The GOP lament: Was it Chris Christie's fault!?

Robert Costa wrote a NATIONAL REVIEW article today, linked above, about the election results. What caused Romney to lose?

The quote on NJ Gov Chris Christie that caught my attention:

Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the adviser adds, is persona non grata in Romney’s inner circle. “He went out of his way to embrace the president during the final week of the campaign,” the adviser says. “It wasn’t necessary and it hurt us. Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Chris Christie undermined the Republican message.”

Maybe Christie’s embrace of Obama hurt Romney. Maybe Chris Christie crying after Bruce Springsteen called hurt Romney. But in the end it helped his citizens, and quite frankly, it helped Chris Christie.

Think about it.. Your state just went through a disaster of monumental proportions. Entire towns are gone. An entire coastline is changed. What else CAN YOU DO but ask the President of the federal purse for help? What else can you do but put politics aside..? You have no option.

And on the political flipside? It’s a win-win for Chris Christie. Obama in office for four more years, and after 8 years of a presidency it’s easier for a different party to win.. In 2016, I bet Chris Christie runs for the presidency.. Romney losing this year allows him to do that. Obama being out of office by then allows him to have a weaker field to run against. And he will win in 2016. I say it now. Put it on the record. 

ON this date, a date after 11/6/12, I say Chris Christie will win in 2016. Unless the Mayan calender ends in December and the world gets decimated by the mighty hand of the higher power. Otherwise Christie/Rand Paul (you read that right) wins in 2016 against …Clinton/Biden!

So sayseth the Coalspeaker. So sayseth the lord.

He certainly has legs big enough to fill the shoes.

The GOP lament: Was it Chris Christie's fault!?

I’m So Glad We Had That Storm Last Week

Oh Chris Matthews.. why do you say those things you do?

An interesting back story about last night’s election results: Fox News vs Karl Rove. Love lost??

Post-election-celebration: Now the hard part. Figuring out what, if anything, actually changed. Billions of dollars were spent. For...? What?

The election is over. WE CAN ALL UNITE and be thankful for that. The campaign mudslinging gets tiresome—even boring. The  negative ads were so plentiful this year that, frankly, people stopped noticing them. It was just frightening images of President Obama and Governor Romney set Armageddon style music. But it’s over. We have a winner. And it happened long before many thought it would. No recount. No hanging chads. No computer glitches of concern—well, there were but as usual the media ignored the problems with electronic machines.

But what has changed?

Before the election yesterday, Democrats controlled the Senate, Democrats had the White House, and Republicans had the House.

After the election today? Democrats control the Senate, Democrats have the White House, and Republicans have the House.

This after billions of dollars spent on advertising!?

Billions of dollars spent to … keep everything the same?

I am not a money-man, a banker, or a fiscal prophet. But if someone told me to spend a billion bucks just to keep my house, my job, my car, and make no changes, I’d turn the cheek and take a risk by not doing it. 

Our elections are getting expensive. The Supreme Court decision years back allowing corporations to give more ensured that. Are we getting more for the money, though? We certainly had our TV airwaves taken over by candidates this year. Billions upon billions of dollars spent while Hurricane Sandy victims still are without running water, electricity, and food. Billions of dollars on a campaign while wars continue.. while poverty abounds.. while people are working three jobs instead of two just to make ends meet. Billions of bucks on the campaign.

Just to keep the status quo.

And speaking of status quo, not to be glum while America parties, there is something coming on January 1 2013 that few are concerned about: The fiscal cliff. The moment when taxes increase for everyone in this nation all at one time. When government spending has issues.. when people’s deductions get affected.. when life fiscally as we know it changes. And Congress, the Senate, and the White House are fully aware of the impending financial doom. The cliff is fast approaching. Billions of dollars were spent to make certain that the SAME PLAYERS would be in Washington that brought us to the edge of this mess. As of right now, no serious attempts have yet been made to correct the problem, or divert it from happening. A lame duck session of Congress is coming. Maybe they will come up with a magic solution? Or just keep doing things as they have been done.

No changes.

Status quo.

It’s tough to say just yet what, if anything, will change as a result of President Obama’s re-election. 

The nation is slightly divided. A pretty evenly split popular vote, though the President did have a resounding victory on the Electoral College map. 

If I had to make any prediction about what changed, I’d say this: Republicans will have to deeply analyze their message and determine what they could do about it. Was Romney just a flawed candidate? Was Santorum right ..was Gingrich right..was Bachmann right? They all said Romney could not beat a sitting President. And Chris Christie sat this one out. Maybe he was thinking Romney loses, too, setting up a 2016 run (or walk for him) to the White House? Or maybe the Ron Paul wing of the party needs some more press. Or maybe the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, and others, need to be brought into the big tent of media coverage that only covers two parties? 

I don’t know.

But what I do know is that today, just like November 5 2012, everything feels quite the same..

The Commander in Chief. For four more years.

11:12 pm OHIO CALLED..

Chicago is going wild at Obama headquarters.. Other nets have not called yet..

Big news NBC CALLS IT

Obama wins!

I was wrong.. Obama did not win North Carolina

President Obama will win the swing state of Wisconsin and Mitt Romney will win the swing state of North Carolina..

Florida is getting closer..

Will there be an automatic recount? I still say no. But we will see

Minnesota goes Obama, networks making the call

The trend continues leading to a potential landslide election

I predict North Carolina goes Obama

No projections from the experts yet but I’m watching the county by county view and it is looking like Romney’s night will end early..

Numbers coming in from Wisconsin

And it looks like an Obama pickup as
Milwaukee results get counted..

Not a shock to me

Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill will beat Todd Akin to retain her U.S. Senate seat for Missouri

Only half the vote is counted in Ohio but.....

The window there is closing too. Major Democratic strongholds have yet to be counted, just like in FLORIDA. The election may soon be over ..

Romney's window to win is closing quickly

84% of Florida is counted.. But the areas to be counted are major Democratic areas .. Romney is most likely going to lose Florida and it perhaps will NOT be as close as it looks at the moment..

New Hampshire goes to Obama

Scott Brown out

Elizabeth Warren wins and picks up a Senate seat for the Democrats ..

Florida is amazingly close

Razor thin isn’t the word.
Where’s Dan Rather when you need a good saying?

Mitt Romney will win West Virginia’s 5 electoral votes, and Indiana’s 11 electoral votes.

Ohio closing soooooonnnnn

The kingmaker state almost set to count.