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Vanity: GOP had its chance. Time for the TEA Party in 2016.
self | Nov. 7, 2012 | generally

Posted on 11/07/2012 4:02:34 AM PST by generally

The Republican party has put forth candidate after candidate who is a moderate appeaser. How's that been workin' out for ya?

It is time to run a true conservative.

The GOP keeps telling us that we will split the vote and lose if we run a third party candidate. Well, we didn't and we lost anyway.

I'd rather go down fighting, than go down appeasing.


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To: generally

I cannot wait for Akin to run for president! He’ll be so great. We’ll forget the establishment, and pick a grassroots candidate instead, because then, there will be a much better chance for victory! I mean, it’s not like the “Mr. Grassroots (WE DON’T NEED THE ESTABLISHMENT!)” candidate just lost to one of the weakest senators in history, who had voted for Obamacare against the wishes of her state, and who had funneled federal money to her husband. Our guy won, right?


21 posted on 11/07/2012 4:14:01 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: generally
We can blame Rush Limbaugh.
We can blame the Republican Party.
We can blame the LSM.
We can blame Mitt Romney.
We can blame the Washington Redskins.

WE LOST.
We lost because we now have over 50% on the dole and will vote with the LIBS.
It is as simple as that.
Yes I was wrong. I guaranteed a Romney win. I did not realize how many stupid liberals we had. .. . .

22 posted on 11/07/2012 4:14:14 AM PST by DeaconRed (Kenya village will not get their idiot back. . . .)
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To: ryan71

I truly beleive this was it. My God the last 4 years was bad enough. The next 4 is going to be a nightmare.


23 posted on 11/07/2012 4:14:19 AM PST by waxer1 (A Republic if you can keep it--Benjamin Franklin. Well we lost it.)
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To: MRadtke

Women protecting their right to kill babies won it for Obama.


24 posted on 11/07/2012 4:14:38 AM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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To: generally

because manipulating the primary system to prop-up fringe candidates who can’t defeat weak incumbents has worked out so well so we should continue it?


25 posted on 11/07/2012 4:14:54 AM PST by newnhdad (USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: gramho12
I am not a quitter but I have fought a good fight, and realize that there are not enough people in this country that share my ideals.

For everybody that is still raring to go. Have a few more babies and raise them to "share your ideals".

26 posted on 11/07/2012 4:16:15 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: generally

Whatever party the conservatives use, as long as there is widespread cheating and undercounting of conservative votes, theen there is no winning.

NONE.

The electoral process is broken and is hijacked. And we ignore it.


27 posted on 11/07/2012 4:16:55 AM PST by Chickensoup (STOP THE GREAT O-PRESSION TODAY!!!!)
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To: MRadtke

“It’s not that Romney wasn’t ‘Conservative’ enough. The freeloaders dominate the electorate.”

That’s a fact. We reached the tipping point, and the new reality is that the users and takers outnumber the producers and makers. The transformation from a constitutional republic to a socialist nanny-state is complete.


28 posted on 11/07/2012 4:17:54 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: generally
The reason Obama was reelected was because no American has felt the pain yet of paying back the debt. Wall street is still going strong because they know that QE 4 is still in the mix.
I say we collapse the system. Go apply for everything government offers if you possibly can.
Nothing will change if everyone is fat and happy.
Teach your children manners and morality. Teach them there are evil people in this world and raise them accordingly.
Don't let your children join the military even if you believe it is the right thing to do. We have a president who won't watch their back. Don't let your children be put in that situation and end up dead.
When people have had enough they will react.
Keep up the good fight. It has just begun.
30 posted on 11/07/2012 4:18:21 AM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: newnhdad
who can’t defeat weak incumbents

...or even win their own home states:

Massachusetts
Michigan
Wisconsin

31 posted on 11/07/2012 4:18:50 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: Paradox
I think the bigger issue is that a lot of conservatives simply saw through Romney because he was so transparent. It's hard to convince principled conservatives about the urgency of your cause when the candidate the so-called "conservative" party nominates has a well-documented track record of supporting nearly everything in his opponent's agenda anyway.

Hell -- look what happened right here on FreeRepublic. I understand why he did it, but the founder of this site was adamant that he'd never support Romney as recently as a few months ago. Most people here fell into line down the stretch, for obvious reasons ... but the tightening of this race in recent weeks (since the first debate, really) helped mask the fact that a lot of Romney's support was lukewarm at best.

32 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:04 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: generally

Conservatives stayed home.
60M for McCain, 56M for Romney.
Sarah would have won in a walk.

IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.


33 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:09 AM PST by Flintlock (PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
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To: Paradox

I’m not even sure we didn’t win! How’s about that?


34 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:12 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: lucky american
We have a president who won't watch their back.

But he has ensured that there will now be loathsome people in the military that will take lecherous interest in their backsides.

35 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:29 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: generally

Still waiting for a name.


36 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:35 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: popdonnelly

If we can’t get better representation than Lugar for the GOP from Indiana, the GOP does need to go into the dustbin of history.

I only know of Mourdock’s extreme faux pas late in the campaign and see that you’re from Indiana. I’d be curious, what else (yes, I know, otherwise how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln) made him a bad candidate?


37 posted on 11/07/2012 4:22:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: popdonnelly

I am from Indiana, and Mourdock was a poor candidate. He was a very unappealing candidate in many ways. He lost because he beat Lugar, but I suspect he beat Lugar because Dems voted for him in the primary. They then trapped him on the abortion-rape issue because they knew it would work. Same thing as Akin.

Tea Party shot itself in the foot by getting off the original message.


38 posted on 11/07/2012 4:23:27 AM PST by dforest
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To: DeaconRed

You are exactly right, it really is just that simple. It is the American people, nothing else.


39 posted on 11/07/2012 4:24:51 AM PST by Reddon
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To: ryan71
Unfortunately you're right. If someone most people consider a moderate and other people consider a liberal can't win against the party of ‘free stuff’ how on God's green earth can someone who is more conservative than Romney win?

The only way Republicans can ever win again is to find someone that will lie to the people out of both sides of their face and their ass, promise the moon to them and then do the opposite if he gets elected. Controlling the media would also be necessary.

40 posted on 11/07/2012 4:24:56 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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