Months ago, my friend Bill first coined the term "Whitey's Last Stand". I don't know if it's his term or he picked it up somewhere. But I think that is what we witnessed last night. Whitey campaigned masterfully and in 1959 would have won handily. But this ain't 1959 and the Romney camp ended up failing miserably, even though they thought they were running the perfect campaign. And they did. For another era.
America is changing and evolving. America is getting browner. America is sneaking more Spanish words into our language. America is gaining more young people, more minorities, more people of color, and more people of different cultures. My Republican friends, you need to recognize a few things, or you will forever lose the party of Lincoln.
So if there ever was what seemed to be Whitey's Last Stand it was last night. Does this mean that an old obtuse white guy will never be President? Maybe.
I suspect that the GOP is today scrambling figuring out why a nearly perfect campaign failed. I predict they will come out swinging in a much more vibrant way in 2016.
But I worry about the Republican Party. There is a faction out there that truly believes that the normal, moderate, willing to work out compromises must go. They believe that America really subscribes to an extreme right wing agenda. The Republican Party has the Tea Party's hand at their throat and they are afraid to do anything about it. Please John Boungner, throw these idiots out of your party of integrity. Yes, it may mean short term losses, but it will mean long term gains.
We need the GOP back. We need the rational, normal, compromising, understanding, willing to work together Republicans back. With the two parties, working together many great things were accomplished. But since these Tea Party idiots have gotten involved, our country is at a stale-mate. Hopefully last night was the beginning of the end of the Tea Party.
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