Posted on 11/09/2012 7:04:01 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
.....No, the real story is that three states held votes and nobody came. Almost nobody, that is. Consider that the total turnout for Missouri, Colorado, and Minnesota combined was barely over half of the turnout of South Carolina alone and -- worse yet -- barely over half the turnout for the same three states in 2008. Thus, after South Carolina's record-setting primary turnout, the Republican Party has now seen a total of five events in a row where turnout was down compared to 2008. This includes the three events from this week along with Nevada and Florida. Yes, something has made Republicans less excited about beating Barack Obama than they were about John McCain maybe replacing George W. Bush. Who knew that was even possible? What gives? The answer is fairly clear. The candidates have forgotten about Obama. What has turned folks off is Mitt Romney's scorched-earth campaign, which has managed to unfortunately suck all the rest of the candidates into a circular firing squad of a childish food-fight that is of zero interest to the Republican base voter.
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I too hoped that Akin would win - I mean, really really really hoped he would. I hope Duke wins football games too, but you have to man up and admit when your team sucks! Akin sucks, and he’s not that much of an outsider to begin with.
I am amazed at how many freepers will fall for any 23 IQ idiot simply because they are pro life and an outside. Dangit, we can find brilliant people who are both. There were 2 candidates in Missouri who were both. Claire’s voters voted Akin in the primary because of that. And we lost a seat to an ignorant, arrogant, dolt.
You might have missed what I said. I am quite clear on states rights. That does not make caving to the leftists to develop a big intrusive government program at the state or local level any different than developing it at the federal level. He may feel there is a “right” to do it but it is still big intrusive government.
Romney established himself as a big intrusive government liberal by developing a big intrusive government program.
You count states as equal entities, showing your total ignorance of the difference in primary and caucus, difference in contested states and beauty contests. Yes, Santorum and his followers “counted states” as if 3000 voters in Nevada or Iowa equals 600 thousand in South Carolina. Again, math and logic are related, and you can’t understand either.
And it’s obvious to me that you hate social conservatives moreso than Obama. But then we already knew that.
I did not miss what you said at all. You clearly missed what I said, and you clearly missed the Founders’ concepts of the Tenth Amendment. Have a nice day.
How did that strategy of attacking Santorum work out for you?
You’re an idiot. I am a social conservative. I also understand the times, and this was not an election about those issues.
Moreover, I hate ignorance, and it comes from Obama and his followers all of the time - and sadly from social conservatives some of the time. Hello sometime.
WRONG!
Wow, Breckenridge is really a blithering collossal idiot. I’m turning him over to you. You obviously can keep your cool with him better than I.
That may be so, but it is something important for the GOP to look into if they ever want to win another election. GOP vote totals are diminishing, even in the face of a candidate that openly stands for everything that diminishes this country. Since even THAT wasn't a motivator, the GOP has to figure out what will be a motivator. A Left-leaning candidate didn't take ANY votes away from the Dems, even in Mitt's home state.
This article is ridiculous. The voters who sat out only have themselves to blame. My own take on it is that they are closet socialists. Deep down they wanted Obama to be elected in 2008 and reelected this year. These are the people who cheered when Bush kept running budget deficits end expanded the entitlement programs.
I was a supporter of Michele Bachmann during the primaries and the thought of not voting against Obama in the general election never crossed my mind. Romney represented capitalism and Obama represented socialism. Socialism won. And the people who sat out are cowards who think they preserved their purity but are in fact going straight to hell. The next republican nominee will likely be a pro-choice hispanic and the fools will keep sitting out not realizing that their non participation is pushing the party to the left.
I think that is interesting in that everyone I talked with from various polling places in Missouri said there was a line (even when the polls opened at 6 am) where there was never a line before. There was also a line at my polling place. It looked like a huge turnout to many voters.
Akin and Mourdock backstabbed themselves. They were not ready for the Senate.
I know the idiot who ran it too, and I’m not surprised.”
In all seriousness....with the good sense you are showing, you should hang out a shingle as a “political consultant”. I am close to a few of them, as you are. A few of them are VERY VERY wealthy.
You should do it. You might get wealthy...AND help the cause!!
Not to be disrespectful, but though Iowa did narrowly choose Santorum, that hardly qualifies the man as "the best conservative option" in any category, although he did appeal - and naturally so - to a single-issue, funadmentalist bloc.
Florida lies outside my observations. I still maintain that Iowa is the low-hanging fruit that often allows pernicious crap to proceed to the next step, and is a lousy determiner of anything worthwhile. I've spent over five decades here, watching the GOP "machine" in Iowa get more sclerotic with each cycle and getting well acquainted with both the fundies and the checkered-pants brigade... and I see no reason whatsoever why Iowa needs to remain "first in the nation," unless no one else actually wants the "honor" or the GOP really doesn't care about succeeding in the first place.
Mr. niteowl77
A true leader would have stood behind Akin and made it clear that he stood behind the prolife, pro traditional marriage folks - even when they screw up!”
Actually....I am inclined to agree with that. I was glad when SCF came out for Akin. We all wanted him to win.
But ...the problem was his and his alone, in that he brought it on in the first place. And, apparently since McCaskill was rooting for him in the primary, he had broadcast that he was ready to step in it. So I just don’t see how we can escape the truth that Akin simply was not ready for the Senate.
Again, though, all that said, I think you are right in that Romney should have stood by him. Of course, Romney would have said, “No, that will cost me the election!”. Oh, wait.....
I think Reagan would have stood by him. And most likely, Reagan would have won, and carried Akin along with him.
(Should we all print up bracelets which say, “What would Reagan do?”).
Bottom line: things are going to have to get a lot worse before they get better.
Think $7 a gallon gas, 16% interest rates, food shortages and price increases beyond anything the U.S. has ever seen. Soup kitchens will need to spring up to feed the masses. As bad as barry obama has been, he hasn’t been quite bad enough for the drug addled or the guilty white liberals to vote pubbie.
If barry provides enough bread and circus, the left may never turn on him.
You are fighting a losing battle. Our side have too many single issue voters to ever field a winning candidate. Let alone pick one who can win an election.
My father is a pro life born again Christian who voted even for Mourdock. He said he would have crossed him out if the stakes weren’t so high. He felt that Mourdock wasn’t prepared for the job of getting elected.
Apparently many did cross him out election day. Indiana went mostly red, but he lost.
All the single issues we all want mean nothing if we don’t win elections. You will not have the chance to act on them.
I agree. Here’s an excerpt of an article op-ed I came across:
“...Lord insists we need more “New Reagans” — people of all backgrounds, all races, all religions — who are well-versed in conservatism.
And where did Marco Rubio, now hailed by the Republican establishment as a 2016 favorite, come from? Not from the RINO establishment. It backed Charlie “Tan-in-a-Can” Crist and fought Rubio tooth and nail. It was the Tea Party and Constitutional Conservative movement that gave birth to Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.
There are flawed candidates, to be sure, among those backed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party. RINOs point to Sharon Angle and Richard Mourdock, for example, forgetting that no one wins 100 percent of their slate. Until the afternoon of election day, when the unions started busing in voters from places unknown, Angle was in fact leading Harry Reid handily.
And one inappropriate and/or misconstrued remark by Mourdock (and a crackpot third-party candidate) helped cook his campaign.
It’s not the conservatives who need to go away. It’s the RINO establishment that should make themselves scarce. Once again, a mushy centrist — who supposedly would appeal to wide swaths of the electorate — lost in a race that should have been a slamdunk.
And in this existential showdown between liberty and tyranny, Mitt Romney could not even attract the same number of voters as... John McCain. Constitutional conservatives, Tea Party conservatives, and fiscal conservatives don’t need to retreat. The RINO country club set needs to cede control to the true heart of the party. And if they refuse to cede power we will defeat them as we have time and time again.”
Link: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/11/deja-vu-all-over-again-another-cant.html
And on a side note I believe that is was the Obama machine that eliminated Bachman, Cain and Gingrich during the Rep. primaries. Why? because bachman threated the woman demorat voting block, Cain threatened the demorat black voting block and Gingrich, despite his flaws, would go for Obama’s juglar vein and not run a soft junk campaign like Romney.
How do we know that voter turnout was actually low. If the Dems can, will,and do stuff ballot boxes they sure as hell can permanently loose Republican votes. How would anyone know that their vote did not make it into the count?
Every (ligimate) poll projected huge voter turnout for Republicans and they everone stayed home????
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