Imagine if Romney had McCains turnout of 59 million people? He would have won easily. This is all on Romney.
***This election was about turning out the base. Bronc0bama turned out his; Romney didn’t. What exactly was Romney’s base, since he was never a conservative? He was trying to steal independents, middle-of-the-road liberals, stupid people, etc. from 0bama. He was trying to be a big tent republican. From my home page:
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Im a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Heres an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What youll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff wont have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. Were often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone elses rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. Thats a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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Cute nonsense, but what we see in reality is the GOP campaigning against the republican nominee in races like Joe Miller’s, Hoffman’s, O’Donnell, Aiken, and I think others.
The republican is the nominee, and the leadership of the party becomes his opposition.
In some cases actually coming out for his opponent.
Big tent means liberal.
On this point you have it exactly wrong. The fiscon issues are the big ones.
Socons are self-centered parasites that would rather see the host die than stop sucking blood.