Posted on 11/07/2012 4:49:37 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Everybody knows and everybody advances and argues their pet theory. All of them perdictable, boring and cliche ridden. Mr Ruddy should have written and published the above last weekend or earlier, then it would have been brilliant.
I’ve my own theory too, which I am not advancing and won’t argue. Everybody knows the low turnout of registered Republicans, with Romney receiving fewer votes than Juan McCain 4 years ago. What ‘appened? First, I think that Peggy Noone, Michael Barone and Dick Morris were in a way correct in their last weekend’s predictions of Romney victory. Correct in that they all expected normal high Republican turnout. What ‘appened then? Oh, did I axe that already? So sorry.
Here’s my novel theory based if not on anything else then on the observations made on this very forum. The stigma of racism. The Republican voters were intimidated by it into refraining from voting. Cannot boo a lousy black stage performer, cannot not laugh at an unfunny black comic, cannot vote against a black man speaking TV anchor English (at least when he’s not addressing homies or senile old black folks who remember being ‘colored’, ‘Negro’, ‘black’, and now must accept being ‘American-African’.) In 2008 these same voters were NOT voting against Obama, since he was McCain’s equal. Now when he’s an incumbent, voting for Romney, would be, do I have to say it? RACIST! and that is a bigger crime than murder as Mark Fuhrman among others surely knows, Shirley! The stigma of “RACISM”, an invention some have argued of Leon Trotsky.
The republicrats think tactically.
The demoncraps think strategically.
THAT is the difference. They’ve been laying the groundwork for this for about 100 years by systematically dumbing down the population and now its finally coming to fruition. It’s like Rush said today - people were voting in favor of Santa Claus and he’s hard to beat.
America as founded no longer exists except in our memories.
That was Romney's fault for having no ground game. With $1b at his disposal, he's got no excuse. Obama got 1.5m fewer votes than Bush in 2004. Freepers have also said that Romney had no ground game - Obama had paid staffers doing GOTV whereas Romney used volunteers exclusively. He should have hired Rove, the GOTV expert, as a consultant. I guess he's used to knowing everything. Sometimes being too smart is a handicap. Romney not only wanted to win, he wanted to win his way - via ad blitzes. If he had done it Rove's way, he would have won. One thing GWB had going for him was humility - not the kind where you say you are humble, but actually defer to the experts. (Of course, given GWB's sparse resume - while far superior to Gore's, Kerry's or Obama's - he had much to be humble about, relative to GHWB).
Re: “Touch it and you die.”
The problem is...
If no one touches it, America’s economy will die.
rmlew: And so they re-elected a radically pro-abortion heretic, Obama? Who are these seniles, inbreds, and retards?
No, the seniles, inbreds, and retards are the ones who fail to grasp that you get what you vote for. The only folks who re-elected Obama were Democrats and imaginary voters of fraud.
Saying that those who declined to vote for Romney re-elected Obama, is crybaby crap. The only people who re-elected Obama are the folks who voted for him, and a whole lotta them were ficticious or manufactured votes.
And they've got Republicans to the point of erroniously holding the majority of their fellow Americans in contempt for being "children" who elected "Santa Claus." The minority has the majority convinced it's powerless.
If Democrats are cheating to the degree that it seems apparent, then it means they have to generate those votes because we outnumber them.
But hey, Rush et al, you go on ahead and tell America and the world that the majority of the people with whom you share this country are that stupid, and just brush off the whole stolen election angle. If elections had been honest for the past 20 years, liberals would be much weaker.
All those vulnerabilities in Obama that Europe and the rest of the world are salivating over -- why aren't Obama's challengers in the U.S. also salivating? Because they're conditioned to cringing in fear?
Evidence abounds around us that the majority of Americans are good, smart, responsible people, if poorly informed and educated. Berating them as "children" is for the birds.
“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.”
By “shined” do you mean pump out a bunch of moderate nonsense jettisoning his prior conservative positions? Keep avoiding whats staring you in the face.
You said exactly what I wanted to say, but even better.
*sigh* Isn't it about time to go OFFENSE???
Really interesting point you make, R Cat. Probably spot on in many cases.
Thank you. How else can we explain the low turnout of Republicans? I’d like to hear.
This article is BS.
Probably put out by Romney to deflect from his own failure.
Ryan was great.
Eastwood was great.
Romney was a coward who felt he was ordained to
be a deity (like Obama); and except for one
debate was essential a wimp for the majority of the
time; defended by ... his wife.
The reason Mitt lost is because he was campaigning on jobs while what the electorate wanted was welfare. It really is as simple as that. The contrasts between the radical socialist and the moderate were stark. Yet when they had the chance, the voting public chose radical socialism.
This is not an environment where conservatism can flourish.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the mainstream media (MSM) as a major factor in this election. You can’t claim that their bias was not a major factor, can you? They whitewashed/ignored Behngazi, the FEMA response to Sandy, and Fast and Furious. And these were only the most recent examples.
I suspect you are describing a real phenomenon. There is a reason that racial preferences for blacks don't usually attract much in the way of strongly argued conservative opposition. We oppose racial preferences, but are relieved when the subject is changed. Pressing the RACISM button doesn't make conservatives jump like it used to, but it still makes some of us uncomfortable.
One thing I like about your theory is that it leaves us some hope that this is still basically a center-right country. So does my preferred theory of the reason for the disaster, though mine is much less original:
June 2012 Gallup Poll: Bias Against a Mormon Presidential Candidate Same as in 1967
10% of Republicans, 18% of Independents, and 24% or Democrats said they would not vote for a well-qualified Mormon candidate for president.
Exactly.
Wouldn’t have mattered WHO we ran against “The Giver”.
Time everyone face the facts that the majority of this country isn’t interested in jobs, the economy, etc.
Not yet, anyway. Not until we collapse and there is nothing left to give.
“America as founded no longer exists except in our memories.”
Take a look at the electoral map from yesterday. You’ll see a big chunk of America still exists, although it’s shrinking over time. The problem America is trying to drag Sodom along for the ride when Sodom clearly doesn’t want to.
Y’know, at a certain point Lot had to decide to follow God and let Sodom meet it’s fate.
“The minority has the majority convinced it’s powerless.”
While I disagree that we’re a majority I get your point. To me it seems like an abusive relationship where the abused person feels powerless to do the logical thing and simply leave.
“Not until we collapse and there is nothing left to give.”
And that is coming sooner rather than later.
Ultimately I think this ends in divorce. Perhaps before but more likely after. Take a look at the electoral map from last night and then take look at a map of the US/CSA circa 1862. Nothing much has changed.
Well, since you ask *ahem* ;^) --
I think it's because they didn't have anything to turn out for. Only "against."
I'm floored at how many FReepers still think Romney was just fine, okay, a "good man," would have made "good president." It is wholly baffling.
The low Republican turnout may really be so dirt simple as this: More Republicans than anybody thought were of the same mind as Jim Robinson once was: Screw Romney and the donkey he rode in on. What's the point of being a Republican, if your candidate's political career has been that of a functioning, highly competent liberal Democrat?
You'd hope and think they'd at least have shown up at the polls to vote down-ticket, but I can see the temptation to just blow the whole thing off. Maybe that's what happened.
One thing stood out in that link. Of those who didn’t know Romney’s religious faith in June, 29% said they wouldn’t vote for a Mormon.
Has this poll been taken with regards to Buddhists, Hindus and Mohammedans. Of course they’ve voted one of the latter ones into office not knowing he is a Muslim, and I suspect would have, had they known, only because he is a saintly ‘African-American’.
If we're not, then why do Democrats have to manufacture voters and engage in fraudulent voting?
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