Will Karl Rove lead Republicans to victory in 2012?

When all else fails, GOP could try democracy By: Roger Simon - Politico December 4, 2012 04:47 AM EST The Republicans have found their stab in the back. It was the minorities what done them in. In just four years, U.S. presidential politics has gone from “the black guy can’t win” to “only the black guy can win.

Barack Obama disproved the first notion with his victory in 2008, but Mitt Romney and his few loyal minions are now pushing the second. Their version of recent history is simple: Romney did not lose because of any lack of personal attributes or campaign skills. He did not lose because of any of his protect-the-rich, sneer-at-the-middle-class policies.

He did not lose because his campaign failed miserably at its most basic function, turning out the vote. No, none of that mattered. Romney lost, according to Romney, because a secret was kept from him.

A trap was sprung on him at the last moment: Black people can vote! Hispanic people can vote! Young people can vote!

Hordes of these people have been living among us for decades, their numbers ever increasing. Strictly speaking, this has not happened in secret. Strictly speaking, the increased voting power of minorities has been tracked and written about for years and brought to the attention of the Republican Party by Republican strategists at least a dozen years ago.

And... So when you get right down to it, Mitt had no chance, even though he and his supporters raised a billion dollars and campaigned for years. Obama was a minority, he promised stuff to minorities and so he won. Simple as that.

Unfortunately, this is more than sour grapes. It is another attempt to delegitimize Obama. The first attempt was the “birther” movement, which tried to make his 2008 victory illegitimate by claiming Obama had not been born in the United States.

(That in 2012 Romney warmly and publicly embraced Donald Trump, the most high-profile person to question Obama’s birthplace, speaks for itself.) But birtherism failed to catch on. And now it has been replaced with the theory of “racial destiny”: Obama was born a minority and so minorities (and anyone else who can be easily bribed) will vote for him. Simple as that.

This was the message of Romney’s infamous “47 percent” remarks. They are worth repeating for what they reveal about how the Republican Party currently looks at America: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Romney said. “All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement.

And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.

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