Five Post-Mortem Points Regarding Obama Win

Barack Obama’s win seemed to go against much of the late momentum being seen across the nation in favor of Mitt Romney’s challenge but in the end both the electoral count and the popular vote went in favor of Obama.  To many in the nation who opposed him the answer as to how this could happen escapes them.

I will take a few days to analyze matters more carefully but here are my early take aways.

First, Obama’s win is a credit to the democratic strategy which has been in play for over 50 years.  Rather than seeing the nation as a whole, they view it as a patchwork quilt of various interest groups each of which can be won separately to piece together an electoral college win.  It is a strategy which has divided the nation.

Second, this isn’t your daddy’s America anymore.  The members of “The Greatest Generation” are no longer a dominant force.  Their real life experience with Communism and Fascism and the threats they pose to our way of life have faded from the political landscape.  Those threats to liberty and prosperity are footnotes at best in history books being taught to generations of kids who see no value in learning.  The assault on our education about American values has worked.

Third, there is a growing racial tension in America driven for the most part by people of color.  Rather than see themselves as Americans they see themselves as “African-Americans” or “Hispanic-Americans” or “Latinos”.  They are struggling to gain power for themselves as a group based solely upon the color of their skin and their heritage.  As such they have become a unified factor in the political demographics of the nation.

Fourth, the TEA party ideologues who refuse to help the Republican win unless it is one of their own have now helped Barack Obama win a second term.  While their influence might have worked to give them a seat at the table in a Romney administration they will get nothing but left handed credit from the Obama administration for being so stupid as to think they made progress.  Only a few of the many TEA party candidates won last night.  In fact in some districts they helped deliver a solidly republican seat into democratic hands.  Pundits will say it is time for the GOP to reassess itself.  I agree.  But the nation has made it very clear, the incalcitrance of the Ron Paul crowd has given them just the opposite of what they say they were trying to avoid.  Instead of the “lesser of two evils” they helped re-elect the “greater” evil.

Fifth, the GOP controlled Congress must immediately begin a full investigation into the Behghazi affair.  It must vote to keep the Bush tax cuts, and find a path toward impeaching Obama. It is shameful that the Romney campaign did not find a way to push the Benghazi issue harder.  To allow this election to be focused purely on economic issues was obviously a losing strategy.  Yes “it’s the economy stupid” but some people aren’t stupid enough to think that any president with a five point plan is going to harness the huge economic engine of America without firing up a bigger government which even democrats reject.  But every American who pays attention knows the threats we face from foreign enemies and knows that the president is commander in chief.  Reagan didn’t shy away from making that point and he won a very tight first election.  Romney’s focus needed to be more military, security and making Obama out to be untrustworthy to protect us.  On this point he let us down and as a result let the architect of the Benghazi/Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda scandal off the hook.

A little time and a little distance will give me a better perspective, but these are my early morning thoughts.

God bless us all.