Posted on 11/29/2012 7:55:36 AM PST by Resettozero
The GOP establishment and some conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter, are in full defense mode, claiming that Romney is not responsible for losing to an incumbent responsible for perhaps the most damaging fiscal crises in our nation’s history. Don’t believe it. Romney IS responsible for wasting a billion dollars to carry out an issue-free campaign full of simple-minded platitudes. Indeed, Coulter is leading the charge with her recent column titled, Don’t Blame Romney. It’s sweet to watch Coulter defend her darling Romney, but let’s get real.
The reality is that Romney was one of the worst GOP presidential candidates in modern times. He was not the first choice of most conservative voters but he managed to rise through the ranks in the primary due to conservatives being split 4-5 ways, but also due to a slew of endorsements from conservative leaders and groups that had no business endorsing him – such as Ann Coulter. Repeatedly, Coulter assured conservatives that Romney was one of us and that he would be the “best possible candidate” to face Obama. But as any conservative from Massachusetts knew, Romney was a liberal at heart who, as Governor, led the nation in passing three of the left’s most sacred issues: Same sex marriage, Cap and Trade, and government control of health care.
But the Romney forces were clever. Beginning in 2004, they created a half dozen PACs to give money to conservative and GOP entities all over the country. I’ve reviewed these disclosures and hundreds of GOP and conservative entities benefitted from Romney’s largess. In other words, he bought the support of many “conservative leaders” and used that support to give himself “cred” among conservative voters. It was a phony image though and it’s shameful that so many conservative leaders went along with this ruse.
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I know people are writing articles that it is time to move on about the candidate being the wrong one/stories to accepting it and don’t bash him posts.. But..He was the problem .. republican moderates/dems lites rewriting the republican party platform is the disease and until the conservatives get back into leadership roles to make these other representatives stay in line, nothing can change. If we had a strong speaker, even in the worse of times, we would win some of these battles. Just image a young Newt leader(someone who is there to get work/reforms done) The current speaker has let us down. I wish he was a different type of leader. He’s one of the problems. He should be out front and center about all of these issues. Where is he? He needs to be strong (crack the whip, as they say) so the others follow a message vs some going off in a foreign place of ideas with a diluted message.
As long as we have a totally biased media, free gifts for everyone, illegals allowed to vote, and unchecked voter fraud we will NOT win ... I don't care if Reagan could be risen up and allowed to run again. Until these matters are reversed, the GOP will not win another election. Thinking otherwise is just passing the blame without addressing the cause.
A charismatic personality is needed for our next candidate. Romney has never been accused of having that personality, but others show great promise in this area.
Charisma will be a determining factor for many cycles to come and we need to adapt to that need.
I totally agree. > $1 billion spent with Mittens and PACs but there wasn't a single coherent message of how things would be better by replacing the empty chair president. Clint had a much more powerful message by speaking off the cuff than all of the high paid consultants combined. What disgraceful, wasteful, incompetence!
We need to hold all of the Republican primaries on the same day throughout all the states. By the time Texas has its primary there are only RINOs left.
THEY want to get just enough conservative votes so they can go the the table with the Democrats and get what THEY want. If they can win, then so much the better, Then they will bargain with the Democrats and sell out conservatives, because they really want what the Democrats want, which is access to the public purse.
THEY want to get just enough conservative votes so they can go the the table with the Democrats and get what THEY want. If they can win, then so much the better, Then they will bargain with the Democrats and sell out conservatives, because they really want what the Democrats want, which is access to the public purse.
Then he should've run as a an open Liberal instead of pretending to be a Conservative.
At least then we could finally put to rest the fool notion that The Republican Party needs to be more like The RAT Party in order to win elections.
Ask Scott Brown how that worked for him.
This double sucks. Not only did a Liberal Republican lose, The Right still gets blamed for it.
Screw it. I don't care. The truth is the truth. If people are too stupid or too lazy to figure that out for themselves, that's not going to stop me from spouting it.
Hmm... I was told by some (who happen to be of the RINO persuasion) that Romney should not get specific about what he will do."Obama's sinking himself"
Guess I wasn't really the "concerned troll" he or she tried to make me out to be, huh?
Only difference was no one knows if Willkie ever bothered registering as a Republican ~ even after the nomination.
FDR had a good chuckle over that candidacy.
Harry Truman said about another Republican who wasn't as bad as Willkie or Romney, that Democrat voters when given a choice between a fake Democrat and a real Democrat will chose the real Democrat every time.
Join me in one of my really early criticisms of Romney:
"To: Eagle Forgotten....... Isn't Romney much more like Willie Horton than Dukakis? Think of it this way. Horton became a political problem when the state of Massachusetts cut him loose for a weekend visit and he decided he needed to do a home invasion in Maryland where he beat the occupants and raped the wife...... Here we have the state of Massachusetts once again cutting loose a guy who'd earlier been housed and fed by the state government at public expense, and he's taken the opportunity to break into the Republican party where he's terrorizing the occupants (with a large wad of campaign cash), and for all we know may be joining Joe Biden in upping the rape rate....... I think we need to send Willard and Willy (if he's lose again) back home where they belong!........ Oh, yeah, they offer FREE MEDICAL CARE for illegal aliens and there's going to be a hard winter this year. Mass is the place to be fur shur. ..... 4 posted on October 23, 2011 11:36:26 PM EDT by muawiyah [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse] "
I think that was about the time Coulter and some of the others came out FOR Romney, or at least used that term "More Electable" ~ and there I was comparing this loser to Dukakis and Willie Horton ~ in a commentary on a George Will commentary about Dukakis ~ another Mass technocrat.
Willie was a much better example I think.
Boehner and McConnell, unfortunately, agree with the enemy more often than they agree with their conservative allies.
Don’t forget how the Rino squishes told conservatives that Romney didn’t need our vote while trying to at the same time bully us about him.
Real great strategy there by his supporters.
1) The GOP will nominate a moderate candidate, Jeb Bush. Case Closed.
1) The GOP will nominate a moderate candidate, Jeb Bush. Case Closed.
The blame wont last long. This is NOT the first time Romney has lost but let's hope it's the last time he loses (as a "Republican")
Romney himself has too much of a history and too many videos out there that expose him as our version of an Algore/John Kerry.
You're exactly right! That's what made Ronald Reagan the powerful candidate he was.
Reagan's experience and ability as an actor allowed him to charismatically portray to the public the type of personality that nearly everyone could RELATE to and to ACCEPT.
Conservatives need a persona as a candidate that has this ability.
You make my point. NONE of these men were true conservatives, and none of them articulated conservative principles. They were all for the status quo, but at a slower pace. GWB was the closest we had to a conservative candidate in a while, but he too added to the size of government.
PS: An aside, but it really ticks me off, especially since the press intentionally makes this mistake all the time:
It is not Bush, Sr. and Bush Jr. One is GHWB and the other is GWB. The press intentionally did this while not referring to Al Gore correctly as Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., son of Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Sr.
The democrats would WELCOME another Bush candidate. They have not stopped running against “Bush” yet.
If the rats and the media’s main strategy was wage a war on women and they pulled it off against Romney.... Imagine what they would have done to Santorum.
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