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(Vanity) Dear GOP: This is what you get when you run a candidate that 70% of REPULICANS didn't even
Mr. K | Mr K | Mr. K

Posted on 11/06/2012 9:39:50 PM PST by Mr. K

"Reince" Prebus- RESIGN NOW

You people are CLUELESS

During the primaries it was obvious that 7 out of 10 GOP voters WANTED SOMEONE MORE CONSERVATIVE than Romney, you forced him on us

YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS LOSS and the continuation of this Obamanation on The Republic

Did Ronald Reagan "reach across the aisle" or did he win with strong conservativ eagenda?

WE LOST TO A COMMUNIST BOOB


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To: zt1053
If it had been Newt Ginrich or Rick Santorum the same crap would have happened. The bottom line is Obama won because he was black

I really don't thin that was the case; it seems to me that the reason the GOP lost was they ran some one who was very similar to their opponent (disregarding rhetoric); in short, they were pushing someone who stood for "mostly the same."

If it had been Ron Paul (very different finance stance), or Gingrich (very different judiciary stance) they could have easily won -- instead they pursued 'electability', and as my elders said "when you try to please everyone, you [end up] pleas[ing] no-one."
Or, as CS Lewis put it: “When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”

21 posted on 11/06/2012 10:04:05 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: TennTuxedo; Mr. K
Folks, it was not the candidate that cost us the election.

It most certainly was the candidate!

You don't run an active supporter of Abortion and the Gay Agenda as a Republican and then expect him to win a National election.

That's just pure stupid politics.
22 posted on 11/06/2012 10:04:15 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: grey_whiskers
It's really simple...

You have half the country on some sort of federal assistance and they have family members..Add to this that a large number of the employed work for the government in some capacity.The Obama campaign was able to convince those people that Republicans would stop their checks and their free food...Or cut back on their government jobs and pensions

They voted their pockets...They felt endangered by what the left likes to call “austerity”.

The inmates are now running the asylum..

The receiver's now control the host. The tipping point has been reached and there is no stopping it until the host is can no longer support them.

Then they will burn everything to the ground and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

23 posted on 11/06/2012 10:04:34 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: fwdude
Romney performed poorly in the last two debates, meaning he should have mopped the floor with the pathetic likes of Obama, but didn't.

Exactly. After he did well in the first debate, he decided not to upset the applecart and try to cruise through the next two debates. And to think they shoved this guy down our throats because they said he could win.

24 posted on 11/06/2012 10:06:02 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: Antoninus

“The GOP needs to be an unapologetically conservative party. Our goal should not be to fool moderates into thinking we’re moderate, but to convert moderates and liberals into conservatives.”

I think I’ve heard this before. Oh, yeah. Right after McLame lost. The GOP is a dead, stinking and rotten corpse.

I just went John Galt.


25 posted on 11/06/2012 10:07:03 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: Longbow1969
Romney actually became a pretty good candidate and his version of squishy, milquetoast conservatism may even be too much for what passes as the American public these days.

Gosh, some of you people never learn. Moderates lose elections. Don't you get that? Over 60% of the country self-identifies as conservative -- still -- with only ca. 30% self-identifying as liberals. Unfortunately, we have failed for two straight election cycles to nominate someone who actually believes in conservative ideals and longer than that if you're talking about someone who can articulate our ideals in a way that people will understand and find affinity with.

THAT is what is needed. A loss to a Democrat isn't the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is a loss to a Democrat in an election cycle where our candidate doesn't even make our case for us on a national level. We've had two of those in a row now.....very bad....
26 posted on 11/06/2012 10:07:49 PM PST by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: Mr. K

Bull poop, this was far more about the people doing the voting than the Republican candidate.

Romeny ran a good campaign.
He spoke well.
He made great points and offered sound solutions.
He worked his butt off.

There is no perfect candidate, but I think Romney left everything he had out there in the campaign.
The people let the country down, not Romney.


27 posted on 11/06/2012 10:08:49 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Mr. K; All

If the republicans really believe that the economy will not get better and will go over a cliff, I think it is time to let the think collapse. The republicans should approve everything the Dems want, and step back and watch.

After all, that’s pretty much what is happening now, anyway.

Let them own it.


28 posted on 11/06/2012 10:09:20 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Mr. K
YOU are the boob....Romney was an excellent candidate and an excellent man....if we had fewer anti romney people here on FR it might have been easier for him...

like the American Jews who sat idly by while Hitler killed millions of Jews, I blame Freepers and other so called patriots who plotted to destroy Mitt for months now...

Congratulations ...you wanted bammey...now you OWN him....

29 posted on 11/06/2012 10:10:08 PM PST by cherry
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To: OneWingedShark

If it had been Newt his past would have come up a distraction the whole election process. As for Ron Paul first of all his age would have been an issue and Obama would have really been able to play the Bin Ladin card against someone who said it was a mistake to take Osama out


30 posted on 11/06/2012 10:10:33 PM PST by zt1053
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To: Antoninus

If the over 60% of the country who are supposedly conservative allowed a communist idiot (Obama) to march back into office, then many of those 60% have sh!t for brains don’t they?


31 posted on 11/06/2012 10:11:00 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
The GOP is finished! Its as Dead as the Whigs of old! We need to put it out of its misery and start a new party!

I thought the nomination of Romney in the primaries was proof of that (and all the pre-primary anointing the GOP-E did totally screwed over other candidates-- that's saying nothing of that "bus didn't let delegates out" story).

32 posted on 11/06/2012 10:11:12 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Mr. K

It is time for a new GOP, if that is not possible, a new party.

The GOP is lost.

We cannot build anything, by sending American manufacturing abroad.

Build it in America. Buy it in America.


33 posted on 11/06/2012 10:11:41 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: Mr. K

Yeah, conservatives need to look at the mirror. Romney being the nominee was not because of his campaign’s success. It’s conservatives’ failure to come up with one candidate. The RINOs is part of the party, and will always be. But they are only about 30-35% of the members. So, that Romney won, it says something about conservatives’ inability to organize themselves to convince the 65% of members, not about the RINOs.


34 posted on 11/06/2012 10:12:16 PM PST by paudio (5Bs: Bain, Big-bird, Binders, Bayonets, and... Bullshiter ! <= 0bama's campaign message)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
And you won’t have to worry about Romney anymore. He’s finished. Should have been in 2008.

ROTFL, yes, some of us thought so.

35 posted on 11/06/2012 10:15:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Vote, but don't pretend.)
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To: Mr. K

Hahaha! You truly think that one of your nuts would have done better? Come on.


36 posted on 11/06/2012 10:15:39 PM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: Mr. K

Four years ago in the primaries, the cry here was “no Rudy McRomney”.

Well, the GOP-E didn’t listen to us twice, and we got eight years of Obama because of it. I shudder to think about 2016. Rudy is still left.

I don’t believe the Republican Party has the desire to change. Which is why its base needs to form a real third party and leave the Republicans to scrap with the Democrats for moderate voters.

It’ll take time to build but given the calculus the current party leadership seems to want, the Republicans won’t win national elections anyway.


37 posted on 11/06/2012 10:17:35 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mr. K

Romney won 49% of the popular vote, and was 1% from winning the presidency. He got 95% of the Republican vote.

Now, you tell me, which Tea Party candidates won swing-state Senate races?

“When we are offered Democrap or Democrap Lite WE ALL LOSE”

And when we offered Akin, Mourdock, George Allen, Josh Mandel and Smith in PA ... they lose TOO.

So where are these magical uber-conservative candidates who will sweep 60% of the voters off their feet and win the races we need won?

THE PROBLEM IS BIGGER AND MORE OMINOUS THAN YOU THINK.


38 posted on 11/06/2012 10:19:03 PM PST by WOSG (REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMA. He stole AmericaÂ’s promise!)
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To: cherry
like the American Jews who sat idly by while Hitler killed millions of Jews, I blame Freepers and other so called patriots who plotted to destroy Mitt for months now...

Are you really trying to draw a moral equivalence between opposition to a liberal Republican and enabling the Holocaust?

That's sick. And I mean S-I-C-K.

39 posted on 11/06/2012 10:19:13 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Antoninus
Over 60% of the country self-identifies as conservative

That's complete crap. You are just making up stats now. The more recent gallup poll has it roughly 40% self identified conservative, 40% moderate and 20%. The truth of the matter is a lot of those "moderates" are really liberal.

Conservatism is the right path forward. Problem is, as government dependency grows there is less and less of an appetite for it - even amongst people that would have otherwise been with us. Once Obamacare if fully in place, it will be even harder to win over the public with positions that call for slashing government programs and spending. This is exactly what has happened in Europe. So no, moderates don't automatically lose elections. And as this country drifts further left, the kind of conservatives we on Free Republic prefer may not be able to get elected on state or national levels for much longer.

40 posted on 11/06/2012 10:19:13 PM PST by Longbow1969
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