Posted on 11/7/2012, 5:39:50 AM by Mr. K
"Reince" Prebus- RESIGN NOW
You people are CLUELESS
During the primaries it was obvious that 7 out of 10 GOP voters WANTED SOMEONE MORE CONSERVATIVE than Romney, you forced him on us
YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS LOSS and the continuation of this Obamanation on The Republic
Did Ronald Reagan "reach across the aisle" or did he win with strong conservativ eagenda?
WE LOST TO A COMMUNIST BOOB
When we are offered Democrap or Democrap Lite WE ALL LOSE
Ooooooooh I would like to give someone there a good ass beating
Damn straight!!!! TODD AKIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!2016!!!!
If it had been Newt Ginrich or Rick Santorum the same crap would have happened. The bottom line is Obama won because he was black
They gave conservatives a crap sandwich, and then the imbecile brigade on FR pissed on anyone who criticized Mittens because he was allegedly the better alternative. Well, on policy he would have been a f@@king disaster, and he wasn’t electable, although we must always support “moderates” because twe are told they are electable.
If your premise is correct, then Romney's vote totals and share of the popular vote would have been considerably less than McCain's. That wasn't the case.
The truth is, this election pretty much became irrelevant once you had Romney and Ryan running around criticizing ObamaCare's massive Medicare cuts. Just think about that one for a second, folks -- especially in the context of the massive entitlement spending we saw in the Bush administration.
Let's use the next few days or weeks, to drill down to the ACTUAL results, sorted, cross-tabbed, broken down by gender, age, employment status (or even Union / govt. worker vs. private sector), religion, and so on.
THEN we can figure out, did Romney not get enough votes, or was he swamped by the 47% + whatever hangers-on + fraud?
One must diagnose the issue correctly to maximize the chance to solve it.
And continue to pray for God's guidance and mercy...
g_w
Romney performed poorly in the last two debates, meaning he should have mopped the floor with the pathetic likes of Obama, but didn't.
A truly conservative candidate WOULD HAVE WON.
Personally, I don’t think Gingrich or Santorum would have done better and no one else was running.
Folks, it was not the candidate that cost us the election.
No, it was our fellow Americans who chose to be takers and suckle from the government teat that cost us this election. Half of our nation wants the government to take from the providers to support them.
On the other hand, Romney won Missouri, while Akins the good conservative lost. And he won Indiana, while Mourdock the good conservative lost.
And you won’t have to worry about Romney anymore. He’s finished. Should have been in 2008.
The democrats have learned something the republicans have not. Half the voting-age population doesn’t vote, because they don’t care. So they have spent years becoming the party of the big city. Now, they simply pick some stupid small issue, like contraceptives, and use it to scare people. They then run around and register all those people, who could otherwise care less about anything, and hand them ballots, and those people vote democrat.
It doesn’t matter how fired up your base is, when the other side has numbers on their side, not people who would answer poll questions, but people who will, when asked, take 2 minutes to fill out an absentee ballot.
We could do the same, but it’s like trick-or-treating in a rural area vs an apartment complex. The guy in the apartment is getting all the candy, and you are getting a good workout.
BTW, I don’t disagree that we failed to give people enough reasons to turn out. But we also failed to find those small ideas that would allow us to register new voters.
Also, the only reason I think this works for democrats is that the media allows it. Media could have easily pointed out the absurdity of the contraceptive argument, instead of treating it like a real issue. Media could have also not lied about Obama to cover for him in the debates.
Rick or Newt would probably have won. Voters weren’t fooled with the fantasy that Mitt was more conservative than he was as governor of Massachusetts. But hey, the lies deluded some here.
Look what the GOP Establishment got us ? Another 4 year term with BHO. How would have things turned out if Ron Paul, Santorum or Herman Cain got the nomination instead of Romney ? The next thing that should be done is to get rid of the GOP Establishment and get people who run on principles based on freedom, rolling back socialism instead of capitulating to it. We need another person who is the same caliber as the late great Ronald Reagan.
Getting rid of the GOP Establishment, we need to start on the ground level and get people who will go against it and work from the ground level to the top. We need to purge the establishment folks out.
Yep and makes one suspicious if BHO was the true source for getting Herman Cain out of the primary out of fear that Cain would take voters from his base.
Nope... You can’t beat liberalism with liberalism-lite.
They pulled out every stop possible to get this win, but there are two things they aren't considering.
1) It is quite likely they *lost* the popular vote. Let the Dem states who want the "popular vote compact" take heed!
2) Obama now owns the economy. He ran it the last four years.
Kyrie eleison!
They pulled out every stop possible to get this win, but there are two things they aren't considering.
1) It is quite likely they *lost* the popular vote. Let the Dem states who want the "popular vote compact" take heed!
2) Obama now owns the economy. He ran it the last four years.
Kyrie eleison!
Correct. The country has simply slipped past the tipping point. It isn't the same nation of mostly independent minded, rugged individualists it once was. We are now a European welfare state. It may not be possible for a solid conservative platform to win any more on a national level. Romney actually became a pretty good candidate and his version of squishy, milquetoast conservatism may even be too much for what passes as the American public these days.
The GOP is finished! Its as Dead as the Whigs of old! We need to put it out of its misery and start a new party!
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