Posted on 11/10/2012 5:13:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, as pathetic as my vote totals were, you got the exact same result, notwithstanding all your vaunted money and power. We both lost. The margin is completely irrelevant in the end.
And I didn’t spend one dime of my own or anyone else’s money to do it. What did Romney and his pals shell out, a cool billion?
I don’t nbelieve it’s the media’s fault that Romney didn’t say anything that would have helped.
When pressed on how tax rates can be reduced and revenue not go down, there’s only one answer. “More people with jobs paying taxes”. Romney consistently failed to answer that question.
Same goes for the spending cuts: “We plan to reduce transfer payments by putting people to work so that they can support themselves” is a better answer than “defund Sesame Street”.
Face it: Our team dropped the ball. We ran a Big Government liberal Republican, with an image problem; they ran a liar.
Rove, Gillespie, Rollins, etc. were quite clear that they feared her more than they feared Obama, and so two years later, here we are---Obama victorious, Palin effectively banished from the Republican Party, and the TEA party movement in disarray.
The GOP-E will reap the whirlwind because of what it set in motion then, just to try and protect its own DC-beltway power.
Palin won’t run because she is too white. She would lose and she knows that by now. She also could not get the people who liked Romney after this loss. Payback is hell.
You really think that gaggle of illegal immigrant new citizens are going to vote for Palin?
uh, no
Finally... some one who "get's it," and who might remember the Primary Tournament before 2016... provided there is a 2016...
The fear of Palin by establishment Republicans is based on her performance in office; she cleaned house of corrupt politicans in Alaska when she was Governor.
This crap about her inablity to handle hard questions is obvious - it is a smoke screen.
She was excluded from the Convention and Romney, though pressured to offer her the VP slot, did not do so. He was quite adamant that she not be involved in his campaign as well.
For those who level the charge that Palin did nothing to help Romney in his run for the Presidency, the truth is he excluded her from being involved.
When a Congressman goes to Washington, D.C., and returns home a few years later as a multi-millionaire, then we know corruption is rife in our government and desperately needs a thorough mucking out of accumulated manure.
No wonder people like Boehner and McConnell are terrified of her being President.
I’m sorry, there is no way in hell anyone can convince me that more Republicans stayed home this time vs. McCain. I believe fewer Republican votes were counted, don’t believe fewer Republicans stayed home though.
Can we come up with a new term for the “I’ll stay home unless the candidate is perfect” types so that it’s easier to write ?
We have RINOs on one extreme how about:
RUINERs — Repulican Unless I’m Exactly Represented.
bump
The GOP leadership is made up of the choice of precinct delegates. Precinct delegates are usually unopposed and sometimes there are opening. These delegates choose party leadership in the counties. These delegates choose state delegates. State delegates choose district and state leadership.
So are any of you complaining about "GOPe" doing something to change GOPe? As Marco Rubio told those in 2010 when "leadership" pushed Democrat Charlie Crist - Pick a better establishment.
It's a long term process and it takes work and time in more than just election year.
In practice -- in an imperfect world -- can we really expect anything else?
It sounds like Andrew McCarthy thinks the non-voters were Tea Party conservatives.
Maybe some were, but I suspect most were the perennial disaffected people who just don't trust politicians of any ideological stripe.
I wonder how many complaining about GOPe will be precinct delegates involved in picking party leadership.
People are still trying to nit pick and analyze this election when all it amounts to is a MASSIVE FRAUD.
The ideas I espoused were nothing but grief and anger at the loss of my country...all the name calling I was doing shows that.
I see 2 lines of argument. One appears to believe that 2016 will give Conservatives a chance to correct 2012 because the GOP will have gotten the message.
Another line is that those who sat out the election willingly cost us the country.
I think it is too late for the first...the country is dead.
So what do we do. We rebuild. This time not in Republican/Democrat framework but in Christ. My behavior on this thread has been anything Christian and I have recognized that.
So now we build out from our churches, cities, counties, states. And what we build this time we will be forever full of power and grace. It will be Christ and true liberty.
This is what must now rise out of the wreckage. I won’t fight for anything else.
The ideas I espoused were nothing but grief and anger at the loss of my country...all the name calling I was doing shows that.
I see 2 lines of argument. One appears to believe that 2016 will give Conservatives a chance to correct 2012 because the GOP will have gotten the message.
Another line is that those who sat out the election willingly cost us the country.
I think it is too late for the first...the country is dead.
So what do we do. We rebuild. This time not in Republican/Democrat framework but in Christ. My behavior on this thread has been anything Christian and I have recognized that.
So now we build out from our churches, cities, counties, states. And what we build this time we will be forever full of power and grace. It will be Christ and true liberty.
This is what must now rise out of the wreckage. I won’t fight for anything else.
The ideas I espoused were nothing but grief and anger at the loss of my country...all the name calling I was doing shows that.
I see 2 lines of argument. One appears to believe that 2016 will give Conservatives a chance to correct 2012 because the GOP will have gotten the message.
Another line is that those who sat out the election willingly cost us the country.
I think it is too late for the first...the country is dead.
So what do we do. We rebuild. This time not in Republican/Democrat framework but in Christ. My behavior on this thread has been anything Christian and I have recognized that.
So now we build out from our churches, cities, counties, states. And what we build this time we will be forever full of power and grace. It will be Christ and true liberty.
This is what must now rise out of the wreckage. I won’t fight for anything else.
/johnny
Sorry for the 3 posts. Using a smart phone and its smarter than me.
“Absent a really vigorous voter registration program, the number of Republican voters should decline”
bingo!!! and ditto
you hit a target I have been harping on for ten years
a target Obama & Acorn altered on the Dim side for 2008
a target the GOP & its unofficial allied organizations have not taken up with any great and orgranized effort, ever
in Hew Jersey, in 2004, the unregistered citizens represented more than 200% of the voter margin by which Bush lost the state; some other states likely have such a wide discrepancy between eligible voters and registered voters
You will have my help in that fight.
Good...because as the country falls apart...the glory of God will shine ever brighter.
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