I was one of those Marines, omega4179, and you are right. That said, I still love Ronald Reagan to this day. Reagan was not perfect, but he was the right leader to pull us out of the malaise of Vietnam, Watergate and Jimmy Carter. Fortunately, 1980 America recognized him as the man of the hour.
I agree with Ann Coulter that Mitt Romney was NOT the problem this year. If Romney failed to attract and motivate Conservatives who failed to show up against Barack Obama, that just proves that the real problem lies with those so-called "Conservatives" and not with Mitt Romney. Those indolent dumbasses deserve whatever they get for their stubbornness, but we'll all pay.
It is my sad conclusion that not even Ronald Wilson Reagan would have won this year. 2012 America has gone on the dole, and now prefers Santa Claus to freedom and solvency. As Rush Limbaugh concluded last week (and I paraphrase): "We have passed the point where words and ideas can save us; we have now reached the point where only events can save us." Cataclysmic events lie ahead...
The worst part is Reagan could never have been allowed to be the nominee by the elite running the Republican Party today.
Plenty of FReepers are still in denial on this point. The national mentality has shifted under our feet. It will take a crisis and will be devastating if not downright fatal.
Romney was the problem, he got about the same turnout as in 2008, he INCREASED his Evangelical vote, the most conservative of all voters, to 79%.
What the disaster called Romney also accomplished was to leave millions of votes on the table, by not being able to persuade any of the millions of the Obama voters who stayed home, to vote against what Obama had revealed himself to be.
Reagan would have rolled up this Jimmy Carter the second, by a landslide, Romney has always been a terrible candidate, for his entire 20 years of campaigning, and the Reagan hating liberal never belonged in the republican party.
Him becoming a republican presidential nominee is one for the history books.
Those indolent dumbasses deserve whatever they get for their stubbornness, but we'll all pay.
Bull crap!
It WAS Romney!
He was NOT electable and to TRY to blame THIS conservative indolent dumbass just pisses me off!