I’m stupid. You’re smart. I was wrong. You were right. You’re the best. I’m the worst. You’re very good-looking. I’m not attractive. < /HAPPYGILMORE>
Todd Akin and his ridiculous remark about rape.
That put our side on the defensive with women and we never recovered.
We only lost by a little but we lost big with women.
Good morning, FRiend. I wish you the best.
Wrong. It was the changing demographics of the United States.
Dick Morris just said that he predicted a Romney landslide because he thought the electorate would return to 2004 levels. So did I. It didn’t. This electorate is here to stay, and (for once), Morris is right. Republicans will NEVER win with the electorate as it is. It’s not possible.
Young voters, Hispanic voters, black voters, and single women voters are larger segments of the electorate now, and they all vote against us.
I REFUSE to compromise the basic principles of the party by the amount we would have to so that we can “snare” these voters. We might as well just have the Democrap party, rather than two Democrap parties.
I’ve said already. We are the Copts. A minority living under the tyranny of the majority.
since you weren't part of the solution, you're simply part of the problems..
Romney ran a superb race but he couldn't undo the Soros vote rigging machines and the other fraud....
you can't have your cake and eat it too...either Romney wasn't conservative enough for you or Mia and Allen were too conservative....
figure it out sometime....
The gun-grabbing architect of the blueprint for Obamacare, who lost to the guy who lost to Obama the last time? Are you kidding me?!
I'm sorry, the Republican Party, and this entire country, is hopelessly lost. We're officially at the "brace for impact" stage of things now, and nothing is going to stop it.
The GOP will never win the Hispanic vote...no matter how much Illegal Alien Amnesty you give. McCain did not get even 1/3 rd of the Hispanic vote in 2008, and he authored the Illegal Alien Amnesty bill in 2007
An Illegal Alien’s rights end when his rights violate the rights of those legally here....that is what real inalienable rights are all about
You will not beat the Dems with more Liberalism
Another concern: Voters blame Bush for the economy. Repubs never disavow what he did wrong (push programs like the prescription drug thing) that increased the deficit or the problems that liberals created (affordable housing). Obama supported both of those causes of the problem.z
In short, no Republicans tried to inform the public.
Now it's time for the GOP-E (and the country) to reap the whirlwind.
At the same time, I see your point. I think conservatives need a wake-up call about what is possible. We need to nominate a straight-up conservative ticket in 2016 and see where that takes us. If we re-run 2008's complete wipeout, it will lead the more intransigent among us to understand that you can't go home again.
Politics is the art of the possible. What is possible in red states is different from what is possible in swing states. If we require multiple shellackings at the polls to accept this basic principle, so be it.
Am I being defeatist? All I can say is that the Founding Fathers understood that democracy is a death spiral. Once the property requirement was removed from the franchise, ambitious politicians began buying indigent votes with other people's money. Reagan's failure to dismantle the Education Department one year into its existence shows that the death spiral doesn't stop even for the nimblest of politicians. Ultimately, we, the people, have pointed a pistol at our collective head. Every program the Dems gin up gets us in deeper. I just want to stand athwart history, yelling stop. Unfortunately, it just keeps hurtling into the abyss.
It sucks, but everything played out the way I thought it would. Run two liberals against each other and the more liberal one will win.
And the Axelrod Full-Bore Campaign machine would have chewed up and spit out Bachmann, Perry, Santorum and even Gingrich ten times faster than the Romney Primary machine did.
xzins, YOU are wrong. Viennacon is correct.
There are 58 million Americans who hate America. Insurmountable at this point.
Reagan would have been beat yesterday, too.
Don’t blame Romney. Blame our population. We could have trotted 10 Reagans out there and they’d all have lost. Americans don’t want whole conservatism or half conservatism. They want communism.
If you think Romney was the wrong man please tell us who the right man (or woman) was. Who was the candidate who could have convinced America it was time to take their medicine?
The parasites now outnumber the producers - that’s the bottom line. God has given us over just as Paul warned. I’m now convinced the preppers are right. Better stock up on guns, food and ammo. And get right with the Lord.
Romney lost because we failed to turn out the vote. Evamgelicals, it seems, would rather have a left wing president who supports abortion and gay marriage, than vote for a morman. Self proclaimed tru conservative,like many onFR, would rather have Obama than vote for that RINO Romney. We get the government we deserve. Toall those who voted their conscience and went third party in VA and FL, congratulate yourselves on Obama’s reelection. You held true to your principals! Good for you!
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That moment came in the third debate when Romney began agreeing with the Communist. Yet, Conservatives gambled everything on one roll of the dice with Romney. They worked their tails off; they massed for rallies and they got out the vote.
Romney was expected to win and win big. States that were thought untouchable (PA, WI, MI) were “in play”. The coattails would be big and we'd take back the Senate. We know today that it was all a myth. This election was just another “heads you win, tails I lose” for Conservatives.
Now the recriminations start. It is Conservatives fault that Romney lost; we're too radical. GOP needs to keep losing with RINOs; already Jeb Bush is being talked about as the likely nominee in 2016.
Please fellow Conservatives, get it through your heads: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US IN THE GOP. When Allen West is redistricted out of a seat (by Republicans) and a seat created for Allan Grayson, it's all over. The Republicrats and the Democans are THE one political party running America today.
Me, I'm leaving the Republican Party. It doesn't exist in DE anyway. Whigs, meet your modern counterparts.
Cheating and the woman vote won it for Obama. Now women can continue to kill their babies.