Posted on 12/01/2012 12:07:46 PM PST by smoothsailing
Next time, In a nod to bipartisanship, Republicans should reach across the aisle and nominate a Democrat. We couldn’t be worse off.
After being on this site for some years, I have become prolife. Maybe not quite the conversion of Saul into Paul on the road to Damascus, but close.
I support pro-life candidates in Maine all the time!
All I am saying is that we need candidates that can stay on message-when we get off message the Rats and the MSM make the candidate the issue.
Do you think it was helpful to bring the issue of witchcraft into the Senate race in 2010? I don’t.
Republicans need to stop nominating right-wing extremists like John McCain and Mitt Romney. Obviously, the two most recent Republican presidential candidates were far too extreme to the right to be elected by the American public.This is pretty funny, and looks ridiculous, but no moreso as when people (including FReepers) say the opposite.
TARGET THE MEDIA..TARGET THE MEDIA
It was 2010, in 2012, Santorum ran for president although he had lost his Senate seat by a bigger margin than O'Donnell's embarrassing loss.
Santorum lost by 17.4% to O'Donnell's 16.7%, yet he was the incumbent Senator.
As I recall, O’Donnell’s told a light-hearted funny story when she was a young woman, on a TV show (Bill Maher I think) about 20 years before she was involved in politics. It was anecdote about some silly thing she had done as a teenager, having a picnic in graveyard or something like that. Bill Mahar then dredged up that 20-year-old old video when she was running for the senate.
Look, I'm not saying any of these candidates were wrong on the issues. They are correct on the pro-life, limited government, reduced spending and deficit positions. They just made stupid blunders, they said stupid things that the media killed them with. The 'Rats say stupid things all the time (example: Biden) and have the wrong positions on the issues, but it doesn't hurt them because the media gives them cover, and they promise largess to the sheeple, and that trumps any stupid gaffes the 'Rats make.
Bingo.
Unless the GOP gets off this “export every job” nonsense, the GOP will cease to exist.
STOP EXPORTING AMERICAN JOBS.
She also was right in a local debate with Combs about the constitution but the media (wrongly, of course) ridiculed her and the sheeple were not familiar enough with the constitution to see that she was correct and their golden boy was wrong.
Exactly my point, even seemingly harmless remarks can be taken out of context and blown out of proportion when a conservative runs for office. Mahar dredged up the video, G.W. Bush’s DWI made public the weekend before the election
and so forth and so on.
Were you aware that the Republican state organization for Delaware actually refused to support Christine?
She did not bring up the witchcraft quote - that was brought up by the MSM. She was asked the question and she responded honestly. She lost because DE stabbed her in the back. :)
I was and thanks for reminding all of us of the lack of support she received. I will never forget the attacks on Christine O’Donnell by Rove et. al. That is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans. The Rats want to win and even if a candidate was flawed would say noting. Pubs on the other hand, well you are spot on with your observatons.
Santorum was a sitting Senator who got humiliated in a voter rejection debacle that made the history books.
Christine was a never elected candidate, who didn’t win after her party had campaigned against her, for instance Rove, who went on TV the night of her primary win and dumped all over her, Rove got in front of the cameras for that entire week, to dampen any effect or momentum she should have had coming from her primary victory.
Santorum made election history as a Senator, Christine has never held office.
“O’Donnell just said something stupid (like Allen and Akin and Mourdock) that gave fodder to the ‘Rats and the media, and was taken way off message by having to deal with it.”
Sure, 20 years prior to running and the media savaged her for it.
It’s not enough to merely earn more votes than previous. You have to hit a moving target. Population growth has increased in the last four years.
Santorum brings exactly what Romney brought to the table. 11 states. He had blowouts in Oklahoma and in Missouri.
We spend all our time talking about his electoral failures and none about his electoral successes.
No one is the gaffe machine that Mitt Romney is, and it helped cost him the presidency, Akin won in a close to equal, three way split in the primary, and evidently can’t handle discussing his own favorite issues, I guess the same can be said for Mourdock, Mourdock by the way, was the only senate candidate that Romney endorsed and campaigned for, Akin had the GOP campaigning against him, like some GOP candidates did in 2010.
Santorum though, is in his own category, he didn’t lose his senate seat by 2 or 6 points, it was by a history making 17.4%, it was a colossal wipe out, epic, he must have said something wrong to get driven from office and become the laughing stock of the nation.
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