state legislative districts) and vote suppression that comes with that history, and 3) a lack of politically-active non-Cuban Latinos, were particularly amenable to the Southern Strategy and other bigotry-based strategies, especially when smothered in billions of dollars of dark money from the Adelsons et al. (As I said a few weeks ago, Obama’s plunge after the first debate had the happy effect of keeping big GOP donors from moving more of their money away from Romney and into the downticket races. But I digress.)

But those states that didn’t have these conditions, or in less potent form, found themselves quite amenable to keeping state-level and House Democrats in power. (See also: New York, California, Minnesota, for starters.)

The problem is that too many corporate types are hardcore Randroids, which means they think (or at least they try to make themselves think) that screwing people into the ground is correct and moral.

I can’t stop crying either but that’s due to laughing so hard at Victoria Jackson’s drama queen-ery. She really needs to get a real job.

People who were criticizing the R-74 campaign for not having gays as the forefront of the campaigns on TV rather than straight friends & family members, saying the lack of gay visibility caused losses (which was never true), R-74 proved it wrong a week ago.

If we had done what some people with desperate emotional satisfaction issues and included all gay people in the advertising, we would have lost. Bar none. They claimed “It’s the same people doing the same thing which caused us to lose 32 times before”.

We won by over 6 percentage points in WA State, thanks to Washington United for Marriage, and no thanks to the people commenting who did nothing but jabbering incessantly on internet forums saying that WUM was doing it all wrong…