Posted on 11/07/2012 9:53:26 AM PST by forbushalltheway
As we all know, Barack Obama has been re-elected for a second term. Right about now, Republicans need to ask themselves, “What went wrong?” How could Obama have won? His track record was abysmal. The economy is tanking, unemployment continues to rise, civil government debt has reached a level from which we will probably never be able to recover, foreign relations in the Middle East have only become more treacherous… On almost every issue upon which Obama campaigned, he has proven worse than his predecessor. Yet he has been elected for a second term. Why?
Let’s look at the numbers. The race was almost split 50/50. Obama got less than one percent of the votes more than Mitt Romney. Of interest, libertarian Gary Johnson got right at one percent. Gary who? Right. How did a guy with almost no presence during the primaries get one percent of the votes? The only other Libertarian to get this much traction was Ed Clark in 1980 with 1.1 percent. But this wasn’t so much a victory for the Libertarian Party as it was a loss for the GOP. How did Gary Johnson get so many votes? Ron Paul. Sorry, but that’s just the truth.
Most disillusioned Ron Paul supporters chose either to not vote, to vote for Gary Johnson, or to write in Ron Paul even though such a vote would be largely symbolic. But before you start talking about how lame Ron Paul fans are, let’s really assess this issue.
Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/divided-gop-resulted-in-obama-victory/#ixzz2BYndGNka
(Excerpt) Read more at politicaloutcast.com ...
He may be right. Instead of bringing faction luminaries into the fold, inviting them to speak at the convention and treating them with respect, Romney stiff-armed them. Lots of disgruntled folks out there. He forgot that the party is a coalition and that he needs to make nice with those factions if he wants all of them to show up to vote.
Obama won because he won 80% of the non-white vote. A vote which will increase every election as the white vote shrinks. They will continue voting Rat just like they do in California which btw just elected a super majority of rats at the state level.
Alas, he starts with the hypothesis that Libertarians are just misunderstood Republicans. Actually most of them are stoners. Their natural ally is the Democrat party ~
I think the forty seven million people on food stamps had a tendency to vote for Obama.
Divide and conquer has worked for the Dems a long time.
Getting more serious a moment, supposedly the Dems now want Puerto Rico admitted to statehood.
Taditionally we've bounced one new state against another ~ got one for you ~ EASTERN CALIFORNIA, Two new Republican senators for the foreseeable future in that one. PR is competitive in a way CA isn't.
Having read the article, I’m gonna say he’s wrong. No one has a monopoly on idealism. It’s just that everyone’s ideals are different. A lot of Romney voters will stay home or vote Democratic rather than for a Mourdock because they don’t share his ideals. Ditto with Ron Paul.
Libertarian = Liberals that like drugs and guns, but don’t want to pay taxes.
Having read the article, I’m gonna say he’s wrong. No one has a monopoly on idealism. It’s just that everyone’s ideals are different. A lot of Romney voters will stay home or vote Democratic rather than for a Mourdock because they don’t share his ideals. Ditto with Ron Paul.
“I think the forty seven million people on food stamps had a tendency to vote for Obama.”...
All buy design. Redistibution doncha know to seal the deal for the little socialist.
Yep, overall turnout was down. I’m afraid many of the folks we heard here went out (or didn’t go out) and brought down Romney.
I believe Jim Robinson stated he voted straight GOP in the end. So I’ll just express my personal opinion that those who took their hatred of Romney all the way to the election, I have nothing but contempt for them.
However, it’s a free country they were free to do it and I have to confess, I think Romney ran a good campaign but perhaps a better and more conservative candidate would have brought out a stronger GOP vote.
So is there a lesson in this for all of us? Oh, I think we are all going to be getting our lessons soon enough.
One more confession. I ALWAYS vote for the republican, and NEVER vote for the more liberal democrat. That only seems to make sense to me however:
I wouldn’t piss on Chris Christie if he was on fire, he will never get my vote again and I hope to see his defeat almost as much as I wanted to see Obama’s. May he rot in political hell, let the democrats reelect him. They won’t. They have their own scumbags to run.
Didn’t the GOP convention basically outlaw the words “Tea Party” from being spoken?
Told me right there what the GOP thinks of me, my ideology, and my values. I’ve truly grown to loathe what’s become of the Republican Party. I’ve voted exclusively GOP my entire voting life, but they (the GOP leadership) obviously view someone like me more of an enemy than the Dems.
kinda ! more than likely ~ i classify liberals, libertarians and libertines in pretty much the same trick bag ~ although sometimes they’ll squeal about the company
I am not sure anything separates the GOP liberals from the DNC liberals. Arguments on how to conduct socialism and globalism; in total agreement culturally/socially.
The conservatives gave the GOP a legal/political/social voice of soul and American ideals of freedom so they could win elections; but the GOP humanists/globalists rarely embodied that voice and are mostly distainful of it.
Look folks, we lost this election and will lose every one after this because the demographics of our nation have changed (thank you Ted Kennedy). It is too simplistic to blame Romney, Christians, the Republican establishment, or anyone else other than the fact that for many years now we have been importing third worlders and the 100 year march of progressivism to replace our republic began by Woodrow Wilson has reached its fruition. Christians and value voters are now entitled to the title of “the other”. There could have not been a Republican candidate who could have wooed these masses of people. They have finally reached critical mass.
It’s bigoted defeatist garbage like this that is costing Republicans elections not Mitt Romney or John McCain or George W Bush.
Well the RINO wing of the Republican party is now 0-2 in the last two elections...and the lesson all the talking heads seem to be taking from it, Romney wasn’t liberal enough, he didn’t appeal to minorities and women. I’m not sure how much farther left there is to go considering Romney was considered about as far left as you could be and still get the nomination.
The dirty little secret is how many evangelicals sat home because they wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney simply because he was a mormon. In Virginia for instance, Evangelical voters decreased from 28% to 21% since 2008. I know some of them. I don't understand the line of thinking myself, but to them Mormonism is a cult and voting for a Mormon really was as bad as voting for a Marxist Atheist (Obama). Like I said I don't get it personally....
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