Posted on 11/07/2012 7:37:04 PM PST by JediJones
The very same people that have shoved Mitt McDoles down our throats for decades now will re-emerge from the ruling class to tell us that [Romney] was too conservative (I know, I laughed out loud, too)...
Romney did everything the cynical Karl Rove wing of the party says Republicans have to do to win...And he still lost.
Perhaps if Romney had gone after the president...on Benghazi the way he went after Gingrich and Santorum...he wouldn’t have lost.
[Obama] embraced his base, even on social issues....The progressives cast a vision that took more than one election cycle, followed it through, and won. They never detoured no matter what the facts were on the ground...
We no longer have a country that accepts many of our premises, so we have to go into evangelism mode. That requires a relationship and trust...it’s hard to build that rapport with people while demonizing them.
We are losing [young voters] by trying to win them over to...Judeo-Christian morality, personal responsibility, limited government... They've been educated in an environment that makes these values foreign to them. It will only get harder to win them over as they get older.
Solutions trump values every time because people always vote out of vested interest.
If 40 years after Roe v.Wade the culture doesn’t believe my own family line conceived in horrific and traumatic circumstances has the right to live, then we have lost the most crucial moral debate of this age and need to completely re-evaluate what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.
I remain optimistic....Providence has allowed us to live in a nation where we can control our own destiny,and we can do so again if we have the same courage of conviction demonstrated by past generations that gave us the freedom and liberty we currently enjoy.
(Excerpt) Read more at stevedeace.com ...
Perhaps if Romney had gone after the president...on Benghazi the way he went after Gingrich and Santorum...he wouldn’t have lost.
He didn’t do that because he and Obama are comrads.
Every senior I know (and I know a lot of them from the senior golf league) who voted for Obama had this main reason...they all believe Obama will look after them better than Romney. Old fools! But I have given up arguing with any of them. You can’t teach an old cow a new trick as they say.
Perhaps if he did this or he said that..you know what? Good luck with Obama.
Perhaps if Romney had gone after the president...on Benghazi the way he went after Gingrich and Santorum...he wouldn’t have lost.
Maybe! It depends on the MSM covering it!!! It is hard to beat Santa Claus as Rush said today!!! Young people and certain other people want free stuff. They really don’t care who pays for it since our school system has dumb down our kids so they don’t like hard work anymore. When I was a kid I worked picking berries and Beans in the summer. Now it is against the law for kids to work on farms.... they sit home all day and play video games!!!
“Perhaps if Romney had gone after the president...on Benghazi the way he went after Gingrich and Santorum...he wouldn’t have lost. “
Yes he would because the high maintenance perfectionists would find another reason to let Obama win.
I thought that 5 or 6 people ran for the nomination in the primaries and that Romney won.....how did anyone ram that down your throat
It doesn’t really matter.
What happened has happened, and what’s going to happen is going to happen.
The die has been cast and we are in for bad times.
The problem is that Evangelical voters did not turn out to vote on Tuesday, and this has become a persistent problem for the GOP since 1992 (2004 being the possible exception). You would think, of all elections, this would’ve been the one to vote in - but many of them chose not to vote rather than vote for a Mormon. GOP will probably abandon some social issues that Evangelicals hold dear as a result. Evangelicals will complain loudly but no one will listen, because their bark is always worse then their bite. Social issue conservatives face a bleak future indeed.
Well then, the evangelicals deserve what they get, which is to be ignored.
The world is run by those who show up. Staying home and complaining about a “cultist” running for the office isn’t going to win anything... because guess what?
This country is going to elect a Mormon a heck of a lot sooner than they’re going some of these unctuous, sermonizing whinges.
I personally think we should send them packing; Evangelical zealots are killing the GOP and doing so quite well.
Romney could not have done anything to change that. Also, Romney was no Bob Dole (as many others have already noted).
Can you link me to an article with some facts about evangelicals not voting in this election?
The Social Agenda as you call it doesn’t feed my family. But i guess that is the difference between the two of us. You apparently can exist on morals; my children are not so fortunate.
Did that help him in his run against Clinton?
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AllPolitics, Oct. 16) -- In their final face-off before the Nov. 5 election, Republican Bob Dole criticized the Clinton Administration's ethical lapses and what he called "scandals almost on a daily basis,"
Apparently Americans for the most part don't care about integrity, morality or honesty.
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