Posted on 11/07/2012 2:39:36 AM PST by Bigtigermike
The Pravda-like corrupt national media, Zombie voters and dirty shenanigans are no excuse for losing this election because unfortunately these were a giving no matter who was the nominee - from Romney to Santorum to Newt or even if Sarah had ran and became the nominee - these things would have happen and for anyone to have beaten Obama but we would expect our nominee to have a strategy to negate or at least lessen these handicaps. If we can't even do that then we ought to just shut the whole thing down and cede the country if we can't win in this environment and high unemployment
Nor can we blame Chris Christy and Hurricane Sandy because looking at the numbers clearly show that alot of people had already made up their minds well before the storm and praised heaped on Obama had occured.
No, this is on the Republican Establishment and their choice - Willard Romney. The Republican base of conservatives (what's left of them) should and hopefully no longer buy the electability argument for an establishment candidate. From the view of the base, the elites have given away an eminently winnable election. Also this strategy of 'a vote against' is gone out the window as well, it clearly doesn't work. We must have a candidate that many can "vote for" enthusiastically as well as vote against the other party nominee. One of the clear things that probably doom Romney was the allowing Obama to bombard states like OH and VA with brutal attacks ads against Romney early on that DEFINED him with no proper response, I know some will claim that Romney couldn't get the money to respond until after he was nominated but he could have done something like do a lot of local TV interviews in those states or something instead of thinking that he just had to 'not lose' the election - which was what he was doing ala 'prevent defense'
Romney may very well be a nice guy so was Bob Dole and somewhat of McCain in the right sunlight but still Presidential losers. I sure hope that this time when we say 'NEVER AGAIN' like many said after McCain that we really mean it and tell the Establishment to stuff it.
American voters decided to give the first black POTUS a second chance.
This was always the wild card. I've said it for the past two years: if it was John McCain or John F Kerry, reelection would've been unthinkable.
If you want to blame some candidates, blame Mourdock and Akin who lost 300K-500K votes compared to Romney's winning margins in those states. Were they RINOs? Were they GOPe? Were they godless false profit worshippers as I'd seen said about Romney?
Rush Limbaugh set up the War on Women in his foolish 'slut' battle with Sandra Fluke while Mourdock and Akin gave that talking-point life for the Democrats to rail against. Cain's bimbo eruptions didn't help either. I'm sure Rush will claim no responsibility.
Nope..... We warned you guys about Romneys ‘prevent defense’ strategy and were proven right. Sure he was more aggressive than a McCain or Dole but that’s not saying a lot. He allowed Obama to defined him early on without any real response thinking that with the bad economy that all he had to do was look competent and he would run out the clock.... Sorry, Romney is in a long line of Republican Estsblishment losers
Reagan couldn’t get nominated with the support of the GOPe, now or in 1980. They are the greatest enemy conservatives have.
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