[Sybeck1]

Did he campaign for Romney?

[ransacked]

I don’t agree with some of his positions, but his popularity with (especially younger voters) is they sense he’s as close to the truth, and real change, in politics as you’re going to get.

[rocky88]

Third party voters did much to screw good men like Romney and Allen West on Tuesday... I don’t know what they thought they were doing but now we are all screwed because of it.

[ari-freedom]

“Mr. Paul, who is retiring after 12 terms in the House, said voters on Tuesday rejected Mitt Romney because he had opposed the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. “

That’s right. People here want to say “oh Romney’s not conservative enough!” but the fact is, his position on bailouts is what killed him in Ohio. Along with the 47% comment.

[golux]

Having once lost my FR posting privileges for speaking out in support of Ron Paul, I caution members of this august forum against making the same mistake. Just because it's "Free Republic," I am pleased to have been taught, doesn't mean conservatives are free to say anything they want on the subject of freedom and our republic. There are limits, and rightfully so, especially for "PaulBots" and other idiot pro-life isolationist constitutionalist wacko trolls, the likes of which I once, admittedly, was. A good jolt from the Viking Kitties has taught me that freedom has its limits, and after all, the very success of our beloved GOP and its leaders is a result of measured compromise, calculated bipartisanship, common-sense moderation, and dare I say, submission.

[Uncle Chip]

"We're so far gone. We're over the cliff," the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop" program.

Yep with so much at stake in the election, your Libertarians who threw their votes away on boneheads giving the Democrats the Presidency and the Senate are over the cliff.

[Dudoight]

Ron Paul is not a Republican, he is a Libertarian.

[mulder1]

I believe we are going to see what would have happened to the U.S. if Jimmy Carter was reelected. THEY SHOULD HAVE WATCHED 2016!!

[mancini]

He touches on one of the things we need most and are sorely lacking in: WISDOM. Our culture doesn’t seek wisdom. It seeks self-gratification. And that right there is one of the clearest indicators that this whole thing is going to start wrapping up.

[listenhillary]

In Fiscal Year 2011, the federal government collected $2.303 trillion in tax revenue. Interest on the debt that year totaled $454.4 billion, and mandatory spending totaled $2,025 billion. In sum, mandatory spending plus debt interest totaled $2.479 trillion… exceeding total revenue by $176.4 billion.

For Fiscal Year 2012 which just ended 37 days ago, that shortfall increased 43% to $251.8 billion.

In other words, they could cut the entirety of the Federal Government’s discretionary budget– no more military, SEC, FBI, EPA, TSA, DHS, IRS, etc.– and they would still be in the hole by a quarter of a trillion dollars.

The US government is legally bound to spend more money on mandatory entitlements and interest than it can raise in tax revenue. It won’t make a difference how high they raise taxes, or even if they cut everything else that remains in government as we know it.

~~ Simon Black sovereignman dot com

[Sopater]

But you can't have a budgetary solution if you don't change what the role of government should be.

You mean "change the role of government back to what it really is".

[fortheDeclaration]

The Romney campaign refused to embrace the Liberatarian and Evangelical wings of the Party.

Romney lost due in part to the overwhelming youth vote against him.

Ron Paul's view on a return to Constitutional Government was the only candidate who excited young people.

Gary Johnson, a two-time Gov. of NM was frozen out of the debates and so ran as a Libertarian.

The GOP wants to be the manager Party of the welfare State, no one is going to get excited about that.

What does the GOP actually stand for, does anyone know or care?