We have to figure out how to get more into our belief system. Not going to get there being exclusionary and blaming everyone of the change in our world. It is what it is. We can't change it till we get back in power. We can't get back in power till we change something about the way we do things, such as run campaigns.
“Romney didn’t lose it, Chris Christie didn’t lose it. We just have to face it there is not as many of us conservatives as there are of them. Until we change that we will always lose. Past electoral history backs that up, as doe logic.
We have to figure out how to get more into our belief system. Not going to get there being exclusionary and blaming everyone of the change in our world. It is what it is. We can’t change it till we get back in power. We can’t get back in power till we change something about the way we do things, such as run campaigns.”
I’m just annoyed with the talking heads. I bought their garbage hook line and sinker, and now I’m disgusted.
I agree with you completely that it’s come to a point where there are more takers than makers. The problem is, there is no going back. We’ve jumped out of the plane, and we’re just going to pick up speed until we hit the ground.
It’s out of our hands.
I think Obama won it more than Romney lost it simply by his nature as an American idol celebrity candidate that has a built-in base of dumbass voters. And also by his micro-targetted marketing of different messages to different demographic groups, mostly a variety of negative attacks on Romney.
A better candidate like Newt Gingrich would have probably won the election. Romney had a huge surge in the polls when he got tough on Obama in the first debate, but then he backed off. If he would have stayed tough and been as negative as Obama through the end, he could have depressed turnout enough on the Democrat side to win.
This is ALL about the candidates and the campaigns. It has nothing to do with conservative or liberal ideology. Obama didn’t win because there are more liberals in the country. He won because his campaign successfully appealed to dumbass voters in extremely superficial and dishonest ways.
The 2010 election is more proof that this was about Obama as a personality, not about his policies. When Obama’s not on the ballot, his voters don’t turn out. It’s not committed liberals putting him over the top. It’s ignorant voters who can decide in one night whether they prefer conservatism or liberalism based on which candidate wins a debate or gives a good speech.