Frank Rich: Right will rage if Obama wins
SATURDAY, OCT 27, 2012 03:00 PM -0400
If Obama wins, Frank Rich says the GOP's fury will intensify, and the party will only get more extreme
BY DAVID DALEY
Ever since the days of Barry Goldwater, many liberals have assumed — or naively hoped — that each national defeat would teach Republicans that they had overreached, and pull them back from the extremes. Instead, the opposite has happened: The lesson of every loss, even the routs, has been “we were not conservative enough.”
The Goldwater smackdown in 1964 really did lay the groundwork for the Reagan revolution and the ensuing conservative era. But the loss to Barack Obama in 2008 — and the toppling of establishment conservatives by tea party insurgents in 2010 — has put the extremes in charge. Even someone as conservative and virulently opposed to the Obama agenda as Mitch McConnell has hired a tea party veteran — and Rand Paul adviser — to run his 2014 Senate re-election campaign.
So what happens if Obama beats Mitt Romney and the Republicans again, this time after the likes of McConnell made denying him a second term their main legislative mission over the last four years? The earnest-minded might hope that Republicans view Obama’s re-election as a message to cooperate and a sign that their obstruction failed. The sober-minded might look at the number of ridiculous white men determined to make rape victims carry their attacker’s baby and a primary campaign filled with evolution opponents and assume common sense and basic decency, or at least post-Renaissance thinking, might return on social and cultural issues.
But Frank Rich says none of that will happen. The only lesson that will be learned, the New York magazine columnist says, is to head further right. And Rich argues that’s because there simply aren’t any other voices left. The moderate Northeast wing of the party was purged long ago. The primary defeats of conservatives like Bob Bennett in Utah and Richard Lugar in Indiana taught establishment figures that any compromise has its costs. Even a moderate-conservative wing, Rich suggests, would have no leaders, let alone followers, in the national party.
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The article is entitled "Welcome to the most Republican place in America". Their game is growing stale? Really? They have a crooked, waffling idiot running for president who may win. Even far-right nut cases like Akin and Mourdoch are going to win. What's more, they still have complete control over the media and there is basically no discussion of really liberal legislation in the House, Senate, or WH. Confronting reality is your friend.
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I always reply "If you have proof of voter fraud, please notify the proper authorities immediately. If not, feel free to keep posting about it on the internet."
I'm gonna steal it! 
Won't that be fun. 
Ask me if I will cry one tear for him? He has done quite enough to destroy business in this country and to disenfranchise American voters in his thirst to get to the White House. He and Ryan can take turns using their crying towel on election night.
This next week and few days is going to be hard. Mitt is going to double down on his lies and half truths. He is losing and he knows it but thinks he can will it to be in his favor. He isn't used to being confronted or challenged. This is going to be very difficult for him to stomach, but..... We just need to hunker down and know that victory for our side is coming....no matter how much he screams and stomps his feet! Grind away, Mitt. You got the money for some new choppers. And you're gonna need 'em.
