It will be what we make of it because the chances of Romney actually being elected are pretty much nil.
Then they will just roll over and die.
No. He has done enough damage already.
First, even assuming everything said in the article is correct, those Republicans criticized for being concerned about public opinion (Boehner, etc.) will remain concerned about it because they'll be thinking ahead to the 2014 and 2016 elections. So the dynamic that supposedly would be improved by an Obama win won't improve.
Second, if Obama wins, they'll be recriminations going both ways. As much as those conservatives who prefer Obama to Romney may want to believe they are the "only" conservatives, there will be plenty of other conservatives who will blame the "I'll take my ball and go home" crowd for an Obama victory.
Third, Obama will almost certainly be able to seize liberal control of the Supreme Court, which will have consequences that can't be undone at the next Presidential election.
Oh, and fourth, and Obama win might well result in voting/union, etc. laws being changed to the point where future electoral victories by conservatives become structurally impossible.
The only people who "win" by Obama getting reelected are leiberals, and those conservatives who would rather claim rhetorical victories than help the country.
Just as nothing succeeds like winning, nothing fails like losing. Anyone who thinks they will get a more conservative party by losing is completely wrong. You will see the party move in the direction of being MORE moderate (not less) if we don’t win this year.
I expect any number of threads like this before election day, all from the “my candidate didn’t win so I’m going to kick and scream and bang the rail of my playpen” wing of the party.
You might as well append “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message” to every one of them.
No they won't.
Where is the "Tea Party" now?
No they won't.
Where is the "Tea Party" now?
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Socialists make up 40% of the GOP party. We need to kick them out
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
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The biggest benefit is mid-terms. The party of the sitting president loses congressional seats in the mid-terms. So if Obie is still in come 2014 the reps gain seats (hopefully conservatives), and 2016 is almost a definite rep win (and hopefully we don’t put together a third atrocious set of candidates). If we get a RINO in the white house the dems gain seats in 2014, and the RINO won’t be opposed in the primaries so we’re stuck with him or a dem in 2016, and if he wins again the dems gain MORE seats in 2018.
If your party’s presidential candidate sucks losing is actually better than winning.
I thank God every day that McCain / Palin didn’t win in 08.
Obama’s win has really helped the conservative...
Ok , It’s done nothing for the conservative movement and added a great deal of damage to the nation.
But - I remain as pure as a Hasidic Jew waiting for the anointed and true leader.
/ sarc
At least that's what I heard a lot of around here in 2008. Now, after severe damage has been done, we are supposed to endure four more years of sabotage "just to teach the country a lesson."
Sorry. We had that song and dance with the anti-McCain faction. And where has it got us.
The re-election of Obama would not be good for anybody. Who in their right mind would think otherwise?
Eff no it won’t be good. It will be an unimaginable
disaster.
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No, re-electing Obama is and will be the end. Conservatives will never be able to get a foothold again. It will be over or there will be a war, which I doubt. I doubt it because Obama has gotten away with ruining the country and ignoring the whimper of the right.
He knows the stomach to stop him is not there.
Oh Good Lord...here we go again. “Hey, guys, let’s win by losing!” That worked so well in ‘08, didn’t it?
I swear that children led by Mr. New Castrati are running things for the conservatives and Republicans these days.
But even if they do (finally) act, they will still be acting for the wrong reason - out of fear rather than principle.