34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-7-12”

  1. I just checked out the really bad headlines of the day and internally asked, “God, don’t you care about us anymore?” I felt Him answer, “I do. I’ve given you heaven.”

    This is a time to keep our perspectives clear. It is a day to be joyful for where we put our hope is not in a man but in our amazing God. We can’t see all He is up to. But He has promised good to us.

    JaniceG on November 7, 2012 at 6:43 am said:
    Remember, we have “voted” for our Leader and He has won for all of eternity, not just a four year term that is subject to the real Leader’s plans. So as others gloat on the outside today we can gloat, internally, all the while hoping they, too, will see the Light and not be eternal losers for their blindness.

    Resting on the divine, sweet consolation of the Lord. What is better than that?

    I posted the above on the Election thread from last night as a closing statement.

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  2. I hope all the Third Party voters are happy. They helped deliver us into this mess. The Left didn’t get the memo to vote for a third candidate. They NEVER split their vote.

    Personally, I am not optimistic about the future and I do feel abandoned today.

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  5. I would send a hefeweisssen to if I knew what it is.

    I feel bad for our country. I don’t think those know what they’re in for.
    I will be 86 before Obama goes out. I’m afraid that, if I live that long, I will say,'”I remember when America was a great nation.”

    Kim, I doubt that any third party voters affected this at all.

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  6. Chas, I am feeling a little put upon this morning. I am becoming disillusioned in thinking that only ONE time since I have been able to vote I felt my vote counted. I live in one of those podunk states that doesn’t matter.

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  8. I doubt there were enough 3rd party voters to have changed the outcome. Looks like it was enough of a margin — very similar, really, to Bush pulling out his 2nd term win in ’04, which was a surprise to many (including me).

    And the true-believer far left does also dizzily trail after 3rd party would-be ‘saviors’ on occasion — Who among us didn’t love-love-love Ralph Nadar in 2000? 🙂

    Encouraging or not, second terms typically are plagued with more problems for presidents who manage to get re-elected. Even I was tired of George W by the end of his second term. The honeymoon is most definitely over, it becomes usually harder to dazzle and lead even the base. Obama’s got a tough road ahead.

    I don’t understand in the least how people could return the president to office after the past 4 years. But there you go.

    I’ll say we need to pray for Obama while readily admitting that I personally will find that hard to do. 😦 That doesn’t speak well of me, I know — or maybe I’m just still smarting and feeling the disappointment from last night. Unfortunate outcome, to say the least. 😦

    Conservatives now need to concentrate on getting their house in order. I’ve already seen Monday morning quarterbacking saying that Romney was (a) too conservative or (b) too moderate/liberal.

    Either of those assessments is too simplistic.

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  10. OK, here’s to a day with no gloating & no whining, amen? 🙂

    Reminder to self: Stay clear of FB today. 😉 It’s truly irksome to see all the cheering still going on over there.

    And Lord, help me to remember NOT to do that — if I ever happen to vote for a candidate who wins again. Which I realize is highly unlikely.

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  11. Interesting, too, there’s some real hating going on specifically toward Fox news today (more than usual, I’m surrounded by people who despise Fox and spend much energy in mocking it).

    The left has increasingly targeted the network as an enemy to be ridiculed & silenced. The predictions of a Romney win by a number of its regulars in recent days has given them more ammunition on that front.

    No one “hates” as intensely as the left does, I’ll give them that. 😉

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  12. Here’s some good news: Number-2 Son sold his house in 8 days to the first (and only) couple who looked at it. He didn’t get what he was asking but he did get what he expected would be the outcome of any negotiations. This is the house that we currently live in and are moving out of next week.

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  14. Somewhere in the news last night I heard that Obama won because of the Hispanic vote which Romney alienated . I think that is the main thing. Obama bought the Hispanic vote with his dealings on immigration. Now if he can only figure out a way to support them since all the small businesses are doomed and job creation will be zilch.

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  16. JaniceG, I do think the Republican party is missing an opportunity by not thinking more deeply about the issue of immigration. On that issue I found much to like about George W’s more compassionate positions, though he was criticized within his own party for that.

    I don’t think we have to abandon the idea of getting stricter about illegal immigration — but by the same token, I’d like to see a companion push to perhaps streamline, encourage and better facilitate the process for legal immigration and citizenship.

    Our country also has done a poor job of integrating immigrants — while well-intentioned, the whole multicultural movement has tended to separate and divide communities rather than bring new citizens more fully into an American melting pot experience.

    But just being hard-lined on building a fence on the border and leaving it at that isn’t really dealing with the issue thoughtfully, in my mind.

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  17. Some of the party’s new faces — Marco Rubio to name one of the more prominent party members — may be able to better lead the way in some of those areas, I don’t know.

    But the refrain we’ll be hearing (and it has some truth to it, I’m afraid) is that the Republican party is becoming older and whiter — while the demographics of the nation (and of the electorate) is becoming much more racially diverse.

    Perhaps the party is in a transitional stage at this point. Mitt Romney probably will be the last of the “old guard” to be nominated; the next generation of candidates (under 50 or at least under 60) will soon become the standard bearers.

    I’m hoping there are some bright minds among them (I’m already confident there are) who can chart the way forward for what will be a more vibrant coalition.

    Oh, and I see Mia Love lost her race for Congress last night as well. ?

    Overall, not a great night for conservatives.

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  18. Thoughts: I don’t know why the Left would hate FOX. I checked around 10PM and they were the first to proclaim Obama’s reelection. They beat NBC by at least a minute.

    Janice: I don’t think Spanish will become the national language. We are headed for a Balkanization of languages, where people are not forced into using English, but can get everything in their native tongue, be it Spanish, Arabic, Chinese or some obscure language like Urdu.

    In the mean time, your first Spanish lesson:
    No me gusta la resulta de la votación para nada. (I don’t like the result of the election at all.)

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  19. I have an acquaintance who wrote, with his son, a science fiction book for the kindle. Science fiction is not my favorite genre, but I read it from time to time and decided to buy this one, since I knew the author. I found it difficult to put down. For those of you who like science fiction, you may want to give it a try. It is a fight between good evil and is written from a christian perspective. It would probably be quite popular for young men, too, I would think. Just wanted to put the word out there. You can check it out on Amazon: Flight of the Angels by Allen Reini.

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  22. LOL AJ!

    Ricky if you want to send me an e-mail at coyoteblue7@yahoo.com I can send an address or a virtual hefeweissen will do nicely. I feel gratified simply to have broadened your awareness so that you know that wheat beer exists! 🙂

    PeterL

    I could hardly change the channel from Fox last night. Watching Karl Rove question their tech guys on the election was entertaining television. Poor Megyn Kelly “This is awkward.” TV gold.

    Donna

    I wouldn’t get that excited by Marco Rubio — he’s Cuban and the Cubans aren’t always that popular with the rest of the hispanic voters in the US. I’d take a look at the governor of Nevada — Brian Sandoval as a better Republican standard bearer.

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  23. Janice

    Ronald Reagan once said that hispanics were conservatives, they just didn’t know it yet. This is the same President who did an amnesty. Republicans have alienated hispanics for no real good reason other than fear.

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  24. Not happy about the election results. But maybe after this term, others will see why so many of us conservatives were so against Obama’s policies. Let’s hope that our greatest fears do not come to pass, though.

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  27. KBells,

    It went to spam. i guess because of the “Where the H&^% is Matt?” heading on the video.

    I don’t want to offend anyone, so anything with any cussing, even minor, is grabbed up.

    Sorry.

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  28. Good Afternoon, Y’all!

    CB – How about Ted Cruz? And I think Rubio would do well…

    Speaking of “old guard” – I was thinking about that…I would be willing to bet we aren’t likely to see a white, male Democrat candidate again…that would be seen as going backward…

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  31. The song “Give me that old-time religion” has been going through my head for at least a couple of days now, and I wondered why. I didn’t remember hearing it recently, and it’s not one of those songs I just love so much that I would starting singing it to myself just to hear it.

    My son is in the middle of practicing his baritone horn, and he just played it. Another puzzle solved.

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  32. CB, I caught that moment with Kelly & Rove, too, very interesting. 😉

    I liked Reagan’s approach to Latinos — it needs to be revisited. I remember at the time (I wasn’t a Republican then but my mom was), the amnesty program made sense. My mom even gave money to some guy in the neighborhood to go apply, though she never knew if that’s what he used the money for. 🙂

    But while there may be some ingrained “fear,” as you put it, I think a big part of the dilemma is that illegal immigration has been allowed to continue pretty much out of hand. It’s been especially felt in the western border states.

    Had that been more effectively addressed sooner, I think immigration as a hot-button/emotional issue would not have grown as it has.

    But Latinos share many of the conservative social values we do, in many ways they’re just a natural fit. Bush understood that as well but face opposition in his own party, unfortunately.

    Well, we’ll see where it all goes from here. But getting rattled by an epic loss is often times a very good thing for a political party. Not the first time it’s happened — nor will it be the last.

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  34. While parties (and issues) change over time, so do we (and thus we often think the parties have changed without fully realizing that we’ve moved as well).

    I was a Democrat during the Reagan years & Reagan was seen as absolutely dangerously/too conservative, a war monger even. I had liberal friends who really almost demonized him.

    And actually he was always the rightward candidate within the Republican party primaries (as he’d run for president before finally getting nominated).

    He really was quite hated by the left (I didn’t vote for him, of course, but I never quite understood the intense hatred of him).

    Reagan was no moderate.

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