Posted on 07/06/2013 7:07:24 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
Especially if there is no conservative on the ballot.
DING DING DING!!! Right on. Exactly how is it in several parts of Ohio that Romney received ZERO votes, whereas Obama received 115% - 125% of the registered vote?
Nope, no election theft going on here, move along --- nothing to see!
Much truth in what you wrote. I'd add that having 32 bazillion debates between the 94 candidates that were running (exaggeration of course) certainly didn't help matters. By the time it came down to Romney v. Obama I don't think there was a single person in this country who didn't already have their mind made up as to which way they were going to vote - or not vote and stay home.
Anyone claiming to be an "independent" or "undecided" did it for the media attention IMO, dumbasses that they were.
>”The People Who Work For A Living Are Outnumbered By Those Who Vote For A Living”<
While everything else in the Article made perfect sense, the line above fits the bill.
The only exception being that a bunch of people who “work for a living” still buy into the Obama mantra.
They just don’t get it. The Romney ‘campaign’ didn’t run a campaign which is why they couldn’t compete. If you want to compete you have to show up to the fight and for most of 2012 Romney didn’t and when he did he said really stupid things that didn’t help him and I’m not talking about the 47% comment which has been given far more credit than it deserved. It was more his series of comments like saying “I’m proud to be called the grandfather of Obamacare” etc. That is really inspiring to those 2010 voters. What Romney did was play the ambiguous card and lost while Obama ran out to his base and rallied them hard to the polls. The GOP upper echelon are idiots in the marketing department. They should have the strongest brand in America. The brand that forged America. The value of hard work, the striving to be ones best even if one is born with the least, the building strong families which through their strength strengthen individual liberty and community and deflate the need for big govt. The GOP and Romney suffered from being muddled in 2012. Its like the geniuses with the money said we just won big in 2010 and then just disregarded all that produced that win. Its crazy but that is why the GOP is the stupid party.
Romney or any republican loses because the dems start with over 200 guaranteed EVs from the NE and Cal. and then just have to win 10-15 major cities in the swing states. It’s that simple. Unless the GOP govs and legislatures change the electoral distribution to house districts rather than by the state as a whole we are doomed to losing all future pres elections.
Thanks for the POSSIBLE corrections.
As we both know, “progressive” historical revisionists and what Roger Sherman correctly called “...the friends of paper money...” inhabit EVERY CAMPUS in the US today. My concern is that they also infest the UVA.
We have had many such purging of materials these creatures consider hostile to their demented ideology. One such occurred under FDR, to wit:
Historian George Bancroft later wrote: “James Madison left his testimony that *the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender, either for public or private debts, was cut off.* This is the interpretation of the clause, made at the time of its adoption by all the statesmen of that age, not open to dispute because too clear for argument, and never disputed so long as any one man who took part in framing the constitution remained alive.”
(Bancroft founder of the U.S.Naval Academy at Annapolis among other accomplishments wrote a book on this very subject entitled A Plea for the Constitution of the United States: Wounded in the House of Its Guardians. During WWII, FDR a serious friend of paper money ostensibly to supply the war effort, ordered the printing plates for many historical books smelted. Bancrofts book was among them. A photocopy of one of the remaining originals can be found here
These people will stop at nothing to achieve their aims.
All of those were contributing factors, as was the Etch A Sketch comment. Millions fewer voted, and they were mostly conservatives. Now, why didn't Romney appeal to conservatives?
Probably because, having spent far too much time in Massachusetts, he may have held conservative ECONOMIC values, but was NOT a real IDEOLOGICAL conservative.
If he had been a strong defender of these conservative virtues, maybe the author would have a case. But Mittens Etch A Sketch tried to run as just barely conservative enough to keep people in the tent, while essentially he's a "progressive." Romneycare, remember? (Or Obamneycare, as someone dubbed it.)
In almost all of the primaries prior to the nomination being locked up, the conservative candidates (the Not Romneys) got around 2/3 of the vote, yet Romney kept winning. Conservatives were not and are not sold that Romney is a conservative in any way.
Had he been a real conservative, he might have gotten some of those millions of stay-at-homes to vote. Look at 2010. The Republicans ran mostly as full-spectrum conservatives, and they won BIG -- around 700 seats at various levels.
So of course, they had to nominate a "moderate". ("Moderate is a base-stealing word for liberal Republicans." -- William F. Buckley Jr.) After all, everyone knows that only "moderates" are electable.
Choose electability and you'll lose most of the time.
Romney lost because the conservative virtues the traditional American virtues of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.
The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.
Perfectly stated.
Normally in the case of a divided legislature and an insuffereable butt-hole as president we would have gridlock.
And with a tyrannical socialist as president it wouldn't be such a bad turn of events.
But in this case King Obama just does what he wants without regard for congress, court, law or constitution.
Because they don't want to have to work for a living - and they hope some day the Democrats will make that unnecessary. :)
Baloney.
The reason for Romney’s fail to elect are two:
1) Romney is not mainstream.
2) The employ-foreigners GOP does not win votes.
Bring back US jobs.
Paper money based on nothing but faith is actually worthless.
The “. . . bunch of people who work for a living [and] still buy into the Obama mantra” are on his payroll!
He bought them before & after the 2008 election, and bought them (plus some new ones) again for the 2012 election.
They are ALL getting filthy rich at our expense!
I don’t need to point them out to FReepers — we know who they are, and they will have the resources to totally insulate themselves FRom the chaos that they know is coming!
And, We the People will be left with the aftermath! We will have to suck it up, pick up the pieces and rebuild America.
Maybe we can get it right on the rebound?
See my post #37
And a testosterone-challenged Congress bends over, grips their ankles and intones “Thank you sir. May I have another?”
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