Excuse me, but WE did this. I believe there was a little thing called the primaries.
We had more than half a dozen good, conservative candidates and we ate our own.
We voted (or didn’t vote) and we got what we deserved.
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Our turnout was dismal and inexcusable. It was the same in 2008.
Now Romney has given us a good, solid conservative as his running mate and, if things go well, a future presidential candidate. If Romney does manage to turn this economy around, he’ll get a second term then Ryan will be the heir apparent 8 years from now.
IMHO, the GOP did *US* a favor and gave us a shot at a really good guy for the long run. They undid OUR mistake.
We live in a Republic. We get the government we deserve.
Bravo!
Our turnout was dismal and inexcusable. It was the same in 2008.
Now Romney has given us a good, solid conservative as his running mate and, if things go well, a future presidential candidate. If Romney does manage to turn this economy around, he’ll get a second term then Ryan will be the heir apparent 8 years from now.
IMHO, the GOP did *US* a favor and gave us a shot at a really good guy for the long run. They undid OUR mistake.
We live in a Republic. We get the government we deserve.
Well said, Marie! We have made our choice, and it is time to pull together and vote for the future of our country.
We had more than half a dozen good, conservative candidates and we ate our own.
We voted (or didn’t vote) and we got what we deserved.
Don't you get it yet. WE Conservatives had no voice in this.
The GOP establishment shoved Romney down our throats from day one. They shoved Baby Bush down our throats giving him a huge warchest. Then they shoved McLame down our throats.
In this election, they painted Cain as a doofus and Bachmann as a religious nutcase, and Santorum as extreme. They shoved Romney down our throats just as they shoved McLame down our throats.
WE DID NOT do this. The GOP establishment hand-picked their foisted candidate on us against a very weak field like obscure House members and private businessmen who never won office. Don't you get it yet? The machine picks the candidate, not us. We are just along for the ILLUSION we pick the candidate.
Exactly!
Some of the hacks here are as bad as a welfare loafer.
They want something for screwing up, and when someone offers them a job, they say no thanks because it’s easier to act like the victim because it requires less effort.
Great post and excellent point!
Yet, on this forum, we still see the pouting and howling because their man/lady did not win.
Well..they did not do a good enough job of pushing that candidate. They should have got into the inside of the campaign and made sure he/she won. Not on Free Republic, but inside the campaign.
So we have this..and since virtually nearly every single one of them say they are Reagan conservatives and all that, then maybe they better heed the advice of Ronald Reagan. Get behind the candidate and get him/her elected even if you do not like him/her. Take it a little at a time, and pretty soon you’ll have the whole thing.
Turn out was above the average in those states where conservative candidates won, and it was below the average to almost nonexistant in those states where Romney won. That means that the lies and negative campaigning supressed the vote so the micro-minority of RINOs could get him the nomination.
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