Hate to break it to you, bub, but the GOP-E has backstabbed, snubbed, and undermined Conservatives so much to clear the way for Romney that there is no enthusiasm for him within the base, even with Ryan on the ticket.
It's bubbling up to the surface now, and the grand-poobahs of the party are now scratching their hands wondering why we won't get on board with Team Romney.
Shooting messengers and cooking up conspiracy theories won't change that truth, and no amount of wishful thinking is going to make Conservatives turn out in droves for Romney.
This is how I see things as well. I was at a grandchild's sporting event yesterday in Baltimore. People were travelling from a 2 to 3 hour vicinity which should give us a decent cross section of red and blue cars. It did. There was a lot of time before my granddaughter went on so I took a walk through the several hundred car (or more car) fully packed parking lot. 2 Obama bumper stickers (and one of those was from the last election), 0 Romney stickers, 3 Sarah Palin stickers, and a pretty decent mix of assorted liberal and conservative stickers.
Because the sporting event was Irish dancing, you can be sure there was an oversampling of both conservative Catholic and Union Dem voters. The good news is that the union guys aren't very fired up. The fact that there was not a single Romney sticker on the cars (including my own) speaks volumes about the disgust the Republican base feels this time around. The Republican establishment apparently has to win this one on their own.
What Conservative could beat Obama? Why couldn’t he beat Romney?
“Hate to break it to you, bub, but the GOP-E has backstabbed, snubbed, and undermined Conservatives so much to clear the way for Romney that there is no enthusiasm for him within the base, even with Ryan on the ticket.”
So how we are supposed to react? I hate to break it to you, but Romney’s policies will be much better than what we have now. I also hate to tell you this, but the moment one of “ours” writes something demoralizing, the left piles on - on our own web sites - trying to create an atmosphere that suppresses votes.