Posted on 11/22/2012 10:31:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We, and I assume most voters, know very well that Obama was raised a rich white boy, and that Ebonics is not his native language. But it helps to pretend, to fantasize that he, like Whoopie Goldberg, is a victim of slavery, and that is what the country, helped by the MSM, fantasized in 2008 and in 2012.
I maintain that he was elected and re-elected on the race card, or more exactly on the fear of the stigma of racism.
I completely understand your making distinction between the legitimate receivers of entitlements and the freeloaders.
If a worker invested the same amount as social security tax each year in index funds from age 25 thru 65, he/she could buy an annuity at 65 paying 3 to 4 times the social security checks. I have heard Chile has such a retirement system and those who opted for it are very happy with it. Which proves only 1 point, that anything government run is never the most efficient.
I had no idea only the GOPe and country clubbers got to vote in the primaries. Dummy me, thinking millions and millions of ordinary people voted in the primaries!
Reagan would have stomped Obama, the problem was Romney, the goofy, gaffe ridden, lefty Massachusetts governor who was a disastrous candidate for his entire 20 year history of campaigning.
Aside from his dedicated liberal politics in general in which he closely resembles Obama, Romney created the biggest issue that the GOP wanted to run agaist in 2012, Romneycare.
History will ponder how Romney was the choice to run against Obama, their similarities are incredible.
Wasn’t it nice of obama to cut Tricare while the military has been deployed for 10 years in combat zones?
It’s all good.
Some schlub who pissed his job away at Hostess will get free healthcare.
Romney lost because he DIDN’T say this at the debate:
Romney: “The events at Benghazi demonstrate that you are unfit to be commander-in-chief.”
But that didn’t happen. Romney went totally deer-in-headlights when Obama played indignant.
And Romney let that running-to-mama seventh-grade debate club crap of appealing to the in-cahoots moderator who was holding a transcript go unchallenged.
Romney lost the election at that moment. We didn’t.
He lost his first run at congress, he lost for State Controller, he lost for Governor and he lost for Lt. Governor.
This is the well qualified man who will defeat the Democrats in 2016?
I consult McClintock's advice on propositions, but I know he's not going anywhere beyond his current office.
Well said!
Ann Coulter used to do some very good stuff. And she was a long-time friend of FreeRepublic. But she has been increasingly going off the rails. As far as I’m concerned, she is a total loss at this point.
I suspect it has to do with Romney’s support for gay activism. I wouldn’t have thought that Ann was lesbian, but she has been heavily involved in the various gay movements such as GoPROUD. That might explain the curious troika of Coulter, Drudge, and Romney.
Drudge at least seems to have dropped the whole business and moved on. I can’t believe that Coulter is dumb enough to think there is any point in trying to salvage Romney at this point.
These libs in the Repub party think they are so smart and everyone else dumb, but they keep losing one election after the other and still go back to the same failed strategy. The liberal Republicans put the "stupid" in the stupid party.
This was the year that the GOP elite libs, were going to prove that their strategy of choosing a liberal republican is superior. But what a disaster. Last time they could blame Palin. This time they blame conservatives who did not show up, and Orca and whatever else else they can grab onto. Never once do they look in the mirror. They want to take their RINO losing streak to whole new level by losing three times in a row.
These are the morons who make fun of conservative candidates.
The Repub strategy is also to crown the left most candidate they can get away with, and then pretend to move to the center. They then find a conservative in the useless Veep spot to try and sell the "moderate" image of their lib.
Epic Fail!!
Romneycare isn't my idea of liberty.
But the criminality of Obama forced me to vote against him.
What is key here is that we didn't vote for Romney we voted against the criminal element of Obama.
People want to vote FOR someone not against (it is that simple.) Even without the voter fraud we would have lost I believe for this reason alone
It wasn’t Romney’s fault.
If it was anyone’s fault, it was the fault of American voters.
If you want to look at conservatives in particular, I would place blame upon them for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, if it is a consevrative candidate they want, then they should have settled on one and nominated him, but they didn’t. Some wanted Cain, some wanted newt, some wanted Santorum, some wanted Bachmann and what they got was none of the above.
Some accepted Romney, others refused. Conservatives seem divided amongst themselves, and that is still the case.
Furthermore there are others who seem to be solely or primarily motivated or not motivated by the abortion issue.
Until those people realize that that genie is never going back in its bottle they are going to lose everytime. I would advise those people this. If that drives you to such an extent, then practice it in your own life and lead by example, but attempting to elect such candidates is going to end in failure for two reasons.
Firstly, attempting to sell that belief based upon God and what God wants is going to fail, because this country is becoming atheist very quickly. Furthermore those candidates do not appear to be able to sell their position effictively at all. In fact they bungle their way through it as if they never expected the question to arise.
Secondly, as soon as a potenital candidate even speaks of this, that condidate is going to be demagogued into oblivion, and that is all there is to it. The issue is lost for now, and if that is the issue that people are going to throw themselves on the sword over, then they will be on the sword they threw themselves upon.
She sure does. Comparing Mitt to Reagan? Mitt was the beneficiary of open primaries and a division of the “anyone but Romney” vote.
Rick drug pusher Perry deserved that kamikaze.
It doesn't take a math wiz to figure out who was going to win. The sad part is it is going to happen next time around
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