Evidently the majority of Americans didn’t vote for the issues Mitt Romney represented. If we change or drop the issues that define conservatism then we become just like the democrats. Mitt Romney would have been infinitely better than any democrat, but I cringed every time he talked about working with democrats and “reaching across the aisle”.
Someone needs to figure out how John McCain and Sarah Palin received more votes than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan!
Remember the words of Ronald Reagan in his famous 1975 CPAC speech...
“I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?”
What we need is someone to articulate and champion conservatism not running from parts of it!
I'll tell y'all exactly what's happening here, folks. More and more Americans are simply "checking out" of a lot of things in life ... politics, business, etc. I had a long conversation with someone in the insurance business a few months ago, and I was amazed at some of the things he's come across in his business over the last four years. He told me stories of people -- responsible, respectable, capable professionals -- who have simply decided that they don't care about things outside of their control anymore. They've cancelled insurance policies, stopped contributing to retirement plans, scaled back on their business expansion plans, and just generally stopped giving a damn about a lot of things. Remarkably, he says almost all of them seem to be living much happier and fulfilled lives right now.
This election wasn't decided by millions of voters who didn't like Romney or the Republican "message." It was decided by millions of voters who just don't give a sh!t which @sshole lives in the White House on any given day.
How did McCain and Palin get more votes than Romney and Ryan?
I’m not saying it was Sarah Palin but…it was Sarah Palin.