Basically, the republicans said to conservatives, “Screw you. We don’t need your input. We don’t support your values. You embarrass us. Go away. We don’t need you to win.”
Since the republicans chose to run Romney, they have no one but themselves to blame for the loss.
Message to republicans, if you want conservative support, run a real conservative!
I agree! If you look back to the Republican primaries, there were not very many "true" Conservatives running - at least not ones that excite us enough to get behind 100% - and every negative the Dems dragged out on Romney, were the SAME ones used against him in the primary BY fellow Republicans. That's something we here were shouting about and STILL he got the nomination. What did NOT help at all was Romney essentially agreeing with Obama on nearly every single point in the last debate. Voters did not see much air between them so what happens is the incumbent reaps the benefit.
The voters became convinced (those that were teetering between the two) that it was six of one, half a dozen of another, so they chose to give Obama a chance to continue "repairing" the country. You and I both know his idea of "change" in America is not what we want nor need, but the fence-sitters saw no need to start all over again with a newby.
Once we get to 2016, IF we still can, we can hopefully have this figured out and run a solid candidate that reflects the values 50% at least of the country still does and that will also appeal to those voters who are, by now, well sick and done with Liberal ideas after they have eight years to decimate what is left of our economy and country.
Here's a little prediction of mine that I have been mulling for a few days - I think Joe Biden will soon decide he is ready to resign (illness, family, who knows) and Obama will name Hilary! as his new veep. This will put her in place to run for president in 2016. This will be the payback for her faithful kowtowing to Obama as his SOS and also lending Bill to speak well about him at the convention helping his reelection. Plus, I think they will have agreed to bury for good all the dirt they have stored up on Obama so it never sees the light of day and spoil his "legacy". No crystal ball, but it does not seem so far out there to be probable. We'll see.