Blue Day

RedStateVT put forth the idea that the election was all about ACCOUNTABILITY and that the president should be defeated based upon his exceedingly poor performance in office. It turns out that accountability did not matter and it did not matter in so many ways. 

Fail to turn the economy around? It did not matter.

7.9% unemployment? It did not matter.

Fail to put forward an agenda for the next four years?  It did not matter.

Run a divisive campaign based entirely on character assassination of a successful businessman? It did not matter.

Have on your ticket a moronic gaffe-factory running mate? It did not matter. 

Green energy deals with supporters that go bankrupt? It did not matter.

$4/gallon gas? It did not matter.

Fast and Furious? It did not matter.

Intelligence leaks? It did not matter.

Benghazi? It did not matter.

Relentlessly biased media coverage? It did not matter.


Republicans can whine about all of these things, but they did not matter. Republicans lost. As much as they despise David Axelrod, he figured out how to win and he won. Now Republicans had better figure out how to turn the tables or they will be a permanent and declining majority. The answer may be found in RedStateVT's very first post in 2009 where we reviewed Mark Steyn's book America Alone. Steyn discusses at length the demographics of Europe where declining birth rates coupled with liberal immigration policies mean that countries like France are becoming less and less French.  The implications include massive social and economic changes. In the U.S. similarly, higher birth rates among Latinos and other minorities are changing the country's demographic make-up in profound ways. The Republican party has got to find a way to convince these voters that the Democrat party is not their natural home. Unfortunately the defeats of Col. Allen West and Mia Love do not help. More Marco Rubios will help.

We do not believe as some on both sides will say that Mitt Romney was a flawed candidate. He is a smart and successful man who would have made an outstanding president. But now that does not matter.

(A special thumbs down to pollster Dick Morris who we generally like and had come to follow closely. Morris predicted a Romney landslide and a Republican takeover of the Senate. He was entirely convincing and buoyed our hopes throughout the campaign. It turns out he was fatally wrong. We will not trust him again and it is hard to see how he will recover.)