Posted on 11/07/2012 5:56:55 PM PST by Libloather
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party
By Erik Wasson - 11/07/12 02:43 PM ET
Conservative leaders on Wednesday lashed out at Mitt Romney, saying his attempts to paint himself as a centrist and hide his principles cost him the presidency.
They vowed to wage a war to put the Tea Party in charge of the Republican Party by the time it nominates its next presidential candidate.
“The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today and the failed Republican leadership should resign,” said Richard Viguerie, a top activist and chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
He said the lesson on Romney’s loss to President Obama on Tuesday is that the GOP must “never again” nominate a “a big government established conservative for president.”
Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots said Romney failed to make the kind of strong case for conservatism that would have won the election.
She described Romney as a “weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the country club elite Republican establishment.”
“They didn’t see a clear distinction so they went with what they know,” she said of voters.
“It should have been a landslide if Romney had run as a true conservative,” said Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.
“Romney took all the right stances, no question. The problem was not communicating them on the national stage with President Obama,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the head of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.
Martin argued that there was no repudiation of the Tea Party by the electorate because Tea Party values were not firmly articulated.
“This is not the death of the Tea Party,” Martin said.
“Tea Partiers will take over the Republican party in the next four years,” Viguerie said.
In the meantime, conservatives will work to ensure that congressional Republicans do not compromise their principles in fiscal talks with Obama, he said.
“Conservatives and Tea Partiers are just sick and tired of Republican leaders compromising on the state and national level with Democrats that grow the size of government,” Viguerie said. “We are going to hold their feet to the fire.”
Bozell said conservative groups need to up their financial pressure on GOP lawmakers unless they agree to a series of demands, including again vowing to approve of no tax increases for anyone.
Sounds good to me. I'm with the Tea Party. Goodbye RINOs.
Bullshit.
We certainly know who did not win. And acting like Florida is the whole of the USA is presumptuous.
Hey, they would have won if the left wing media didn’t use their own words against them.
I was really hoping we wouldn't have to listen to the usual screeching post-moderate-candidate-loss recriminations this time.
Ah - So the folks that told you what would happen if he was nominated, before he was nominated, are to blame because what they said came to be.
And many of us still held our nose and voted for him.
Bite me, FRiend. You are blind because you will not see.
“I thought it was kind of screwy that RINOS thought Romney could beat Obama.”
No, they were begging for Christie. Even Ann Coulter was concerned if they didn’t pick Christie, they’d lose.
Now I note that the self-appointed True Blue Defenders of Conservative Principles on this forums are declaring war on anyone daring to assert that Romney ran a half-decent campaign.
Except if it's Ford, Carter or George H.W. Bush. Oops that three in pretty short time. BOOM goes your theory.
Those two weren't/aren't representative of the Tea Party. You know that..and the poster knows that.
Two questions.
Are you a GOP-e supporter? OR are you a Conservative supporter?
“I was really hoping we wouldn’t have to listen to the usual screeching post-moderate-candidate-loss recriminations this time.”
Then stop running moderate losers.
“He said the lesson on Romney’s loss to President Obama on Tuesday is that the GOP must “never again” nominate a “a big government established conservative for president.”
That lesson should have been taken to heart after the big government debacle that was the Dubya Administration.
While Romney was a very bad choice, he still came closer to winning than the two ham fisted recto cranial idiots akin and mourdock.
Anyone abstaining from voting for Romney this time needs to carry the water for their very own hugo barry chavez obama.
“had the republicans nominated Romney the first time around, he would be serving his second term right now. Its hard to beat an incumbant”
No, because he’d still be Richie Rich during a financial collapse after Bush vs historic first black president.
I proudly voted for Romney and would do so again. I think he was the very best candidate we had, bar none. What he did accomplish was near miraculous given the times in which we live. Virtually all the mass media were in Obama’s camp; ditto, academia and ninety nine percent of the popular culture. Today’s youth are the most impressionable in human history. Obama has always tapped into this pipeline of inept mediocrity, each being the natural manure of the other. In fact, these morons are actually intoxicated in his presence. It’s really remarkable how irrational they are. I don’t see how the Republicans can win short of trying to promise and deliver more freebies than the Dems. That would require us to sell our souls. We can’t do that. Obama is a man of the times, for the times, and that says it all. Basically, our country has changed forever. I don’t necessarily see a catastrophe around the corner but like it or not there will be a day of reckoning.
If he ran such a good campaign how come he couldn't beat McCain's numbers and beat Obama with the communist giving him a 10 million vote spread?
Right now yes, everyone is an expert. Things will calm down soon enough though.
Are you kidding I had to quit a forum I joined in 2003 because all of the Christian bashing from the libertarians after the election.
Tell the RNC.
because all you flipping purists sat on your asses whining at home while the wolf waltzed in the door. there’s a wide continuum and only one middle, but yeah, you and your ilk, the evangelicals, stayed home pouting
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