I take your point about Rubio, but this time (unlike in 2008), I don’t blame our candidates. I put all the blame on the electorate. A majority of the country wants socialism. And that’s what they’ll get.
What can we even do going forward? I’m not sure we can do anything. I’m honestly at the point where I don’t think Republicans can win big elections anymore. The population prefers handouts and safety nets over freedom.
I do, meaning I blame Republicans, both primary voters and the candidates who didn't run. Romney was a horrible choice from day one. The fact is our only candidate with the brains to run a good campaign, Gingrich, had too much other baggage and wasn't likable.
Paul Ryan should have run in the primaries.
We need a candidate that moves opinion to him, like Reagan did, not a candidate that moves towards public opinion like Romney tries to do.
I was a poll watcher today in an affluent VA “exurb” of DC. The voters looked like the UN. Far more than I had realized. They live in enclaves and don’t assimilate. But they managed to get to the polls. And they didn’t seem to be coming out of a desire to save America. You could see those people a mile away and there were far too few of them.
24 hours ago, I thought this election would be like 1980. But when I saw the voters today, I thought, wow, Ted Kennedy’s plan to import enough people who would create a permanent Democrat majority has come to fruition. They can relate to Obama. His looks, his African, Muslim and Indonesian connections, and his contempt for America make them comfortable. They can’t readily relate to Romney/Ryan. Then you add in the brainwashed white women and it makes a majority. I wish it were possible to “Go Galt.”. I just can’t stand being around these liberals anymore. It matters too much to me to fake it.