So this is a perfect example how Fox news creates divisions - a guy wins, and they say that it is illegitimate. What the viewers are supposed to think? Why do you have to listen to someone who is illegitimate. Well, Charles clearly lives on a different planet.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-presidential-election/2012/11/07/krauthammer-obama-won-has-no-mandate
Alternatively commentary:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/11/07/yes_obama_won_a_mandate_295483.html
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109818/obama-wins-four-more-years-mandate-agenda-validation-obamacare
Krauthammer: "Obama Won But He's Got No Mandate"
Charles Krauthammer opines on President Obama's victory.
Krauthammer: I know enough about psychiatry that I don't get between Karl Rove
and the decision desk. I'll leave the titans to fight it out. It is
pretty clear that -- the chances are infinitesimal that Romney could
pull this out. I think the real story here is that Obama won but he's
got no mandate. He won by going very small, very negative. We are left
as a country exactly where we started, but a little bit worse off. The
Republicans are in control of the House, probably a little bit stronger,
they are not going to budge. There's no way that, after holding out
against Obama for two years, they're going to cave in. Obama doesn't
have anywhere really to go. He governed very large in the first two
years. When he had control of the congress, he nationalized healthcare,
he passed the largest stimulus, which was all kinds of industrial policy
supporting green energy. All of the large ideas and he tried to enact
them, and then when he lost control of the House, he stopped. In order
to win reelection, he went small, stayed small putting together his
constituencies here and there. And he put it together enough that he
won. If he manages to win the popular vote, it will be very small, if
there's any. And even in the electoral, I think it will be a very small
majority. Particularly if Virginia and Florida will go to Romney. So
this is not a mandate in the number, or in the way that he campaigned.
He did not campaign on any ideas. Anything large. Anything important. He
didn't address entitlements of tackle anything like that. He will go
back to who he is. People have said he should be a Clinton and
compromise to have a successful second term, but he is not instinctively
a moderate. I think he is a man of the left and he will try to push his
agenda through, with, what he thinks is a mandate and we are going to
be exactly where we were, say, a year ago with the debt ceiling argument
next year. And the problem is that the country will slide, because I
don't see the opportunity for compromise on either side, because I see a
president with a very weak mandate for a second term.
Krauthammer: I'm not as despairing as many people are. I think, this is
an unusual election because Romney was a transitional figure. I think he
ran as honorable a campaign as he could. He did moderately well. He
came pretty close, but he was a northeastern liberal and that's not
where we're going. The two northeastern liberal Senators who ran as
moderates in New England lost. That's not where the future of the party
is. And I'm optimistic because there is a very strong Republican bench,
that did not enter the fray. We had a very weak field in choosing this
candidate this year. Romney was the only one remotely Presidential and
he was the logical candidate. But think of those who didn't run. There's
of course Paul Ryan who will be a leader in the party. We have a whole
rising young generation in the party. Kelly Ayotte, Bobby Jindal, Ted
Cruz, the new senator from Texas. Marco Rubio, this whole generation who
were just a year or two short in their careers from running this time
are all going to be in the fray next time. And I think they are the
future. And all the soul-searching about what ideology we're going to
pursue is going to come from them. And I think it will be a fairly
Reaganite and conservative one. I think the future of the party is quite
bright.
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