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1. Perot.

2. Flawed candidate from the get-go. It’s my turn isn’t a campaign slogan.

3. Was going to be a Democrat year no matter what. McCain played with both hands tied behind his back and then tossed in Palin. A decision John “Maverick” McCain regrets to this day.

4. Here’s a dose of reality: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/as-nation-and-parties-change-republicans-are-at-an-electoral-college-disadvantage/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&_r=0

We’re not going to turn this around in a single election. The most critical thing to do between now and the next presidency are:

1. Elect as many conservatives to the House as possible, strengthening our hand there.

2. Ditto the Senate, but in the big picture a RINO is better than a Democrat because once you gain a majority you control committees, assignments and the legislative agenda. All the stuff Reid does to us, we can now do to them.

3. We need a GOP President. It’s that simple. A guy on our side of aisle is more likely to deal with us, than resist and fight us.

There isn’t a Reagan on the horizon. We fight with the army we have. The most important point is to control the legislative agenda for a generation or more. The House and Senate are the key, long term. That’s the only way.

We didn’t get here in a single leap. It took 2 generations of liberalism and we blocked a lot of stuff for decades. That’s the history and the truth. You don’t have to like the reality, but you do have to live it.

2. Ditto the Senate, but in the big picture a RINO is better than a Democrat because once you gain a majority you control committees, assignments and the legislative agenda. All the stuff Reid does to us, we can now do to them.

3. We need a GOP President. It’s that simple. A guy on our side of aisle is more likely to deal with us, than resist and fight us.

Romney would have done the same thing that he did in Massachusetts, destroy the GOP and any chance for GOP, much more, Conservative governance.

Just like he did in Massachusetts, Romney would have presided over the implementation of Gay Marriage, the reversal of the gains that the Pro-Life movement has made in the last two decades in this country, he would not have done anything material to remove Obamacare, quite the opposite, like he stated, I believe yesterday, he would have FORCED all 50 states to implement socialized medicine.

Since Romney was about one month away from implementing his own Carbon Tax Scheme, before he dropped it, I'd bet we'd get some sort of evil from him on this issue.

Given that Romney raised taxes on just about everything that moved in Massachusetts, it's a fair bet that we would not get any measurable tax-relief.

And finally, you'd get no smaller government with that Big-Government solution hack Mitt Romney.

What was your point with #3 and #4 above?

History, and Mitt Romney's record and policy positions don't support your contention.

1. Perot.

And to that I would counter this: "Read my lips, no new taxes!" and a complete refusal to govern from a limited-government perspective.

Can there be any doubt that if GHB had continued to govern from a Ronald Reagan perspective that he wouldn't have completely routed Clinton, and there would have been no need, nor support for Perot?

I won't vote for a liberal(R) in the 2016 election. That’s the truth. You don’t have to like the reality, but you do have to live it.

/johnny

McCain had a good chance of winning until 9/15 when Bush’s treasury secretary effectively gave the election to Obama. After the conference in Washington, McCain made nice the rest of the campaign. He let Obama play the moderate rather than play up the Democrat’s obvious radicalism. My guess is that even when he was nominated the party had leaders told him to keep it toned down and that after the election they could work with the Democrats on the economic crisis. Palin did not fit in this strategy. Which is why they tried to shut her up and then after the election to discredit her. They are upset with Cruz because he has all her pizzaz and the Elitist credentials that she so totally lacks. They can’t call him “white trash” because he, like Bill Clinton, and unlike Barack Obama, is super smart and has the academic record to prove it.