Ah...for the love of the other 53%: Bow to your masters!

Republicans thought their path to winning this election was calling the president a Muslim, un-American, apologist (failed strategies from 2008) and asking if we were better off now than 4 years ago.  Believing strongly in that strategy, they felt they could nominate an animatronic candidate who lacked humanity and empathy (hence, is right on the Republican message).  Problem is that they are so out of touch, so in the echo chamber that they only talk to each other and had no sense of how bad off most people were 4 years ago and how better off most now think they are; not recovered, not where they want to be, but better off and unwilling to hear about how destitute they are from some rich stick figure.  Most of us remember the Bush years, even if the Republicans prefer that we not do so.  Sure, some 30% of the country, their base, believes that the president is a “foreigner aiming to destroy the nation” – if Obama saved their mother from drowning, they would say his goal was to make her dependent on the “nanny state”.  Still this strategy has thus far failed because one things most people wanting their president is some sense of humanity - something either Romney never had or he has sworn to suppress to stay in the good graces of his party.  Problem is there is much more money to be spent to try to sell him to us and, failing in that, the Republicans have another clandestine strategy that could steal the election via suppression of the vote.  Romney’s high profile gaffs have distracted attention from efforts by Republicans at the state level (e.g., Rick Scott) to, in the name of saving the vote, block average Americans from exercising this most basic right.  Be it new exotic IDs or dropping people form rolls and forcing them to prove they belong, chances are many will be disenfranchised this election; the Republicans involved have brazenly admitted this.  Yes, the party that wraps itself in the flag and Bill of Rights is actively working to deny government “by the people”.  Of course, they admit this and it is logical to the elitist Republican mind, convinced as it is of its moral rectitude; as revealed in Mitt Romney’s 47% fundraising comments, they believe there are people who will always disagree with Republican ideology and they consider that a disqualifying condition - those people hate freedom and thus do not deserve to vote.  Hence, they see nothing wrong in denying the right to vote of those who do not agree with them.  This is the American future the Republicans envision where only their base, their constituency matters.  If this is not reminiscent of the "Hunger Games", I am not sure what is.