“Unless of course, this end was predictable - which it was... and it was predictable for the reasons I have already laid out. IF this was a predictable end, then it is YOU who threw the vote away.”
Wrong. Neither Virgil Goode nor Gary Johnson had a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning a thing. The main goal was to get rid of Obama. Was I thrilled with Romney ? Absolutely not. I fought like hell against him during the primary, but it wasn’t in the cards.
“IT IS A MYTH, which starts with the assumption that Conservative votes belong to the Republican...”
Conservatives vote for Republicans. This is why the vote totals for the paleocon Constitution party and the Liberaltarian party is counted in the thousands, not the millions the Republican party receives. Now of course, We the Conservatives are never 100% thrilled with the GOP and its wimpy Establishment, but when all is said and done, it’s still the party of Reagan.
“You must provide a candidate they can vote *FOR*.”
Can’t argue with that. Flip-flopping RINOs like Romney are not the answer, just like Rupaul is not the answer.
“I gave you three examples: theocracy, social justice, and big-government largess, which Christians ARE currently succumbing to.”
Then they are not Christians. Social “justice” has nothing to do with Christianity. The 70% of my “fellow” Jews who voted for Obama have no business whatsoever calling themselves Jews, either.
One cannot be a leftist and believe in God. 2+2=5.
Neither did Romney. And that's a FACT now.
Goode, Johnson, and our own Tom Hoefling (EternalVigilance), who was my choice, suffered from lack of exposure. Had ONLY FreeRepublic given any one of them that exposure, this could have been a horse race.
But the Republican fanbois moved in, as always, and shouted down any attempt to offer an alternative to Romney.
Romney's fate was written in stone from the very start. I said it then, and it is proved now. The harm is in kicking the dead horse, preventing any other from rising. There is no harm in trying mightily for an alternative when 'Glory Boy' ain't gonna win anyway... And if one can get the base fired up for a real Conservative, who knows what may happen? With TWO liberal candidates vying for the same middle, it is quite likely that with the Conservative base, a Conservative could have won in at least a plurality.
All y'all are going to see - The Conservative base has not been turned out for the last three elections, and even with BushII's first election, his support was not what it could have been... No one I know was 'fired up' for Bush. There was a bunch of us who figured that apple didn't fall far from the horse - And that view, it turns out, was exactly true.
But now there are more Conservatives OUTSIDE the Republican party than in it, and this election will hemorrhage even more out of the GOP.
If the GOP does not turn HARD right (a sign will be the removal and replacement of leadership wholesale with Conservatives) it will be doomed. Look at the whigs, because what happened to them is happening to the Republicans right now.
Conservatives vote for Republicans.
No, Conservatives vote for Conservatives. That they happen to be Republican is incidental, or the GOP would have won this election hands down with a mandate.
it’s still the party of Reagan.
ROTFLMAO!! It is LIGHT YEARS away from Reagan, and your defaming of civil libertarians is all the proof that is needed. That is not all the proof, but it is the most glaring, because the willingness to coerce allows for absolutely anything else...
The GOP is no longer Pro-Life. The GOP is no longer for FAIR TAX, The GOP now believes in Keynesian economics instead of Austrian Capitalism, and it seems he GOP is only strong on defense for it's power and capabilities in nation building for the purposes of globalism. the GOP is big government all the way with a BIG desire for open immigration and amnesty to boot...
That is *NOT* the party of Reagan. Not at all. FAR from it.
AND WHAT, pray tell, beside the 'better than them' mentality (without any evidence toward that claim) sets the Republican party apart from the Democrats? What exactly is there that Conservatives would vote *FOR*?
Liberalism is growing by leaps and bounds and not by any merit. It lives and thrives because there is no opposition to it. Wake up and smell the coffee d00d. You are getting played.