How Gov. Hair helped engineer Romney’s defeat

I now have something to thank our Texas governor for. He did a lot to help ensure Barach Obama’s re-election as President of the United States.

When Hair, whose views on immigration border on genocide, got into the race for the GOP presidential nomination (and became the immediate favorite to win it), Romney decided he had to outflank the Texan on the right when it comes to immigration. He condemned the Dream Act and endorsed Arizona’s recently passed but clearly unconstitutional immigration laws.

As a result, Obama won 73 percent of the Hispanic vote. He also won a startling 80 percent of the Asian-American vote, a demographic group which also told exit pollers immigration was a major issue.

Now here’s a startling statistic the GOP must come to grips with if it hopes to maintain its relevancy in the American political spectrum: Each month 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 years of age. That’s a possible 600,000 new voters a year, 73 percent of which are likely to vote Democratic unless Republicans change their ways and decide to become a party of inclusion, not exclusion, as they are today.

Of course, it wasn’t only the fact that the GOP is a old folks whites-only political party in a multi-cultural nation that led to Obama’s overwhelming victory. He won because the majority of Americans endorse economic policies that actually create jobs, health care reform and increased taxes on the super rich and want moderate policies on such hot-button issues as abortion and same-sex marriage.

Obama won the so-called swing states because the auto bailout, which Romney opposed, actually worked.

Obama won because the only thing Romney did was blame the President for all the nation’s ills while failing to convince Americans he had a plan (that he refused to divulge) to cut the deficit without raising taxes. According to exit polls, 60 percent of voters said taxes have to be raised on either the super rich or everyone. And I found this statistic fascinating: Only 10 percent of voters said the deficit was the most important issue facing the country. And only 25 percent said Obama’s entire health care reform law should be repealed, which Romney said he would do Day 1 in office.

I have written about my disappointments with the Obama presidency during the last four years. But I must tip my hat to Obama the campaigner. The campaign he ran during this election was perhaps the most brilliant execution of strategy his country has ever witnessed. My hope is, during the next four years, he will become as great a president as he was a campaigner.