I don’t think any of this can be laid at Romney feet. The most damaging blows were dealt by the likes of Akin, Muourdock, et Al. The GOP enabled the war on women meme. The Democrats just plowed the fertile field they were given.
When a candidate that is so vulnerable does this well the blame rests on us.
We are fighting an opponent that is 24/7 lies, untruths and distortions.
We played honestly and fairly, but gullible people will always do gullible things.
Tried to post a vanity -— my second in 15 years -— and it didn’t go thrugh, did something wrong, so I’ll just state it here.
The Democrats could have run Donald Duck (cartoon character) or Charlie Chaplin (dead actor)and they would have won.
Television is so powerful, so unprecedented in human history, that it can make people think whatever it, or they, want the population to think.
Never before in human history have we had anything like television. People sit 40 hours a week, still and inactive, and stare at it. They will believe anything. That Bush caused Katrina, that Obama cares, and so on. Totally unprecedented.
The Unites States has become like the Republic of South Africa except the majority whites are ruled by the minority blacks. We are a third world country now. I expect a complete financial/government collapse by the end of next year. Be prepared my friends. The end of the USA is coming.
We need to understand why the Republican turn out was apparently less this year than in 2008. A comment in the original article attributes it to the dying off of the Greatest Generation.
Your right that he was not the true conservative candidate that most of us here at FR wanted but he was a lot better than McCain and Obama. With the ‘super’ conservatives staying away from the election and giving us this idiot I can only say one thing. GO F*CK YOURSELF CAUSE YOU SURE DID THAT TO THE REST OF US!!!!
Believe it or not their are other people in the Republican party that have different views on things. I know that I am right (and correct) but other may feel differently about issue than I do. I am sure not going to aid and abet this kind of travesty because I did not get my way. The reason that the Dems keep winning is just because of this reason. They know that their various groups do not agree with each other on issues but the only way that they get representation at all is too stick together 1st as a voting block. At the same time our dumb ass ‘real’ conservatives stay home and give it to the opposition because they cannot get purity in a candidate.
Yes we are fighting the media and yes we do not have any grass roots initiative nor any kind of organization nor any kind of educational initiative or anything else other than honesty and common sense. Unfortunately these do not sell well with the sound bite mentality of the US electorate.
So to all you ‘real’ conservatives that want to show the establishment Republicans how important your vote I truly hope that you are happy with your selection. Yes! I do blame you for your asinine mentality and logic.
[ Why did we lose then? ]
1) Well running the inventor of ROMNEY-CARE against the inventor of OBAMA_CARE just might be the problem..
2) Republican doing nothing about voter fraud FOR 30 YEARS may be a problem..
3) Allowing academia to brain wash several generations of republican children into socialists may be another vector of error..
4) there are other problems as well.. but just being a republican seems to be the major one..
** the republican party seems to one of the commies useful idiots.. selling themselves vibrators to masturbate themselves with.. MYTH Romney?.. LoL.. really..
Why did we lose then?
1) Christians who did not vote.
2) Christians who voted against their faith.
God’s command in 2 Chronicles 7:14 holds both a promise and a consequence. If America fails it will be because of Christians.
2 CHRONICLES 7:14
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and change their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land.
The last two to blame are Romney and Ryan. They ran as best a campaign as possible.
First...Reince Priebus needs to turn in his resignation, this morning. As head of the RNC, he managed to not only lose the Presidential election AND lose -1 senate seats when the Dems had 22 running for re-election...he got punked by the Brillo-Head Debbie Wasserman-Schulz. That is not leadership...that is weakness
Second...its time to stop giving the Tea Party a pass. They brought us Mourdock and sandbagged Akin (remember they were upset when their insider Sarah Steelman finished third in the primary). Oh, and Sarah Palin trying to run a Third Party candidate to sandbag Akin...all over a comment he repeatedly apologized for.
I am sorry...it is time for the Real Conservatives and Social Conservatives to re-assume the Conservative leadership of the GOP....you cannot build a base based on the rantings of a moderate business wonk on a liberal NBC-owned business channel....nor build a conservative base that cowers to the Liberal Media every time a GOP candidate offends someone
And, the absolute stupidity of trying to push Marco Rubio as some Conservative wunderkind....why do you think CNN and MSNBC keep pushing him to run for higher office?
Its time to stop pushing Liberal-Lite as an alternative to the DNC. Only a Real, Social Conservative that energizes the base can beat a DNC liberal
Even though Mitt Romney wasn’t my first choice, in fact he was my last, I don’t blame him for this loss. In fact I came to like him as the nominee of the Republican party.
I’m not sure where the blame lies, but I don’t blame Mitt at all.
I have a short memory. Who was “the man WE wanted” exactly? And if WE wanted him, why didn’t WE get him exactly? When the primaries started, I only wanted Rick Perry. When he dropped out, I only wanted Mitt Romney.
I got the man I wanted. I’m proud of him. Who did you guys want?
We could have run Barack Obama and we would have lost.
I agree! In my mind, if Christie hadn't kissed Bowbama's arse so hard after Sandy...uh, never mind!
Thanks, Mitt!
And the socons can stop whining, too, that if we’d only had a true conservative … I will tell you right now, I’d have voted for Santorum only because I’d have voted for Satan himself against Obama. I can’t imagine a worse combination than someone who wants to regulate both my private life and my economic life. And I’m a conservative and I am, for the record, pro-life (I am an abortion survivor and wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been botched. You want to fight over it, libertarians, go right ahead. I’m fairly sure I’m a person even if mom would have preferred I weren’t alive — and had actual good reasons for it having to do with her health.) and very iffy on contraception due to my distrust of all unneeded chemical tampering with the body.I disagree with this.A “true conservative” candidate would not have a snowball’s chance in hell. Reagan, even, wasn’t that. No. I was alive then. Go look it up. He was conservative where it counted, which was fixing our economy and defeating the USSR. That’s it.
I agree with the PJ’s. Mitt worked really hard. And the media was all against him. They are in full cover up mode for Benghazi and they refuse to report what the folks who were hit by Sandy are STILL dealing with.
We are now dealing with a Democrat state run media. Not even Fox is centrist. They are more Dem than Republican. But the rest are so wacko liberal that Fox looks centrist.
When you have an idiot who is the face of a network (Chris Matthews/MSNBC) say he is glad that Sandy hit last week for political reasons, than you know that network a liberal hate machine.
Everytime I see an article with bad news in the future, I’m posting “It IS Obama’s Fault” under it.
In 2004, places like Free Republic saved the election from false media. It is time to step up and do it again.
That is it. Start to finish. And unless we find away to remedy that situation we may be a one-party country from now on.
After years of trying to stand up to my principles and ethics in both business and personal life I have decided to embrace the 47% that truly run the country. I am in my late fifties and have to accept the fact that I need to prepare for my later years and must make my needs paramount.
No more swimming against the fetid, offal filled tide. Time to game the system.
Because failure has not only become acceptable, it is now rewarded! .
One thing about it. Obama owns it and nolonger has anyone to blame
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan do deserve our thanks.
Screw McCain. Screw Todd Akin.
Ten million fewer people showed up to vote for Obama this time than in ‘08 - he actually got fewer votes than McCain did that year - Romney lost because fewer Republicans showed up to vote this year - because while ‘rats want to win and will vote for almost anyone to do so, ‘pubs are just too delicate to engage in such nasty stuff and there is always a contingent which simply won’t accommodate to gain the greater good of election victory - so here we are and by the time Obama and his crew get done subverting our freedoms and the voting process, we very likely will never again have another chance.....