And that’s fine with me.
In 2010, when the Tea Party won quite a few House seats and a couple of Senate seats , many people were wrongly tricked into believing that a serious political movement had begun and a rise of the Far Right was imminent.
(Frankly, I believe these were ‘protest candidate’ candidates that were elected mostly because the country was at the height of the Great Recession and there was a lot of misery and demand for change out there.)
Well, the call for change is coming to an end, the country is on the mend and the Republicans that want to keep their jobs are drifting back to the center.
And if they don’t drift to the center they will, most likely, be voted out of office because the wacko Right is no longer a viable alternative.
And, I believe, much of this rejection of change is because of a Sean Hannity EPIC FAIL.
It turns out, the majority of Americans do not want to live in Sean Hannity’s world.
His is a world of constant conflict for the sake of ratings. A world of hammering a message over and over and over again turning his audience into something similar to school children in North Korea.
And it’s a message that never wavers: “Anyone but Obama…” (The Republican pundit establishment has apparently changed that slightly – “Anyone but Obama or Romney…”)
Well, because of this message – and the millions who follow Mr. Hannity – the Republicans may well be stuck with Rick ‘The Stick’ Santorum (just as they nearly got stuck with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry).
I can now confirm, with 0% of the vote counted, Rick Santorum has LOST the 2012 general election to President Obama.
There is no question Santorum has already lost without one vote being counted. Bob Dole’s loss to Bill Clinton in 1996 will be considered a close race compared to an Obama vs. Santorum election.
Santorum will, most likely, get the lowest number of female votes in the history of Presidential elections (unless you count the Presidential races in which women did not have the right to vote).
However, Santorum will, most likely, win the Fascist vote as he is the candidate with the most images on the internet with a Hitler mustache Photoshopped onto his face.
Now, what’s crazy about all this is I firmly believe Sean Hannity, deep down, doesn’t care how people live their lives. I firmly believe that if the ratings dictated a different point of view, Mr. Hannity would shift on a dime to the Left and still claim that his moral compass has never wavered.
He would refute this claim vehemently. And, to be fair, he has never had to face that problem because there are millions of Americans that he has focused on that love the bomb throwing, the red meat and any other political metaphor you can think of.
But because of this extremism and, yes, short-sighted view of the world, Sean Hannity is costing his political party the chance to win against a vulnerable incumbent.
It is obvious we are living in a crazy time when Ann Coulter is the voice of reason at CPAC. Say what you want about her, she is not a stupid person. She knows there is only one candidate that has a slight chance against President Obama and that is Mitt Romney.
Why the Republican establishment hasn’t thrown everything behind Mitt is beyond me. Perhaps it’s because there is also a feeling Mitt Romney cannot win either. (I am one of those people.)
But he’s really the only choice there is to even get close to the lofty John McCain numbers of 2008.
Of course, Sean Hannity (and Rush and all the others) could swing things by full on endorsing Mr. Romney. But if he did, he would lose half his audience and his street cred as a bomb throwing ‘lover of freedom’ (though most people would consider ‘love’ and ‘freedom’ two things that are lacking in his political philosophy).
Mr. Hannity really doesn’t care who is President. It is probably more fun for him to criticize President Obama than it was to defend President Bush. And it certainly won’t be fun for him to have to defend President Santorum (who, remember, has 0% chance to win).
Like I said – it’s completely fine with me. The implosion of the Grand Old Party is actually quite amusing.
God speed, Sean Hannity – you are President Obama’s best friend these days.
Jill Kennedy – OnMedea
I am a Romney supporter, and am disgusted with the conservative talking heads knocking him down every chance they get! If Romney is not the nominee and it is Gingrich or Santorum, I am voting for Obama!
How is Obama better than Gingrich? How is Romney better than Gingrich for that matter?
You idiots. I’d vote for Mickey Mouse over Barack Obama. He wants to change this country from what made it great. Just look at the background of his appointments, Cass Sunstien and John Holdren want to take away ALL your rights. Many are confirmed Communists. Obama has a different view of what this country should be. Entitllements for all and all the power in the hands of the feds. Look up the Cloward and Piven Strategy.
Don’t forget Palin, Newt, and Bayer aspirin Rick. But I am starting to watch Fox salivate over a brokered convention and the wonders it would do for their ratings. Hopefully Romney picks it up a notch, and quickly.
Calling Santorum “Bayer aspirin Rick” is dumb – some other schmuck made that clumsy remark. However, in the end, it did make sense, clumsiness aside. Keep your legs crossed, avoid trouble.
Hey, cool! You’re a disgusting human being, Dog! Way to go!
This was a great article.
There’s nothing disgusting about abstinence. And it does work.
Abstinence works, right, ! Just ask my mom. LOL
Great idea. [insert sarcastic tone and rolls eyes]
How about taking that statement a step further, women will keep their legs crossed and men can keep their penis in there pants. After all, women aren’t getting pregnant by themselves.
I never realize how much Republican men hated sex with women. Does this mean that those men are batting for the same team?
Flower, I think they have made it painfully clear which team they are batting for! Every week another “anti-gay” republican is outed in some sex scandal. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, just own up to it fellas!
Or maybe, floating in a bottle of formaldehyde.
Its not only slanthead hannity, but also levin, and especially limbaugh. In combing through comments and blogs from teabaggers, I see more parrating of limbaugh’s rhetoric than any of the other these reich-wing mujahadeen. His blathering is the most hateful, and divisive of all the others. Of course, the teapublicans have gone so extreme, and their postions are so bizarre, that they have contorted themselves into a palomar knot, that none of their talking heads can unravel without contradicting themselves, walking over previous positions, denying the facts, or just outright lying. They come off as unappealingly desperate when attempting to defend the teapublican platform, and the other worldly statements being made by their presidential candidates.
The blame can also be laid at the feet of that hillbilly in Alaska, who since 2009 has been clamoring for “long, tough primaries”, which, durign their primary race have been nothing less than a disaster. Their debates, initially thought would provide a rebuttal-free platform for their candidates to slander, and belittle the president in front of their howling and hooting zealots, have turned into ugly cage matches where their candidiates have been publicly embarrassed, exposed as hypocrites and liars, and where the teapublican audiences have solidified their party as a very unattractive, petty and hateful party.
Ms Kennedy,
If you truly believe that Mr Hannity and Mr Limbaugh have the power to sway a presidential election, I am afraid you are giving them too much credit. You are also implying that they are clever and witty enough to conjure up a utter ridiculous premise, such as pushing forward to hard right cultural conservative knowing he will lose, just to get people to listen to them, ironically this rather seems like exactly what you are doing in writing this article, putting foward an utter ridiculous premise just to get attention to your article. Except those two aforementioned men can open thier window and shout in order to reach a larger audience than you could ever dream. Perhaps the reason Senator Santorum is leading is because there are millions of cultural conservatives in our country that those of us living in cities on the coast continue to live in denial about. I am not making a judgement as to who is right or wrong with regards Senator Santorum, I only wish the cultural conservatives in this nation were more fiscal conservatives and forgien policy conservatives, for those of you who missed civics the day it was taught in high school, that means staying out of forgien entanglements unless absolutely necessary, meaning stop being the words police, and stop murdering tens of thousands of poor civilians in underdeveloped countries in the name of national security, the direct opposiste of what false conservative George Bush did, and the current administration continues to this day.
Hey Ryan,
You should make a judgement in regards to Rick Santorum – and that judgement should be that someone with his agenda and ideology should never become President of the United States. I do, of course, realize that Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh alone can’t sway an election – but they certainly could help the only candidate most believe have a chance to beat Obama (for the simple fact that he is more moderate and closer to the center – regardless of how he is trying to rebrand himself these days as a Right wing Conservative). If what they say day after day is true – that they will back whoever can beat President Obama – why would they even spend 10 seconds on Rick Santorum? Because that’s who their audience wants them to talk about. Their shows get a lot less interesting when they talk about boring old Mitt Romney. But what that means to me is – they don’t really care if someone beats President Obama, they are trying to create high rated radio shows.
Ryan,
I think you missed a point that Ms. Kennedy made repeatedly. That Senator Santorum will never be president. She is referring to the primary, not the general.
Also, please note that I do not live on either coast and I am not a cultural conservative. There are millions of us here in middle America. All would do well to not forget about us.
Ryan you obviously missed a whole month of spelling! Don’t try & school others when you can even spell common words!
“She knows there is only one non-starter among the remaining Republicans contenders and that is Mitt Romney.”
I think you meant non-non-starter.
Thanks, sobe. I fixed it.
Jill, it seems that Ann Coulter agrees with you…
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-02-22.html
Does the answer lie in retroactive birth control for nitwit conservatives?
Let´s face it, Romney is wearing thin for established conservative pundits whose business it is is to dish out extremist right-wing fodder for barstool conservatives to chew on throughout the country. They desperately want a GOP poster-boy hellbent on getting that blackman out of the white house that they can rant and rave about, and Romney just isn´t fitting the bill
So much beauty – so very little brains
Do you take yourself seriously Jill?
Carrying Rupert Murdock’s message must be difficult for Sean these days. Rupert is under attack in London as his empire crumbles. Even his new rag is propped up by corporate sales to boost circulation numbers. Watching the right squirm with no credible presidential candidate is fun. I’m looking forward to Repubs convention. As a musician I hope they don’t again abuse Woody Guthrie’s song “This Land is Your Land”. George Bush played this song during the convention. How weird to hear a Socialist song being sung by the Repubs. They didn’t know. Much like Bush didn’t know Steven Colbert is a Liberal when he was invited to address the National Radio Broadcasters Convention. You can’t make this stuff up.
Who is Stefan Colbert?
I’ve been predicting Obama’s land slide victory at the polls for over a year now. The market and jobs are the key. Market has gone from 6500 to over 13000. 24 months of growth. Unemployment from 10.2 to 8.4 and predicted to go to 8.0 or below before November. Considering these facts do any of you think a 3rd party might spring up to run? With this “no contest” situation it would be fertile ground for a right wing Tea Party type organization to make in roads and get established as a viable party. Maybe Newt and Sarah? Or Santorum and Sarah. Those two could draw the old Moral Majority crowd and the pro theocracy element. Or maybe Ron Paul who could draw Libertarians and Tea Party.
Why do you sound a like scorned high school girl? No substance just hatred. And then you read and reply to the commenters? Looking for approval? Man, ease up. You show your youth also thinking no Republican will ever get elected President again. They said that during Clinton’s first term and during his re-election campaign. He was so horrible Bush was voted in twice… you lefty’s scared the hell out of us regular Americans.
It goes back and forth. Look at History. Obama has destroyed our once great country. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were not race riots if Obama were to lose. Back in the day we would say Obama is all jive and no talk… Why do you need our email addresses?’
Jill,
While I don’t know anything about Sean Hannity (I’ve never heard of him until this article actually) and maybe the article has a point, I think your last comment about the GOP imploding is a bit of wishful thinking.
The two sides (red and blue) are too big and powerful and they have too many backers to implode that easily. My feeling is they can go through decades of wavering and then resurrect with a good candidate. They are like cockroaches.
Now, if there would be a third and forth political alternative in this country I would believe GOP could implode.
The rightwing is the enemy of this country. Anyone continuing to vote for these lunatics needs their head examined. They are well on their way to bringing this country to its knees. The Koch-loving criminal Scott Walker recall will tell alot. Citizens United was the deathknell to democracy. It may be too late.