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Election night
Obama has taken Pennsylvania, which makes it hard to see how Mccain can win. So it looks like an early night, not like the extraordinary nail-biter of 2004, when it all came down to Ohio, in an election night I followed carefully—not on television, which I find useless, but on the Web. The hyped-up video and sound effects on ABC News make it like a sci-fi entertainment. This is what they consider appropriate for covering a free people electing their government. Update 9:00: Fox 5 News also projects Obama win in Pennsyvania. Pennsyvlania was crucial for McCain, because, as Bob Krumm explained at his website, he expected Obama to take two 2004 red states, Iowa and New Mexico, making it necessary for McCain to make up the loss in Pennsylvania which had been blue in 2004, and where he had a chance to win. 9:16: I’m not sure there’s much worth blogging about tonight. The horse-race aspect of it of it is not compelling to me, as it was in the amazingly close election four years ago, as you can see in my comment posted November 2, 2004, at 11:56 p.m., when, exactly as had been predicted by the pundits, it all came down to Ohio. And at 9:25 ABC has just projected Ohio for Obama. The only way McCain can win at this point is if he takes states that were considered sure wins for Obama. But has the Ohio vote been honest? See Deroy Murdock at NRO. Ohio Republican turnout (meaning people who identify themselves as Republicans in exit polls) is down 10 percent from the last election. ABC’s commentators say this is due to the “Republican brand” being tarnished. That sounds like liberal spin. The conservative angle would be that lots of Republican voters, like lots of VFR readers, can’t bring themselves to vote for McCain. And let’s remember that if only registered Republicans had been allowed to vote in the Republican primaries in 2008, Mitt Romney—a man capable of making an argument—would have won New Hampshire and I think a couple of other primaries, and the GOP nominee running against Obama would not have been a washed out, inarticulate maverick. An older black man—a familiar face, I forget his name at the moment—told Charles Gibson that what this election means is that blacks have opportunity. You mean they didn’t before this? You mean doors were arbitrarily closed to blacks until today, and now doors are opened? It’s curious how subdued the mood among the MSM talking heads is. They don’t seem triumphant, but a bit depressed. 9:49. Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the almost VP pick, whom I’ve never seen before, is talking on ABC. His message? In an America that is changing culturally and demographically, in which blacks and Hispanics don’t vote Repubican, the GOP cannot be the majority party. So the GOP has to become more “pragmatic,” and talk about real people’s real needs. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. The same GOP illusion! As if the GOP has not done everything under the sun to win blacks and Hispanic support, as though that has not been a continuing GOP obsession for years and years. Hey, Pawlenty, you’re in a dream world. The only way the GOP can win among blacks and HIspanics is by becoming the Democratic party. That’s what happens when you let America be transformed into a country of low-skill, nonwhite people with high illegitimacy rates who look to government to provide their needs. So there is only one way conservatism and Republicanism can survive long-term in America: not by treating “demographic change,” i.e. the browning of America, as a god before whom we must automatically bow, but by treating it as an error that must be stopped and reversed. And that can be done, by stopping virtually all further non-European immigration, by getting all illegal aliens to leave, by re-asserting America’s European-American majority culture and ceasing all special favors to nonwhites, and by white people gaining renewed confidence in the future and having more children. Maybe that’s impossible. Maybe it’s too late to turn this process of national suicide around. But how can we give up on the hope of doing it, when it’s never even been tried? But if it can’t be done, if European America—its culture, its historical memory and identity, its ideals, its way of life, its intellectual and moral standards, its Constitution, its true freedoms—cannot be saved, then the only recourse for those who still care will be for traditional Americans to start gathering together in certain states and regions of the country and form governing majorities there, with the ultimate aim of becoming independent of the Brazilianized entity that the United States will have then become. 10:00 Christopher Shays, the ONLY Republican House member from New England, was trounced tonight, 60 to 38.
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