Ryan has been all over TV claiming Obama does not have a mandate. I got onto his Facebook page and wrote him the following:

I heard you on TV claiming that President Obama does not have a mandate. You are wrong. He got 3 million more votes, in the popular count, than Gov. Romney. His electoral numbers, 332, are a landslide. Limbaugh said 300-plus would be a mandate for Gov. Romney, and when the count was in, he backtracked. The people who know you voted against you -- you lost your home state. Gov. Romney not only lost his home state, but Mormon country in Utah, also voted against him. I knew the President would prevail when Gov. Romney chose you for his VP because your budget plan is toxic.

Your social agenda, growing out of your religious views, IS NOT SHARED BY MANY OF US. You lost the Latino vote, you lost the female vote, you lost the Asian vote. You got the votes of the Sarah Palin crowd and look how well that worked for you. You also lost seniors and not just because we are concerned with our social safety net that we paid into all of our working lives.

Although my reproductive ship has sailed, I fight for my sisters. I didn’t march for women’s rights in the 60s to watch religious fanatics (that would be you) drive us back into subjugation. You may think your views are pro-life and that may be true for you personally, but those who follow in your footsteps on that issue, the men in particular, and perhaps their wives suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, are really just against autonomy for women.

You are unable to honor the boundaries of religious beliefs separate from your own. The most toxic aspect of any religion is when its faithful believe God has given them the right to dominate others and thus we have religious terrorism.

Some Republicans are suggesting Hurricane Sandy helped Obama, allowing him to look Presidential and obscuring the image of Gov. Romney. Such events are seen as acts of God and if I am to adopt your logic, God wanted Obama to win. In any case, if God was so interested in preserving life, he wouldn’t send such horrific ways to control our population. If, as Mourdock claimed, a pregnancy resulting from a rape, was something God intended, then I have also to assume that God wanted people to die from hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires.

One might then be forgiven for thinking that God wants women to bear every child, so he can have the pleasure of killing them through his random acts of natural catastrophe.
In any case, if you are running in 2016 holding on to your views of today, you are doomed.

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xx. Teal (I so enjoy fulminating against these guys)