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In 2016, GOP Needs a Candidate Voters Believe In
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2012 | Byron York

Posted on 11/18/2012 5:01:56 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/18/2012 5:02:06 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not unless they do something about voter fraud. I got whiff of an article that blew my mind. The main reason the GOP won’t do anything is because of 1982 Consent Decree. It is real!


2 posted on 11/18/2012 5:10:23 AM PST by PeachyKeen
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To: Kaslin

“In 2016, GOP Needs a Candidate Voters Believe In”

RIGHT NOW the GOP needs Candidates that BELIEVE IN CONSERVATISM enough to speak proudly of their own success!

The voters will follow if you lead them.


3 posted on 11/18/2012 5:11:52 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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"Instead, they were about a large group of white voters not showing up. ... The reason this electorate looked so different from the 2008 electorate is almost entirely attributable to white voters staying home."

This is false.

Romney's only 400,000 votes behind McCain, with plenty of votes left to count.

4 posted on 11/18/2012 5:13:01 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Kaslin
Don't let the MSM pick the Republican candidate again.
They Picked McCain, they picked Romney and tore the others apart like a pack of hyenas.
(Apologies to hyenas, they at least are doing what they're supposed to to.)

5 posted on 11/18/2012 5:15:34 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Kaslin

“But listen to the Obama team. There is a less complicated lesson to this election. Voters want to believe in a candidate. If Republicans find that candidate, they will win”.

Horse manure!

Loyalty, despite imperfections, perceived or otherwise, fact or fiction, truth or deception, reality or myth, black or white, all were the mainstay of the Obama campaign.

...and thinking republicans just couldn’t muster any loyalty to anyone, anything, any option, any principle, other than perhaps their own selfish perceptions, rooted in who knows what.

Looking for Reagan is not going to win elections, and elections have consequences. If this election means the party is dead, garnering precious little loyalty, I have a feeling, principled elections are dead, a result of fractured loyalty.

Fully suited in triple layer flame retardant material.


6 posted on 11/18/2012 5:16:21 AM PST by wita
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To: Kaslin
The GOP gave its base liberal Republicans Juan MeCain & Willard Romney and found out twice that it's Conservative T.E.A. Party base can not be depended on to vote for anyone they put up like the Black base of the Democrat party.

The GOP can ignore its base at its own peril.

Though Sarah Palin saved MeCain from a humiliating loss, a Conservative was not at the top of the 2008 or 2012 ticket.

7 posted on 11/18/2012 5:17:30 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: PeachyKeen

You mean this one?
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/why-the-gop-will-not-do-anything-about-vote-fraud/


8 posted on 11/18/2012 5:19:42 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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They had 2 chances and blew it all again, Im done with them. They need to drastically change coarse by way of leadership and if true they need to get to work to kill that decree and grow some balls. From what I can see they are all to happy to get down on thier knees in line wanting to kiss the ring of a fraud


9 posted on 11/18/2012 5:20:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Yep!


10 posted on 11/18/2012 5:23:40 AM PST by PeachyKeen
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To: TexasCajun

Romney got more votes in Bible Belt States than McCain, or Bush in 2004.

So where is this mythical base that stayed home? Under a rock? On Mars?


11 posted on 11/18/2012 5:23:50 AM PST by Strategerist
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I’m watching the late returns coming in carefully to see what there is to the argument that it was a diminished electorate on the Republican side in particular .At least one Freeper has taken up the Daily Kos spin that the turnout will match 2008 when all the late counting, especially CA, is in. Sites differ as to total votes. CNN has made no additions to the totals for about 4 days, though they update at least once in 24 hours. The highest I’ve seen is on Dave Leip at BO63 m +, Romney at 59.4, about 500,000 less than McLain but 2.5 m less than W in ‘04. Whatever the final, this will be a low turnout election, with totals diminished on all side, certainly more diminished on the Obama side. When you consider that it is likely the voting age population went up by 10 m from 2008 to 2012, it is a lock that there were a lot more people of all colors , ages and stripes that could have been won by a better candidate at the top of the ticket (like one who could have hammered Obama on Obama care instead of the one who who had to say “excuse me” every time it was mentioned.)I’ve still got the bottom line that the way Obama governed drove people away by the millions and that he has nothing to build on; there will be no cost to opposing him across the board.


12 posted on 11/18/2012 5:27:29 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Kaslin
-Need to stop opening our primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire. We have to hear a bunch of "regular people" saying, "I liked what he was saying, but I wanted to hear more about Childrens Health Care". Republicans need to begin their primary season in Texas and Idaho. Then, you'll hear from more voters saying, "I want a President who isn't a Pu$$y".

-No more open primaries. Republicans should select Republican Presidential candidates.

-No more Blue State candidates. Both McCain and Romney talked about "reaching across the aisle"...I want a Presidential candidate who wants to Democrats to compromise THEIR principles.

-No more candidates over the age of 60. George W. Bush was 54 when he won as President. The other GOP losers were 68, 73, 73, and 65 respectively. NO MORE OLD GUYS.

-Start the GOP ground game NOW. B. Hussein kept non-stop campaigning from the first time he was elected. The GOP needs to begin their 2016 ground game NOW.

- The GOP pollwatcher movement needs to be much stronger. Quite frankly, we were told this election would be "the most important election of our time". Yet, the GOP leadership is treating this as just another election cycle. "Why, sure we wanted to win, but I'm SOOO looking forward to eating the new French brie at Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn's next soiree, hee hee hee."

The 2012 election wasn't about "reaching the undecided voters"...it was about getting your base out. While Romney was chasing "undecided" rabbits down holes, B. Hussein was getting his base out and to the polls...twice or more if necessary.

Oh, and one more thing...the Democrats in Congress "are not my good friends from across the aisle"...they're the ENEMY. Those bastards destroyed the greatest economy the world has ever seen, and now they want to turn us into a 3rd World $hit hole, with them in the Dachas while ruling over us. F'THEM!

13 posted on 11/18/2012 5:28:00 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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To: Strategerist

Still looking for the 69m + you say Obama’s going to get.


14 posted on 11/18/2012 5:29:01 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: ronnie raygun
From what I can see they are all to happy to get down on thier knees in line wanting to kiss the ring of a fraud

Seeing today's GOP on their knees, I don't think it's Obama's knees they want to kiss.

15 posted on 11/18/2012 5:32:32 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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To: Strategerist

So IOW - at the time of publication it is true. Thank you.


16 posted on 11/18/2012 5:32:41 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: gusopol3
At least one Freeper has taken up the Daily Kos spin that the turnout will match 2008 when all the late counting, especially CA, is in

It's not spin, it's math. The definition of spin isn't "Math you don't like."

California as of Nov. 16 still had 1.7 million unprocessed ballots.

17 posted on 11/18/2012 5:32:51 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: MuttTheHoople

Iowa chose Santorum. What’s your excuse for not supporting Santorum. You had a choice - you chose otherwise.


18 posted on 11/18/2012 5:34:12 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: Strategerist

I can do math too - what should Romney have gotten if you take the population growth into account?


19 posted on 11/18/2012 5:35:19 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: Strategerist

Oh, so I suppose your solution for 2016 is to nominate yet another squish moderate who loses.


20 posted on 11/18/2012 5:37:03 AM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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