In one of my largest mistakes ever I publicly and loudly predicted that President Obama would lose last nights election. (My June Prediction) In fact I predicted that he would lose by a large margin. (My prediction on Monday 11/5) I was wrong and now I’m eating crow (while drinking vodka), and paying off my gambling debts. Scott S, Mark E, John L and Sharon G, you will all be hearing from me.
This is a crow substitute.
I wish President Obama wisdom and luck. He certainly had the street smarts to put together a coalition of class warriors and ethnic groups that was just large enough to carry the day. In his first term he failed to fulfill his promise to Latinos and the economy failed to respond to his efforts to revive it. I hope he learned from these mistakes. I’ll be writing more about the immigrant issue on Rational Immigration.
Republicans cannot win going forward unless they accept that there will be abortions, that immigrants are a good thing and that smaller government won’t work if we also want a larger military and farm subsidies. Time to adjust.
I will be spending some time retraining as a prognosticator (no I’m not going to stop) and adjusting my investments to recognize the new tax regime that President Obama will be now be allowed to implement.
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Simon, your penultimate paragraph is exactly right. I think the positions you suggest are shared by the majority of the populace, and whichever party “adjusts” to that will do quite well.
Until then, enjoy your crow, er, duck.
Personally, I think if Romney could have campaigned as a moderate Republican from Massachusetts, he would have cleaned up. Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t have won the GOP nomination that way. Having to move so far right to win the nomination doomed him in the general.
Enjoy the vodka and the higher tax rate!!!
Carl: We shall see.
Scott: Our two party system makes for some pretty bizarre coalitions on both sides. But a fairly centrist government.