But it was the GOP -- through
its effort to suppress the Democratic base --- that actually excited that base by sparking a backlash
that created a willingness among targeted voters to wait up to seven hours to cast
their ballots. That failure
to suppress the minority vote, coupled with Romney's
inability to attract sufficient numbers of non-minority voters, revealed that
Republicans can no longer roll into the White House simply by offering rhetorical
dopamine to its shrinking base of old white males.
"(Obama)
got turnout," conceded Paul Ryan a week later during an interview with a
Milwaukee newspaper. "The president
should get credit for achieving record-breaking turnout numbers from urban
areas for the most part, and that did win the election for him."
Tea
Time-Out
It did. And it also re-affirmed the argument that the
GOP's monolithic "big tent" is in grim need of remodeling. And, included in any pile of discarded items
should be Karl Rove. Let Rove keep hitting
up gullible
conservative millionaires for their Benjamins, but keep that toad
out of the Party's electioneering because if you think about it for a while, you
come to realize that old "Turd Blossom's" track record ain't really been too
swift of late. When's the last time the
"architect" engineered an election victory in which the integrity of the
outcome had not been in some way tainted?
And when's the last time K-Rove successfully innovated anything
related to campaigning or offered political prognoses unique to him; something
completely outside of traditional political wisdom that was predicted in
advance only by Rove? It's time for the
GOP to drop Karl and think about "friending" up with somebody like Nate
Silver.
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