# Let the GOP backbiting and finger-pointing begin!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 9, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441 "2012-11-09T03:01:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441/21 "2012-12-24T06:59:11Z")

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I read all the articles cited in the OP, and the thing I found interesting in them is that NONE of them cited the women’s vote as a cause of the Republican debacle, even though Obama totally kicked Romney’s ass among women. The Republican Rape Squad’s clueless blathering about things like “legitimate rape” also didn’t get any press among the conservatives, even though many women cited it as a major issue for them. Some of the commentaries were even calling for a much harder stance on abortion as a solution. I’m guessing this is a lesson that has not been noticed, much less learned. Bodes ill for the Republicans for 2014 and 2016.

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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441/22 "2012-12-24T15:38:19Z")

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Oh, the commentaries are definitely a hoot. They blame the huge mass of uninformed voters, most of them “college-indoctrinated against critical thinking” for not seeing the Pure Shining Truth that Mitt Romney was going to Save America From the Secular Socialist Menace. Better laughs than MAD Magazine.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441/23 "2012-12-24T17:52:40Z")

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Aaaaand the GOP already has a 2016 front-runner!: [http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-whitehot-sphere-of-p,30284/](http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-whitehot-sphere-of-p,30284/)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-gop-backbiting-and-finger-pointing-begin/640441/24 "2012-12-24T18:32:42Z")

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> [@CaptMurdock](#):
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> Oh, the commentaries are definitely a hoot. They blame the huge mass of uninformed voters, most of them “college-indoctrinated against critical thinking” . . .

😕 “Critical thinking”? Waitaminnit, [aren’t Republicans **against** that?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html)

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