UPDATED, see below for Rush Limbaugh’s post-election reaction.
Exclusive to The Volunteer, Dissociated Press provided the following roundup of reactions to the reelection of President Barack Obama.
What is left to hope for? That the American people will soon regret their choice? That another four years of economic stagnation and escalating debt will cure them of their insane appetite for charismatic liberals? If four years of endless failure have not rid them of this madness, the disease may well be terminal. Perhaps others will still see some cause for hope, and in another few weeks my friends may persuade me to see it, too. But today I will hear no such talk, and I doubt I’ll be in a better mood tomorrow. At the moment, I am convinced America is doomed beyond all hope of redemption, and any talk of the future fills me with dread and horror.
– Robert Stacy McCain, American Spectator. Reportedly said while he was drying his eyes in a Confederate flag, earlier soiled when he vomited into it after seeing a black man kissing a white woman.
The white establishment is now the minority…And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things? … The demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional America anymore.
– Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, shortly before he was fired for being Irish.
It’s true, it’s true we were beaten, yes, but by what? By money and ethnic votes, essentially.
– Former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, lamenting Romney’s loss from a hidden fortress in Quebec City. To be fair, he may have been talking about some other beating he’d received.
Why, putting it coarsely, doesn’t the Republican Party get credit for Condoleeza Rice? Why doesn’t the Republican Party get credit for Marco Rubio? Why doesn’t the Republican Party get credit for Suzanne Martinez…
Are we going to get the votes Obama got last night. We’re not? Really, we’re not?
We won’t. But we’re not getting the votes that Obama got last night because we have Condoleeza Rice – and she is a pinnacle of achievement, and intelligent, and well-spoken . . . You can’t find a more accomplished person. Marco Rubio. And really, speaking in street lingo, we’re not getting credit for it.
And the white Republican establishment is putting these people out front, but they really don’t believe that Marco Rubio is that good of a deal. Window dressing! If that’s the perception of Obama voters, than how do we change that?
– Rush Limbaugh, shortly before the pharmacy refused his attempt to trade a black person in for some Oxycontin.
Thing is, O’Reilly is basically right. GOP needs to diversify.
Twitter:“The redistribution of wealth is Marxism!” said no conservative ever, until a black guy was in charge.
Terrence, are you ever honest?
I don’t listen to O’Reilly. He’s Irish, and therefore not part of the White Establishment ™.
Btw, Cyto, how did allying yourself with social conservatards work out for you?
I didn’t ally myself with anyone. Again, are you ever honest.
With myself? Always.
But seriously, Cyto, how’s that conservative outreach thing you were working on going for you?
Did you ever find yourself nodding in agreement with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, just to get the so-cons to like you?
I’m very curious about what you would say — and who you would sell out — to gain their favor.
“Cyto, how’s that conservative outreach thing you were working on going for you?”
So you’re never honest. Got it.
I’m certainly glad that Mourdock replaced Lugar. Rand Paul got elected in 2010. A bunch of Paulian candidates got in this time. WTF does Akin have to do with this? Why would I want his to like me?
So how’s that movement of pro-freedom liberals going-OH wait I forgot. They don’t exist. It’s hilarious that you’re talking about bending for others approval when you’re linking to Matt Taibi. PROJECTION TIME as we say on Reason
Yes, because linking an article on Twitter is exactly like selling yourself out to the author.
But if I had to be a sellout, I’d rather be a sellout for a guy like Taibbi.
I mean, I’m sure we disagree on economics (though some of his stuff on the bailouts has been quite good.) Still, I’m sure we agree on immigration, drug legalization, same-sex marriage, and other issues that matter.
Fortunately, selling out isn’t required. I can agree with Taibbi on some things, disagree with him and others, picking and choosing my targets according to my own principles. I can maul Obama and his supporters for killing kids with drones and call out Republicans for being racist halfwits and gay-hating theocrats.
What do Republican catamites like you get? Aside from a sore bottom?