How will republicans respond to this loss?

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you how I am going to respond to this loss. I am not going to invest..not taking a chance on the dividend issue with taxes. We are not going to hire anymore people in our family business..might actually lay a few off depending on how things go..too early to tell. I am also stopping all charitable giving..we are going to save that our money for our family and frankly the thank you I have gotten for giving so much has been electing Obama again. I am also going to take a hard look at businesses that have celebrated Obama.if I can take my money elsewhere..I will. Place number one Chef Geofs..no respecting Republican should eat there..sorry but that is how I feel.

Hm. Charitable giving is supposed to make up for decreased social spending, according to conservative logic. So then I guess you support increasing social spending?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you how I am going to respond to this loss. I am not going to invest..not taking a chance on the dividend issue with taxes. We are not going to hire anymore people in our family business..might actually lay a few off depending on how things go..too early to tell. I am also stopping all charitable giving..we are going to save that our money for our family and frankly the thank you I have gotten for giving so much has been electing Obama again. I am also going to take a hard look at businesses that have celebrated Obama.if I can take my money elsewhere..I will. Place number one Chef Geofs..no respecting Republican should eat there..sorry but that is how I feel.

Hm. Charitable giving is supposed to make up for decreased social spending, according to conservative logic. So then I guess you support increasing social spending?

No, s/he is just an intellectually and morally confused spoiled entitled brat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i just cold 42k worth of stocks

cool story, bro. I just bought 10k. Plan to buy more tomorrow. It's falling faster than I expected, but I think it is still going to fall a bit more. Market was overpriced and ready for a correction.

Thanks for covering the huge capital gains increase! You're a peach! So if it goes up u pay big taxes... If it drops you lose as well the "correction" (lol) is going to be at least 20%.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for your very thoughtful tone but I think you are mistaken that there is some kind of inevitable leftward shift in the country due to demographics. I think that the Latino community would have been a natural constituency for the Republican Party and can still be one. Family values? Hard work? Freedom for small businesses from regulation? Protection for religious values? Encouraging individual initiative? These all could appeal deeply to Latino voters but instead the Republican Party paid obeisance to short-sighted white anxiety about immigration that bordered on xenophobia. The Republicans could still shift course and become relevant but they have to start thinking about the future and embracing it rather than longing for some unattainable past that never really existed in that form to begin with.

I have seen no reason to believe that this is anything other than wishful thinking.

Then George W. Bush (and his brother Jeb) were engaging in wishful thinking. They were both successful in winning the Latino vote (check the data) and Bush was on his way to solidifying it through comprehensive immigration reform. Guess who scuttled that.

(Dem here) Look, the republicans just need to tone down the nastiness pointed at particular groups. Bill Clinton reformed welfare not by pointing fingers and shouting about "welfare queens" but by saying soft, nice things about those on assistance and then making pointed REFORMS at the same time. And the poor still voted for him. Stop attacking "the illegals" and start focusing on those small business and anti-regulations reforms that are right in your wheelhouse. Doesn't mean you can't reform immigration law at the same time...

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If you think Obama is such a threat to your finances, why haven't you already done these two things? Last I checked, he's been in the White House for almost 4 years already.

I purchased 21 ounces of gold when it was clear that Obama was going to win in 2008. It has doubled in value. I also paid off our mortgage and eliminated all our debt. Most other assets are already diversified outside the US.

Mitt, is that you? How are you this afternoon?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i just cold 42k worth of stocks

cool story, bro. I just bought 10k. Plan to buy more tomorrow. It's falling faster than I expected, but I think it is still going to fall a bit more. Market was overpriced and ready for a correction.

Thanks for covering the huge capital gains increase! You're a peach! So if it goes up u pay big taxes... If it drops you lose as well the "correction" (lol) is going to be at least 20%.

You are most welcome! But you seem a bit confused. Is the market going to rocket so high that I will need to "worry" about capital gains taxes--- or is it going to tank and correct at least 20%? Because you can't have it both ways, you know?

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This thread reminds me of all the hand-wringing after the 04 election. How were the Dems ever going to overcome the Republican coalition juggernaut of chamber of commerce types, evangelical Christians, and their genius Rove creating just the right wedge issues to get out their vote? Guess what, in two years the Dems retook the House and Senate in a fairly decisive manner. Elections are a snap shot in time and a lot can change in short order.

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There is a post on FB from "Conservative Women Rock"'s page that a bunch of my FB friends liked today. It is the usual fear-mongering, ugliness seen on many conservative pages. It is also why they lost the election.

According to them, we will now be a godless country, with traditional families under attack, headed in socialist direction with gas at $50/gallon and the country headed into the next great depression. And, illegal aliens will rule the world.

The ignorant responses on that post by people who agree sicken me. And, it shows there will be little of the hoped for introspection by the R's.

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you how I am going to respond to this loss. I am not going to invest..not taking a chance on the dividend issue with taxes. We are not going to hire anymore people in our family business..might actually lay a few off depending on how things go..too early to tell. I am also stopping all charitable giving..we are going to save that our money for our family and frankly the thank you I have gotten for giving so much has been electing Obama again. I am also going to take a hard look at businesses that have celebrated Obama.if I can take my money elsewhere..I will. Place number one Chef Geofs..no respecting Republican should eat there..sorry but that is how I feel.

Yes, please, stop your charitable giving, you'll need the money to pay your taxes.

I am a grown up and I am responsible ..that's why I will respond accordingly. First charity hit will be school auction..last year we spent a ton of money to help benefit financial aid..all those folks clearly voted to raise my taxes..so I am not going to be helping there. Also won't be giving to annual fund..schools will have to find money elsewhere..we pay full tuition so I think that will be enough. Always happy to volunteer and will continue but no money..and no money to church..again they supported Obama. As for businesses ..if you are openly and vocally supporting..I will respond..just like the libs respond to things they don't like. I don't think I am the only person who feels this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans need to be uncompromising as the party of low taxes. It is all they have ever had. They also need to be the party of moral values. Moral people deserve a voice. As the fairy-dust clears and the crushing realities set in... The country is going to need fiscal conservatism and economic growth to survive.

See this is where you lost this Independent-leaning Reuplican voter. I find absolutely nothing "moral" about the vile evangelicals and Christian conservatives that have hijacked this party. 20 years ago this party was completely different. Do your research. Lee Atwater is to blame.

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20:20, I read your post and I feel sad for you. I am grateful to have money to donate to school auction, the annual fund, etc. And, to borrow from Obama circa 2004, we worship an awesome god in the blue states and I am inspired to help others through action as well as opening my wallet. If your HHI is in excess of $250,000, and you don't realize how many times that is in excess of the family median income, well, you are about as unhinged as your losing party.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Lawsuits.

I plan on firing up a Cuban, cracking open a bottle of Balvenie and walking out to the barn to see how the horses are doing.

Enjoy your win and your battery-powered automobiles.

[Anonymous]

Enjoy the tide of joblessness that will hit our MD-VA-DC area with the continued recession and automatic budget cuts. Maybe you will have more time to sit in Starbucks and post on DCUM--in between surfing the web for jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Enjoy the tide of joblessness that will hit our MD-VA-DC area with the continued recession and automatic budget cuts. Maybe you will have more time to sit in Starbucks and post on DCUM--in between surfing the web for jobs.

For which the R's are at least 1/2 responsible for if not more. The Speaker, in fact, threw out an olive branch of sorts on this issue today . . . check the Post.

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you how I am going to respond to this loss. I am not going to invest..not taking a chance on the dividend issue with taxes. We are not going to hire anymore people in our family business..might actually lay a few off depending on how things go..too early to tell. I am also stopping all charitable giving..we are going to save that our money for our family and frankly the thank you I have gotten for giving so much has been electing Obama again. I am also going to take a hard look at businesses that have celebrated Obama.if I can take my money elsewhere..I will. Place number one Chef Geofs..no respecting Republican should eat there..sorry but that is how I feel.

Yes, please, stop your charitable giving, you'll need the money to pay your taxes.

I am a grown up and I am responsible ..that's why I will respond accordingly. First charity hit will be school auction..last year we spent a ton of money to help benefit financial aid..all those folks clearly voted to raise my taxes..so I am not going to be helping there. Also won't be giving to annual fund..schools will have to find money elsewhere..we pay full tuition so I think that will be enough. Always happy to volunteer and will continue but no money..and no money to church..again they supported Obama. As for businesses ..if you are openly and vocally supporting..I will respond..just like the libs respond to things they don't like. I don't think I am the only person who feels this way.

You are not a grown up. You are a spiteful, nasty adolescent bitch. Your tuition to your fucking private school doesn't cover the full cost of your child's education. And heaven fucking forbid those financial aid famies have different political views than yours, or that your kids should attend a school with kids from different socioeconomic classes, races or ethnicities, which is what donations and financial aid allows. You deserve the guillotine Marie Antoinette. Grow the fuck up.