We’re the elephant in the room, but all the armchair political quarterbacks are talking about is how the Republican party has to connect with Latino and young voters.
Mourdock and Akin lost their Senate seats, perhaps having something to do with their views on pregnancy, abortion and “legitimate” rape. I can only surmise that Romney’s repeated televised threats of overturning Roe v. Wade has something to do with losing the women’s vote by 11%. After all, if it’s illegal, abortion only goes back into the alleys, and given the Republican party’s unwillingness toward “sex education” things would be much worse for women under a Republican president trying to turn back the clock forty years. Heck, why not go back fifty years and undo civil rights! Or 150 years so those slaves can’t vote?
I’d love to be a fly on the wall to see seventeen people in attendance at Martin Luther King’s “I Don’t Have a Dream” speech. I’m an Independent, but Republicans, especially Tea Party radicals, need to know that we’re not going to dress like we’re on the Mad Men set, vacuum the carpets in heels, get our hair done and teased every week at the salon and make meals out of Campbell’s soup.
Those days are gone. Republicans, what irks me the most is that the party cannot be one of rich white men who think voter registration and turnout are bad things and that women, hispanics, blacks and gays should just go away. They did go away from the Republican party, and you lost, big time.
It’s ironic that Romney was a moderate, turned tea partier to get the nomination and never got back to the center in a trustworthy fashion. To me, that shows the Christian right, moral majority or whatever tea party-ism is called these days has to be supressed. It’ll always be there, as is the ultra-liberal wing of the Democratic party, but heed this lesson, rich white men.
And don’t just pretend. Romney pretended to be a “regular” American. He is not, if he only pays capital gains tax rates, keeps his assets in the Caymans and wears holy underwear. Something to chew on with breakfast. I bought myself a present, lox and cream cheese. Now I have to wait for the bagel shop to open! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
One comment I approved (working on it) asks what’s wrong with Campbell’s soup? Nothing, except as a kid I learned to substitute my own bechamel, I learned later on, with cream of celery or cream of mushroom soup. While camping (those are two words you’ll never hear together again) I actually made a broccoli cheese soup for fellow campers with canned cheddar cheese soup. Dear Julia, Jacques, James Beard, I apologize. Dee
Here’s a good essay about this election:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2012/11/05/my-vote-tomorrow/
I read it and commented. Thanks! Dee