Posted on 11/08/2012 4:53:04 AM PST by Kaslin
I gotta disagree about Romney not being willing to go on the attack. He showed no such inhibitions during the primary. I would chalk it up to a flawed strategy of thinking all they had to do was let Obama lose and they would win, along with a deliberate plan by the GOP-E to ignore the grassroots lessons of 2010. I really think they would rather lose without us than win with us - even though many Tea Party groups did try to help out in the end - but the Romney camp refused to co-opt the core Tea Party values that made them attractive to crossovers in 2010.
She’s trying to cover her a** because the bottom line is she pushed a loser.
Half the country voted for Obama because they believed he would insure their Social Security and entitlements they may need for things like Hurricanes and job losses.
The other half of the country voted for Romeny because we need jobs to support ourselves and our families. We are struggling.
Sadly the two are related. What pays for the entitlements? Taxes from people working or jobs.
To some extent people did not vote against Obama or against Romney. One worried about security and the other worried about having money to take care of their families. So sad.
Tho it doesn’t help that voter fraud happened, that the Hurricane hit many East side States (most of electorals e.g. CA is West). East side states that Romney needed votes from. It didn’t help that Obama pushed his people for early voteing whereas post Hurricase votes, absentees and election day votes, were suppressed (by the act of God), that military ballots did not show up until after the election, and we can go on.
Would it make sense that we lie, cheat, and steal for an election? Is having values more important than fighting a war with your opponent? I have no answers. I think things will have to become more bad (hitting rock bottom) before America decides it wants a change to the other party. Unfortunately for many of us. No jobs, no entitlements, and everyone loses.
If I believed in faith I would have loved to see somone like Romney appointed to economic development. Obama’s people do not understand the US economics and how to make things grow. That is the side that he is lacking. Yet we all want a great America. In the real world we work in it is believed that people get together, work together, and make it all happen. Such is life.
Taxing the “very” upper class (250K above includes many struggling small businesses) e.g. large corporations and Hollywood, music moguls etc would help. Bohener wants to look into fixing tax loop holes. That is equivalent without using the formerly dirty words “raising taxes”. But at the same time if government gets more money we need some insurance as to how the money should not be spent too. Money going to foreign countries to grow their economies even tho they did not ask for it (think Brazil), money for bailouts without promises to create jobs or to not lay people off (BofA got bailouts then laid off 40,000 people) should be on the table. The two parties need to make a deal with these in mind — my opinion.
While I agree that O’Donnell was a terrible candidate (she did, however, a great service by knocking off the RINO), she was running in a deep Blue State!
The points Ann makes aren’t relevant. She jumped the shark the day she came out defending Romneycare! Ann has NO CLUE what conservatism is. To her it’s all about GOP power at the expense of our values.
She, Drudge, Rove and the rest of those RINO clowns are NO BETTER THAN THE LEFT in this country. They prefer a slow decay of our society over a fast one. WE prefer to stop it altogether.
Ann and her ilk have successfully blurred the lines between left and right. Fortunately FREE REPUBLIC fights on!
“She is right - the 10/10 voters hoping for a perfect candidate are killing us vs the hoardes of locusts, parasites, and welfare thugs marchin to the polls.”
Romney was beyond “not the perfect candidate.” He was THE WORST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE WE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY ENDED UP WITH.
Who better to denounce Obamacare than the man who invented Romneycare!?!? Who better to rail against tax increases than the man who raised corporate taxes over and over and over again? Who better to fight for the rights of the unborn, to fight for the 2nd amendment, to fight for the sanctity of marriage than a man who has ATTACKED all 3 as governor?!?!?!
Until you people wake up and take a stand against your own party we are destined to continue the downward spiral.
If you’re willing to watch the country go down in flames while comforting yourself with the thought that “at least a republican is running things...” then I don’t know what you tell you.
Romney did stink and in retrospect I think we would have done better w santorum or newt.
And i agree w you - he was the worst possible person to make the case vs o-THUG
We don’t have to change our views on abortion. We just need to be better at hiding our more controversial views the same way democrats do with their stupid ideas.
In other words, when asked about abortion we need to say “it’s up to the states” and be done with it. The media is consciously trying to get something controversial out of tea party candidates. When will we learn?
“Romney did stink and in retrospect I think we would have done better w santorum or newt.”
Oh Newt, what could have been...
I remember Newt promising that he’d follow Obama around the country and attack attack attack! I was so looking forward to that. But we ended up with kid-gloves Romney.
Oh well. We can always just blame the tea party, right Ann?
Actually, compromise of principle is the exact opposite of what any true movement wants to do. Make no mistake, appearing to be a compromiser is the same as compromising.
You have just sent the message that your position is not defendable.
In fact, I’d argue that that movement is strongest which insists on using its most uncompromising language.
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