The Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong

FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 7, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[paul51]

correct. mitt lost because the dems can put together a coalition of parasites, corruption and ignorance that outnumber the people left in this country that still care about the constitution, liberty and self determination. start with 20 million illegal immigrants and their supporters, add the welfare/food stamp crowd and those that have no sense of history or what used to make this country exceptional and toss in corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and special interest groups and then do the math

[expat1000]

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[TexasFreeper2009]

Mitt Romney didn’t even get as many votes as McCain did!

That is the most shocking thing I just found out.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

With his business background, he could make a perfect case for being able to turn the economy around.

Not really.

For all that Mitt is personally honest and competent, he is part of the finance, deal-cutting economy, not the economy that builds things and delivers goods.

And if there is anything free market conservatives should know by now, it is that Wall Street is not their friend, and not an "ally" with which they should wish to be associated.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

It’s the free stuff, stupid.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville

I believe that George Washington would have fared no better in this election than Mitt Romney. 50% of Americans want free stuff more than they want a constitutional republic.

[Mr. K]

I think this author nails it.

You can’t win by always playing defense.

With no offense you never score a touchdown.

Sure occasionaly you grab a fumble and run it into the end zone, but that is not a winning strategy to make it to the Superbowl.

SARAH PALIN 2016

[SoConPubbie]

Romney beat two Tea Party candidates last night, in Red states, by 10 points and 15 points last night.

Which essentially destroys the whole argument in this article.

Well, if that is the case, why didn't he win?

Furthermore, one of those Tea-Party candidates was utterly destroyed by the knife that Romney and his surrogates plunged in his back very vocally.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Really. And what part did the state-run media — and even the GOP establishment — play in destroying those Tea Party candidates?

[Cyber Liberty]

That is not the lesson the Stupid Party is going to take from this. Next candidate will likely be even worse, like a Bloomberg.

[radioone]

He lost because he received less votes than Obama and McCain.

[gore_sux]

I agree, we need to send up ass-kickers as candidates, not the sing kumbaya bipartisan types. Romney kicked ass in the first debate, then he stopped and started talking about bipartisanship. Also, when dumb questions like birth control come up, Republicans need to out-and-out lie to dumb single women by saying “sure sweethart, whatever you want, baby.” - That’s the go-to statemtent in marriage isn’t it?

[eak3]

Exactly right. OReilly nailed it perfectly by saying the same thing. Our society has devolved into a takers society. People don’t want to work for anything when they can have it handed to them. They don’t realize it will eventually run out, but for now they will take what they can get. The small govt, fiscal conservative way of thinking is the minority and can not win an election. All we can do now is unite with like minded people and survive. The next 4 yrs and beyond will see the destruction of America.

[GlockThe Vote]

Sultan pens another gem.

[FrankR]

I think that by and large, the Tea party - at least the Tea party we all knew in 2010 - is dead.

This was probably the most important election we'll ever have...and possibly the LAST election we'll ever have, and the Tea Party was all but invisible.

We should have been having rallies in DC and elsewhere that would make the 2010 rallies look small.

We've been cowed down by the dems. The law of the jungle has ensued, and America is on a slippery slope to doomsday.

Why should a liberal, living on disability, food stamps, rent subsidy, and free cellphones...clearing over $3500 a month for doing NOTHING,ever vote for a candidate promising JOBS? Well, we know the reason as the golden goose is running out of eggs without jobs, but they don't know it. They can't see past their own noses, and it's all about the freebies.

In the coming days we're going to hear about all the reasons obama won, when there is only one...freebies.

How do we stop it? Who knows? It's probably impossible and the America we have known is as good as gone.

We can go "galt", but we've still got to eat, have a place to live, etc.

I say we sign up for the same freebies - en masse - and collapse the system. obama won't know what to do, and neither will any of the liberals. If we've got to live on nothing, then I say let's make it FAIR and EVEN, because if the government goes bust, EVERYONE will be out in the cold.

On the other hand, the blacks and minorities cannot see that obama doesn't need them anymore. He doesn't have to stand election again, and he could care less about whichever democrat follows him, he is too self-centered and ego-centric.

In the end, we'll all become slaves to the government and the blacks will be right back where they started...enslaved.

obama is not an American black, he is a muslim and a communist, and is using blacks to attain a goal...which I think he just attained last night.

I'm over 65 and it doesn't matter much to me, but the children and the grandchildren will have to face the music, it is them for which I weep.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

The GOP needs to learn that Wall Street and Wall Streeters are not its friends.

For all that Romney's personal integrity is impeccable, it is all too easy to portray him as one of the deal-cutters who helped screw up the economy in a big way.

I am sure this cost him millions of working and middle class votes.

[radioone]

This may precipitate a recession by refusing to pass any more continuing resolutions to keep the inessential parts of the government functioning.

LOL "Boehner and crew" will fold like an accordion trying to appease the Democrats. They may whine a little but they want to be invited to the DC Parties just like everybody else.

[southernindymom]

Unfortunately, you are so right. My soul hurts today.

[Sans-Culotte]

If we couldn’t beat an incompetent failure like Barack Hussein Obama, we cant beat anyone. The demographics are against us. There are now more moochers and takers than producers, and they voted for their boy. The liberals have spent generations producing idiots in the public education system, and building a news/entertainment propaganda delivery system. The idiots bought the propaganda, and we have 4 more years of the Kenyan. We are beaten. Not just today, but in the future too. The demographics aren’t going to get better. Get used to slavery, debt, high taxes and bowing to terrorists. America is dead. Limbaugh, Levin, and the others can shut down now and retire on their millions, while the rest of us put on shackles. Nothing will save this Republic now.

I agree. There are contradictory memes at work here. Either: a.) Romney was not conservative enough, or b.) Demographics have overtaken us and takers outnumber losers. Both cannot be true. If 'a' is true, then the country is more conservative. If 'b' is true, then a more conservative candidate would have garnered even fewer votes.

I think 'b' is true. America embraces its God-king and does not want to hear about personal responsibility anymore.

[SoFloFreeper]

I don't agree with everything in this article. I do agree with this statement:

The stunning 2010 midterm election victories happened because a conservative opposition loudly and vociferously convinced a majority of Americans that ObamaCare would be harmful to them. And then that fantastic engine of change was packed away and replaced with political consultants who were all focused on seizing the center and offending as few people as possible. But you don’t win political battles by being inoffensive. And you don’t win elections by avoiding conflict.

I thought Mitt ran a fine campaign. He DID take on Obama, and he DID run on a platform of taking away OBAMACARE...every damn banner ad I saw on the internet spoke about the repeal of that damnable piece of s***.

I think there IS some validity to the need to "reach out" to ethnic minorities--not to appease them, but to show them how Obamanomics is ruining their world. Sometimes people have to be persuaded.

[IrishBrigade]

Tea Party conservatives must put their foot down to the Republican leadership. Three times now, the leadership has foisted worthless presidential candidates on the party: Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Never again...

..so please enlighten us as to which of the primary candidates could have done half as well as Mitt did...Gingrich? Couldn’t be elected dogcatcher. Palin? She might get 150 EV’s. Too shrill. Fumblemouth Perry? Santorum? Bachmann? The numerous close blue states (Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin)would not have been so with anyone but Mitt running...