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.
There were no more votes for Romney or whatever alternative you would like to have had.
There was no person who voted Obama tonight that would have voted for your preferred more conservative candidate.
Your views and my views are the minority now. You can choose to accept it or delude yourself into thinking there is a conservative grassroots still out there that sat out this election and would have defeated Obama. Your choice.
This country is on a fixed course now.
After all, it isn't like the GOP has done anything to counter the venom being dispensed by these academic parasites, like the House zeroing out funding for the Department of Education.