Posted on 11/08/2012 7:03:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Wait until next year -- 2016, that is.
That’s what disappointed Republican spinners kept saying Tuesday night as they watched Mitt Romney’s hopes crash and burn in swing state after swing state.
How many times did I hear a Republican talk about how their party’s deep bench of future all-stars will return it to power in Washington in four years?
But all the Ryans, Rubios, Bushes, Haleys and Christies in America can’t put the GOP -- or the country -- back together again.
The GOP is a wreck -- and not just in California, where the party’s registration is now below 30 percent.
Look how easily the Republican Party managed to turn what should have been a sure victory over an incompetent and dangerous incumbent into an embarrassing defeat.
First they tore each other to shreds in a bitter primary, smearing their eventual nominee in debates as a rich, uncaring profiteer who put working people out on the street and shipped their jobs overseas.
Then, while Obama’s ads in the battleground states reinforced the Republican-made caricature of Mitt, the Romney campaign did just about everything wrong.
It squandered the GOP convention and tried to make their candidate into “Mitt the Moderate.” Team Romney also shunned their natural allies in talk radio and didn’t reach out for help from conservatives like me.
I would have been glad to help the Romney campaign in Ohio or Pennsylvania, where I worked for my father in 1980. I offered, but the phone never rang. It didn’t ring for Bill O’Reilly or for the other major radio and TV talk shows, either.
But Team Romney’s biggest mistake was playing prevent defense after his big victory in the first debate. It was a terrible, fatal blunder.
Instead of hammering away at the horror of Obamacare, the cover-up in Benghazi and President Eye-Candy’s four years of failure, Romney ran the last five weeks hoping the clock would run out before Obama could recover.
But you don’t play prevent defense when you are running in second place in Ohio, Virginia, Florida -- and Tuesday’s results proved it.
Hurricane Sandy struck Mitt a final blow, giving Obama the chance to look presidential and making Mitt disappear from the media for four days.
But give credit to Obama’s Chicago Gang. They ran a much better campaign -- on the ground and in the air. They got out the vote and Obama got out his message of class envy and federal entitlements for all, without any trouble from his toadies in the media.
Now bigger deficits, higher taxes and a stagnant economy lie ahead for as far as the eye can see. And socialized medicine -- which my father warned was coming to America 50 years ago -- is going to soon become a reality via Obamacare.
Team Romney blew an easy win because it had a poor game plan. But it also lost because the Republican Party is all talk and no guts when it comes to fighting for real conservatism -- Ronald Reagan conservatism.
GOP bigwigs constantly praise my father. For years they’ve used him to suck true conservatives into the party, but they’ve never really embraced Reaganism or its ideals.
They didn’t in the 1980s and they still don’t today. They only talk about him. The party bosses don’t really think like him.
Most of those Republican candidates who lost Tuesday played the same game of pretend. “I’m like Ronald Reagan!” “No, I’m like Ronald Reagan!”
But most of them aren’t like my father. They weren’t waving the “bold colors” of real conservatism he talked about in 1975. The banners of the losers -- like Mitt’s -- were colored in “pale pastels.”
The GOP needs a new playbook. Unless it starts embracing my father’s conservative ideals instead of just paying lip service to them, the so-called “Party of Ronald Reagan” may never win another national election.
Newsflash: there is no such thing as a Latino, or a Latino vote. There are a lot of Mexicans, who won’t vote for Rubio because he is an anti-Castro Cuban. Ted Cruz is also Cuban - and White, very, very White, and the Indian Mexicans won’t support him - they were not who voted for him in Texas.”Latinos” are not an indifferentiated mass like the blacks. There are white, black, Indian and mixed blood Latinos. They.are from different countries. They eat different food. They listen to different music. They follow different sports teams. They don’t live in the same neighborhoods. Please understand, everyone, that it is counterproductive imbecilic reductionistic racism to talk about a Latino vote, especially when citing two politicians who are not Dems because they are the children of refugees from communism, they are not the children of immigrants. The children of immigrants are not going to vote for them.
The Republicans lost at least three house races due to Libertarian candidates in Arizona and Utah where their votes were 3-6 percent of the totals:
Jonathan Paton AZ-1, lost 45.4-48.6 percent, Libertarian 5.9%
Vernon Parker AZ-9, lost 46.1-47.4 percent, Libertarian 6.3%
Mia Love, UT-4, lost 48.1-49.3 percent, Libertarian 2.6%
Pretty good article, hits the nail on the head.
Correct.
It will be interesting to see how the Governors react to Federal over-reach.
This could be grassroots in action...the very thing conservatives claim to have wanted for many years.
No,you’re letting your inane bias get in the way of logic.
Mitt got the votes to win, but manipulation by the usual thugs obscured his victory to keep the marxist islamist terrorist in office.
that makes sensible Americans the victim.
I still think Sandy and her fall-out were the result of the loss, the media took the opportunity to use it and Christie’s backstab (I hope he’s happy now). Remember Romney was up 5-7 pts in the polls before sandy struck. But then I don’t think anybody anticipated Obamas ground forces. Lastly it didn’t help that Romney refused to hold O’s feet to the fire over Benghazi. Benghazi should have been to Romney at least what Sandy was to O.
No, we are not talking about a misdemeanor crime. All immigration violations, if prosecuted, are felonies
In the case of Mia Love in Utah, she is a conservative (who also happens to be Black). She spoke at the RNC and was interviewed at least once on Mark Levin's show. I don't know about the Arizona candidates - but 5-6 percent in those races and the closeness otherwise indicates they had the effect of spoiler.
No, we're on the way to economic collapse and social chaos.
The "takers" cannot outnumber the "makers" for long, before there's nothing left to take.
I am seriously concerned that the number is greater than 50%. Seriously: many government employees are counted as "employed", but are essentially "takers". Welfare case workers, regulatory bureaucrats and the like are examples. They live off the taxpayers, but unlike military personnel, intelligence agents, and the like they provide nothing in return.
I absolutely hate to say what I’m about to say, but here it is.
There will be no next time, not till after guns go silent.
This was no less than Great October Revolution by forces of Comintern. Russia was ripe for takeover by Internationalists because of inept rulers at the time.
Inept Congress will be a small bump on the road to Phase II of what failed in Russia.
The only advantage America would have, is educated populace, who would quickly neutralize Reds.
Unfortunately with “football” Nation that is not the case.
And so it will start. When? Heaven knows. But it will, unless of course ignorance and Hollywood/NFL will lead America by the hand into the darkness from which few will return.
Hit the books friends, kill your TV’s. And prepare.
Bingo! It was Bush who coined the term “VooDoo Economics” and he sured liked to say “New world order”. Had Reagan not succumb to the pressure to put Bush on the ticket we would never have heard of the rest of the Bushes.
In 2008 there were those of us yelling THIRD PARTY! But everyone said “LET’S FIX THE GOP FROM WITHIN!”. In 2010 we voted some “tea party” favorites into office but everyone said “It’s too late to form a third party.” I think now is the time to get started. I will never vote for another republican. So if there’s no other choice, then I’ll stay at home.
And his minions found a way to delay hundreds of thousands of military absentee ballots, thus invalidating them.
We have NEVER been anti-immigrant. We have been anti ILLEGAL immigrant. There is a difference.
I know nothing about the Latino culture, but what you say rings true to me. Another thread featured an article where they said that Mexican “Family values” meant helping people with a larger government safety net....ie.....natural Democrats.
All that being said:
Don’t you think that having a candidate who could make commercials and go on Telemundo speaking in the native tongue would sway a certain percentage of the Latino and “White Guilt Liberal” vote?
None of these groups is large enough to win on their own.
What has happened as the party sees itself losing elections is that they have begun to call out each other as being the problem. Some are refusing to turn out unless they get everything their way.
This time we had millions of members not show up to vote, and we lost again.
We are either going to find a crossover candidate that appeals to everyone, if that is still possible, or reconfigure the coalition.
all talk.. no guts..
ditch MItch and Boehner too.
make my day. please.
From your numbers, it looks like Love lost by 1.2%, with the Lib vote at 2.6%. If those Lib voters simply stayed home, it would not have helped Love. Looks like she’d have to take 75% of the Lib vote to overtake her opponent, assuming he/she got the other 25%. I don’t know if there are any hard and fast numbers as to how people who vote Lib might otherwise cast their ballots. I’ve seen them go either way.
> just NOT in VOGUE here to even say Republican.
My co-workers call you “republican” if you do something stupid or if they think you’re being unkind.
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