I think that it is more apparent to me after the election, and listening to the pundits talk about the election is this:
1 - Leftists/liberals Democrats are MOrons with a capital MO!
2 - There is nothing you can say or do that will ever change their point of view.
3 - The MOrons outnumber us
4 - With open borders the spread will be bigger next time
Conclusion:
All this bitching about 'messaging', choice of candidate, too moderate, too conservative, RINO, race makeup, wrong policies, Border, no border, and all the other blah blah blah is a total waste of time.
MOrons will never agree with us and will never vote with us in a presidential election. Fageddaboutit!
What can we do about it?
I saw one statistic that jumped out at me, and Rush talked about it today: 3 million more people voted GOP for McCain than in this election. What kind of sh1te is this? We already know there are more MOrons than us, so why on God's Green Earth would a conservative republican not vote against the MOrons, regardless of who our candidate is? Our turnout this time around should have been 3 million MORE people, not less.
We can't do anything with the MOrons, so can we turn the repubs that stayed at home? I don't know. It may be, that those repubs that stayed at home are also MOrons and untouchable as well. if that's the case, then, the only thing left for us is to HEDGE in what ever way you seem that works for you.
I'm looking at putting more into Silver because it is smaller denominations than Gold, and it is not as political as Gold. I'm retired and have already cashed out of my 401K. If you have significant assets in 401K's, I suggest you consider cashing out even if you have to pay a penalty, because i believe that this administration will be looking for assets to steal as soon as it realizes that raising taxes on the rich will not bring in the cash that they want. Just a matter of time. They will have to obtain more assets from somewhere to maintain their thirst for spending, and unlike Hitler, they don't have a neigboring country they can capture for asset seizures.