So why did the following stalwarts lose?
Richard Mourdock in IN
Todd Akin in MO
Joe Miller in AK
Doug Hoffman in NY-23
Sharron Angle in NV
Christine O’Donell in DE
Ken Buck in CO
JD Hayworth in AZ
George Allen in VA
Were they also not conservative enough?
There were a variety of conservatives, but each one of them decided that they were only true conservative and ate each other alive.
Hindsight is always 20-20, but they could have swallowed their egos and coalesced around one of them, maybe Romney would have had a challenge, but each one saw him/herself as “the only true conservative.”
There were a variety of conservatives in the primary, but they ate each other alive during the primary and Romney was the only one left.
Hindsight is always 20-20, but if they could have swallowed their egos and coalesced around one of them, maybe Romney would have had a challenge, but each one saw him/herself as “the only true conservative.”
I think your full of prunes!!! The voters like liberalism, chaos, divisiveness and non-functioning government!! They like the high debt. They like free stuff course their too stupid to realize that somebody other than themselves money bought that... Then you have the really stupid people who shouldn’t be voting!!!
I’m with ya.
Personally I don’t believe they ever really planned to win. Heavy lifting comes with winning.
Oh, wait.
It's obvious what happened here; the evangelicals and "no compromise" folks didn't turn out. Romney got fewer votes than McCain. All of the freepers who threatened not to come out carried through on their threat, and they gave away the Senate right along with it.
Thanks for making sure ObamaCare is here to stay.
I’m sure the GOP-E is entirely content. Although they would have liked a Romney win, they’re perfectly fine with Obama. They averted what they most despised... a conservative or Tea Party leader.
What unites the GOP and the Dems is humanism. Dishonesty or as they call it, “spin” is a key value of humanism.
Congratulations to all those FReepers who said to lay off pursuing Obama for identity fraud and forgery as well as the NBC matter, instead insisting we can vote him out in 2012..
Four more years!!!
Well said
The Neo-cons in the so called GOP and the MSM created this nomination. There’s a reason why the MSM wanted and pushed Romney. Now it’s clear—for some of us, it was clear on the outset.
Romney was bulldozed by the left media. Since we, the American People have kept the lefties alive with their corporate ads and support of their networks, I believe we can and must stop buying any products or services that sell on their networks AND write to corporate headquarters or company addresses to their CEOs and lay out the future loss of their products or services because we’ve had enough of their supporting hate America socialism. That is something we should and can do, hurt them in their wallets!
Your post reminds me of why I have one foot out the door of FR
Its pathetic
Now for a little Monday morning quarterbacking. First, politics is how Democrats make money. They have way more motivation than Republicans. Second, they don’t think like us. We would say, “Food stamps! No way! That would mean I was failing!” Democrats look at food stamps and see money freed up for a car payment or a new tv. Look at how many new food stamp recipients there are. You have to give the Democrats some credit. They buy Democrat votes with confiscated Republican money. Brilliant! Look also at the number of new social security disability claims. Lump in Pigford and the dozens of other Democrat giveaways and you see that they can buy votes with taxpayer money. We’ve taken shame out of half our nation. Romney tried to talk about that and the press beat him up. If you’re healthy and drawing food stamps and disability, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, but they’re not. Shame is for bigots now. Our Representatives didn’t shut down the big government jobs machine. Obama and company bought a lot of votes with do-nothing government jobs. The last big piece of the puzzle is the Democrats picking the nominees for both parties. It’s not fair and it’s not right, but it’s legal. That has to be stopped. But, politics is how the Democrats get money, so they are disciplined enough to fall in line with their candidate no matter who it is, and that allows them the freedom to come over and use their votes to screw up the Republican party.
What a pantload. If you have to have your butt kissed to get you to vote against someone who is tantamount to evil incarnate, the today is what we end up with.
what a bunch of selfish crapola. So Romney didn’t fit your idea of a true conservative: he won the brutal primaries. There was tremendous opportunity starting last year to run that true conservative but if I recall none of them won.
I hope it felt everso good to write yourself in. I notice the GOP got 2 million LESS votes than McCain did...Good Job!
To all the Republicans who could not bring themselves to vote for Romney, I ask you: What did that achieve? Was your message really received? Or will the GOP only shift more to the Left now? I expect the latter.
I’ve been on the receiving end of the tender mercies of Mormon discrimination, but I still voted for Romney. I’m really getting sick and tired of people who are not going to vote for a Republican so they can “teach them a lesson”. Oh Lord, we have a whole slug of wannabe teachers out there trying to teach people “a lesson”. I remember all those Perot voters teaching everyone a lesson. The lesson was eight years of Clinton. First, they’re not trained to be teachers. Second, they’re not smart enough to teach others. Third, who wants your lesson? Here’s their lesson, “I didn’t get my way so I’m taking my ball and going home!” Good lesson there. They’re going to get a lesson from Obama. I know it because he taught it a few years ago.”Elections have consequences.” That’s the lesson we’re all going to relearn. And we can all go out and build survival shelters and buy guns and the Democrats will take our money with taxes and spend it throwing each other parties while we try to figure out whether we can grow enough corn in the backyard to survive on.