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.
Virgil Goode was a former lib Dim who now claims to be a paleocon. Thanks, but no thanks. Gary Johnson was a great governor, but his foreign policy was too much like RuPaul’s, which no sane individual finds palatable.
Here’s the thing you fail to understand: Third party candidates simply can’t win. It’s useless to even try and voting for a third party candidate is taking your vote and setting it on fire.
As Ronald Reagan said:
“Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people? A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of Conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
We don’t need to become paleocon wimps like Pat Buchanan. We don’t need to be moderates like Romney. We don’t need to be a bunch of Jew hating 9/11 Truthers like RuPaul and his Stormfront Troopers. We need to be Conservative Republicans. As history has shown with Coolidge, Reagan, and Gingrich, it’s a winner, and an unstoppable one at that.