Next four years - same political situation we have had for the past four. Gridlock - Republican House, Democrat Senate, lazy and incompetent Marxist president. But the economy simply won't be able to take the strain: Destructive Obamacare, killer regulations, no budget, trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, weak (pro-Muslim) foreign policy, Social Security and Medicare on the way to bankruptcy, porous southern border, sycophant dinosaur press. Greece - or Argentina - or Venezuela - is our future. We are past the tipping point - freedom sure was nice while it lasted. I am glad I have had the opportunity to grow up in a mostly free country and thankful that I do not have grandchildren forced to cope as best they can in an unfree one.

Sorry, but no. No more fighting. There is simply nothing left to fight for. We lost my state tonight! The WHOLE THING! To three dolts that couldn't put two words together to form a complete sentence in the debates. Face it: the Republican Party is through. But it can't be killed off from the outside, nor reformed from within. We couln't beat the President with the absolute worst record EVER. There is no other place to go, nothing else to do, no other fight to fight. I spent the summer watching Romney let 0bama frame this election with no response from our side. NONE! Time to join the Democrats and ride in the cart instead of pulling it.

it would not surprise me to see Israel act very soon. They are well and truly on their own and they know it. Things are going to get bad very quickly over there. I hope I am very, very wrong.

So Drudge has called it for obama. I ate 1/2 bag of licorice and it didn't help but no hangover in the morning if I can mange to roll out of bed.

The only solace I can find personally is that the media can stop the daily Mormon stories and the TV can stop showing our underwear.

Other than that, obama has the flexibility to deal with Russia on Putin's terms and we get further from being energy independent.

I can't believe how dumb some voters are who can't see the consequences of their vote or non-vote.

It has been a long and well fought campaign. God help us all...

Has Romney/Ryan conceded yet?

Not what I expected. My family, many friends and I are in the oil business and we will either:
1) Be out of business because our dear reader will prohibit hydraulic fracturing.
2) Be out of business because the won continues to put his economic ineptness on full display, resulting in lower demand for power in a slower world economy.
3) See the oil boom continue because permits on fed controlled minerals are curtailed, reducing supply, while the dollar loses more value, driving up the price of oil and all other commodities.

Who are these people who elected this imbecile and his merry band of thieves?

I turned off the cable TV election results and looked for abnother country to emigrate to. The USA is flushed down the toilet, and it is time to leave.
Buh Bye.

The Republican Party is too damaged to recover from this loss. It has to do what the Whigs did in 1856: Throw in the towel. Dissolve. Form two new parties -- a moderate but progressive party that will attract centrist Democrats who are concerned their party is moving too far to the left, and another party where all the people who consider abortion to be the #1 issue facing America can gather together. The party of Lincoln, which was formed from the remnants of the Whigs, is kaput.

#911, it is never time to leave our country. We DID build it.

This one hard pill to swallow! The impeachment should start tomorrow. I would rather see Biden finish off O's term. Maybe we can impeach him too! Rubio 2016.

We have lost everyhing we worked 37 years to build together. Our stock,savings and 401K are gone and now our house. 25 years of mortgage payments...all on time, stopped only because the bottom fell out of my husband's business and our income has been reduced to one third of what it once was.

This was our last hope for rebuilding before retirement. Only God knows what's ahead for us. We still have each other, thankfully all of our kids are finished with college (we did that with NO loans too)this was going to be "our time." Insted we live like paupers scared to spend a cent.

What I feel the worst is about the other things that have happened in the past 4 years...Fast & Furious, wild spending on nothing of value, the enslavement of millions of Americans now looking to "Big Brother" for their livelyhood. And finally, the tradgedy of Benghazi. I am haunted by what went through the mind of Tyrone Woods when the realization hit that he was played for a fool...no one was coming to help.

So many prayers offered. Maybe God has a plan that will one day be revealed.

Maybe Barak and Joe will be forced to resign over Benghazi...that will make Boehner president. Not my first choice but it still works.
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It's sad that the #1 issue driving voters seems to be abortion. Ironically, the US is way more liberal on abortion than the European socialists that the Democrats apparently revere. Most Euro countries place restrictions on mid and late term abortions and none has declared the right to abortion a Constitutional right. Now with O picking Supreme Court justices and a comfortable majority in the Senate, the right to abortion on demand will live on for generations. And what about Obamacare. Hello, John Roberts? I guess the democratic process doesn't work as well as you thought.

It turns out we didn't build it, #913. Our dear leader said so, and now it has come true!

And forget about impeachment. The Senate would never convict. By the way, Sarah Palin's candidate, Deb Fischer, won in Nebraska.

Thank you, Lucianne, for the work that you do every day for us and for facilitating this thread.

#900 – Ldotter #47’s post may be helpful in responding to your questions. Further, would add that, as an explanation of “why” some “leaders” and not others, it has been said that sometimes God gives us who we deserve rather than who we need. This country has turned away from God; Scripture reveals that time again, when God’s people turned from Him, God’s blessings were taken from them. Lastly, it has been said that this world is in its “last hour.”

“… Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.” ~ Revelation 22:11

The MSM will be so busy celebrating that they will conveniently forget to report the 2 Ohio democrat officials that were arrested.

Goodnight, fellow L-dotters. Pray for our country.

Poor Barry. Imagine the effort ahead of him, trying to clean up the unimaginable mess of the past 4 years.

How anyone who watched this campaign could say Romney was a bad candidate is beyond me. We would have been fortunate to have Romney sit in the oval office with Ryan as his veep.

Now we have to watch the President who would not save 4 Americans on American soil in Benghazi try to stop Iran from getting the bomb; we have to watch the President and the Ds deal with all of the inevitable bad things which will result from Obamacare; we get to watch the President, now with no one else to blame, explain why America is faltering; and we get to watch old media die. I will NEVER spend one dime on a newspaper again. I will NEVER watch ABC, CBS, PBS or NBC again - not even sports - nothing.

To #905, and anyone else putting their hopes into the House of Reps staying republican------

Boehner is the speaker. (need I say more?)

This election is showing that 2010 was an aberration.

The reps in the house get elected every two years, not six like the senators.

I recall reading a long time ago, that 2012 was our best chance to regain control of the senate, as more Pubbies then democraps will be up in 2014. (I hope I.m wrong)

(Does anyone have info on who's up for re-election in 2014?)

The first sentence of my post---#925 is confusing----

I meant to say to anyone who feels that gridlock will prevail---consider the following:

Re #925's question re 2014 Senate election:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2014

You will have to scroll down.

I do not know why this prayer to be rid of this un-American interloper was not answered tonight. Lord knows that we've prayed for our nation every day since it fell into the hands of this enemy in 2008. And I cannot pretend to know the mind of God, but I do suspect that when he DOES answer our prayer for our nation it will be in a way so outrageous and so surprising that we will declare as the Scriptures say: "This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes."

In the meantime, read the book of Nehemia in the Bible. He appointed himself to help rebuild the city walls of Jerusalem. He had a plan, kept it close to his vest. He had his mockers and God protected him and his task until completion. And so must we now rebuild our own nation: stone on stone; principle on principle. The world will know us by the contrast we create to the debauchery, the filth, the killing, the theivery, the ignorance & stupidity. There is no defense to righteousness and that's why the left hates us; we hold up the mirror to the reality they do not want to see.

I am comforted to see some old names and many new names on this RT. We have cried on one another's shoulders many times before and here is yet another sad time. But it is not the end; not yet. Not for me, anyway; and it should not be for the rest of us. God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. Tomorrow we begin another round of the the good fight. Blessings, LDotters. Gracious Lucianne, thank you for this forum.

It seems the tipping point has been reached. More takers in this former republic than producers. What do I tell my kids, 7, 6, and ,2? Their the ones over in the next room with the surprised look on their faces because they each owe (as of today) over $200,000 in national debt, and have nothing to show for it. We did our job here in Missouri, with the exception of that selfish jerk Akin. The statists who have brought about our demise in other parts of this former republic, I can't find strong enough words for my contempt for you. I don't blame God for forsaking this country, our misery was brought about by our own hands.

Is it too early for me to call out John Hinderaker of Powerline for stumping for Romney over the other GOP candidates? He said we needed to pick Mitt because he was the kind of moderate we needed to win in November.

Sorry, John. I'd rather stick to my principles.

Romney just conceded. I can't recall the last time I've been so disappointed in my country. I'm so sorry for my daughter and her husband. God help us all.

Because of Benghazi,he should be impeached

As the little header at Drudge says we are, even more than before, "A Country Divided." Many of us won't sleep well tonight. As in the Recent Unpleasantness, we are going to lose family and friends over this election and new friends will be difficult to make because of trust issues. All I know is we have to keep on keeping on. Our country has been through worse times and we have endured.

Churchill said it best when he spoke to the British government in 1940:

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all terror — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

This too shall pass.

Our prayers were answered...just not the way we wanted. Prayer is not about telling God what to do, after all. God has a reason for this. We know from the Bible that a nation can only thumb it's nose at God for so long before judgment falls...

P.S. I see Drudge has made that little header into a big one:

"The Divided States of America."

And so to bed.

I'm really sad tonight. I also fear for our country, but hey, Obama has the national headache now and the blood of Benghazi to answer for. Our country is truly divided and she's listing on the waves of the ocean now like a one-proud ship who has a fool for a captain.

It's painfully obvious that no candidate - not a perfect Conservative or a decent plain old Republican can overcome union thuggery and plain old cheating at the ballot box. When the left can prop up a mentally disabled person to vote for their candidate, you know the process is deeply flawed.

I plan to ''go dark'' with TV news and only check in on the headlines online. The gloating of the MSM is too hard to bear.

How in the hell did all those pundits get it so wrong? I am so ashamed to live in Ohio right now. The fools! Goodnight friends. Chin up and trust in God to see us through.

Unfortunately fiscal catastrophe is now staring us in the face with no hope of a change in tack. Fully half of the country by numbers is not only opposed to the president, but vehemently against him due to the campaign he ran. He will have trouble with support in any future crises and he will be actually hobbled in making important decisions due to that half the country not in support. The victory is shallow. The country will suffer. His narcissism will be insufferable. But good people will continue to do good things. So keep doing good things.

#937 it will not matter. Obama will rule by Executive Order and Senate-ratified UN Treaties. Since when has a split country hindered him for one nanosecond?

Re Benghazi--who will take the fall for that is Hillary (doesn't need her or Bill anymore) and the very quiet Gen. Petraeus (ret.) at CIA.

"As for God, His way is perfect." Psalm 18:30
Without that assurance, I'd be a lot more discouraged than I am now. "Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, 'It is well, it is well with my soul.'" God will have the last word, no matter what is said now. And Psalm 2 is heartily apropos at this time.

God still rules in the affairs of man. His people are exhorted to pray for those in authority that we may lead peaceable lives. And, so we shall, and do.

1 Timothy 2:1-4

1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Some words I've seen that match my thoughts.

We were all duped into believing maybe there was a chance America was still the land of the free and the home of the brave

Unfortunately, we have a lot of dysfunctional, self-loathing liberals, free-loaders and low-lifes concentrated in certain key welfare-oriented states that are forever to hijack our elections

Obama his team brought every street derelict, mental patient and wayward soul they could find to the polls, paying some off with cigarettes or alcohol or cash – and got them to press the lever on his behalf. The lowest of the low are deciding the fate of the whole.

Don't trust any pundit or prognosticator or talking heads. I was gullible enough to believe them. The Conservative Koolade is no better than the Liberal stuff.

We were told to trust GOD? "What Hath God Wrought On Us"?

At the risk of getting yelled at, the absolute truth is that the GOP needs to stop pushing social conservatism in the election cycle--especially those issues that can be construed as intrusive into peoples personal lives. I KNOW that in truth, it is the left who wants to control people. BUT, as I've said before, it is ALL about perception. I don't condone lying, but we would be much better off if we change our public views regarding abortion (maybe saying we are more accepting of choice during the first trimester)--even if we work quietly in the background educating the public and working toward making abortion less common (and perhaps eventually ending it). We'd not only gain more support and wouldn't be seen as unreasonable. AND we'd make late-term and partial birth advocates look like insane extremists. Same with other issues. Most important, Reps need to personally reach out to poor and minority communities. Talk to them & HEAR their concerns. Not pander to them...Just see what we can do to help...

(cont.) them to address their issues and become more self-sufficient. The GOP never does this....it is no wonder they think we don't care. Finally, groups like the TEA Parties should stick strictly to fiscal conservatism and upholding the Constitution.

America is gonna need another lesson. Now it's gonna get another lesson.

You know...I could understand the seething loathing from Democrats if we were running someone like Reagan on steroids, but in the last two elections our candidates were two of the most middling, almost-a-Democrat, reach-across-the-aisle non-partisans you could hope to find. One was a war hero who had survived capture by the Vietnamese and who Democrats lauded as their favorite Republican until he ran against Obama. The other is this shucky-darn squeaky-clean guy whose biggest "scandal" is that he once had no room in the car for his dog. To hear Democrats tell it, they narrowly escaped being ruled by Master Blaster.

There are some wonderfully wise words on this page. How I appreciate those posters who realize we should always be depending on God rather than politicians. For those who would compromise more with evil in order to ''win,'' you might just as well go on over to evil, but don't think you can take the rest of us with you. God's people will ultimately be the winners. Praise His name.

It's not over, just a lot harder. Time to sack the RNC.

We still have each other, and we have to remember that faith is never easy, and promises nothing in this life- it's not really the goal.

Thanks to all the LCom staff for this site and to all of you for the conversation. I've been up nearly all night praying and searching for answers; looking at pictures of my grandchildren and weeping for their lost liberty. This defeat (at nearly every level) is more than just poor political tactics and such. I fear it is a tipping point and signals the loss of the Republic in the near future now that Barack has more "flexibility". Who's going to stop him? God, have mercy on our children. Please forgive us for our slothfulness with the precious gift of liberty.

We may be forced to come to the realization that God is all we need, because God is all we have left. Was traveling last night and went to bed at 9. Woke up at 430 and saw Drudge. Very disappointing. The only consolation is that NC went for Romney. So my family's votes were not totally in vain. But this does not bode well for the future.