Got news for hoodooman... the half of us who have to pay for the support of the ignorant, greedy, layabout other half ARE CONTEMPTUOUS! They haven't earned what they get and don't "deserve" it at the expense of other citizens... regardless of what Odumbo/Reid/Pelosi say.
Government spending as a percentage of GDP by country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_percentage_of_GDP
romney lost because he was dishonest. any empty suit. he was dishonest about his taxes. he was dishonest about where he stood on every issue. he was dishonest about his economic plan. his tv ads were dishonest. throw in the religious nutters on the right scaring the hell out of women and you have a formula for blowing what should have been an easy win.
Spics voted for Obama because they want citizenship for themselves and their illegal family members and friends. Negros voted for Obama because they want more freebies and AA and they are racist. Women voted for Obama to continue to prove they are not racist and for more freebies to themselves and the parasite class. American Muslims voted for Obama because they see him promoting Islam and not supporting Israel. The white men who voted for Obama did so because they are either pussy whipped or are just plain too stupid to understand the facts and economic prognosis which, incidentally, also applies to the other groups mentioned above.
Why did Romney lose? People in this country have long been conditioned to hate rich people who earned their money instead of inheriting it, as rich democrats usually do. Obama and the media made it respectable to engage in the sort of envy-driven class hatred that has undermined europe and latin america. Romney for his part ran a poor campaign. He sat back and let the Obama slime machine define him over the summer as a vile corporate looter. One who callously caused the death of workers' wives. The media snickered. Rather than denouncing the slimy ads, Romney took a long vacation to the Olympics where he made serial gaffes. Romney had to show everyone how smart he was, so he came up with a complex tax plan that would never be passed. It did give Obama something to attack all through the campaign and hammer his demagoguery home. Romney never attacked obama directly as the architect of a failed economy and a hostile national mood. Picking Paul Ryan as VP was a huge mistake, one I noted at the time. it elevated Ryan's medicare plan to prominence. Now the democrats had not only Romney's tax plan, but Ryan's plan, to attack. Never mind that their plan consisted of denial and lying to people. I heard an ad in Florida, guy says" I'm 55, paid into medicare my whole life and now they say I won;t get it? that's not fair." Simple and deadly. At least two republican candidates put their foot and other parts of their anatomy in their mouths with idiotic comments about abortion, rape, etc. The media and public applied them to Romney even though he had denounced the remarks. Tone matters. Romney blew the last debate. He wasn't great in the second one either, but it wasn't totally his fault. This was another self-inflicted wound for republicans, as they continue to go along with a debate commission that is hopelessly biased against them. Candy Crowley, seriously? Romney somehow allowed the media to turn the Cairo and Benghazi disasters into his gaffe. Then he wouldn't touch them in the last debate. Odd. Neither he nor Ryan could articulate a coherent foreign policy visison or really show where obama had gone wrong. Hurricane Sandy gave obama a chance to posture for the adoring media. Christie was a big help in that. The reality is that obama's response was at least as poor as Bush's in Katrina but the media had a field day with obama and christie. Massive vote fraud in Ohio and other battleground states removed any doubt about the outcome. The mainstream media will not report it, but there were numerous precincts with improbable 100% turnouts and 100% obama vote totals. Instead, the story will be about republican efforts at voter suppression. I actually heard Al Gore on election night raving about that.
I agree. The tone of the country has been altered by propaganda and politicians with bad motives. A good part of the electorate buys it. Unfortunately, suffering is coming, and will be the only way back to sanity.