[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ all predicted last December.

[conservative sympathizer]

Romney won because the other candidates split the anti-Romney vote.

"One-man-one-vote" sounds nice, but it's about the worst voting system possible.

Had voters been able to express their preferences as a ranked list of candidates, Romney would have been near the bottom for majority of people.

[Slings and Arrows]

One gets the feeling that the GOP-e care more about destroying the conservative wing of the party than winning the election.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Remember, those elites have to hire Mexicans to change their lightbulbs!

[popdonnelly]

Why gripe? You want Obama for four more years? Just get out the vote, clowns.

[DoughtyOne]

The tea party movement—once again proving its pragmatism once the general election season rolls around—lined up in the immediate aftermath of the Paul Ryan pick and has proven they can grow up.

Isn't it grand how folks who want others to do something find them particularly insightful and 'grown up' when they capitulate and do it?

Backing Romney isn't my idea of growing up. It's my idea of selling out because you have very little alternative.

Yeah sure, they're grown up, and have resigned themselves to seeing Romney dissect their nation rather than Obama.

I'm certainly not going to trash them for it. I'm certainly not going to congratulate them for it either. This is something none of us are going to be proud of.

Taking out Obama is going to be grand, but then reality sets in. My God, what a reality.

[Bullish]

With a wink and a nod the elitist, establishment Republicans sold us Romney like a cheap chord of wood.... what it really amounted to was it was Romney’s turn to run and no outsiders were welcome.

I’ve for a long time felt that Romney doesn’t even really want to win. He won’t take it to the Mau-Mau where it will really do some damage.

[Tennessee Nana]

After Foisting Romney on Base, GOP Elites Now Start to Gripe

[Tennessee Nana]

[xkaydet65]

Those GOPe s must have a lot of power. They must have hypnotized the primary voters. There were primaries weren’t there? Was any more conservative candidate denied the opportunity to run? Isn’t it time to stop the mantra about RINOs and GOPe s and admit that Cassius was right all along?

[skeeter]

G*d I'm sick of the GOPe's chattering classes.

Lead or get the hell out of the way.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”For the past several weeks, Mitt Romney has been surrounded by critics from the DC-Manhattan elite who’ve denounced him for a lackluster, unfocused campaign, teeing off on Team Romney in the wake of the 47 percent comments for a number of issues—but mostly, in my read, from failing to take their advice. Romney’s defenders, meanwhile, have been many of the same individuals who spent the primary season torching him in effigy as the encapsulation of everything they hate about the Republican ruling class. For months the elites bashed the base for failing to suck it up and see the big picture, to line up for Romney and come on in for the big win. But they got their wish! “

????

1) The RINO elites got who they wanted, Romney, so why are they surprised by him?
2) Those who didn't like him before who apparently do now see something in him that has changed for the positive?
Or is it just proof that the RNC can put up anybody? Or just not wanting to be on the same page: "If they don't like him anymore then we are gonna(like him instead)"

I swear this below link reminds me of 2008, you know what I mean?

Conservatives Want to Unleash Paul Ryan Silobreaker.com ^ | September 24, 2012

This sounds like the prep for' Ryan for 2016' threads to start being posted come January. It is just too familiar.

[PhatHead]

The Peggy Noonans of the world are not at all disappointed in Romney. They just think he’s going to lose and they want to get out in front of it by blaming him for his mistakes so they can say “if only he’d taken my advice.”

It’s pathetic, but predictable.

[GeronL]

How kowed does the GOPe have to be to think Romney is too conservative for them??

[Gay State Conservative]

OH,GEEZE..NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN!

[Gay State Conservative]

W has Ralph Nader to thank for having become President.To enough voters in several states,algore just wasn't “progressive” enough for them.Will Virgil Goode,or some other brain dead clown,prove to be Osama Obama’s salvation in two states...or even *one* state?

[Republican Wildcat]

This is exactly what I was thinking. We are going to have to oppose the establishment to carry the very candidate they foisted on us over the finish line.

[detective]

Gee, finally someone is actually writing what I have thought since the beginning of the primaries. The elites attacked every Republican candidate except Romney and Huntsman. They were the intelligent ones. The elites had called the Tea Party and conservatives polarizing and stated only an unprincipled moderate could win.

Now the election is at stake and the MSM has lost credibility with most Americans. Obama can be defeated. The Republican elites attack Romney and support Obama.

[Texas56]

I think we should all bombard the RNC with how fed up we are with the GOPers. I’m sick of listening to their whinny BS. It only adds to the demoralization of what we are up against.

[Tamzee]

It’s not the “GOP elite”, it’s EVERYBODY. I volunteer at our local republican office and everyone that walks in wants to rant about what Romney should be doing differently.

Funny thing, though, everyone thinks they’re far more brilliant than Romney’s campaign managers, but it seems they are all brilliant in very different ways.

“More Ads On TV!!!”
“Less Ads on TV!!”
“Go after Obama harder and meaner!!!”
“Stop sounding negative, just run positive messages!!!”
“Stop all the ugly yard signs!!!
“You’re out of signs? Doesn’t he want to WIN?!?”
“I can’t believe he said THAT!”
“Dammit, he should be saying THAT everyday!!!”
“Pay More Attention to PA if he wants to win!!!”
“He needs to FORGET about PA, he’s an idiot to waste time here!!!”

Oddly enough, these folks never want to actually volunteer their time to help us LOL

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