The success Romney did achieve was due to their support. Romney's loss was due to a concoction of things involving the candidate himself, his team, his strategy, and his decisions.
Christopher Ruddy is CEO and editor of Newsmax Media
Indeed. And Romney was never a conservative but a liberal, establishment GOPer. If he had won the establishment media would say “see, you don’t need to be a Tea Partier to win as a Republican.”
I’m hearing that a large percentage of middle to older aged Republicans stayed home due to fear. They pictured violence and mass riots nationwide if Obama lost.
For you who had to read only Maya Angelou in literature classes, here’s Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Booth_as_Iago.jpg
I knew I shoulda take that PhotoShop class - anybody up to putting that fat Quisling Chris Christie in this costume?
>> The GOP will learn from this debacle.
Yeah, right - just like we learned from the McLame loss four years ago.
The Tea Party is/was suppose to be about fiscal responsibility, which is what Romney/Ryan ran on. It was not supposed to be about social issues. The fact that the democrats, the media, and even some here on FR successfully hung the Tea Party on the necks of those like Akin, Murdoch, et al tells me the movement is over. This is sad because the Tea Party movement as initially established had a message that could have appealed to the Ron Paul crowd as well as a good chunk of the 18-24 contingent, but we blew it and Obama won those votes despite being the antithesis of what they stand for. Instead of fiscal issues, they voted on pot, gays, and free contraception. Time to dissolve the “Tea Party” and rebrand while ditching the social issues. They need to be addressed at the state and local levels and not the federal level anyway.
With the so-called ‘massive’ GOP voter turnout, and 0bummer getting 10 million votes less than in 2008, how could Romney have gotten 3 million less votes than McCain did? I guess the ‘massive’ wasn’t so ‘massive’, after all.
Mainly, the voter demographics have since massively changed, and not just in a ‘trended shift’. The GOP has some huge restructuring to do, to become relevant again, if ever.
Romney lost because he is Romney.
A product of a small insular group of poeple, who live in Utah.
We tried to rally the base, but fact is we were outnumbered because a lot of people simply do not trust his religion.
That is a fact, and very few are speaking of that. Romney’s religion joined with the fact that quite a lot of Republicans simply have sold out to foreign interests.
We need to bring back businesses to America.
And we need a leader.
We lost because we do not have one.
This election has made me realize that I need to care less about politics and what goes on in DC and worry more about my personal relationships. Both with Christ and my family. The country is screwed, but I can't fix it. And the majority of people don't want it fixed, but want to continue to break it. So be it. Fine. Crash it. I'll be playing catch with my son.
I think this article is pretty good. Of course, I had no idea mitt ran so few, so late, and so country club nicey ads against Obama. I did see his vicious anti newt ads so it is weird. Amazing that Rush Limbaugh even said that Romney would never run such ads against Obama. Wow.
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No. Trying to pin this loss on misguided endorsements by Chris Christie or Clint Eastwood’s gig with the empty chair is misdirected.
The American people knew FULL WELL that Obummer was a loser. Even behind the dense smokescreen thrown up by the mainstream media, the least among us knew full that Obummer was bad, wrong, misguided, dangerous and following a completely wrong course for America. The list of his errors and sins could fill a book. The anger on Election Day was palpable!
Nobody sung his praises. Nobody bragged about the wonderful things he did for the country. People were PISSED at Obummer.
But he won anyway. Why? Where did that anger go? American voters have always “done the right thing” before when faced with a terrible President, but this time they went the other way. Why? Something doesn’t add up here. Why?
