Posted on 11/07/2012 3:31:00 PM PST by all the best
It was the worst of times and the worst of times.
With the 2012 election results in, there are no short- or even medium-term "silver linings" for Republicans.
President Barack Obama has won a decisive victory and the GOP, expecting to gain Senate seats, actually had a net loss of three.
The "morning after" will bring the expected explanations and after-game quarterbacking. Still, it is important that the GOP understand why we lost this one in hopes of future victory.
Perhaps the easy explanation is that two hurricanes and two betrayals by Chris Christie killed Mitt Romney's chances.
The first hurricane was Isaac, the one that skirted Tampa in late August during the Republican convention. That one seriously disrupted the official schedule.
GOP star Marco Rubio — who gave the best speech of the convention — was bumped off prime-time TV coverage, and so was the video biography "introducing" Mitt to the nation.
Aging actor Clint Eastwood was scrambled into the schedule to offer a funny but often incoherent monologue with an empty chair. He stole Mitt's show. And prime-time keynoter Chris Christie barely mentioned the nominee or Obama in a speech that sounded like the New Jersey governor was pumping his re-election.
The ground lost in Tampa wasn't regained until the first debate in Denver, when Romney shined. It was the first, best, and last time he would really sparkle.
As a result of the debates, by late October polls showed that Romney was finally beginning to see a surge.
Then the second hurricane, Sandy, struck on Oct. 29. The campaign went into “freeze” mode while Obama swung into “commander in chief” mode. Romney's surge was suddenly frozen too.
Enter Iago.
It was perfectly fine for Chris Christie to join with Obama in the wake of the crisis. But...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Which is why we will continue to vote liberal leaders each and every election. Conservatism is doomed.
“This conservative didn’t want Obama or Romney.”
Well, you don’t always get what you want in this world.
No one has mentioned the referendum on Socialized Medicine.
"I will repeal Obama Care on day one."
The Obammunist is re-elected.
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2 - The message "You are very important, get high, screw, fight amongst yourselves, music is very important, celebrities are very important, Don't worry we'll handle all the boring stuff for you" is very powerful.
Can anyone name me the last time that the less charismatic, more emotionally detached presidential candidate won? It wasn’t Kerry, Gore, Dole, Dukakis, Mondale or Bush, Sr. against Clinton...
Even Slate agrees that this campaign was not won on the issues, but was won on the fact that the “swing” voters think Obama “feels their pain” more, even though they readily admitted in exit polls that Romney’s policies would be better for the economy. That is the kind of dimwitted, mush-brained, middle-of-the-road voter that seems to always decide presidential elections, at least since suffrage.
http://news.msn.com/politics/how-barack-obama-won-four-more-years
“Romney then gets exposed as privately besmirching 47% of Americans... Romney was a horrible moderate candidate. “
The Bloomberg mentality.
Romney ran a great campaign...proud of him...
but what do you do when the election is stolen by the other party?....Soros owns the company in Spain who officially counted the votes...
I just love how so called freepers and patriots can think of nothing better to do than attack its own...
Romney was basically 24/7 campaigning ......
the votes were there and then just disappeared....
Quite true. The anti-Romney ads were run by planned parenthood (with our tax money) here in Virginia about every 10 minutes on the country music station. We had no chance once the stupid women (note there are obviously smart and stupid women just like men) got motivated to get out on Tuesday. Also several anti-Romney fliers a day in my mailbox.
1. Romney simply didn't do enough to make people excited about voting for him.
Take that simple statement, and you can translate it to any demographic group.
"A lot of middle-class white voters didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of Hispanic voters didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of Christians didn't support Romney because ..."
"A lot of strong conservatives didn't support Romney because ..."
I said early this morning that I suspect a lot of people right here on FreeRepublic -- including many who are gnashing their teeth about this election right now -- never cast a vote for Romney yesterday.
“Even Slate agrees that this campaign was not won on the issues, but was won on the fact that the “swing” voters think Obama “feels their pain” more, even though they readily admitted in exit polls that Romney’s policies would be better for the economy. That is the kind of dimwitted, mush-brained, middle-of-the-road voter that seems to always decide presidential elections, at least since suffrage.”
That’s why those GOP-e women cried and begged for Christie to run. They didn’t just want a RINO. They knew if they didn’t have a ‘dude’ they’d be in trouble.
I think there will be a backlash. I wonder how many of those millions that voted for Obamagabe are actually willing to fight for him.
Bottom line is the “swing” voters are too ignorant or dumb to really understand the issues. Their thinking goes something like this, “I don’t really know what issues are important or what should be done about them, so in my ignorance I’m just going to pick the candidate who I feel cares more about me, because I assume he’s more likely to come down on my side of whatever issue comes up.”
” I said early this morning that I suspect a lot of people right here on FreeRepublic — including many who are gnashing their teeth about this election right now — never cast a vote for Romney yesterday. “
They counted on the less ‘pure’ conservatives to do their work for them.
Upon further reflection it made more sense. Those 18-22 year-olds from 2008 -- many of whom ended up camped out at OWS rallies -- are now college graduates who haven't been gainfully employed in four years. Some of them may have voted for Romney, but I'm sure a ton of them simply sat this election out.
“Remember the way we felt on 9/11? That just how I feel now. America as a nation is no more.”
Emotionally, this is where I am and have to be....
It will take a revolution of some kind to bring this nation back, if that happens I will be there or help make it happen, but being in California, I have lost everything doubly so and there is no hope.
The simple reason he lost was because less Republicans (and perhaps Independents) voted in 2012 than in 2008.That's easy.Hard to understand why, Romney ran a much better campaign than McCain?
McCain picked a movement Conservative as his running mate. Sarah Palin galvanized the base and attracted a much higher turnout.
8 irrelevant points.......The country has passed the tipping point where conservatism once ruled. Had Reagan been the candidate, he likely would have lost too.......
There is a new voting community out there, young people who have been indoctrinated by our liberal public schools and universities, the third generation of welfare recipients, the growing numbers of environmentalists and the over powerful MSM that is now the propaganda machine for the leftist movement.
As a side note, I sincerely doubt that J. F. Kennedy would even have survived a democrat primary today.............
Our cultural and political values are shifting left and the only way a Republican will ever be able to get elected president is if we start embracing the philosophies that we are staunchly against. Then that defeats everything we stand for..........
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