Posted on 11/07/2012 2:39:36 AM PST by Bigtigermike
The Pravda-like corrupt national media, Zombie voters and dirty shenanigans are no excuse for losing this election because unfortunately these were a giving no matter who was the nominee - from Romney to Santorum to Newt or even if Sarah had ran and became the nominee - these things would have happen and for anyone to have beaten Obama but we would expect our nominee to have a strategy to negate or at least lessen these handicaps. If we can't even do that then we ought to just shut the whole thing down and cede the country if we can't win in this environment and high unemployment
Nor can we blame Chris Christy and Hurricane Sandy because looking at the numbers clearly show that alot of people had already made up their minds well before the storm and praised heaped on Obama had occured.
No, this is on the Republican Establishment and their choice - Willard Romney. The Republican base of conservatives (what's left of them) should and hopefully no longer buy the electability argument for an establishment candidate. From the view of the base, the elites have given away an eminently winnable election. Also this strategy of 'a vote against' is gone out the window as well, it clearly doesn't work. We must have a candidate that many can "vote for" enthusiastically as well as vote against the other party nominee. One of the clear things that probably doom Romney was the allowing Obama to bombard states like OH and VA with brutal attacks ads against Romney early on that DEFINED him with no proper response, I know some will claim that Romney couldn't get the money to respond until after he was nominated but he could have done something like do a lot of local TV interviews in those states or something instead of thinking that he just had to 'not lose' the election - which was what he was doing ala 'prevent defense'
Romney may very well be a nice guy so was Bob Dole and somewhat of McCain in the right sunlight but still Presidential losers. I sure hope that this time when we say 'NEVER AGAIN' like many said after McCain that we really mean it and tell the Establishment to stuff it.
We don’t have to shut the country down zero is doing it for us.
“there is no enemy more dangerous than the one within you own gate...”. Cicero.
I think it falls on the fact that communists do not give up power. The election was rigged. 2008 was a bloodless coup. They allowed us to vote to keep us quiet.
“But how do you explain Allen West’s election loss?”
I think his rhetoric was a bit too over the top for our squishy generation. He could’ve been a solid conservative without creating so much attention to himself and he’d have a better chance.
. Until a viable conservative candidate comes along, the GOPe will continue to run these RINOs out there and they will be defeated every time.
No, the GOPe will still keep pushing RINOs. As long as the party is run by these anti constitution, left of center folks, the GOP will continue to lose.
You cannot ignore the power of an extremely biased media upon an under-educated electorate. I think the post-mortem will also show that the “war on women” tipped the scale. The country is 50% divorced from its strong work ethic and about 2/3 divorced from a right to life.
You are right and make a number of key points. The real fault is that we allowed our education system to become brainwashing factories. And we changed the immigration policies, so that we got large numbers of people from 3rd world countries, who have no real tie to this country. And also refused to face up to the implications of illegal “immigration” a long time ago. We read too much into the post-WWII prosperity, and thought we were invincible. We failed to realize the long term consequences of the 60s. In other words, we are reaping the results of mistakes made a long time ago, and which continue to this day. The mistakes are numerous, and cannot be undone. Not in the short amount of time before demographics take over. In four years, the electorate will be even more heavily “minority”, and students coming out 4 years from now will be even more brainwashed than they are now. And so we have lost our country. There is no-one to fight, you can’t win hearts and minds when those hearts and minds view you with utter contempt.
Ronald Reagan may have won today. But not in four years. The Leftists know that they can get away with whatever they want. The GOP congress isn’t even token opposition. The Leftists will continue to divide this country, preaching their gospel of hatred, contempt, and revenge. And it will ring true to the voters who pulled the lever for a manifest failure of a president, and also to the hordes of 3rd world residents destined to arrive on our shores.
This wasn’t Mitt Romney’s fault. It wasn’t the GOP’s fault. This was the fault of millions of people, over a period of decades, who thought that America was invulnerable because America had always survived and thrived.
To Gov. Romney’s credit he ran a competent campaign, ran hard and did as good of a job as any of us could hope for. It would be convenient to try to attach blame to him.
He did as well as Mitt Romney could. He needed to be someone else. Maybe someone that wasn’t pro gay and pro socialized healthcare along with a less privileged background. It would also have helped if we had chosen a candidate that drew most of his support from states that a Republican could win. We need closed primaries.
Yep.
That’s what I think.
Please...Romney/Ryan ran a good campaign. Blame the voters. They want to try socialism period. Well they can have it. Iam making plans to leave. Forget about 2016 count me out. I am done.
Romney would have made a fine President. He offered real solutions but they rejected them. Instead they ignored the state of this country and it is only going to get worse.
Quit blaming Romney. What about the media? They had a hand in driving this election. Fraud? You bet. The next election if there is one there I said it will be more the same.
We can blame it on the Establishment, on the nominee, on several things...but the MAIN reason we are in this mess is because of all of our choices.
“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Until we come to the place of GREAT repentance on the part of the majority of this nation, we will see an increasingly worse scenario. The CHANGE that is really needed is spiritual. History teaches this. The Sacred Scriptures teach this. Why don’t we want to learn?
“No, the GOPe will still keep pushing RINOs. As long as the party is run by these anti constitution, left of center folks, the GOP will continue to lose.”
Ronald Reagan couldn’t get elected last night. America has changed in demographics to the point that America is America no more. Voters had a choice between a white Republican who wanted to create jobs and a black Marxist who gives out phones and food stamps.
Voters no longer want a job. They want food stamps. And “free” abortions and “free” birth control and “free” phones.
I blame all Republicans who b*tched that Romney wasn’t the right man. THEY are responsible. They didn’t have EXACTLY who they wanted and they whined!
Obamacare will be fully implemented and Obama will appoint several more liberal SCOTUS justices to remove the Constitutional safeguards. I don't blame Romney at all. It all goes back to the 1965 Immigration Act that changed this country forever.
No.
It rides on the electorate. They made their choices.
Obama isn’t the problem. Romney isn’t the problem. The electorate is the problem - the parasites have taken over the host.
America knew who Obama was this time and they still voted for him.
You can't pin this on Romney.
There are now more takers than makers.
America is over.
I believe half his district was new do to redistricting. You might might be right about rhetoric just like Akin and Mourdock. What’s the old saying “Be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.”
Apparently, looking at the vote totals, they did stay home. Obama is down something like 10M votes from 2008, but Romney underperformed McCain's 2008 numbers by 3-4M. If Romney had gotten all of the McCain votes, he would have won.
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