[mylife]

The GOP is not the lone problem.
The Country has become mired in DNC talking points.

Reagan was the last of the good humored, Get things done guys.

Now a days no one smiles and laughs and we are very quick to attack ourselves over our real enemy’s.

Everything is hopeless and we are all on edge.
What drives me crazy is that we attack ourselves before our enemy’s.

We Kiss China’s/Arabs butt and attack fellow Americans.
China and the ME Suck

[ansel12]

Good list.

[mylife]

I think Romney has a lot of what Reagan had, but he just doesn’t know how to get the reg’lar guy to believe it or “feel” it.

Sadly, Obama has a lot of people bamboozled.
He’s a good time Charlie that never was down with the struggle.
He was raised a privileged “white boy” and hides behind being black.

I have neither option. Obama is a divider more than Romney.
Romney’s burden is that he comes off as decent and tough but separated from the masses.
If I was Romney I would not apologize.
Obama is separated from the masses and aloof, and he is a shyster.

[Texas Fossil]

It began shortly after this speech.

Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=—375PlwiCw

[Timber Rattler]

Never forget---this is how they rammed Romney down our throats!

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin

[Fiji Hill]

Over the past 50 76 years, conservatives have been abandoned and betrayed by fellow Republican

FIFY

From 1936 to 1952,the Republicans forsook a solid conservative, Robert A.Taft, for Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower. Landon, Willkie and Dewey were losers, and under Eisenhower, the Republican stregth in Congress shrunk with every election, culminating in the blowout of 1958..

[RIghtwardHo]

Romney is the pinnacle of our betrayal.

[Tublecane]

The Coolidge but confuses me. Unless it’s in reference to the endless battle over what caused the Great Depression—which even if you’ve forgotten about it remains important to economic psychopaths like Bernanke—it isn’t reallly relevant. I mean, I’d love him to be a national hero over Lincoln, TR, FDR, and Kennedy, but that’s never happen. Our hearts belong stupidly to Do Somethings and “what might have been.”

[mylife]

We could start by not charging into battle with the 3rd rail battle du jour.

In this election we should stick to the economy and the budget.

Contraception and such are not issues at the moment.
Who is that ahole in Missouri? Akin?

He could have held his tongue and made us proud, but NO! He couldn’t keep his powder dry

[NTHockey]

And still we cling to the Republicrat wing of the one party system. Excuse the indelicacies, but Conservatives are treated like the ugly girl at te fraternity party. They load her up with booze, have their way with her and the next morning, gets tossed out with the rest of the garbage.

This is the last election for the Republicrats. If Romney wins, the Republicrats will continue to move leftward, until they are indistinguishable from the Democans. If Romney loses, we will have a dictatorship.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

This list is trivial.

Conservatives have mostly been sold out by other conservatives doing things they called conservative that were nothing but piggybacking their personal preferences onto big government progressivism because it was easier and more reliable than doing it the right way.

[Alberta's Child]

All of these are good points, but remember that from a historical perspective, Republicans were usually considered the liberal party in many respects. That only really began to change after misfits and freaks began to dominate the Democratic Party in the 1960s. That was when rural conservatives (mainly in the South and West) who previously had identified themselves as Democrats began to migrate to the Republican Party.

The success of the Republican Party in Congress in recent decades isn't as much a success of "conservatism" as it is a change in party affiliation among many voters. The "Republican Revolution" of 1994, for example, was an election in which many conservative Democrats in the House were replaced by Republicans.

[steelyourfaith]

bravo

[Caipirabob]

You have to alter the media, they control the general perception of culture.

Pure and simple....and the left controls it almost completely.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Conservatives have done their part to help betray themselves.

By jumping into bed with the Mitt Romneys of the world, we really say we will fold like a cheap suit despite all our big talk and bravado. It’s no wonder the GOP-E feels it can have its way whenever it wants.

We let them.

[capt B]

Agree- + your #9 re; Goldwater is right on. If Kennedy isn’t killed, Goldwater wins that election. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Khrushchev embarrassing him in Vienna. He and Johnson weren’t going to be able to “steal” the election as was done vs Nixon in 1060

[capt B]

Agree- + your #9 re; Goldwater is right on. If Kennedy isn’t killed, Goldwater wins that election. Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban missile crisis,Khrushchev embarrassing him in Vienna. He and Johnson weren’t going to be able to “steal” the election as was done vs Nixon in 1060