Posted on 11/07/2012 11:02:16 AM PST by EveningStar
Stop the circular firing squad. I’m here to tell you it is not only crazy, it is counterproductive.
No, Mitt was not the man we wanted. Yes, he was shoved on us by the establishment. But he was the best candidate we could have this year, and he campaigned well. He campaigned like he wanted it. Unlike McCain, he deserves our thanks, and a place as speaker at future conventions.
Why did we lose then?
Let’s start with the media...
And all of my libertarian friends who think the problem is that Romney didn’t say he was okay with contraception and abortion — since when was contraception and abortion part of the campaign? The Republicans campaigned on the economy. Contraception and abortion were the media’s theme, introduced in the Republican primary. It was never in doubt that it wouldn’t be outlawed — a president can’t do that.
And yet even our side thinks that’s what it was about, and tears into each other over it...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I agree! In my mind, if Christie hadn't kissed Bowbama's arse so hard after Sandy...uh, never mind!
Thanks, Mitt!
And the socons can stop whining, too, that if we’d only had a true conservative … I will tell you right now, I’d have voted for Santorum only because I’d have voted for Satan himself against Obama. I can’t imagine a worse combination than someone who wants to regulate both my private life and my economic life. And I’m a conservative and I am, for the record, pro-life (I am an abortion survivor and wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been botched. You want to fight over it, libertarians, go right ahead. I’m fairly sure I’m a person even if mom would have preferred I weren’t alive — and had actual good reasons for it having to do with her health.) and very iffy on contraception due to my distrust of all unneeded chemical tampering with the body.I disagree with this.A “true conservative” candidate would not have a snowball’s chance in hell. Reagan, even, wasn’t that. No. I was alive then. Go look it up. He was conservative where it counted, which was fixing our economy and defeating the USSR. That’s it.
I agree with the PJ’s. Mitt worked really hard. And the media was all against him. They are in full cover up mode for Benghazi and they refuse to report what the folks who were hit by Sandy are STILL dealing with.
We are now dealing with a Democrat state run media. Not even Fox is centrist. They are more Dem than Republican. But the rest are so wacko liberal that Fox looks centrist.
When you have an idiot who is the face of a network (Chris Matthews/MSNBC) say he is glad that Sandy hit last week for political reasons, than you know that network a liberal hate machine.
Everytime I see an article with bad news in the future, I’m posting “It IS Obama’s Fault” under it.
In 2004, places like Free Republic saved the election from false media. It is time to step up and do it again.
>> We lost to a man who is the worst President in my life time.
Not only in your life time, but in anyone’s lifetime.
I wanted Sarah Palin, then Herman Cain, Then Newt Gingrich, Then Rick Santorum, Then Mitt Romney.
Now I want to get rid of the GOPe, even though it may mean joining a third party made of CONSERVATIVES if one developes.
I’m not sure where the blame lies, but I don’t blame Mitt at all.
I had a fit about the GOP nominating the man, but once he was chosen, I backed him because I could not face my maker knowing that I did not do what I could to oppose Barack Obama. Mitt Romney then exceeded my expectations-- he would have been a huge improvement over Obama in most respects, and at least a small improvement in whatever was left over.
Mr. niteowl77
Thanks for saying this.
TV has been around for over 50 years now, and viewership hours are trending DOWN thanks to the internet. So there’s nothing “unprecedented” about it. In the meantime Romney didn’t inspire a lot of the conservative base, and thus couldn’t beat a guy that got 10 million votes less than last time. The way to win an election is first get your base out, and second woo the mushy middle. He didn’t do the former (2 million less votes than McCain) and subsequently any advantage he gained in the later was too little too late.
That is it. Start to finish. And unless we find away to remedy that situation we may be a one-party country from now on.
The first one to blame is ALWAYS the candidate. His SOLE job is to earn votes, when he doesn’t he failed. There might be extenuating circumstances, but the job is the job, and the situation isn’t that much different than Bush faced and he won. It was a winnable election, there was no LBJ dragging Kennedy’s corpse around, Romney faced an unpopular president with an unpopular agenda that lost 10 million votes in 4 years, Romney lost. That’s on him. You might argue what he screwed up, but he definitely screwed up.
I think it would be a good idea for social and religious-based conservatives to form their own party. We would have a better idea of what works. Sarah would be an exceptional leader. The Republican Party was never a party involved in many social issues and that’s fine with me. I’ll stay. Fiscal conservatism fits on my plate. I hope it happens.
After years of trying to stand up to my principles and ethics in both business and personal life I have decided to embrace the 47% that truly run the country. I am in my late fifties and have to accept the fact that I need to prepare for my later years and must make my needs paramount.
No more swimming against the fetid, offal filled tide. Time to game the system.
Because failure has not only become acceptable, it is now rewarded! .
One thing about it. Obama owns it and nolonger has anyone to blame
We have too many people who have come to believe that life is “unfair” to them, that they are entitled to a greater share of the nation’s wealth, and it is the job of Government to make sure that they get it.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan do deserve our thanks.
Screw McCain. Screw Todd Akin.
Ten million fewer people showed up to vote for Obama this time than in ‘08 - he actually got fewer votes than McCain did that year - Romney lost because fewer Republicans showed up to vote this year - because while ‘rats want to win and will vote for almost anyone to do so, ‘pubs are just too delicate to engage in such nasty stuff and there is always a contingent which simply won’t accommodate to gain the greater good of election victory - so here we are and by the time Obama and his crew get done subverting our freedoms and the voting process, we very likely will never again have another chance.....
True That...Ditto’s...Well Said!
I too lay this at the feet of conservatives, when it comes right down to it, we did this to ourselves, no one is good enough, we seen this all through the primaries, which ever candidate appeared to be gaining ground, they were ridiculed and reduced for any and every reason, till all that was left was Romney, and he was opposed by so many conservatives until very end of the election process, when a few said, maybe I’ll give Romney, a little tiny acknowledgement, their timing was worthless...SHAME.
My observations from Sarah Palin’s selection to last night’s election, is that conservative no nothing about how to unite, we oppose each other as much and sometimes more than we do our democrap opponents.
This must change very quickly, as conservatives we are entirely too divided, divided we fall.
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