Posted on 11/06/2012 10:42:38 PM PST by nathanbedford
Too wordy.
It’s very simple.
Moderate to liberal GOP candidates for President don’t win.
Romney, with his horrible record as Governor and his support for Abortion and the Gay Agenda and with no clear, consistent limited government message was bound to lose.
bttt
right.
The Occupiers had their occupation. It would be a real hoot if all taxpayers showed up at the welfare offices across the nation on the same day and applied for food stamps. LOL!
This is a long game now. We’ve conceded the media, academia (including public schools and higher ed) and vast segments of the culture to the left. The same left that spent 40+ years taking over the aforesaid institutions. We need to be patient, and start immediately taking over these institutions at the grassroots.
I was trying to place the feeling and now realize its the same feeling I had when rolling up on tragic traffic accidents with death and dismemberment
really weird feeling , somber , shocked, greivously agitated , a feeling of fear
If you run a candidate who is Liberal/Left against the same - the greater Liberal/Leftist will win.
In the case of yesterday - a Liberal Democrat lost to a Marxist.
Plain and simple.
“We are running out of time . . ..”
No. We have run out of time.
Oldplayer
It is a huge loss, no use pretending otherwise.
But no one lies down and dies. That’s the biggest loss. We must fight for our country until we are no longer able. If not nationally, locally. Personally. Within the family. At the city level. Etc. We will only win if we do not give up.
Agreed.
“We’ve conceded the media, academia (including public schools and higher ed) and vast segments of the culture to the left.”
That’s right. When even conservatives send their kids to secular public schools and liberal colleges, we can’t be so surprised when they grow up to be liberals.
It also doesn’t help that election day comes right after Halloween instead of after Thanksgiving.
a tea party baby boom?
I am all in.
Are you crazy?
Look at what happened tonite to Mourdouk and Akin in heavily Republican states. We lost taking the Senate because of the “no compromise, go for the jugglar” bs you spout. Romney lost because his campaign blew and because Evangelicals did not rally behind him because he’s flipped across the map. However a too far right candidate is not going to win. Right of center yes but too far right not gonna happen. Rubio or Jeb Bush in 2016. Walsh from Illinois lost, West and Bachmann may lose. See a pattern?
I remember feeling this way under Carter. Depressed about the future of America, disappointed in our people.
Then Reagan happened and my faith in human beings was restored.
I still have that.
All we need is another Reagan.
:)
Heck, it’s been thirty years. We’re due.
When I read “the Republican Party and the future of conservatism in America” I say see ya later, the two are not the same.
This election was rigged. None of the signs were pointing to a whipping like Romney got. Michelle Bachman may lose, for God’s sake. Tommy Tompson lost after Walker won handily in a recall just last year. The turn out was heavy but there was no sign that it was 50-50. I truly believe every close state was rigged. As it became apparent I told my wife “Watch what happens. They’ll give obama some votes. Then they’ll give Romney some votes. And they’ll do this and keep it close as long as they can. Then they’ll give it to obama.”
I was sucked into the Bush 2000 phony vote fiasco in Florida. That was to make us think that every vote counts.
Then I got sucked into voting for mccain because of Palin. They needed her on the ticket to at least make it a little closer. Nobody would have believed a muslim would win that handily over a war hero.
Now I got sucked into thinking “Romney is a good man. Surely enough people will see that.” I sent him $35 two nights ago. Once again, I was fooled. It will never happe again.
The Republican Party replaced the Whigs and it has become the Whigs. The GOP has no principles except to have no principles.
If they can’t beat this America-hating tyrant in these circumstances, the Republican Party needs to have a going out of business sale and shut the doors so a real opposition with some backbone can rise up.
But then, conservatives might have a real vehicle to advance our ideas. The RINO Establishment will never permit that.
I’m not sure if you conveniently attribute the “mistakes” of Romney’s campaign in that long paragraph to others, or simply predicting the lame analyses to appear in the coming days and weeks and to freeze in history books for the foreseeable future. No matter. In my opinion, no GOP candidate could have won. It was Romney vs Obama-Main-Sewer-Media. It was Romney vs the 47%, vs the OJ Jury nation, vs Dancing with the Starlets.
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