I was wrong. I was cocky. I predicted that Romney would win in a landslide and I was way off the mark. At least I was in good company. George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone, Doulgas Holtz-Eakin, Steve Forbes, Peter Morici, Joe Scarborough, Brad Woodhouse, Gallup, Rasmussen, and the Bickers-Berry computer model that has never been wrong all predicted a Romney win. Not since Truman defeated Dewey has the dinner table had so many seats and crow been put back on the endangered species list.
The moment that it was clear that Romney lost, I was in total disbelief. So, I put my thoughts down on my Facebook page:
Romney concedes. I guess it’s over. I am in shock. Total shock. I cannot reconcile how America could say no to a war hero and experienced senator 4 years ago in lieu of a pot smoking community organizer and amateur senator… then, when the economy and debt are at a critical point in our nation’s existence, we say no to a successful businessman & successful governor in lieu of a man who went from 7.8% unemployment to 7.9% in unemployment and indebted every man, woman and child in America with $5.5 trillion more in debt. It’s irreconcilable. I have few words to express my disappointment in this once great nation. Simply put, we’re a nation that is lost.
After several hours of trying to digest the indigestible and trying to make sense of the senseless, I had to try to get some sleep. So, I signed off with the following post, one that was similar to one I wrote four years prior:
Good night all. I am hoping that I go to bed and wake up in the morning and realize this was all a very, very bad dream.
The next morning, I woke up, saw that it was not a bad dream on GMA – double-checked the Drudge Report for good measure – then I typed this:
Woke up and realized it was not just a bad dream. I am still stunned. Baffled. Shocked. To put it in perspective, 2008 McCain beat 2012 Obama [by this time, Obama had three million fewer votes]. It just goes to show what $1 billion in character assassination attacks and ignoring a failed record can do. I am sad for Mitt Romney, but even more sad for America because it will not know a Mitt Romney Presidency. I am also sad for an America that put “small issues” (birth control pills, tax records, etc) ahead of major issues (unemployment, economy, debt)… and re-elected an unpresidential man with an undisputed record of failure to the office of the President. I am also sad for my unborn son who, on the day of his birth, will owe $52,000 in debt to the federal government and $16,500 to the state of California. Today is truly a sad day in America.
As the day went on, I learned that the state I live in, California, passed several tax-raising measures. It was like pouring salt in an open wound. What a horrible, horrible day.
I found myself saying over and over to my Left Wing friends, “Today is your day to gloat, go ahead.” And they gloated… and gloated some more… and they are still gloating.
CBS News recently wrote a story titled, Romney “shellshocked” By Loss, which detailed the grief and pain that was felt within the Romney campaign. It detailed the moment from when Romney knew it was over to the final moments on stage with his and Paul Ryan’s families saying farewell to America.
It described Romney as stoic as he talked to Obama; it stated that Romney’s wife, Ann, cried; his running mate, Paul Ryan, appeared genuinely shocked; Ryan’s wife, Janna, was shaken as she cried softly; and a close Romney advisor stated, “There’s nothing worse than when you think you’re going to win, and you don’t. It was like a sucker punch.”
The article went on, “Their emotion was visible on their faces when they walked on stage after Romney finished his remarks, which Romney had hastily composed, knowing he had to say something. Both wives looked stricken, and Ryan himself seemed grim. They all were thrust on that stage without understanding what had just happened. “He was shellshocked,” one adviser said of Romney.”
That’s exactly how I felt… as well as 58 million of my closest friends.
@MrTim29 @Romney #Shellshocked #Election
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“Shellshocked” is NOT how the American people define what happened in this election. Obama and the Democratic party cheated and stole this election from “We the People.” Precinct after precinct has reported irregularities from polling machines which print “Obama” when Romney is chosen, to 13 precincts in Pennsylvania (who earlier had banned Republican poll watchers from doing their jobs) which now report Obama winning their electorates by 99.8%. Thousands upon thousands of Military votes which were not counted and the same with absentee votes in Ohio which we were told couldn’t be counted for at least ten days after the election, which are now totally ignored by every one concerned. The American people were robbed of a fair election and if nothing is done about it, many people see this as the end of the American dream. Shellshocked? No! Mad as Hell? Yes! Going to do something about this? You Betcha!!!
To my fellow Americans,
I am stricken with sorrow at the humiliating loss /beat down we were handed on November 6th! I hear a lot of anger, as am I, but using my recovery model, blaming others gets me no where! I blame my Party the Republicans for this loss. It should have been like taking candy from a baby. Enter insanity, Using a model for abortion which has been losing steam for decades! Romney’s own campaign workers whom I spoke with for an hour and a half, said Abortion was not an issue Romney wanted to pursue! But to Women it is an issue they are concerned with! next the gay issue, I do not think that Government should say who can and can’t be married! either way! I say remove Marriage from government altogether! Many people are out of work, some abuse the system some don’t others get screwed by doing tasks that don’t pay enough to cover expenses but lose their benefit because they make to much to receive it! these people were included in the 47% statement! these reasons in and of themselves were enough to lose this election! add Romneycare, I heard him explain it many different times but felt during the primaries he would lose by this reason alone! If this party wants to continue it’s losing path of blaming the other side for losing, and not regrouping and refining their plan they will lose for decades to come! People are sick of hearing how everything is somebody else’s fault and want to know how you are going to fix it!
Don Miller,
I, for one, am totally with you. This election was stolen in my areas. From south Florida holding early voting 2 days longer than the state allows, to black panthers, to the machines “supposed” calibration issues. Also the Chicago “court filings” that Obama is so prone to. A revolution is brewing throughout this country. Too many things too suspicious for at least half of us.
Teresa Fields
Yes, I felt the same. I am still confused as to how several million did not bother. He would have totally won if 3 % more people would have come out. The margins were so close on the swing states. Mitt, Ann, Paul and his wife are classy people. I have the utmost respect for them. They gave it their all. Great campain. It was the 3 million out of the 13 million that didn’t bother to show up that was the problem. Maybe they thought Mitt had it in the bag or something and thought my one vote doesn’t matter. Those few that didn’t vote let down our whole country. The Romneys and the Ryans sacrificed so much and the small percentage didn’t have the decency to get out to vote. That makes me ill. Love the Romney family and the Ryan family. thx
I just read your article and I have to say, many many of us feel the same..what a shame and you said it best, that his nation will never know a Romney presidency. I live in OHIO and I listened to the pundits and I believed them all, he couldnt lose..and when I went to bed, I had tears for all this country is going to miss and for all this country is going to go through..
We missed it. The republican party missed it, it was out there for us to see, but us being conservative people who do not want much government involvement who want to be totally self sufficient did not realize that 51% of people want to be taken care of, we did not understand how 50% of house holds besides retirees get some kind of government assistance maybe we did not believe it. There were warnings, I have spent the last three years pissing off and arguing with liberals, I heard from my step sister who is 55 years old that she wanted to go back to college and we should tax the rich more so they could pay for it, I heard from her mom that Romney was going to take away her social security and medicare, I heard from hundreds how they were afraid Ryan was going to pull away all their entitlements. What I never heard from even one liberal was I am voting for obama so we can create more jobs, so we could get our debt under control, so we could have less government involvement or become energy independent. They do not care about those things, to a liberal there is no tomorrow, there is no repay time. We can have the best republican conservative candidate on earth but we will never win the president office again because WE CAN NOT BEAT SANTA CLAUS. Get ready, it is going to get ugly.
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OF COURSE you did! Make sure to not believe anything until you’ve seen it confirmed by the guy who pushed all those bogus Rasmussen, Gallup and “Unskewed Polls” results leading up to Tuesday. “It just can’t be true if Drudge hasn’t posted it!”
You never learn.
Quote: “…double-checked the Drudge Report for good measure”
OF COURSE you did! Make sure to not believe anything until you’ve seen it confirmed by the guy who pushed all those bogus Rasmussen, Gallup and “Unskewed Polls” results leading up to Tuesday. “It just can’t be true if Drudge hasn’t posted it!”
You never learn.
I cried November 6 when I went to bed and I cried all day the 7th and into the night. I cried for the Romneys but even more, I cried for my country. Well, what used to be my country. Because we have become a country of people who are more impressed by being given a phone (which wasn’t Obama’s idea) than by the financial disaster we face under a man who knows little about government and less about finance and leadership. I cried for a country that had started to come together that is more divided now than it was in the 60′s because the man in the white house wants it that way. He is the one who reached out to individual groups (African
Americans for Obama, etc.) And I cried for the stupidity. One of my liberal friends said, “We’ve come so far!” I want to ask to where but the argument is over. America has too many ignorant people that don’t care about the issues, who would rather believe a commercial on TV slamming someones character, and who care too much about “ME” to care what happens when the government completely controls their lives. Because, folks, you got your free phones but eventually there won’t be enough money to support you anymore. The govenment doesn’t make money. People who work and pay taxes do and when you outnumber us, you better know how to speak Chinese and I doubt you are smart enough to learn it! For the most part, you can’t even speak proper English. God help us now because I don’t know where else to turn.
Buck up, boy. First thing: When faced with the prospect of defeat, or even when the defeat seems to be in the rear-view mirror, you don’t crumple like that.
Second thing: take a reality check. Are you SURE Mr. Romney lost? I’m not. The Obama Gang were just a little too cocksure a week or two ago, when they were clearly behind in the polls and could at best eke out an Electoral College victory, by a hair. So the fix was in. (They got Ohio AND Virginia? Oh yeah, right.) There’s no other explanation.
Finally: We all have to face the fact that we can’t play nice-guy voter politics anymore, because the other side is brutal and crooked. It’s like a duel where they hand us a toy gun, and we’re supposed to be nice to complain. No. Stop it. Enough is enough.
I have been praying for weeks that Obama would not do something crooked and STEAL the election. We have evidence that the absentee ballots from our brave troops who are serving in Afghanistan were either not counted or were actually tampered with and changed to be in favor of Obama.
I actually work for a company who does surveys, and according to our polls, Romney had Virginia and Florida sewn up. How else can you explain it?
The only thing I know is that God will make all of this turn our way if we trust in Him. Maybe the people who didn’t vote because they thought the election was in the bag, or those who voted for Roseann Barr because they think elections are just a big joke, maybe they will get their wake-up call now. I’m going to point the finger at anyone who thought it was just a game and at those who decided it wasn’t important. They are to blame for this debacle.
Quote: “At least I was in good company. George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone, Doulgas Holtz-Eakin, Steve Forbes, Peter Morici, Joe Scarborough, Brad Woodhouse, Gallup, Rasmussen, and the Bickers-Berry computer model that has never been wrong all predicted a Romney win.”
Hilarious. The one thing you just can’t bring yourself to do is admit (type) “Nate Silver was RIGHT and the (non-Rasmussen) polls were never skewed.” It’s like you’ve been vaccinated against ever admitting the other side is right. Sure, you can imply it by saying you’re “eating crow”, but that’s okay because geniuses like Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer thought the same thing. Yeah, that’s great company. You’re at least as smart as Dick Morris. Good job.
Just say it: “Nate Silver was right, he is no longer Mr. Overrated, and the pollsters know what they’re talking about way better than I do. Except for Rasmussen.”
But you probably won’t even allow this to be posted here, just like my last comment, because you are a cowardly chicken. But at least by moderating the comment, I know you’ve at least read it. Meanwhile, keep letting comments through that go on about how Romney REALLY, ACTUALLY won and the whole thing was STOLEN! (“Are you SURE Romney lost?”) Or comments saying Obama voters can “barely speak proper English.” As if this site wasn’t irrelevant enough, feel free to drive it into WorldNet Daily oblivion territory with that kind of silly, unproductive talk.
Wow, I agree with all the sentiments in the comments so far. This election was stolen by the criminal liberals. We will all pay for the sins of the evil. Where is the crybaby Boehner as the fraud is showing up all over the country.Has the GOP really become Democrat lite? I didn’t want to believe it but now how can they be trusted?
Quote: “This election was stolen by the criminal liberals.”
Then, later: “Where is the crybaby Boehner as the fraud is showing up all over the country?”
Don’t look now, but there’s only one crybaby in this room and I think it’s you.
I’m just now out of shock. Now I can only hope that O can actually do something this time, although I highly suspect he wants our economy and our foreign policy FUBAR on purpose. I boggles, it truly does..the state of mind of the 51% (or so) who voted him in. Uninformed individuals all.
If the GOP is TRULY serious about winning in 2016 they need to hang a sign out now saying MODERATES NEED NOT APPLY!
What does “crony-capitalism” and Obama’s re-election have in common? Read on!
Remember “stimulus-2009?” And QEI,II, TWIST, and QEIII? Read on! See, Obama bought his re-election with taxpayer money, YES HE DID! Here’s proof!
Election 2012 – Obama was 100% backed by Americas financial sector
Here’s proof! Despite Obama’s threat to:
1)Soak the wealthy for more taxes
2)Fed Reserve Chairman’s attack on savers
3)Kill special treatment for dividends
Americas financial sector threw itself at Obama’s feet, as never before for any President in their first term in this past century.
Two examples, since Obama’s election in 2008:
1)S & P 500 gained 76%
2)NASDAQ 100 is up 128%
Compare this with G.W. Bush’s first term in office:
1)S & P 500 a decline of 13%
2)NASDAQ 100 a wipeout of 45%
Or even Ronald Reagan’s meager 25% gain his first term in office or Bill Clinton’s 1990’s growth during his first term of 60%.
This was engineered by Obama administration’s:
1)FedReserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, excessive largesse to big banks, giving them;
a.An unending flow of cash.
b.Slashing interest rates to lowest levels since last 300 years
c.Diverted senior citizens savings in order to revive all residential construction industry
d.Showered drug makers and insurers with fresh sources of revenues from healthcare overhaul
This would explain all of Wall Streets tizzy and concern over Mitt Romney’s surging in polls during the months of September and October 2012.
These are sectors benefitting from Obama’s first term in office and likely to do so his second term:
Healthcare
Drug makers, insurance providers and hospitals. As of March 2010 and passage of Obamacare, they all had more paying customers courtesy of both government and taxpayers.
-Pfizer(USPFE) had fallen 50% during Bush’s two terms. Obama’s first term, shares are up 70%. (64% in Viagra, Zoloft, Lipitor alone)
-UnitedHealthcare(USUNH) is up 73%
-Smaller Bio-tech shares gained much more, led by: Alexion Pharmaceuticals(USALXN) up 25%
-SPDR Healthcare(USXLV) which includes all health care stocks in the S & P 500 is up 31% since passage of Obamacare vs. 27% for the broad market. This sector considers this a good bet for the future, because MOST benefits of Obamacare still remain to be implemented.
Home Construction and Real Estate
This sector was specifically targeted by Obama’s administration and Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Reason was, it’s one of the few industries in the USA that cannot outsource jobs overseas. The industry provides the best income to workers without college educations. It also has a ripple effect on overall economic activity. For example: new homes require paint, lumber, lawn care,etc.
- iShades U.S. Home Construction(USITB) presents the best investment exposure to the industry: up 133% in Obama’s first term vs. 69% for the S & P 500.
-Best individual stocks, of the big ones: Lennar(USLEN), PulteGroup(USPHM), Louisiana Pacific(USLPX), Eagle Materials(USEXP), and M/iHomes(USMHO)
- Smaller stocks:Lawncare Machinery Maker Toro(USTTC), swimming pool supplier-SCPPool (USPOOL) and carpet maker Mohawk(USMHK).
Real Estate
This sector was a direct beneficiary of Obama and FedReserve Chairman’s policies and actions. Especially from QE = Quantitative Easing, by buying securities that support major residential and commercial construction – iShares Real Estate(US iYR) includes all the major companies. This includes regional shopping malls specialist Simon Properties(USSPG), up a phenomenal 315% during Obama’s first term. Mortgage servicing was red hot and continues to do so:
- Nation Star Financial (USNSM) and
- Home Loan Services (USHLSS)
Mobile Communications
Because Obama’s first term hasn’t articulated a coherent technology policy, outside of attempts to control Google or it hasn’t attacked the tech industry either. This group’s overall performance has risen 114% during Obama’s first term.
Leaders were: Apple (USAAPL) 675% and Amazon.com(USAMZN).
Cellular towers are poised for improvement in Obama’s second term. This subgroup has very few companies. Each one gets paid on a metered basis, therefore neutral entities, but prime beneficiaries of mobile communication’s explosive growth.
Top companies: SBA Communications (USSBAC); America Towers(USAMT); Crown Castle International(USCCI)
Surprises may be resurgence of Dell(USDELL), Hewlitt-Packard(USHPQ)both, now morphing into services.
Lastly, a loose patchwork of smaller Healthcare related companies benefitting from Obamacare’s implementation and digitization of all medical records: Wageworks(USWAGE); and Greenway Medical Technologies(USGWAY). Yes! Every American’s medical records WILL be digitized, like it or not.
Financial Services
Consumer spending and use of plastic had a dramatic drop in Obama’s first four years, benefitting companies in the credit and transaction businesses. Delinquencies are down dramatically while judicious use of credit cards is up slightly. Industry leaders in this sector, during Obama’s second term, are most likely to continue to benefit.
Examples are: Capital One Financial(USCOF); Discover Financial Services(USDFS); Mastercard(USMA). Mastercard will be the biggest beneficiary of an Obama second term because both its credit and debit transactions will continue to show multiples of growth.
Energy
Surprisingly, energy producers fared well during Obama’s first term, especially those able to avoid regulations and paying high dividends to pensioners on fixed incomes.
- Companies selling chemicals to energy market have also done well – margins were maintained and EPA regulations somewhat restrained. Examples are: Cabot Oil & Gas(USCOG); Plains-All American(USPAA)=a high yielding master –Limited Partnership; Enterprise Products Partners(USEPD); Kinder Morgan Energy(USKMP); Linn Energy(USLINE); and Refiner Calumet Specialty Products(USCLMT).
- Chemical from refining: Newmarket(USNEU); W R Grace(USGRA); LyondellBasell Industries(USLYB)
Conclusion:
1)A whole swath of wealthy, upper income Americans, voted for Obama’s re-election(crony-capitalists)
2)A whole segment of American lo income earners voted for Obama
3)All welfare recipients and tenement dwellers voted for Obama
4)Unions, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians voted for Obama
5)American: a. Financial Sector; b.Healthcare; c. Home Construction and Real Estate; d. Mobile Communications; e. Energy sectors all voted for Obama.
Obama’s Administration and minions doled out countless quantities of endless taxpayer dollars to all these five areas of America’s economy: land, labor and capital. Obama won with taxpayer dollars. Amen.
I guess Servo is the new troll. Maybe he’s the old spaceghost or whatever screen name that was active months ago. Silly, bitter liberals. Trolling conservatives sites … proof that you people need psychiatric help.
Whether you like them or not Jill, they do create active debate and that is what we need to keep our Conservative energy up!