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Lessons Learned - What can we learn from Election 2012? Some reflections
National Review Online ^ | November 9, 2012 | NRO Symposium

Posted on 11/13/2012 1:50:43 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

I’ll read this later but re the headline what comes to mind is ENFORCE THE DAMN LAWS, ALL OF THEM NO MATTER WHO BREAKS ONE


21 posted on 11/13/2012 2:29:32 PM PST by drypowder
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To: tallyhoe
What we learned??? The ends justifies the means. Lie cheat whatever to win... Lie about your opponent... Bald face lie.. Tell everyone he is a liar, Cheat, killer, whatever to win!!!

Precisely! When you're fighting gutter slime like Hussein, forget Marquis de Queensbury rules, and when he spouts lies in his ads, respond immediately and forcefully!

One other thing - the primary battle was way too long. Republicans grew bored and tired of the sniping and it provided way too much ammunition for the dims.

22 posted on 11/13/2012 2:31:02 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Never Underestimate the Power of Evil or Evil Doers)
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To: Orangedog

Look, FR is totally opposed to the godless, statist homosexual agenda and any part of it. If you and Ron Paul don’t like that you can both take a freaking hike!!


23 posted on 11/13/2012 2:31:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Right on!

Run a TEA Party Conservative.

Voter ID in every state.


24 posted on 11/13/2012 2:36:08 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Voter ID in every state.

Make it a national requirement, if necessary.


25 posted on 11/13/2012 2:38:00 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: neverdem

What I learned is Romney seems to quite happy he lost..
Doesn’t bother him a bit... maybe he “knew” he was going to lose..

The first debate was so he could “save face”...
He don’t seem to be all that unhappy with claims of VOTER FRAUD either..
Like he already KNEW something..

Like he was “picked” to be the “Schlemazel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLsukIsrcMI


26 posted on 11/13/2012 2:45:54 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: neverdem

” - What can we learn from Election 2012”

Cheating works.


27 posted on 11/13/2012 2:47:13 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: neverdem

What have we learned?

1)That the People Have Spoken, and they have said, “DUHHHHHHHHH”.....

2)That Hispanics may be onboard with pro-life, pro-family traditional values, but when it comes time to vote they’re on the side of the gubbermint check.

3)That the Under 30 crowd is an utterly lost generation, unserious, lacking in education, fully self-absorbed, and a sitting duck for any despot who comes along with a really good marketing campaign.

4)That social networking tools like Twitter have essentially destroyed the country by allowing Democrats to microtarget messages to each individual voter. You’re a 22 year old slut that wants free abortions and birth control? That’s our #1 priority, Vote Obama! You’re a 29 year old grad student who wants all his student loans forgiven? That’s our #1 priority, Vote Obama! You’re a 24 year old trangendered cult member who wants NASA to launch a probe to Uranus to find the mother ship? That’s our #1 priority Vote Obama! Etc. etc. etc.

5)That despite our proud boasting to the contrary, Americans are just as much into envy and class warfare as any other human beings on the planet.


28 posted on 11/13/2012 2:49:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: freedumb2003

Amnesty is going to happen. The borders are also still open.

We have become terribly naive. We run nothing but the House and they are going to fold.

The new citizens will not be here for rugged indidvidualism and freedom.


29 posted on 11/13/2012 2:51:56 PM PST by dforest
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To: Jim Robinson
Look, FR is totally opposed to the godless, statist homosexual agenda and any part of it. If you and Ron Paul don’t like that you can both take a freaking hike!!

So Ronald Reagan wouldn't be welcome at FR because he accepted the support of the log cabin republicans?

Aside from that, I know it sucks that the RNC and GOP establishment crammed romney down your throats. It really sucked when they felt the need to cheat at the convention to make sure Paul's delegates didn't count. They didn't need to...romney had it locked up anyway, but they just wanted to shove it in his the faces of his delegates that they could do it and get away with it.

Seriously, your problems are way bigger than who the homosexuals chose to support. Neither one of your nominees could even carry their own states last week. But hey, you sure didn't need libertarians last week. We won't be around to stink up your minority sized tent in 2016 either if things keep going the way they are with the GOP. Most of us know that the dems will treat us just as poorly as the GOP does. I mean, look at how we are talked to here, and this is just a website, not the center of political power.

30 posted on 11/13/2012 2:53:00 PM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: neverdem

What did we learn? ... Too many takers dependent on the gov’t dime. They don’t care about unemployment, gas prices, Benghazi, etc. Obozo should have been fired for his job performance but was not. This election is as depressing as it gets and not sure now what the future holds for anyone with conservative values to make it to the WH. Sorry for the doom and gloom post but it’s what have been thinking since last Tuesday :(


31 posted on 11/13/2012 2:56:27 PM PST by mbird139
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To: dforest

>>Amnesty is going to happen. The borders are also still open.

We have become terribly naive. We run nothing but the House and they are going to fold.

The new citizens will not be here for rugged indidvidualism and freedom.<<

Then we have lost. Adios USA. you were beautiful while you lived.


32 posted on 11/13/2012 2:56:47 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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33 posted on 11/13/2012 3:01:20 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
34 posted on 11/13/2012 3:05:18 PM PST by COUNTrecount (Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can't fail .But We Did.)
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To: Orangedog

This site is 100% opposed to the homosexual agenda. Live with it or leave. Push it, you’ll be shown the door.


35 posted on 11/13/2012 3:10:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That the Under 30 crowd is an utterly lost generation, unserious, lacking in education, fully self-absorbed, and a sitting duck for any despot who comes along with a really good marketing campaign.

White under 30s voted republican, that won't change much of the future, but it is nice to learn.

36 posted on 11/13/2012 3:19:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: freedumb2003

The One World Government is upon us. The amnesty will seal the deal. Notice how they have and are doing everything they can to wipe out America as a nation and as a nation state?

There is already a move to wipe out the National Anthem at sporting events.

It isn’t just that America will not be the same, it is that America will just be a land mass occupied by world citizens. Your birthright and citizenship mean nothing.


37 posted on 11/13/2012 3:31:31 PM PST by dforest
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To: Orangedog
We won't be around to stink up your minority sized tent in 2016 either if things keep going the way they are with the GOP. Most of us know that the dems will treat us just as poorly as the GOP does. I mean, look at how we are talked to here, and this is just a website, not the center of political power.

You don't post here anyway.

Outside of this thread, and a single post last week where you ranted about your devotion to 'PAULLLL' and asked freerepublic to cancel your account, you haven't posted since 2005.

38 posted on 11/13/2012 3:33:25 PM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: Jim Robinson

How am I pushing the homosexual agenda? I haven’t said a word in support of it and you know it. I don’t care one way or the other but you have every right to take a side and stick to your position.

Believe me, as a libertarian I know how much it sucks to be on the losing side of an election. Happens all the time with us. But you need to accept that the GOP had it’s ass handed to it for two presidential elections in a row, with even less votes this time around. It’s obvious very few of you want to hear it, but you’re going to need the libertarians. Why...? As part of the GOP, the soccer moms think you hate their kids, the hispanics are afraid of you and most of the african americans just plain don’t like you, for whatever reason. The GOP is going to need more allies if it doesn’t want a repeat in 2014 and 2016.


39 posted on 11/13/2012 3:37:53 PM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: ansel12

Glad to see you care so much about my opinion that you looked up my posting history. Check out some of the old Market Wrap-Up threads. Some of those were a real scream.

But yeah, keep up the recruitment for the next election. Not sure who you’re going to find, but you keep up the effort, Tiger!


40 posted on 11/13/2012 3:40:33 PM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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