I honestly don’t see how anyone who ran could have done better. Gingrich? Santorum? Cain? They would have been destroyed. None have national organizations. Perhaps Perry (who was my first choice) but he proved incompetent on the national stage. Romney had the money and the organization and by the end, had a good message that I could live with. From October onward I thought he was a good candidate and deserved to win. But as others pointed out, we can’t win with 90% of blacks and 75% of Latinos voting against us. If we had this demographic, Ronald Reagan would not have won (and if we had the 1980 demographic, Romney would have won easily).
See #105.
Also, Latinos voted against Romney because he did not have the courage of either Perry or Gingrich to acknowledge that singling out illegal hispanics causes legal hispanics to become uncomfortable, afraid that their rights will be trampled.
We might not like that they feel that way, but it has become glaringly obvious that they do. Bush won 44% of the Hispanic vote and Romney 28%. With numbers like that, you get the courage to tell you base the truth whether they want to hear it or not.
Legal Hispanics defending what they see as an attack on their right of privacy, equal treatment, etc., is CONSERVATIVE principle. We let Obama beat us with Hispanics over an issue that should have been ours.
Yeah I agree. Even Reagan likely loses last night. The demographics are different.
If the conservatism we sell on this board were in vogue, then Todd Akin, Mourdock, Mia Love, Allen West, Josh Mandel, etc all win. But they didn’t.
There is a new young generation of single people out there who want the government to be their parent. They don’t have a traditional family most of us rely on nor a religion to fall back on. They want to belong to something and government is offering them the best alternative in their minds.
Religion and work? Too hard. Obama gives me phones and free birth control. And he doesn’t judge me or expect much from me.