[Darkwolf377]

Forget it. People around here are no longer interested in reality. If you don’t subscribe to what they really, really WANT to be true, then you must be a Romney supporter.

This should be a warning to us, and a lesson learned. THIS time around we should have found our conservative candidate and rallied behind him before the game started. We believed we had the luxury of a primary that would give us all a say in OUR nominee.

How can we have countless posts about ‘they’ choosing ‘our’ nominee, and not realize the race was being decided on the ground before the first vote was cast in Iowa?

What’s even loonier is that people here have been MOCKING Romney for “living in Iowa and NH”—uh, yeah, THAT’S why he won there. That should have woken us up and gotten us going.

I hate to say this (really) but my respect for Sarah Palin has dropped like a rock these past few weeks, because we have seen the damage she did by leading on her supporters for so long. As late as September, FReepers were posting ‘Keep your powder dry, Sarah’s going to announce by the 14th” or whatever. While we were standing around checking our watches and she was flirting with the idea of running, Romney was doing the on-the-ground hard work WE should have been doing to stop him.

Facts are stubborn things. Too bad people here are starting to get like Obamaniacs, thinking they can still wish away Romney’s march to the nomination by damning facts they don’t like.

[thecodont]

I’ll have to agree with you on this. Groundwork for a serious candidate should have begun last June at the very latest.

[Steelfish]

True- Palin screwed the primary entrants.Bachman did not have a chance in hell and nor does Perry who should have dropped out after NH.

[packrat35]

I have sadly concluded that everything you write is true. I wish it was not so, but Romney will be the nominee. I don’t like it one bit, but facts are a stubborn thing.

So is math and it lines up for Romney no matter how much we on FR don’t like it. Romney will win SC and FL, then it will be brutally evident to all of us then.

Rick Perry had the best chance and his “heartless” remark dropped him like a stone, from which he never recovered.

[nathanbedford]

Good post!

We conservatives have got to get hold of the nuts and bolts of politics if we are going to survive.

I would add one thing, there is a lamentable tendency among us to blame politicians for giving the people of a democracy what they want. Politicians are not fools, they know that entitlements are bankrupting the country and they also know that the country demands entitlements. If they deny the people their entitlements they will no longer be politicians.

It requires the rarest and most charismatic of individuals on the level of Ronald Reagan to break through this mindset which the Democrats so easily demagogue. Most politicians, even Republican and so-called conservative politicians, spend their efforts finding the rationalizations which will keep the music playing.

[beaversmom]

Good post. Sad post, but I think you are seeing things clearly. I was hoping someone other than Mitt would rise up. Gingrich gave me some hope, but I think he blew it or it was blown from under him. Still hoping a little bit, but reality is reality.

[paudio]

People just believe what they want to believe. Another misplaced belief that some Freepers hold and I think is dangerous is that no matter what Obama is guaranteed to lose. Scary attitude, IMO.