I agree with you and I think we saw early on that this was coming. He was conservative when it benefited him and moderate when it did not. There was no substance or depth. He wanted nothing to do with the Tea Party...did you ever hear him say Tea Party?...or Palin. He does not agree with them on alot of what they believe in. He tried being all things to all people but could not pull it off. Many I know did not vote for him as much as they voted against President Obama. That is never a good recipe for winning in politics.
No it is not. And all the people on FR that said ‘politics over principle’ had better either ‘come to Jesus’ or just go away.
Many of us said you can’t serve two masters and were trashed for it. The result of Mitt laying both sides of the fence advanced liberalism by huge margins. The result of supposed conservatives fawning over him in the final weeks advanced liberalism by huge margins. It is one thing to vote for him over Obama as a last resort (though I disagree with the idea), but most of conservativedom went full moonbat painting him as something he never was. Just as the Greek column Obama was painted into something he never was.
If we cannot form a party and back people with conservative values, we deserve what we get. And if we do and lose anyway, then the country is well and truly done.
But unless we quit living in a Rovian fantasy that the GOP is the way truth and light and acting for ourselves, we ARE well and truly done. Personally as well as politically.
I agree with your statement that many did not vote FOR Romney but AGAINST “The Divine One.” That is how I voted; plus the fact that my vote for Romney in California was largely a protest vote. I never thought Romney would carry California.