Posted on 11/08/2012 8:12:27 AM PST by MeOnTheBeach
For a portion of the electorate, reelecting Obama is like the abused girlfriend who wants to give the boyfriend another shot. They just cannot face reality and cannot let go.
Thanks for the info. Yes, that difference is significant.
This is a big part of it, as well as just “giving him more time.”
In addition, we faced real issues with people thinking Romney is only for the rich and anti-women and anti-minority, while Obama cared for the middle class.
These are things we have to adress to win again in the future. It’s more than simply saying we want equality and fair opportunity...we have to show it to convince people that conservatism is not the enemy.
This was the wild card that pushed Obama over the top.
For a John F Kerry or John McCaIn? No amount of begging for more time or blaming their predecessors would've kept them in the White House.
It's a double standard, and repulsively racist, but I think going forward no one else could get a Mulligan, not even the first woman.
If things get a lot better economically in the next four years, which certainly could happen as a natural consequence of how long things have not been so good, I fear Obama will get a great “legacy.”
That is my worry, is if things look better, we will have another Clinton on our hands and the meme that Dems are better for the economy will be virtually impossible to reverse in the minds of future voters.
They were cowards. That missing two million from McCain's run, I'd have preferred they voted Obama than not show up.
Of course I'm thinking of many freepers who refused to vote for Romney even against Obama's fundamental transformation, failed policies and radicalism.
You are a coward and a traitor. There I said it.
Well there are lots of folks like me..at least 15000 in Montana alone who could have been in the GOP column had they ran a conservative. But assuming you speak for the GOP I guess they don’t want us...:)
Yes, your comments are accurate I believe.
It is that simple, but that is only half of it.
As you point out, Obama kept his base.
Romney did not garner the conservative base.
From the get-go that is what conservatives said would happen.
Romney was in fact the worst choice and weakest of all possible candidates for the Republican party.
It’s not like the country clubbers weren’t warned ad nauseum during the primaries.
Makes no difference, really. FDR presided over a freaking decade-long depression and he was reelected three times. Obama will make citizens out of all of the illegal aliens currently in the country, with or without Boehner’s aquiescence, and they and the rest of the rapidly-growing Hispanic population will vote straight ticket Democrat for generations to come, just like blacks, and that will be the end of the GOP, and of any hope of restoring limited constitutional government in the U.S.
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