Posted on 11/07/2012 12:42:40 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Frankly, I no longer think its about all about race. It's about Takers vs. Makers. Race is more like jerseys - it identifies the team you "should" be on. All getting a minority on the Maker side does is invoke an allergic response from the Taker side, since they shouldn't be there and must be put in their place.
No she would not have been for the following reasons
1. She is attractive, but she is not as pretty as Palin.
2. She is a lawyer, daughter of Immigrants.
3. She is Hispanic.
I don’t believe Romney lost because he is a RINO. To me it’s demographics with more and more free loaders that won it for Obama and the Dems and this trend will continue for the distant future. That being said there is no excuse anymore for not running real conservatives. We have yet to try that approach.
Foreign policy was the top issue with only 2% of the public. Dwelling on it would have sounded like a clanging cymbal to the rank and file and, in addition, would have given Obama another chance to beat his chest about killing OBL.
In addition, Romney did not want to risk the chance that the media would turn the Benghazi thing into a Petraeus vs. Romney thing (Petraeus was reciting the video line).
Romney was no slacker...he fought very hard for the Presidency. I think most people recognize this although you apparently don't.
The reality is that the GOP must lead on an illegal immigration solution and not follow.
As long as there is no movement, Latinos will always think the Dems provide a better chance for a deal.
Until the illegal immigration issue goes away, there are many more yesterdays in our future.
Romney surprised me in the 1st debate when he came out punching. Impressive.
To beat the dirty democrats, we need a street fighter, someone who is not afraid to go to the mats or roll in a ditch.Sarah is her name.
She would have NEVER called Obama a ‘nice guy’ and would have HAMMERED him on the economy and especially the whole Lybia affair.
STOP TRYING TO BE ‘NICE’ to the democrats and punch them in the gonads.
Who’s the next moderate establishment Republican in line for “their turn” come 2016?
Amen, sister. Amen.
so despite all that support from Latino’s, obamugabe squeaked out an election win, receiving 10% less votes than he did last time against a candidate who received 5% less votes than the GOP candidate from 2008...in an election that brought in less cumulative votes than 2004...
does the GOP need to do a better job outreaching to latinos/hispanics/blacks?? absolutely...do they need to panic and offer giveaways based on the numbers from yesterday?? no freakin way...
also- if you thought the nation was polarized during obamamugabe’s first four years wait until we see what the next four bring, based on the numbers....
None of that matters. The fact of the matter is the majority of Americans honestly want to give socialism a shot, spearheaded by college students and minorities. Things will have to get a lot worse before they turn around.
Sorry to disagree. Her best bet for a political future is to switch to “D”. Same goes for Rubio. Both great people, but unless they put on a Santa Claus beard, the D’s won’t vote for any “R”...race be damned.
Soul searching? I just saw a note that undecideds broke 15% for Obama after he looked so caring after Sandy. Let the voters get the spanking they voted for its been a long time coming.
Nothing that yet another move to the left won't cure, eh, Hudak?
Count me out. Romney was a bridge too far for me and if the Republican Party thinks the way to recover from McCain and Romney is to move even farther to the left, I'm sure I won't be the only one leaving.
The left and MSM doesn’t care. Palin was a reformer. All that got buried because she was a threat.
Mitt Romney had a socially liberal record and ended up having to beg for the support of social conservatives. Even, though, he eventually won many over, he still lost hundreds of thousands of social conservatives. That is the primary reason he had less votes than John McCain.
Karl Rove is no social conservative. But, he worked with Ralph Reed to build a ground game among churches and pastors that pulled out the 2004 election for Bush. Mike Huckabee won Iowa with little financial resources in 2008 by putting together a similar ground. The next Presidential candidate will have to do the same thing.
If the GOP establishment gets the wrong message and abandons social issues, though, the Republican party will be doomed to regional status and have to be content at winning in Congress and at the state level.
Agreed. A good start is to let sequestration happen, let the tax rates go up, and let the debt ceiling expire.
Romney drew first blood so no excuses. Time to get it that America land of the brave and home of the free in now Land of the depraved and home of the freebie.
There is no justification for the stupid party to exist anymore the country need a real opposition party and the republicans have proved over and over they are not it....
Time to sit back and watch the Cloward–Piven strategy work its magic.
Yep. When I brought up the issue here a couple of weeks ago, saying that Romney ought to fight by exposing the RAT party's methods AND Benghazi, the response from a prominent poster was "Winners don't do that!", to which I replied, "And winners lose." Our "Winner" lost. Could he have lost any worse, and would it have mattered, if he had tried to go above media's heads and educate the voters a little, and expose the shenanigans a little?! Nice guys finish last, the voters remain as uninformed, as misinformed as before the start of this circus show last spring. Nothing was gained and everything was lost.
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