Isn't it too late to say that Mitt got it wrong? should have posted this article 2 months ago. 
Isn't it too late to say that Mitt got it wrong? should have posted this article 2 months ago. The Tea Party continues to support awful candidates like Mourdock. Yeah, you can get a candidate who will tell conservatives anything they want to hear, but then stinks as a candidate.
Is it any wonder that the 2012 election played out the way it did?
How can you argue with that? One election was dominated by the GOP rank and file, while the other was dominated by GOP royalty.
The Tea Party movement failed. It failed to produce winning senate candidates in 2010 and again in 2012 costing the GOP a Senate majority.
Now, not only is there no congressional majority to repeal ObamaCare, Obama is still president and 'Tea Party' "heroes" like Allen West have been fired after just a single term.
You can't blame the GOP when "Tea Party" candidates failed in states won by the party presidential nominee.
I am disappointed Romney won't be POTUS and we must suffer four more years of division, lecturing and lies along with persistent economic torture err experimentation.
I'm disgusted not only by voters but by the reaction of some among here so insistent on repeating the mistakes of the CAGOP from the 1990s which destroyed the party and have made CA a permanently one party Democratic state.
The lesson here is that Conservatism is too hard, therefore surrender and be a liberal like all the Mitt and Christie apologists.
Retire the GOP and have the Tea Party replace it.
“And not only were they rewarded for that by winning Congress,
but they also went on to win the White House.”
Conveniently forgetting the economic collapse on Dumbo Dubya’s watch and all the fun filled TARP spending which came soon after. Keep avoiding the elephant in the room - keep losing elections.
All Mitt had to do was get out as many voters as the pathetic John McCain managed. All the talk about the 47% (looters), the “browning” electorate, the gender gap, and all of that is mostly noise. The Republican base stayed home. Mormon issue? RINO issue? Both? Something else? That question of why is of the utmost importance, and I have no doubt that the GOP’s collective brain-trust will get it wrong.
Again, the Republicans stayed home.
Karl Rove and Dick Morris have been exposed as the worthless hack punditry clowns that they are. I can’t believe both these guys were actually part of winning presidential campaigns.
finally after holding my tongue since the primaries.
romney was an incredibly weak candidate. the weakest of all of them.
my gosh, he couldn’t even get close to mccains 2008 totals. the simple reason, he was to the left of mccain!
we even won down ticket with the romney boat anchor.
people i supported down ticket. bachmann, rothfus, barr, arpaio, ... got through. we even played a role in getting rid of stark “raving mad” with our guy pareja weakening him.
and as for west, i think senator west has a nice ring to it.
we can continue to fight no matter what the circumstances.
The situation for Republicans is dire. Despite all hos deficiencies and weaknesses, 0bama got reelected. Hillary Clinton, or whoever Democrats nominate in 2016, will be in a stronger position. It’s hard to picture Republicans taking the White House again without first doing dire things like restrict voting rights and deport illegals en masse. But only dire measures will suffice at this point.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!
Get past this, people.
The prevent defense usually loses games. If we're going to rescue America, someone in the Republican party is going to have to wrench the nomination away from the establishment and run on principle and love of country, not necessarily in an obnoxious manner, but in an ardent, determined, fire-in-the-gut manner like Reagan.
I see Marco Rubio and Sarah Palin like that.
RINO File.
” - - - and became a position that it was willing to reposition to get closer to the center.”
Uh, Daniel, - - - Daniel Greenfield. Yeah, you. Your fancy words are fine and dandy, but we just keep it simple and call it “Caving In.”
According to surveys the most important issue was the spending and the debt.
Romney focused on jobs and not raising the taxes on the job makers.
There is one other factor that looms way above all of the reasons given and that is the overwhelming power of the people who influence the mainstream media. Who are these people??? Why is their influence over the direction the country is headed so ignored by all of the scholars analyzing the election results? What’s missing here?
http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=2231
“Whoever Controls The Media Controls The World”