The GOP lost becuase they ran Romney. Stop trying to blame everyone else, that’s childish.
P.S. Some of the most conservative people out there, the Evangelists, couldn’t even vote for Romney.
They don't owe anyone their vote, let alone a party that nominates someone like Mitt Romney & laughably tries to paint him as "conservative".
What's next? THOSE DEMOCRATS DIDN'T VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN & COST HIM THE RACE!!!!
Well, duh.
To the extent that libertarians are Republicans who smoke pot (which accounts for at least 1/4 of the libertarian vote) they might have been won over by as small a concession as endorsing legalization of medical marijuana.
Libertarians are divided on abortion, though you wouldn’t know it reading the think tank libertarians, so dropping the Republican prolife plank would lose as many libertarians as it would gain. The biggest libertarian website is prolife.
It’s ridiculous to blame Romney’s defeat on libertarians. While it’s true Johnson did better than any Libertarian Party candidate since Ed Clark his votes did not account for the margin of defeat in any swing state.
I can never tell if these threads are to bash people who vote for Libertarian Party candidates, or just anyone with the temerity to think they’re better qualified than the author to run their own lives.
am convinced that libertarians running for office - most often - do not have their heads in the sand, they know their prospects of winning the election race they are in is most often slim to none
which makes me think most of them are running just to say that they ran, knowing there is little greater consequence to their action, other than a possible defeat of someone who is politically closer to them
that’s narcissistic and dumb
Libertarians also cost Massachusetts the opportunity to send a Republican to Congress (a rare event nowadays).
A lot of people really didn’t care if obama won, & they’re not worried in the least about the healthcare debacle.
The squishes and careerists who make up the professional GOP are at fault again. What a surprise.
Romney will end up with more white votes than McCain got in 2008. Obama will end up with ~7M fewer white votes than in 2008. Many of these Libertarian voters in 2012 are white voters who abandoned Obama.
How about you deal with the problem the easier way, pass laws to say run-off elections must be held if no candidate gets over 50%? If there was no run-off in the Texas Senate primary, Ted Cruz would be the loser. Instituting runoff elections is a lot easier than trying to identify and convince all the libertarian voters to change their vote.
Reagan had a seat at the table for the libertarians, naturally, as he comes from among them.
And here on FR, it is the Reaganites who are most likely to be found in the company of the libertarians. It is the Neocons that prefer the libertarians thrown out of the bus and off of FR.
No Reaganite I know would make the comments you have - And it is folks like you that caused me to leave the Republican party behind. And MANY Conservatives stood among our libertarian friends on voting day... voting for 3rd party or abstaining on the basis of OUR consciences too.
So as you blame them, blame me too, for all the good it will do you. If you field candidates that do not stand for Conservative principles, Conservatives won't turn out to vote - And that includes libertarians. The last two elections the republican offering was not only unable to stand for our principles, but were actually enemies to our causes... opposing our principles.
It is the height of idiocy to expect folks to vote for you if you stand to oppose them. You trippin', d00d.
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