Hoorah!!! Akin/Mourdock-2016
I’m concerned that only some sort of national tragedy in grand scale can shake masses of Dem voters away from their Dem umbilical cord. I don’t blame Romney all that much—he did good enough for normal Americans to support him.
Are you freakin kidding me? Romney did a great job. It’s the lazy pouting dumbass conservatives fault we lost. They sat around on their fat stinky patootiees at home pouting because he was a “rino”, so instead a die hard commie is continuing in office
I despise them and their purity. FU conservative nincompoops You did this
Our goodies will never match their goodies.
“paint himself as a centrist”?
You mean he tried to pretend to be a conservative
Romney did an excellent job. None of the 9 primary Pubbies could have won. Can’t beat Obamaphone Trojan women!
“Romney took all the right stances,no question. The problem was not communicating them on the national stage with President Obama,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser,the head of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.
I wonder which candidate Marjorie thinks would have communicated the positions better in the debates?
Christine O’Donnell ‘16
Everyone is an expert.
I am in!
Enough with the America-last compromises of the sell-out America right.
America first.
Romney was like a General who makes a breakthrough, but fails to consolidate and press the advantage. After the first debate, Romney had the 0bama campaign reeling, but then he pulled back and started to play it safe. He was the victim of faulty intell in that the pollsters told him he was ahead in areas where he really wasn’t. I wish he’d hit Hussein hard on Benghazi - the end results might have been the same, but 0bama would be in a corner and the public would know.
Romney was like a General who makes a breakthrough, but fails to consolidate and press the advantage. After the first debate, Romney had the 0bama campaign reeling, but then he pulled back and started to play it safe. He was the victim of faulty intell in that the pollsters told him he was ahead in areas where he really wasn’t. I wish he’d hit Hussein hard on Benghazi - the end results might have been the same, but 0bama would be in a corner and the public would know.
I thought it was kind of screwy that RINOS thought Romney could beat Obama. Not inviting Sarah Palin to speak at the RNC was a big screw up also, she could have rallied everyone together. Then when I heard Romney say he was going to "reach across the aisle" to the libtards.......
“They didn’t see a clear distinction so they went with what they know,” she said of voters. “
This is precisely what happened. I had a lot of friends who were of the opinion that “both sucked anyways” so they just voted for the incumbent. Its disgusting. If my choice was a guaranteed “4 years of hell” or “4 years of not sure”...I’d chose “not sure” every time. Atleast there is the hope of success.
Now I note that the self-appointed True Blue Defenders of Conservative Principles on this forums are declaring war on anyone daring to assert that Romney ran a half-decent campaign.
“He said the lesson on Romney’s loss to President Obama on Tuesday is that the GOP must “never again” nominate a “a big government established conservative for president.”
That lesson should have been taken to heart after the big government debacle that was the Dubya Administration.
Reading the posts on threads like this proves that Mitt’s liberalism was just right for some of our more liberal freepers, they really do support the anti-conservative wing of the GOP and Mitt’s lifelong agenda of taking down conservatism.
So.....after reading all the replies (so far)in this thread, it just served to piss me off.
Romney had his chances. I was FURIOUS after watching the third debate, watching him let opportunity after opportunity go by to eviscerate Obama, and was very vocal about it here on FR (for which I was almost universally chastised).
I think Mitt’s a good man, an honest man. I’d do business with him in a heartbeat, and on a handshake.
He was still a weak candidate against a raving, Muslim, Socialist lunatic like Obama.
I’m 30 years in high tech sales and marketing, so I freakin’ well know a little about positioning and differentiation, thank you VERY much.
The original article above, and the quotes therein, is dead on. We needed a true Conservative, or one willing to adopt and espouse true Conservative principles and values....sans the MSM hype and bullshit....to draw a CLEAR distinction between voting R or D.
Romney, nice and good guy that he is, failed to do that.
Add to that the obvious: a MSM hell-bent on getting their fellow traveler elected yet again. Wouldn’t do to let the messiah they helped create cast to the dustbin of history after one term, right? Besides, these sick f**ks actually agree with him.
Face reality, boys and girls. We’re now a country dominated by takers. They actually have the right to vote, although not a damned one of ‘em who doesn’t pay FEDERAL income taxes should be allowed to.
We need to take over the RNC and turn it into what it should have been for the last 30+ years, and the Tea Party is probably just the right structure to do so.
They’re being realists. Throw rocks all you want.
Whatever. They gave the same speech four years ago. Didn’t stop romney’s nomination. The establishment will make an alternative good choice toxic or the grassroots will either pick someone toxic or divide between several candidates. End result the establishment will get their choice and then conservatives will fall in line, well some of them anyway, like they always do and we’ll be told the survival of the republic depends on us holding our nose...again. And as for “Tea Party” candidates holding the line...LOL Get back to me when they stage a coup against Boehner. Until then it’s all talk.
Yeah, I’m cynical. Used to be passionate and optimistic. the GOP destroyed that and quite honestly so did conservatives. Just as many conservatives have sold out as the GOP operatives. Four blasted years, or 8 if we go back to Bush, and conservatives still are screwing around and can’t select a credible conservative alternative to unite around? It’s all about petty bickering and one’s pet issues with no regard to the wishes of as many conservative coalitions as possible
Obamacare is what really got people fired up for the 2010 midterms. Unfortunately, Romneycare made it impossible for our candidate to exploit that dissatisfaction.