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After Romney loss, GOP soul searching begins
cbsnews.com ^ | November 7, 2012 | Brian Montopoli

Posted on 11/07/2012 12:42:40 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

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To: Tailgunner Joe

The GOP doesn’t have a soul.

They are vacuous dirt bags...


41 posted on 11/07/2012 1:22:34 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I am so sick and tired of hearing from libs telling US what to do about OUR party..we have to adore abortion

That social conservatism was absent from the Romney campaign and that Romney had a liberal record on social issues is the reason why he couldn't win Iowa, Colorado, Virginia and Ohio.

The establishment better wake up and start figuring out that it needs a social conservatives to have any chance of winning the key battleground states.

42 posted on 11/07/2012 1:23:05 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Parmy

“This gave Obama lots of ammunition and opportunity to use against him.”

No Democrat candidate ever needs ammunition when they always have the MSM Force Field Shield!

They are impervious to facts & truth. All they need to do is to pass out freebies to the mobs, relax and let the MSM & unions do their fighting for them. When the GOP-e declines to fight, why that’s just whipped cream and a cherry on top of their fruitcake.


43 posted on 11/07/2012 1:28:14 PM PST by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So all the GOP needs is a transvestite homosexual black abortion Dr with a spanish surname for a candidate...


44 posted on 11/07/2012 1:31:17 PM PST by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Right, usually socialists are the victors of democratic elections. If conservatives wish to beat them they must become more and more socialists themselves. Democracy is self-destructing, both economically and morally. To quote a classic...

"Democracy is the road to socialism,"
Karl Marx
45 posted on 11/07/2012 1:31:42 PM PST by Lukasz
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To: BwanaNdege
I think that all of you are missing my point, respectively. i.e. The GOP are lousy salespeople. The don't, like a vacuum cleaner salesman does, get the customer agreeing with them.

They just tell the customer, us, what they believe and what we should believe.

The secret to good salesmanship is getting the customer on your side by interacting with you.

46 posted on 11/07/2012 1:35:15 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Obadiah
Women who dress up in vaginas want “free” birth control paid for by me so they can spread their legs whenever they are in heat and have an abortion if necessary. Anyone who dare speaks against this, or suggest modesty or self restraint is anti-woman and will never get their vote. KEEP YOUR STINKIN’ VOTE.

AMEN!

Let them remain in their natural habitat, the democrat party - the party that boos God and caters to vice and stupidity.

47 posted on 11/07/2012 1:35:32 PM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: BwanaNdege
I think that all of you are missing my point, respectively. i.e. The GOP are lousy salespeople. They don't, like a vacuum cleaner salesman does, get the customer agreeing with them.

They just tell the customer, us, what they believe and what we should believe.

The secret to good salesmanship is getting the customer on your side by interacting with you.

48 posted on 11/07/2012 1:35:38 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I do not believe the exit polls....any of them.

I firmly believe we have just been the victims of the biggest fraud in the history of mankind.

I refuse to believe that the American people were energized to vote for President Obama yesterday.

This election could be a script from a movie, therefore, I am starting to believe it was designed as such.

I think it is far more likely that a plan has been in the works to corrupt this cycle since 2010.

Multiple blue states voted for every Democrat in statewide races by a similar count as what President Obama gained in that state.

States that typically split their statewide vote went 100% Democrat for every statewide race. That can only come from straight party-line voting.

If you wanted to demoralize your opponents, and had the ability, you would arrange the votes in a few safe districts within a few states to overwhelm the other party’s safe districts, regardless of turnout.

Then, you would ensure the exit polling contradicted everything your opponents believe, everything they expect and everything they support.

At that point, your opponents would turn on each other, re-think their beliefs and dissolve into irrelevance.

Who would have thought that four years ago, the United States would elect a man who served only 40 months in the US Senate to the White House? Who would have thought his background, his history and his performance would be protected, minimized or dismissed over the course his first term?

If an evil alliance of socialists and islamists really exist in our world, could they have engineered such events?


49 posted on 11/07/2012 1:36:58 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Oh goody! Another group to whom to promise freebies paid for by confiscating white money!


50 posted on 11/07/2012 1:38:47 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Demographics might have given the resident a less fullsome reelection. I’m sure the Democrat machines in the dense population centers cranked out fraudulent votes as quickly as they received reports from Republican polling stations, but the growth of what were minorities, legal and illegal, probably will combine into a “checkerboard majority” for some years. What’s truly sad is that they’ll be the first to taste the bitter fruit nourished by B Hussein’s insane policies.


51 posted on 11/07/2012 1:49:42 PM PST by Grampa3711 (Some people bring happiness wherever they go; others, whenever.)
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To: AFreeBird
So, who’s next on the GOP-E’s Russian roulette carousel?""""".......

CHRIS CHRISTIE who else? After all he has a photoop now with Obama that will drag him to victory in 2016. He is the next GOGE prima donna, after all it shows he can cross the isle./extreme sarcasm.

Remember this one: FNC talking heads....MITT ROMNEY IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN BEAT OBAMA?.......

52 posted on 11/07/2012 1:53:18 PM PST by annieokie
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To: NoLibZone
"Soul searching ie move to the left is what CBS means. America has tipped."

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Freerepublic has also tipped. The vast majority of FReepers demonstrated that their supposed conservative principles are disposable when inconvenient when they went all in for a flaming liberal.

Party over principle has ruined/destroyed the GOP and it is killing conservatism.

Conservatism is dead in the GOP, let's not let it be dead on FR, it is our only hope.

The GOP has failed us beyond repair and must be replaced.

It was a close race and if those who did not vote or went 3rd party are pulled in, or things get so bad liberals will pull their heads out, conservatism can tip the nation back.

I've not given up on conservatism. I am a conservative, I can do no other.

53 posted on 11/07/2012 1:58:46 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
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To: NoLibZone

I think you are correct. I think a majority of people have been dumbed down to believe that the government is the best solution to giving them things. I also believe that a majority of the people have been taught to lead with what they “feel” rather then lead by core values.

If the GOP decides to change it’s core values and try to win people by making them “feel” good, then they just become the Democrat party and lose even more true conservatives.

At least there are a few states that will function in a conservative manner, but how long that will last is unknown (how long can they survive if federal funds are held back). In the mean time I guess we become the Divided States of America.


54 posted on 11/07/2012 1:59:21 PM PST by ScubieNuc (When there is no justice in the laws, justice is left to the outlaws.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

*Straight* (i.e. legitimate) party line voting wouldn’t have yielded what began happening as last evening progressed, but I do accept your premise: we got bated by masters.

Worse is that many Dems voted as socialists, unaware that “leaders” of their “movement” are marxists, not socialists foolish enough to enlarge government until it collapses under its own weight, but bosses who will pull power to themselves until their inescapable paranoia sets them at each others’ throats.


55 posted on 11/07/2012 2:04:52 PM PST by Grampa3711 (Some people bring happiness wherever they go; others, whenever.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I suggest listening to Luntz on Hannity today if you can get the transcript. He made a lot of sense to me and it doesn’t require you to give up being a conservative. It may require getting rid of the Millionaire club Republican Rinos. That should be a pleasure to most of us.


56 posted on 11/07/2012 2:05:31 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: AFreeBird

BooHoo Boner, is the worst that I can think of unless it’s Mitch the mundane.


57 posted on 11/07/2012 2:07:52 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The game has obviously changed. How much candy does a party have to dangle before a constituency group in order to get them to sign on? Whatever happened to, let's march forward together for the future of our children?
58 posted on 11/07/2012 2:12:32 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Marco Rubio, hey what? Ryan’s a great guy. He’s just another white boy who does good, while Mr. Rubio is a guy who is exceptional. Either was a good choice. Mr. Rubio would have been better. There are Latino people here in Arizona who would have voted for Mr. Rubio. Now I KNOW that makes too much sense for the Republic leadership.


59 posted on 11/07/2012 2:12:42 PM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine .)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The game has obviously changed. How much candy does a party have to dangle before a constituency group in order to get them to sign on? Whatever happened to, let's march forward together for the future of our children?
60 posted on 11/07/2012 2:12:54 PM PST by Ciexyz
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