Yes that is true because I was fighting for candidates in the primary who were attacked in here by other supporters of different people. So we were not lock and step. Then everyone held grudges. And many could not bury it after the primary ended. I ought to know as I was strongly considering Virgil Goode until September. People have choices, but they don’t want to march conservatism down the field a few yards more, but want it all or nothing and sometimes it is not possible. The problem is Romney was a mess to figure out. Nominating him was not the answer. But once he was then it was time to follow him and many did not. I just wanted Obama out and some just wanted a conservative candidate with no chance.
My son says that a big part of the problem was the Mormon issue. He says that a lot of people cannot get past that. He used to work for the University of Phoenix and he has had a very up close and personal experience with Mormons and their perspective on the rest of us. He doesn’t trust them any more than he trusts a Muslim to be honest with a non-believer. His view is not from a religious perspective, but rather from a personal perspective of trust. Working for the Mormons at the University of Phoenix was a really bad experience, they made him think that they liked him, gave him all kinds of awards, paid him some good money, but when it came down to promoting him, they turned on him. There biggest criticism of him was that he smile too much. He was their top enrollment counselor, winning the top award the last three quarters that he was there, doing everything that they wanted him to do, but in the end, they said that he was making them look bad.
It wasn’t the enrollment counselors that were the problem, it was the financial people who helped students apply for government loans for courses that they never intended to take and were never repaid.
In WA State, where I live the Republicans lost across the board, even the incumbents lost. My thinking on that is that the Republicans tried to move to the left and embraced the unions, believing that if they supported the unions, the union workers would vote with the Republicans. We have a giant coal terminal that the Obama administration wants built in my county and has been working very hard to push through with the help of every Democrat politician in the state and the Republicans jumped on board the coal train with Obama. The Republicans still don’t get it that Obama is pushing the export of the sub-bituminous coal from the Powder River Basin, which is on federally leased land, owned by Indian tribes, while fighting the bituminous and anthracite coal on private land in the East.
What happened here is that the Republicans failed to offer anything different than Democrats, supporting the SEIU contracts, the teachers union, the ILWU and the RR union. Republicans don’t win elections by joining the unions against the private sector.