The blame game begins, and early.
agree with this 1000%....this goes for most of the senate races the GOP has blown this evening as well...
I dont fault Romney for what is happening here..Bill O Reilly is a douche bag he is absolutely right about one very important thing..America has changed..its not the country that it once was..its all about FREEBIES instead of FREEDOM..when you have half the country collecting some kind of Govt assistance, your pretty much screwed. Its time to face the facts that America is now no different than Cuba, Venezuela, or Greece
The feckless fool Mitt Romney is to blame. Any chance we can now stop listening to “conservative pundits” like they know something? Probably not. Conservatism is a frog on a slowly warming hot plate.
Well, now those voters will see what a real Depression looks like.
When given the choice between socialism and socialism light, the voters choose socialism.
Obama took the '47%' tape and beat the hell out of it.
Mitt needed to do the same thing, and he didn't...with any of Obama's gaffes...
Forget blaming Romney. A majority of voters just chose a communist dictatorship.
Prepare for resistance or martyrdom.
ROMNEY DID HIS PART.
It appears voters FAILED to do theirs. Clearly the country is somewhere else from where conservative mythology would have you believe.
For years I've said if he were John McCain or John F Kerry, reelection would not be in the cards but Obama's "historical nature" was a grand wildcard.
I heard someone say at work if we can suffer eight years of Bush we can suffer eight of Obama. Of course that's entirely naive and deeply moronic but the people who live and breathe politics and news analysis don't have votes that count more than those who don't.
There are rumors my employer will follow Darden Restaurants (Red Lobter's owen) and cap all hours at 29 per week in response to ObamaCare starting in January. People who count on working "as needed" by the operation to survive and already struggle will find themselves drowning.
If the GOP couldn’t beat this guy with all the money and allies it had it needs to die. As quickly as possible. And allow a functional party to replace
it.
I know exactly what Rush Limbaugh will say about this failure: once again, the establishment Republicans pushed a candidate who wasn’t conservative enough.
Mitt Romney is socialism lite. He never governed as a conservative.
Too bad we didn’t have Sarah Palin.
That’s not my interpretation.
Romney could not possibly have tried harder, or collected more money, or had better marketing experts and consultants. (Who else would you have liked to have on board to run his campaign? Name some names.) He could not possibly have generated more energy or enthusiasm—if you doubt that, look at the tens of thousands who went to his rallies, or crowded signs all over the US, or the thousands who have been standing out in the cold for three hours in conservative areas of Virginia for a chance to vote for him. We could not have done more.
And yet it wasn’t enough.
Even though almost fifty percent of the voting public were excited about a Romney-Ryan victory, even though most of the Democrats were desultory about their support of Obama, Obama has won. Though people could look around them and see the evidence that Obama is leading this country to total ruin, they allowed themselves to be led by the mainstream media and their own fundamental witlessness.
We can’t do better. There is no candidate we could have run who would have garnered more votes or looked better or sounded better. If we can’t win with all this money and support, or with the incumbent showing up for his first debate in a stupor, we can’t win ever.
So this nation is simply going to head down the road toward perdition. I don’t see that there is a solution. God has answered our prayers, “No,” and what recourse do we have beyond Him?
Republican gurus allowed Democrats to get away with bald-faced lies about what caused the Democrat-inspired economic crash in 2007 and 2008. EXIT POLLS RIGHT NOW are showing that a majority of those showing up to vote blame the bad economy on George Bush. “
This is a lie that needed to be rebutted again and again.
Democrats ran the Congress when the crisis hit, they passed CRA and blew the housing bubble earlier, stopped oversight of Fannie and Freddie, and talked down the economy at the worst time.
we need a political renaissance with minority voters who are already socially conservative and pro-gun. We need a Latino Rush Limbaugh, a Latino “Archie Bunker” and a Latino Ronald Reagan (Rubio).
There are Torah codes that indicate Obama will defeat Israel and it will be their own fault.
Jews helped elect Obama.
I don’t fault Romney. Obama truly stole this election. Romney couldn’t overcome the margin of stealing.
“The dog catcher could beat Obama!”
“The DOG could beat Obama!”
“A ham sandwich could beat Obama!”
So was the rhetoric around here for the past few years.
What the heck happened?
I’ve said what you’ve said for years. A pubbie candidate has to explain things to the electorate who are usually misinformed or outright ignorant. Merely stating that he could do better than Obama begged the questions: why and how? Every Pubbie candidate should be, like Reagan, and educator and an attacker. Reagan hammered liberalism at every opportunity. There is no room for squeamish Pubbies afraid of offending indys or minorities. Tell it like it is. Romney didn’t.
Obama did and won.
Feels good doesn’t it?