So I have to ask:

If you believe that the freeloaders/47% are a.) too stupid to vote in the long-term best interests of the country over the short-term best interests of themselves, or b.) overwhelming the social welfare system with complacency and inflated expectations of the government dole...

Then why exactly are you against whomever is 'giving out birth control pills for free'?

In point of fact, why aren't you giving them out yourself?

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The truth from the great unwashed middle of the American electorate, of which I fall in and which may well make me appear as a flaming liberal to some on this site, is that the Republican party failed to make the economic argument, and allowed the Democratic party to paint us as a bunch of change-resistant whiteys who wanted to take away freedoms from many of the minority subgroups that together form the bulk of the US electorate. This isn't about some universal truth or reality, it is about perception. And the best the Republican Party could come up to address this perception was a rich white guy who practiced a very different type of government than the one he preached in an attempt to get elected.

On the plus side, I now have four years of hope that if things get bad enough, I might see Jeb Bush stand a chance for the Presidency.