Posted on 11/10/2012 5:13:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If there had been a Republican running, they might have won.
And how about your own actions. Boner wouldn’t be in this spot had Mitt won.
You're up against a bunch of republican party cheerleaders who have been blinded by itty-bitty things that don't matter in the larger scheme.
This is not a high school athletic contest, this is politics.
If an analogy is needed, you have the players, the coaches, the cheerleaders, the referees and the scorekeepers. If the players don't perform, whatever else the rest of that crew is doing doesn't really matter.
Last I checked Boner had a house majority. There are plenty of things he can do to prevent the enforcement of Obamacare. Instead, day one of the agenda appears to be capitulation.
So you’re saying that I was right not to trust Romney or Boner to overturn Obamacare?
That describes the 3 dozen blue collar white guys I work with. They all hate obama and they hate romney too. A few of them voted but they all cancelled each other out.
I'm wondering why I bothered voting at all.
You lost.
You and yours with pop guns are not going to stop that.
You supported a loser. You are bitching at me for not voting for your loser.
Take a deep breath, and examine that point of view.
/johnny
My guess is that the Southern Baptist vote for the republican was about 80% or so, the same as it was in 2008
Romney won 79% of the Evangelical vote, and 48% of the Catholic vote, and 26% of the non-religious vote, which groups refused to support the Mormon?
The article is consistent with what I’ve been arguing since election night: the lower Republican vote total was a result of marginal voters who were not sufficiently motivated by Romney to head to the polls. It wasn’t the active party members or Tea Party members or politically active Evangelicals or conservative Catholics who failed to show up - it was Joe Six Pack who was royally P.O.’d in 2010 but who didn’t believe Romney would really make a difference in 2012. Why? Because Romney couldn’t hit the hot button issues like the Tea Party did in 2010. Romney had no credibility attacking Obamacare when he was the author of Romneycare. He had no credibility on issues like homo-marriage and abortion, because people know he is actually in favour of both. He had no credibility on fiscal responsibility, because he spent the entire election saying that he would preserve medicare and Social Security as they are, only operate them more “efficiently”. He had no credibility on his promise to appoint conservative judges because he has a track record of appointing liberal judges. Those of us who are politically aware know Romney would still have been far better than Obama, but for the apathetic voter there wasn’t much on the surface to distinguish one from the other.
Who is "they"? And how did they pick our candidates?
You can't win with bad candidates. We had mostly poor candidates who chose to run in the GOP primary this time around. I mean, Herman Cain? Come on. These are joke candidates. Of course Romney won the nomination with a field that turned out so awful. The same phenomenon is playing out with our candidates for state wide Senate offices. We are struggling to win Senate seats because of some of the piss poor candidates the grass roots is nominating. I mean, good grief, Todd Akin was being backed by money from Democrats because they knew he was very likely to implode his own campaign - and yet a plurality of the Missouri GOP primary voters nominated this bum anyway.
Your data does not include people who did not vote.
Mitt came out against the republican platform on issue after issue, including abortion.
/johnny
It includes the data that you need to answer to, as you attack the most pro-Romney voting block in America.
The Evangelical share of the vote was 23%, the same as in 2008 and higher than in 2004.
Romney won 79% of the Evangelical vote, and 48% of the Catholic vote, and 26% of the non-religious vote, which groups refused to support the Mormon?
I love the 2A.....more than you as I voted for Romney while you voted for obama.
You sure got that right.
I understand that you are angry, and upset. Go ahead and vent.
You will have to deal with me 4 years from now, and in the interim. Perhaps you might want to think before you type.
/johnny
There you have it, folks. In a nutshell.
GOP doesn't need conservatives.
Son, I'm fighting now, and it is to blows. Just because I don't vote for your particular liberal doesn't mean I'm not working for conservatism.
Try again in 4 years. Run a conservative.
/johnny
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