I normally don't watch Fox News as I think facts should be real rather than made up, but I thought that the day after the election, I should see what the right is thinking about the election. So yesterday, I decided that watching Bill O'Reilly would give me a good eye on what their thinking is this week. And, I'll say this for Bill, the hour didn't disappoint me.
He started with his thoughts that if Romney had pushed the Libya attack in the last debate, he would have won the election. Excuse me, but isn't the investigation still on-going? So what was he going to attack the President on, the fact that different people were using different reports to brief the country? No, sorry that wasn't going to swing the election. Then he said the while Tropical Storm Sandy helped the President, the fact that in the last few days Romney never went on the attack. So, you think that Romney attacking President Obama while the President was doing his job ensuring FEMA was responding to the needs of the states and the people that had been affected by Sandy? Yeah, that would have made Romney look big, wouldn't it? No, of course not, it would make him look small and petty.
Then guests after guests came on saying things like the demographics were wrong. The demographics in the election just happened to follow the 2010 Census within a percent, so it obviously couldn't be that GOP policies don't speak to the needs of women and minorities. Then one guest said the if the economy was still tanked in 4 years, blacks would still vote for Obama. Um, you do know that Obama can't run again in 2016, don't you? Or that while the economy isn't improving as quickly as anyone would like, it really tanking at all. That would be more like in October 2008, when the nation lost almost half a million jobs, than October 2012, when the nation picked up over 170,00 jobs. Another guest said that the left thinks that Mitt Romney, which he described as a good and decent person, is what's wrong with the country. This less than 24 hours after President Obama Mitt and the entire Romney family good and decent people who love their country. Yeah, these are just some of the examples of the non-fact facts that the GOP believes and aren't true.
But Bill did say one thing that did really scare me, even if it's only a little bit correct. In his summation, he stated that if the economy was still bad in 2016, the Democratic Party would be extinct.What scares me is that if the GOP really believes that, what reason do they have to compromise? The country could be in for another 4 years like the last two. And all because of the near complete delusions of the GOP.
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