Those people were never going to be Republicans if they were marching for Move On and other lefty groups
They probably didn't want to be firebombed by DNC, crapped on by the students, or shot by the police.
It is also bit easier to win when you are the POTUS and ignore numerous laws, and use every lever of the Federal government for partisan means. (Ignoring all of the problems with Romney.)
“Kirk came to Montana at the invitation of several Republicans who’ve been feuding with party hard-liners, arguing the state GOP needs to appeal to more than just doctrinaire conservatives.”
I hope this isn’t what it sounds like.
They also had meta data from the IRS and the NSA to help them out. Plus brainwashing from their teachers and professors who are shameless shills for Marxist ideas. You can bet on it.
They also had meta data from the IRS and the NSA to help them out. Plus brainwashing from their teachers and professors who are shameless shills for Marxist ideas. You can bet on it.
Free Market Flea Market...
I believe in free markets at home. I don’t believe in sacrificing our nation on the alter of international globalist (anything but) free market pipe dreams.
I believe in global trade, that is rational and logical.
What we have been doing has utterly failed our people and nation, and has utterly gifted China with our wealth, technology, and the future that should have been ours.
I am very leery of people hawking free-market Capitalism these days. It’s code folks. Don’t ever forget it.
“Young free-market activist says GOP blowing it with young voters”
With people like Boehner, McCain, Graham, Flake, Rubio, Christie etc. they’re blowing it with older people like me as well.
The GOP is the “Seinfeld” Party - A party about nothing.
I sure as heck don’t know what they stand for anymore. At least the Democrats do stand for something, even though I vehemently disagree with them.
That is the problem with the GOP, they think morons like that should be catered to and drive away 10 voters for every young mushhead voter gained.
I agree that if the Republicans were in favor of not putting roadblocks in the way of small business creation and self employment, it would attract a lot of younger (and older) voters. Being a corporate slave without even the benefit of job security or being a globalist/banking/elitist sleazeball just doesn’t have the appeal it used to.
But too many Republicans have no interest in educating. They act like anyone not born understanding free markets is an idiot and a lost cause not worth spending time on.
If you’re not a democrat when young you don’t have a heart and if you’re not a Republican when older you don’t have a brain.
There’s no reason for Republicans to go after the ‘youth vote’... It’s as big a waste of our time as democrats trying to get the ‘gun owner’ vote.
When the young get married and have a child they’ll start looking to us... that’s when we care. That’s when we move toward them.
What a yawner. This guy is Karl Rove’s mini-me.
Media sure is giving these losers attention.
Ronald Reagan won 2 landslides by being an outspoken Conservative.
Want to win landslide elections, stop with the squishes as candidates.
As the saying goes:
If you're not a democrat when young you don't have a heart and if you're not a Republican when older you don't have a brain.
There's no reason for Republicans to go after the 'youth vote'... It's as big a waste of our time as democrats trying to get the 'gun owner' vote.
When the young get married and have a child they'll start looking to us... that's when we care. That's when we move toward them.
Illegal Alien Amnesty, Homosexual Special Rights, are not Free Market.
This article has nothing to do with free markets. Once again, another liberal trying to push their agenda under the guise of “free market”
Unfortunately, these days, anyone mentioning “free market” seems to have no clue what one really is.
Second... we have already performed an autopsy on the 2012 election and it was lost for the following reasons. Since 2000, karl rove has controlled the republican election machine and when he won elections, it was by losing the popular vote the first time and by a thin margin the second time. His losses are mind boggling.
Next, we have a party leadership that has been actively moving the party to the left since the day that Reagan retired and ghw bush was elected... only because he had been Reagan's VP and had promised to continue Reagan's work. He and the party started undoing everything that Reagan had accomplished and 2011 saw rove, gingrich, michael steele and others proclaiming: “The era of Reagan is over”. They thought so at the time... but because of the Conservative backlash they caused with their proclamation, they each to a man had to retract and rationalize “what I was trying to say”. These people have little in difference with the rat party.
Then the gop/e for the fifth time in a row... rammed a progressive “moderate” candidate down our throats... a man (romney) that shared much in common with his opponent... the worst and most progressive president to ever soil the office... and even wrote much of the nation destroying “affordable care act”... a man that had to flip 180 degrees from who he had always been... a man that had to shift 180 degrees from how he governed when he was the Governor of Massachusetts. mitt then claimed Victory in the Iowa Caucus and retracted a week later... but by then the mo had switched from Santorum to romney. Couple that with the manipulation of ballots in certain states (through reince preibus pressuring certain republican SoS)... which ended with keeping the two candidates that were leading romney... off the ballots in those three states.
Lastly, we have the entire federal machine... the NSA... the CIA... THE DOJ etc all conspiring against Conservative organizations and groups... candidates were smeared with allegations born of these illegal surveillance methods... and through voter fraud in many urban areas... and all of this is well documented... and that is why we lost the 2012 election and why we lost to what truly was a very weak candidate... an incumbent that had overseen his first term leading our country into depression and the collapse of America looking to be certain. Anything else claimed is just gazing at belly button fuzz.
LLS
During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama’s reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization.
“On election night he was in our boiler room in Chicago,” says David Plouffe, then a senior White House adviser. Schmidt had a particular affinity for a group of engineers and statisticians tucked away beneath a disco ball in a darkened corner of the office known as “the Cave.” The data analytics team, led by 30-year-old Dan Wagner, is credited with producing Obama’s surprising 5 million-vote margin of victory.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-30/googles-eric-schmidt-invests-in-obamas-big-data-brains
The GOP is nothing more than a branch of the DNC. Voters are blowing it by keeping the GOP in existence at all... we need a true Conservative party to go up against the DNC/GOP merged party.