You’re wrong. Everybody’s looking the wrong direction for a scapegoat here. Conservatives voted ... there just aren’t enough of us right now. The problem isn’t Romney, or Johnson, or Christie, or Coulter, or the GOP Establishment, or the Tea Party, or any of that ...
The problem is “the 47%” ... not that Romney made the comments, but that they are largely true. There are a lot of people that want that kind of government. There are a lot of people who live on unemployment, or SS disability, or welfare, or food stamps, or medicaid, or Obamaphones, or Social Security, or whatever. Those numbers are going up, not down, and every last one of them is a built-in Obama voter. They’ll vote themselves a pay raise every time.
You can paint that as a platform problem. Our positions don’t speak well to the dependent. You can paint that as a demographic problem. You can paint it as a messaging problem. Ultimately, it is an intrinsic problem with the electorate — one that is not only bad for the Republican Party, but one that is bad for the country overall ... and not one that is easily overcome.
The takers are starting to outnumber the makers. The tough part is going to be convincing the takers that there is a better way to live before Atlas shrugs. But, it can be done. I was hopeful that 4-years of Obama would shake it up enough to make the point, as 4-years of Carter did before. Apparently, it’ll take at least four more.
We made some headway — Obama lost 10M votes between ‘08 and ‘12. So, there are a lot of people that don’t like Obama’s way. But, the GOP also lost 2M between’08 and ‘12. So, we need to do a better job of convincing people that there is another way ... and we can get it done.
America gets the government it deserves. Maybe by 2016, it’ll deserve better.
SnakeDoc
You are probably right.
I do feel like I’m in a minority group in an echo chamber. “but everyone I know didn’t vote for the ONE, how could he win”