I don’t blame Romney one bit. I don’t even blame Obama.
The people have spoken. There are simply more of them than us. We assumed so many of them wouldn’t vote. But they did.
The Democrats have an iron-clad coalition of blacks, latinos, women, gays, union members, enviros, atheists, and people who flat out hate Republicans and conservatives.
They have a leader they can worship and adore.
Now we know. There is no silent majority, no groundswell, no Chik-Fil-A grassroots.
We are simply outnumbered and every year that goes by the demographics get worse. So many of us assumed the turnout models were wrong. Well we were wrong.
Might as well live out your life and hope for the best. But in politics this was our last hope. We gave it our all and we simply do not have the numbers. It was close but it will never be this close again.
No, there's no silent majority eager to support a person who has demonstrated that when push comes to shove, he walks, talks and acts like a liberal. There's no groundswelling to lift up a guy who's legacy is gays calling themselves married in Massachusetts, RomneyCare abortions available for one and all, or if they held a candle's hope about supreme court nominations, they know the liberals that Mitt's nominated to the bench in Massachusetts.
I wonder, after this latest defeat, if Republicans might actually give conservatism a chance? Or will they tie themselves into the exit polling data - that's the biggest joke of all here. While Obama's done what he's pretty much done since being selected to be president - nothing - Mitt's the one who's actually done things for 'gay rights', the closest step any state took towards single payer health care... Ask a typical liberal drone, and they'll pass on the memes - Romney hates gays, wants to end abortion, blah, blah, blah.
I guess that was the overall problem here. Liberals voted against some fantasy opponent, conservatives couldn't muster up the urge to vote for who they got given as the nominee.
And before anyone tosses out this fantasy that some mystery majority selected Romney - bull. Open primaries in liberal states cut off any real chance of a conservative nominee gaining enough traction to get anywhere. IF we REALLY want a conservative nominee next time, we've got less than three years to change that primary schedule to one that favors a conservative, who will help weed out these liberals who keep getting anointed to be the 'nominee of choice.' We have less than two years to eject all the idiots Romney's brought on board as state chairmen, and replace them with those who support conservatives.
There's a huge amount of work ahead, and a tremendous amount of it at the grass roots local level, isolating the RINOs and bumping them out. Of getting those who actually work for a living, and begging them to give up their free time to help remake the Republican party back into something conservatives can be proud of.
It means sometimes taking a step forward ourselves and tossing our own names into the ring, even if it is for trumped up positions like 'water board member.' We have to end the hold the RINOs have on the party.
Because, in the end, a week from now, every RINO's going to be parroting Linsey Graham's words of ill-wisdom - it isn't a harder position that's going to shake out some of the 90% of the black vote, or the 60% of the Latino vote... Fantasyland. Chasing after a mirage - a RINO can't out liberal a liberal, but a conservative can actually offer a choice. Time and time again I heard even those with the briefest of attention spans for politics say 'there really isn't all that much of a choice between them.' Yeah, we got stuck with a liberal, who lost to a bigger liberal. Thankfully, it was against a damn lazy liberal - time we take advantage of it.
I really can’t understand how you guys can talk like that -
look at the numbers, 1/3 of this country voted -
100 million out of 300 million! My God, there is no great groundswell for barry and his bullcra*, there were those
who didn’t bother to get off their duff and vote!
The 1/2 that did vote in this pos are the idiot hard core losers who ARE outnumbered, our side failed miserably to
motivate votes - oh, and the criminal media should be shunned forevermore.
You, my FRiend, have put up the “reality post” of the day.
My conservative credo:
“Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be”.
You may not have seen that before, but you certainly understand what it means, and what it means for us.
Take care!