I do, meaning I blame Republicans, both primary voters and the candidates who didn't run. Romney was a horrible choice from day one. The fact is our only candidate with the brains to run a good campaign, Gingrich, had too much other baggage and wasn't likable.
Paul Ryan should have run in the primaries.
We need a candidate that moves opinion to him, like Reagan did, not a candidate that moves towards public opinion like Romney tries to do.
You’re right. We need a true leader, not a good poll reader.
So, we’re going to lose. But maybe there’s a silver lining. Obama now has to face the music on Benghazi, right?
Impeachment, anyone?
“The fact is our only candidate with the brains to run a good campaign, Gingrich, had too much other baggage and wasn’t likable.”
If we were destined to lose, I’d have rather lost with Gingrich. He would have defined for history the reasons why our side is losing, and afterwards there would be no running or hiding from those truths.
I’m reading all sorts of posts here from Freepers who yesterday may have been upbeat but who are tonight being forced to see things they had either overlooked earlier or perhaps saw but refused to believe.
Some months back, many months back, I posted about how this election was going to be very close, and how it would illustrate “the Great Divide” that’s occurring in America. That this election would not serve to unite us, but instead would highlight the divisions that now have become a chasm separating one side from the other.
America is dividing, and may never be re-united again. One hopes that this might not be so, but to simply turn away and reject this proposition will eventually leave one as disillusioned as I see many here tonight.
Conservatives will soon face in America (the nation) the same dilemma that conservatives today live with in states like New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois. That is, they will be overwhelmed demographically by those of the left — to the extent that the voice of conservatism will be all-but shut out of government.
I have no answer to “fix” this, no way to easily repel the tide of history. There are at least a couple of possible pathways that might delay what’s coming for a while, but even they might not stop it.
I’m older now, my time isn’t that much longer. At least I can still recall a time when being young in America offered promise. Perhaps my growing pessimism is nothing more than a factor of my age. How does one face a dismal future?
Some years ago, I came up with something I called “The Titanic Theory”. Of course, you all know that after it hit the iceberg, the Titanic sank bow-first, and the stern rose higher above the water line. Clearly, the ship was doomed, but by fleeing to the stern one would gain at least a little more time before the end.
So it goes with the ship of state. We’ve hit the iceberg, and things don’t look good, no matter how you try to rationalize away reality.
For conservatives, perhaps the best action might be to flee to those places in America that have a chance of “staying above the water line” the longest. The places that still exist (yes, they do) where “the old ways” are still prevalent, where one might have a chance at growing older with the aura of the past around one’s self. (Aside: I was just IN one of those places this morning, but drove 250 miles home today to vote.)
And, at least for myself, I might finish out my life in such a place while the stern of the sinking ship still remains above the water line.
Thus, “The Titanic Theory”.
It’s not about saving the ship.
It’s about saving yourself.