Posted on 11/07/2012 5:32:07 AM PST by SJackson
Indeed. Mitt got the most important issue wrong.
It was 50.3%, not 47%.
It was the PRESS. The PRESS is responsible for the economy not sticking to Obama, and for failing to teach. And we darn well know why.
Of course, I understand there are other reasons, but the media (including the entertainment complex) being in the tank for the Dems cannot be underestimated.
Get used to being called racist, folks.
Why are the power brokers in the GOP getting behind candidates that are unable to win even their own home states? This, to me is the ultimate political humiliation (see Al Gore 2000; failed to carry TN). Romney was never going to be able to carry MA, or even his first home state of MI. Ryan couldn’t carry WI. This was just one of the many set-ups for failure that the GOP practices. I’ve always thought that any candidate who has a solid, proven, tested-over-time campaign organization in his own home state is far and away a better choice than a shaky one-termer who was succeeded by the opposition party. Conversely, Obama carried both HI and IL, as well as winning PA and DE (Biden’s home states). Before any candidate is seriously offered up in the primaries, the party must ask itself if that candidate’s home state is an automatic win. If the answer isn’t an emphatic ‘yes’, then don’t even consider them. One of the many comments made over and again about Romney during the primaries was that “he’s the only one who’s electable”. Really? well the folks in none of his home states (MI,MA,NH,CA) thought so.
yup....the immoral majority bending to the father of lies
If the GOP wants to commit suicide I’m not going over the cliff with it.
That’s about the best description I have ever read. Exactly what has happened.
We are sadly much more closer to a second American civil war. Count on it to happen down the road.
I agree. Mitt lost on tactics, not performance. I give him high marks individually, as he was nearly error free and became very effective this fall. Tactically, they made several major strategic errors. One was assuming the base was going to show up because of Obama dislike. The campaign needed to woo the base, give a major speech on the religious infringement of the Obamacare mandate on churches. They needed to welcome Ron Paul voters rather than expel them. They needed to bring everyone in united to change course.
I have said earlier, and it sticks in my brian, there was a high level campaign guy at the convention who said their strategy wasn’t to take on Obama’s record because people know the record. They erred...and needed to hammer him relentlessly and ties poor economic numbers directly to his decisions....point to job slowdown immediately after Obamacare. Show 20 year graphs of employment to put his ‘job creation’ in perspective. Obama got away with a crappy economy, because exit polls showed he convinced the voting population that we had come a long way. We haven’t and things are going to get worse. What a lost opportunity...and one we are going to have a hard time recovering from.
Well, if that is true, then there is no hope short of a conflagration. Boehner won't do it, but maybe the House should let the US go over the financial cliff by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and making no deal with the devil Obama and letting all the Bush tax cuts expire and sequestration take effect. That should cause mass unrest. Initially that seems like it would be even worse for the GOP, but the GOP is now a spent force and Obama will put changes in place that can never be undone. Alternatively, bring down the temple and let's see what emerges.
AMEN, SOON AND VERY SOON.
A majority of voters voted for inflation, high unemployment, and jobs losses via businesses closing down. They were told and wouldn’t listen. We point it out as it happens.
The only problem with your analysis is the continued existence of the great sea of red south of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers and west of the Sierra Nevadas (minus Florida, and with a few extra states thrown in). Look at that map. In fact, break it out county by county and it’s even more stark.
The result is not that conservatism loses. It’s that conservatism loses in highly urban areas populated heavily with moochers and secularists. Conservatives win every where else.
The brilliance of the socialists is that they found a way to tilt the population balance heavily in their favor by subsidizing illegitimacy in urban areas, with the subsidies funded by the industriousness of the population in that vast sea of red.
Students of history realize that unless this changes, there will only be one eventual result: Fewer stars on the American flag.
That is not the lesson the Stupid Party is going to take from this. Next candidate will likely be even worse, like a Bloomberg.
Or Chris Cristie.
Ugh!
I agree with this article. After the wildly successful 2010 mid-terms, propelled by vigorous grassroots Tea Party energy, the GOP-E did everything it could to pour cold water on the movement, pushing it aside and basically saying “get lost, we’re the professionals, we’re in charge, we know better; you unruly flyover-country hicks.”
I’d personally love to put a dagger in the skull of the GOP-E.
Let’s look at the last three elections.
In 2008, the Republicans ran a RINO who would not press any big issues. The only traction he got was from his VP candidate. They lost solidly.
In 2010, the Republicans ran as solid conservatives and won one of the biggest victories the party has ever had. They gained over 700 seats nationwide. So what did they do next?
In 2012, they went back to the inoffensive RINO Etch A Sketch with no fixed principles and they got trounced every bit as badly as in 2008.
So whose fault is it? Why, conservatives, obviously.
The Republican Party has a virtually infinite capacity for learning the wrong lesson. it is time to put this pathetic excuse for a party out of its misery.
The Democrats and their hordes will begin to kill each other and Obama and his crowd will be as powerless in the face of such events as they’ve proven to be in Libya. He’ll let his own peeps die meaninglessly in the streets...
...okay, I think it’s time you get some sleep...
The Democrats and their hordes will begin to kill each other and Obama and his crowd will be as powerless in the face of such events as they’ve proven to be in Libya. He’ll let his own peeps die meaninglessly in the streets...
...okay, I think it’s time you get some sleep...
Who? Akin. Not tea party. Tea partiers backed the other two candidates. Akin was the southern evangelical choice.
He also beat establishment standard bearers, including two former governors in WI and VA. Also, Mack in FL.
I am not going to sit around letting people blame tea party for these losses. Tea party is what got us the Senate gains 2 years ago and strong House majority that remains intact.
This year was RNC central controlled bland messaging for our Senate candidates and somewhat for Romney...safe, poll tested stuff. It didn’t work.
Exactly. That is why that quote is my tag line. The people find they can simply take from others through legislative means and once virtues like self-sufficiency are eroded by the Welfare State, there is nothing to stop the masses from living the good life off someone else’s dime legally.
okay, I think it’s time you stop double posting...
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