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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

The electorate do not want a candidate that can even br perceived to be or painted as a conservative. They would trounce the real thing. This is not 1980. Whole different country. Whole different country.Without a cultural/spiritual revolution there is no hope. We live on a country of immoral adolescents. Nobody wants to grow up.


61 posted on 11/07/2012 4:49:00 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: ought-six

The “nightmare” is, only, beginning. My longtime existing tagline rings, even, truer, now!


62 posted on 11/07/2012 4:50:40 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: ought-six

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.
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Yep and we’ve allowed them to pass early voting laws that in some states last up to several weeks just so the lazy asses can be dragged to the polls by the dems.


63 posted on 11/07/2012 4:52:29 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: ryan71

Yes, I am spent, politically.

The voters have spoken.

They decided on Obama, and that includes Obamacare, homosexual marriage, massive federal debt, crushing taxes, free contraceptives, churches dictated to about their beliefs, support of a sychophantic Left wing media and the Muslim defeat of Israel.

At least I live in a conservative state that voted for Romney. However, the 25% of the population that are African American here almost to a person voted Obama. “Schwartze Uber Alles”.

Face it, we are a minority. I believe now even Ronald Reagan would lose with today’s modern voters.


64 posted on 11/07/2012 4:54:55 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Paradox

“I am wondering about the “Mormon” thing. Perhaps voting for a Mormon was just too much for many Republicans, so they sat this one out? Curious numbers coming out of this election...”

Perhaps the Geriatric Old Plotters can run a culture of death, statist, gay activist Hare Krishna next time and do better?


65 posted on 11/07/2012 4:55:25 AM PST by Psalm 144 (See Psalm 2 for final election results.)
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To: generally
I'd rather go down fighting, than go down appeasing.

Damn right!!!

66 posted on 11/07/2012 4:57:14 AM PST by varon (Get ready for the ride of your lifetime)
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To: all the best

Yes and I don’t wanna hear from people like Rush and Levin that “the public is really conservative” uh no its not.
Clearly they’re not. It’s not just about sending that socialist bastard back to office it’s the senate and ballot initiatives that passed; pro leftest.

It’s not all of the country but it’s enough that we’ll never get states like PA, or OH back again.


67 posted on 11/07/2012 4:57:44 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I’m with you on that. My days of pledging allegiance to the flag and singing the national anthem are over.

This twisted vision of what America used to be isn’t worth fighting for.


68 posted on 11/07/2012 5:00:35 AM PST by Cato in PA (May America reap the rotten fruit of the demon seed it's sown.)
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To: generally

“It is time to run a true conservative”

In yesterday’s election, which voters would a “true conservative” have picked up that Romney didn’t?


69 posted on 11/07/2012 5:00:35 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Perdogg

I wish I had a name to offer.

I will start looking now. I’m sure there are many FReepers who have good ideas.

One essential quality for me is unquestionable eligibility. I will not support anyone whose citizenship is dubious. I don’t care how conservative or patriotic they may seem. I want a candidate who was BORN here and RAISED here. I want a candidate untainted by islam. I would much prefer someone who is not a lawyer.


70 posted on 11/07/2012 5:02:32 AM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: snarkytart

I can already hear Rush... The answer is to be more conservative because it worked for Reagan.


71 posted on 11/07/2012 5:03:27 AM PST by paul544
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To: GeronL

Whatever, whoever.... the GOP is dead by its own hand


That may be but it is for a reason and has been going this way for many years.

It may make many people feel good to think this is still a free America so they blame it on to the fact that the GOP has lost its conservatism which is true,

but the reason they have lost it is because they realize that American men are no longer men but have become just a bunch of little socialist children that do not have the gumption to work and take care of them selves.

Socialists are not going to vote for any one who thinks that government is not our mommy and daddy, the people in this country even many who call them selves conservatives are socialists and think it is the job of Government to take care of them.


72 posted on 11/07/2012 5:05:46 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: BunnySlippers

Romney was not my choice in the primaries, but I backed him 100% in the election and worked for his campaign going door to door, handing out flyers on election day, volunteering to work campaign events.

I encouraged everyone I knew to get out and vote for Romney. So he did not get a lukewarm attitude from me.


73 posted on 11/07/2012 5:07:44 AM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

When you nominate socialist light to compete against a true socialist, the people vote for the real deal every time.


74 posted on 11/07/2012 5:09:17 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
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To: Rome2000

State Governors need to stand up and call for mass civil disobedience against intolerable regulations instituted by federal apparatchiks


I agree, but can you imagine the socialists in any state voting for a governor who would do that or if one of them tried that the people in his own state would run him out of town on a rail, the American people have become socialist and will be until until all of the goodies are gone and the hunger pains start.


75 posted on 11/07/2012 5:14:38 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: ryan71; All

how so?? obama received 7 million less votes last night than he did in ‘08....George Bush received more votes in ‘04 than obama got last night...

when the GOP grows a pair and puts up a good conservative candidate they will win- plain and simple....the country is not buying what the GOP is selling because people in the party are not buying what the GOP is selling...cripes- Romney could not even pull in more votes than mclame...


76 posted on 11/07/2012 5:15:53 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Conquered? Negative. Now the insurgency begins.


77 posted on 11/07/2012 5:15:53 AM PST by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: popdonnelly

The Tea Party has been hampered by not being a “real” political party. I can only speak for myself, but I suspect there are many like me who although we are fed up with wishy-washy Republican establishment candidates, have nevertheless supported them in order not to split the vote and give the election to the Dems.

Ok, we tried that. It didn’t work. They say the definition of insanity is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

Sure we can try something entirely different and still fail. I’d rather fail in a new way than keep failing in the same old stupid way.

I will admit that I do feel an overwhelming sense of defeat this morning. I sympathize with everyone who feels beaten down and discouraged.

Losing this election is like death. And like death, we have to go through the grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Based on the posts I’ve read, most of us are in the anger or depression stage.

I can accept the reality that we lost the election. I will never accept the loss of our country. We are on life support and I am praying and working for a miracle, a cure, anything. If that means I’m delusional, so be it.


78 posted on 11/07/2012 5:17:39 AM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

I can’t understand why the GOPe ran without a plan “B”? There was such a low priority on Senate races, and now as the morning after dust settles, America looks just like it did yesterday. There is no way to hold Obama accountable for Benghazi, or Fast and Furious, or Obamacare. No way for conservatives to advance anything. Just a meek defense with the House under “Boner”. God help the USA!


79 posted on 11/07/2012 5:17:50 AM PST by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: popdonnelly

The Tea Party has not really been an organized force. That is both its strength and its weakness.

An intelligent person or group is not one that never fails. It is one that learns from its mistakes and improves.

The Tea Party is young. It’s learning. It’s improving.


80 posted on 11/07/2012 5:19:46 AM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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